New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-02-10
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The remarkable deciaratloh !" O"No
]. g. Chapman of Michigan that Ednco'',' 70 ''''
inplacabe foe of Democracy has been s0hneho"
brouebt before the Common Council OF htooAiyh
who thereupon directed their Committee on Foohe
Schools to inquire INFO the truth OF the sentiment ano
reoort thereon. Messrs. Edrard Mdcomber and
Samuel S. Po,ceH. forming the Loco.Foco majority
of said Committee, have thereupon made Report,
of which tho gist is an accusation that the Wh1g'
were always hostile to Democracy and in favor OF Q
spurious Education, or literary dandyism,
"borrowed from abroad learned out Of foreign books
taught by men Of foreign views and based upon principles
only foreign but utterly inmica TO the principles
Democracy"
OF the Wings themselves this dgniied and vera
cious Report afirms
..They have always opposed the progress Of liberia
principles the extension Of privileges 10 the detencees
and unfortunate they grevc as they behold the grew
ing spendor and power Of the country they howl wiki
despair as State after State added the Union, no
by conquest and blood but by the solicitation and oyfu
acquescence Of the people themselves In short they
think and act and legslac for the few while 1t IS car
na principle Of democracy that the blessing of govern
ment like the dews Of Heaven should fall alike upon inc
rich and the poor If therefore the claim OF this csss Of
men 10 education Is 70 be admitted your
necessarily brought to the conclusion that educaon
hostile TO Democracy or that radical defect exists
In their system Of Education
Now it is quite possible that the gentlemanly au
,hors of this Report meant nothing al all by this
TRADE but merely to concoct an average party rigma
role to confirm the faith of their unfortunately gnor
ant followers and be recited with admiring bias
phemy and bumpers of blue ruin in Brooklyns hive
hundred nurseries of Democracy. But we choose
10 take them as if in earnest and call them up 10
the bar of Public Opinion
Messrs Maconber and Powell you name it as
one touchstone of the enemies OF Democracy and
True Education that they have always opposed
the progress of liberal principles and the extension
of privileges TO the defenceless and untortumate
Very good hold steady there! What portion OF
our People are most defenceless and unfortunate 7
Is not VIGOROUSLY the African Race? And do you
not know that these poor unfortunates were de
priued of the Right Of Suffrage after they had long
enjoyed it, by what you call the d emocracyP Rel
black men are enabled to vote byour present Demo
cratic Constitution but the Poor Afric-American
is denied that Right and denied it by the votes oil
Democracy in opposition to those of ancient FEEDER.
alism7 And nor, when the People are about 10
reform that Constitution, where stands your Demo
cracy the question Of restoring TO these defence
less unfortunates, the Right of which party De
mocracy robbed them Where do you stand
Speak out, if you dare Do not rest content with
garnshing the tombs of dead Prophets in the hope
of riding into power and filling your pockets there
BY but show yourselves willing to labor and suffer
reproach in defence of Democratic truth where it
stands opposed to popular prejudice and party pro
scrpton as well as where il is favored by wind and
tide Let us see the lining of your sunshine Demo
cracy.
AS to "the blessings of Government falling
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by you who uttered that sentiment himself bought
and sold hundreds Of the Poor as merchandise, and
died leaving several score of them after lives OF
unpaid toll in his service, the chattes of his friends
and relatives liable to be beaten sold at auction and
the women violated without any protection or re-
dress from the Constitution and Laws which he had
helped to frame. And your Democracy boasts itself
throughout the Slave States the steadfast National
champion and pillar of that Internal system. What
say you to thisl We dare you to compare the Ed
ucation and general condition of the Laboring Poor
of MASSACHUSETTS or VERMONT, which are the
well known strongholds ofwhat you pronounce anti
Democracy, with those Of Virginia, the fountain
and oracle of what you term Democracy. Contrast
the two If you dare, and say where the blessings of
Government, and especially Of Education, most
nearly fall like the dews of Heaven Rich and
Poor. We claim for our own party no special
friendship for the Poor but we do say that, while
protesting less, it has done for the defenceess
and unfortunate than has been accomplished
by your loud .soupding, selfrgh,eous Democracy.
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