Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1846-02-11
The Ohio Democracy and slie Cur
rcMcy question,

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We chcerfully avail ourselves Of th,
| tlrst spare room IN our columns, to la,
before our readers the resolutions adopt
ed BY the Ohio Democracy, at their eight
Of January State Convention. Withou
wishing 10 depresiatc the importance 0
those relating TO he Tariff and 10 the al
absorbing topic Of our national controyer
sy with Great Bha,ain, we would inyi,,
the attention of the public especially IL
the resolutions upon the currency ant
chartered monopolies. That they embed,
the true f'lndamt n'al principles Of ths
democratic republican witbou
which, the term democracy" would b.
but IN empty and unmeaning sound, 1
mock and catch word-canno! be sue.
cessfnlty controverted, and will not be de.
MED by any honest member Of our party
who has taken the pains to investigate
those principles and ascertain the line q,
demarka,ion between them and those Of
our federal opponents.
An abortive attempt has been made ia
controvert this position, by class Of tenn
porising, time serving politicians, who ad
mere TO the democratic party, not from an
honest and ardent attachment to princi-
pies, but from some Interior motive, gen.
orally with view TO political preferment,
and who have arrogated TO themselves the
Somewhat imposing cognomen ofconssrva-
tires. We will not say that this title is
misapplied, if regard is had to the real OBJ
Jects OF their conservatism; but we do de-
ny, and are prepared to prove, that they
are not the true conservatiy es-that their
principles, (if they may be supposed to
have any,) are not conservatory Of the
rights OF the people; but on the contrary,
OF the unjust, anti democratic and uncon-
stitntIonal exclusive privileges conferred
upon banks and bankers, chartered monop-
hes and legaiized institutions for plumber
ing the laboring million, and of the facil-
ties thus furnished to money changers,
spectators and stock jobbers. These are
the objects Of their conservative partiality,
and which enlist the warmest sympathies
OF their nature; and in this, wherein do
they differ from the federal party?
They are the peculiar conservators, pre-
servers and protectors Of all the gross
abuses that have crept into the govern
ment, BY means Of a most unrish,eous and
unconstitutional $! stem of legislation; and
IN states or communities where such
abuses have not yet obtained foothold.
they are found zealously laboring, cheek
by jowl with the wing party, in propogat-
ing the principles requisite to the establish
ment Of such system, tha, they may as.
sumo the legitimate province of conserva.
ti:es in IFS perpe,uation. AID all this is
done under the sacred garb of democracy.
/ Gut upon such democracy and such con-
servatisin! We hold no political fellow
ship with men, who, protesting to be
democrats,' preach, federalism. Princime
is our waschword; for principle alone we
Ugh; and we protest against any portion
of the confidence and fayors of our party
being bestowed upon these political drones
and stumbling blocks, the most dangerous
enemies of our cherished principles
The day is at hand when men can no lon.
ger retain standing in the democratic
party, without subscribing 10 the articles
of IFS faith.
The only true conservatives are the gem
uine, true hearted and fearless Democra-
cy, who are contending, and that success
fully, too, for equality agains. privilege,
justice against injustice, and the rights of
man against the exclusive pretensions of
money. 1t requires no extraordinary po-
litical acumen to perceive that the first
and highest order Of conservatism, is that
which aims at securing to the mass their
natural and constitutional rights, against
the encroach.nents of the ostentaiious few,
who assume superiority over, but in ev-
cry moral attribute, are vastly the inferi-
ors OF the former class-which aims at
the prohibition of any distinctions or
grades in society, except such as are bas-
ed upon true merit-at insttu,ing per-
feet equality, as the basis Of legislation
at elevating labor to its true level, secur-
ing its full reward and making it respect
ed even above capital, which is only
its creature. Nor does it require any pro-
phetic endowment to forsec the ultimate
universal triumph of this true democratic
conservatism.
Since the democracy of Ohio have
unitedly returned 10 their first love
since they have boldly launched their
barqne upon the tide of progression which
is now setting with such force towards
the harbor of legal and constitutional re-