The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-01-28


the world which viii sssimiste all governments make
them all free and xpunge from the international code
the relics Of barbarian that lipger there
Those who profess to be in favor Of fres trade and
whose political efforts directed tn the single object
of alternating the affections of the people Of the section
of the country Who It's supporters cannot BY an in
tegent community be regarded in any other light than
as being its secret but most determined foes.
No one can be regarded q true democrat who, at
any time, would insist upon the political agitation of
moral abstraction AS of paramount Importance, when
the direct tendency Of such sgtaton 10 to create
tonA dirssnrons and divisions between and our ma
tura allies In unfolding and advancing the great doc
rines OF the democracy and the agitation Of such
abetraotion during war can be regarded little less
tn an treasonabls.
Those who agitated it during the war with England
and those who agtats it history will consign to
common condemnation Those who WELD "hre brandsn
now, no better than those who burned bue lights"
then: When the war shall be crowned with lasting
and honorabs peace, and territory shall have been
CURED those who then occupy II may pass all such
laws OF local nature and application as to them may
ing subjected to the tender merces Of the deuded
acs or the rsvengen psrtzsns who have volunteered
more useful to the inhabitants OF such territory In
that day than they to their country in this Their
leads to nothing but mischief They and those who act
with them, support war but upon their coun-
try and when It is engaged in foreign war; they wage
When the political power Of the State was welded for
the benefit of individuals It necessary part of the
system that the delegates to the national convention
should express the central will which was single Under
the new constitution, power has been dfussd that
the smallest civil division may have and express its
WILL by the agent Of It's selection The remnants Of
the ancient gime adhere to their old system of
tralism and insist that Is democracy they prao-
tissd It, thatslegates should be chosen by State con-
vsnt.on Thy unconscious that this last
OF feudality inconsistent with the order Of things
and psrtirsciously cling to the shadow after the
substance has departed They may conduct their in
ternsl party Affairs rs they please, free from inter-
ference. We have no generation for their system
their practice We prefer the progressive spirit this
age to the prosoiptve spirit of the last We think
decidedly better to be democrats In actions than In
professions We 40 where democracy leads u.s. and
We are content that they remain where exploded
tenn lefs them.
Whatever force there may be in enlargement that as
between the democratic party and the whg party the
State should give united vote by general in elect
Ing President 1t Is without force in friendly strug-
for Prs.sns Oh Nothn% op ~ IN
or more democratic than that each locality should be
distinctly heard and felt In such struggle The dis
trct syeter1 of eiecting delegates will accomplish this
end and the State system will prevent it, This system
in conformity with the practice of the democraoy of
of the State convention In respect to It,
Fellow cit;ssns, tho democratic party renovated by
the SETON OF new state constitution and the dsser-
ts career Of progress Those who would have impaired
to It's councils the fesblsns.s of morbid fansticism
and to its action the imbecty Of age in the vgor Of
its youth have voluntarily departed from IT, They
will take With them only those whose habtual servity
no leaders rincpie the only leader that never de-
ceiyes Nise out Of every ten who in this emergency
will quit the party viii follow leaders whor thsy have
long rsgsra - the democratic party entirely regard
The system ofsadsrs of lords aud little lords is ex
srs and their own rulers Hitherto tbs road to favor
was central influence Henceforth the asprant popu
lar favor viii appeal to the psopethe true of
power Public opinion, which hitherto was elaborated
at the centre and compelled the extremes
will be the aggregation Of individual opinions flowing in
ire The which the of the
party Is committed, is mbued with better spirit more
tolerant more Catholic and more progressive than
that of its predecessors When the shsokes Of the mind
which they imposed, shall have been fairly broken
and whom all citizens shall stand upright in the full
consciousness Of the possession of freedom the
value Of the greet reformation by the new constitution
will BE- fully appreciated. Men will then longer form
their opinions by calculation Of profits nor conceal
will then reign supreme Ths power of the few will have
gone forever The triumph of the principle of tbs dRu
sion OF power over Its monopoly will have been estab
lished and government Of opinion will be substituted
for government of men.
democratic party ia this State in justos to issf and
that the proprery of its conduct may be in
gmeht OF the democracy OF the Union whose
fdence are proud to know that have as we are
to feel that we deservs.
We do not apply or design TO apply, any portion of
these remarks suoh been misled v the act.
misrepresentation Of leaders, by too conhding
reliance upon then That class of cur fellow citizens
desire to reclaim from misapprehsnson and
to invite their operation ia effort to sus
tam our cause and the principles aud candidates the
democratic party We desire peace We desire no
tho controversy which ought to exist betwe-a those
whose principles aims and purposes essentially diff
out We consid'r disuuion in party action worse
calamity We are satisfied that with union we will
soon regain our strength They have defeated whls
they remained with US and would have done 80 again
had they not departed from IL Is impossible to oss
anything by their going out from among us We have
now .ne ofsuccess by cordial union Of effort
II there any out Of this State who be-
iisve that the separation is separation for local
han ha nnha cd huu. .t,N
That the hostility of the seceders had its
origin In the action OF the national democratic party IT.
SELL and that the avowed object their separation
principle Of national politics Their hostility us as
local party is less bitter than their hostility the ma
tss which we osDg We subject
of their political action.
Had the seceders in 1T of passion arising from their
defeat In some personal scheme formed new irregular
party orgsozAtion in strong desire uphold the
democratic party we would willingly sacrifice all per-
worse than mere irregulsrity 1t lie fundamental they
are not only irregular ia their action bat their hostility
mined. They have only adopted the creed of the
its different phases Of federal whg and
exhibited in impeding the action of the in
confusing foreign and in the agitation Of dis
turbng sectional question Their opposition the
tona democratic party is as determined as is that of
the whig party proper, and more bitter We regard
them as the enemies Of the democratic, party not
porary, but permanently Their hostility to the prin-
cp!es OF the party fixed and the cause NOT the
result, OF their separation from It,
We appeal to the great Of the democratic party
to remain within It, We ask you not to follow us who
nre but humble mombers OF desire to with
as coequais in that party ancient Is
our common property. Follow not leaders but follow
principles We desire to be emphatic with you In
appeal not to follow leaders, but to follow princpeths
ancient principles, which the foundation Of the
democratic faith. We desire henceforth, heretoor
to act with you In the harmonious effort uphold that
greet national party upon which is devolvsd the ex-
elusive duty Of advancing the interests OF this great
country II peace, aud vndicatng ts honor In Re-
member that The recurrence Of war; isl national event
That tres mems souls and devides them into parties
ono Tor the country aud the ether against I'll al
though men, under such croums tances tenporari-
" "votea e' to shield them from the punis which
they feel they desrve yetin the end instinct sentiment
habit prevails and they found openly in the ranks
Of the enemy where their hearts at beginning
In such struggle, he that is with with condition
or proviso, Is no better than open enemy He that
Is not for the country, Internationally Is against 1t He
that Ia not for the democratic party aud its admnsra-
ton without csYil La than Re- a..ured han.