The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1849-01-20
Democracy

J ~ TOW many hIt uCCulNuN Wy WV ""'A'
Democrat" say whig stump-spcakors and
journalists. They assert daat many are
following the shadow for the substance, and
that true Democracy is among the things
that were. They proclaim themselves the
true Democracy of the Union, and decIaIm
themselves hoarse in their vain endeavOrs
to prove their confident assertion. Fam
would they have you believe that upon ma
liona questions they occupy the grounds
held by Jefferson, Madison and Monroe.
The facts do not bear them out in sim
gle point. What principle or doctrine is
advocated by the present Wing party, that
was not repctated by these Apostles and
expounders OF the Democratic creed! Up
on governmental measures we differ with
the wings as widely now, as when the two
parties were respectively headed by Jeiier'
son and Hamilton.
Upon the question of United States
Bank, the Democratic party stand where
Jefferson placed them; but the Wings dare
not avow themselves in favor of and occu-
py Hamilton's ground. He (Jeferson) OPP
posed the doctrine of internal improves
ments, contending that the constitution con-
fered no such power upon Congress-
And IN short all that batch Of measures,
sought to be put into operation by the short
lived administration of "Tip IL Ty," or
rather of Zip" had always been repudl"
ated by the Democratic party. A national
bank, distribution sCheme, protective
tariff, an internal improvement system,
banking law, &C., constitutes what is term
ed the .Americm System, and never was
it exposed to so rigorous an investigation;
never was its heartlessness and hOllowness
so completely exposed, as by the President
in his late annual measage.
SO far as regards these questions, the
position occupied by the two parties cannot
be mistaken. There are, however, other
points of difference still more striking and
to which the attention OF the people is not
sufficiently often directed by the press. 1t
is one no man can misunderstood. This
is question of National Policy, upon
which the parties have always been divided
And this is the addition of Territory
When in the administration of Jefferson,
the Louisianas were added to the union,
we all recoect the fanatical yells, the pro-
pkeces of disunion, the pretended dread of
southern power and influence which Lou"
isiana, like the Pandoras box, was about TO
open upon the commonwealth.
BY the way, where would the present
whig party have got president had JEFF
ferson not provided place for him! The
far seeing policy of his administration Sc
cured this alI-cssential measure, notwih-
standing federal opposition; and yet when
no sane man doubts the wisdom of the pol
icy which dictated it, we still hear the non
senscal cry of "the union as it is" The
leaders of the present whig party are either
trucking slaves or time-serving demago-
CUES. Well have they been styled "The
Tncapabes." In the simplicity of their
hearts England cajoed them out of great
portion of the state of Maine, and then, by
their facious opposition and the confirmed
leaning of their feelings towards Great
Britain, they defeated the present admins
traton IN its jusI and righteous claim to
81 40.
The next step in this career of folly and
shortsightedness, was opposition to Terri
toral Indemnity from Mexico. Not look
ing into, at present, their opposition to the
war of 1912, and of 1916, we will consider
only their opposition to indemnity from
Mexico. First according to "the Incapa,
hcs," the war was unconstitutional. In
dcmnity was wrong-the soil was miseraN
bly poor-thc climate unhealthy, and the
gold mines of 10 consequence. The De-
mocracy triumphed, and now oar acquisi'
tlons in the south arc intellectually yaIra,
bic. The climate is Enc the soil adapted
to either grazing or liIIage, proving in all
the wisdom of the administration, and Civ
ing another pregnant and 'amentobie when
we think the country must be governed by
rhcm for four years. instance Of the inca
paciry of " the lncapables."
Add To this, the aniIiation of Natiyes'and