The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-11-19

Progressive Democracy.

This is phrase which has lately been muc!
used and much abused. To say that Democra
Icy sprogressve per Sc, is not precisely correct
use of terms, because Democracy, in the abstract
is, always has been, and ever will be, the same
Democracy is, however, a term which as now
understood, represents or expresses certain
class of principles, which are inherent in nature
human and divine, and are eternal and unaltera-
BILE. But in its practical relation to the affairs oi
mankind, in its application TO the existing state
of things and its adaptation TO the mutations, ex-
igencies and progression of the circumstances OF
the world, the relations, duties, rights and res
sponsibilites Of mankind, Democracy is progress
size and capable of adaptation TO all relations
and exgencies, which may arise III the progress
of events towards the complete developcment
and perfect universal recognition and perpetual
establishment of the absolute natural rights Of
man, as designed and originally conferred by The
creator whose bosom is the primal source of pure
Democracy.
This is what is meant by the phrase Progress
sive Democracy,-:he capability Of adaptation
in the application of lis principles to every pos
sible contingency, and TO all the multfarious
notifications of human existence. The prnci
is modified by the mutations of things In eve
ry era or stage in the worlds advancement from
primitive simplicity and ignorance, this princi-
pie of progress is visible; not only as an incident
but as the substance, the motive power, the
cause of each new step in the progress of man
and Of civilization. All nature is motive,- God
has created nothing TO be entirely stationary, mo.
ton is the essence and power of all creation, land
those who would attempt to stop or check the
Iunresng wheel Of nature must be crushed be.
meath its weight
Look at the Earth, penetrate its bowels, they
are instinct with life, motion, change. There is
a constant active and irrestrainable process oi
animal, vegetable, and mineral formation, mo-
Eton and progress. Survey the surface-animal
and vegetable, as we'll as human life is still more
active. The atmosphere is pregnant with con,
tnual change, spring, summer, autumn, winter,
succeed each other in circles Of perpetual mo-
ton, and with them the earth itself and life up.
on it, move in corresponding circles of ever vary
ling progress. Look TO the heavens themselves,
and the myriads of worlds within the ken of hu-
man investigation. All is motion there. The
principles which govern the universe are ever
undergoing change in their mode aud measure oi
application.
Look at the history of man, of mind, of civil.
zation, of arts, sciences, religion; all have been
and still are in constant movement.
Man, in his relation TO the universe, is a diff:
ferent creature now, from what he was foul
thousand years ago. Mind has been developed
and extended to, an almost ncalculable degree
The extent TO which the mind of the last gene
ration has heen developed, becomes the basis on
which the succeeding generation begins to build
| its own mind, and this again becomes the foun
dation for the intellectual structure of the mex
succeeding generation andtbis progression mus
continue in accordance with the unalterablt
laws Of mind and nature, until man reaches the
ultimate goal Of perfection, to which he was de
signed and which he was created with capacit,
for. The arts and sciences have in like name
progressed, from the first dawnngs Of discover