The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1849-01-06
The British and the wings,

There is sometimes consolation 10 he derived,
even from defeat; aud the Democratic party OF
! this country, in their lalc defeat, have certainly
| good reason to feel gralitd-not because OF their
defeat though even this may prove beneficial to
| the cause. hnl-in view Of the rejOicngs OF the
British Tory presses, at their defeat The Tories
| Of England have no sympalhes for the Democrat
c republican party OF the United States they new
or have had, and they never can have. The reas
ons tor this are obyious:-Ihe Republican party
of the United States is the party Of progress, the
marty that has ever conended for the equal polt-
teal rights of lreemen; aud against the pretensions
Of the monopoisls and specuators OF this country
as well as the monarchsts aud Wrants OF Europe
II is this party that has continually watched the
movements Of the British Government and that
has lhwarted her in all her attempts ,cheiher opcn
or cOperi, to overthrow our institutions, 1t is
this party that has manlully batlled against her
army and her navy,as we'll as her most experienced
and brilliant negotialors aud it is this party that
ha. foled her in all her attempts to over reach our
Government.
LEWIS CAss, was the candidate of this party
in the late presidential campaign He was known
TO the Tories of England as a Democrat Of the
JcncrsoniOn school, "lr' m his youth mp" He
had stood in the way Of the advance oi British ar
rogance; and nobly defended the interests Of his
country, against the nsidious efforts OF British
Diplomalsts. II was therefore scarcely to be
expected, that he,or the party who sustained him,
would have the good wishes OF Great Britain. It
may he aSked-has any party in this country the
GOOD wishes of British Monarchsls and Tories
ltmght be supposed by some, that IN a country
whose institutions are 50 perfectly at variance
with those of England and whefe all claim to be
Republicans, rr Wings" or Democrats I; that
there could not be found party who would share
the sympathies o! British Tores: but there is such
a party! We regret to find the fact established
but so it is and we can only, therefore, do our
duty, by making known The fact. The articles Of
eXultation, to be found in the j. n!on Tory journ.
ais since the result Of the late election has be-
come known, afford all the proof that can be asked
by any reasonable man.
AS a necessary and inevitable inference from this
fact, we come to the Conclusion, that, as this sym
pathy for the victorious party i S So strongly mani
tested there must be natural alliniles clearly mar
ked points of resemblance between the party that
is rejoicing, in England, and that which has cb-
tanned temporary triumph in this country. 1t
is not our purpose, in the present article, to show
those points OF resemblance; but we hesitate not
to assert that there is ryclose resemblance he
tween them and that the circumstance of the
Tory party in England having rejoced at every
triumph of the Federal "Whig" party in this
country: while it has denounced the statesmen
of the Democratic party as political charlatans,
demagogues, jacobns, &c, fully establishes this
resemblance. There is another circumstance,
which goes to show the strong resemblance be-
tween the two parties in the two countries, and
to establish the fact of perfect sympathy be.
tween them 1t is this:-Every loylist English.
man, Scotchman or lrishman, who comes to this
country, at once unites with the "Whig" party,
and exerts all his powers to secure its success
Like begets like;" and every thing naturally
seeks for a union with that for which it has an al
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