Democratic banner. (Bowling Green, Pike County, Mo.) 1845-1852, 1850-10-14
From tie 81. Louis Times.
'ositiOn Of the Democratic P0rty.

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The organ Of the Abolitionists, in IFS issue Of
yesterday morning. reiterates the silly malicious
land unfounded charge, that coalition has been
Ientered into by the Democratic and Wing parties.
A few days subsequent to the August election,
this absurd falsehoOd was invented ioE the Union
newspaper, and We then promptly put quietus
IuPonit. We ewent farther: we proved that Ben
ton had made his appeal to the Wings, as well as
TO those who placed him in office, for the ex-
press purpose Of catching Wing votes-that he
Instructed his followers, through Judge Blair,
TO vote in all cases for Wings, in preference to
Democrats, for ofice-thay those Of them who
were more subservient u men than attached to
the presses in his interest urged their readers TO
conform 10 the requis&ion Of their master that
Bowlin was beaten hire because the Abolition
strength was thrown. upon candidate who could
not remember wheGier he had voted for Cass or
Taylor Henderson was beaten in the Sec
ond district, bccadse the friends Of Benton sus-
ltained the Whig candidate-that Green was de-
catcd IN the hi!I district because the Bentonitcs
actually abandoned their own candidate, and
voted for the wlig, lest, otherwise, Green should
have the plurality that Phelps has been elected
by minority Of the votes Of his district--that
Hall would have been defeated If the dcnuncia-
jiions Of the great 81 did, could have turned the
,true-hearted Democracy from the path of recti-
itule-and finally, that since the election, num-
Der Of overturcs have been made 10 the Wings
by those known 20 be in tho confidence Of Mr..
Benton, one Of these being in the form Of a
proposition 10 unite with them and instruct Gen.
Aichson out Of The Senate, and fill mis- place with
wing, provided The latter would cast their votes
in the Legislature for Benton. As none Of these
facts could be denied with shadow Of plausi-
biity, the Union came out some days afterwards,
and distinctly acknowledged that all the cock and
bull stories II had put in circustion relative TO
contemplated coalition Of the Wings and Demo
Gratis, was utterly false. Alter dead silence Of
several weeks, during which time The Abolition
organ seemed sOrely puzzled what tack to take,
the last tk0sc Of its liege lord and master was
promulgated. Although this docuu ent was as
absurd as the proclamation daily made by order
Of His Majesty, the King Of Ashantec, at the
close Of his dinner, 'that his clestisl and SUI
prcme highness having dincd, all the Kings Of
the earth, may row eat" it furnished The Union
the cue, for the want Of which It had been hesi-
tating. The scent Of notification and disuniOn
followed the Benton PROCLAMATION, and the sboli-
tion pack opened upon his adversaries. The
Union seems not TO have suspected the truth,
that the letter to John Smith was in itself riicu-
lous, and that by Ginning in with its tone. it
would but become the echo Of folly. Sober
minded people demar,d facts TO fund their opin-
ions upon, and whenever The Union can prove
that the Democratic party has either made, or
listened to proposition for coalition, or voted
flor Wings, as the followers of Benton have done,
the public may infer that there is some truth in
its rabid rawlings; but until this is cone, the
authors Of these silly conjecturss must expect
TO reap nothing but contempt through their la-
lbors.
We know the Democratic party Of Missouri
lwell. II consists of men who are firm in prin-
lciple, and faithful in practice-who love the Con-
stiution Of the United States, because il consti-
ltutes the only legal bond Of unicn--who believe
THAT the States are equal under the Constitution
sovereign within their respective pheres, pos
sessed Of reserved rights, and Of domestic insti-
tutions, with which no power under heaven has
: any Just right to intermeddle save themselves-
who are opposed TO all unequal laws, all section.
al legislation by the central authority, all exclu-
sve privileges, and all Legislative interference
olwith the liberty or the pursuits Of tho people
.Ibeyond what may be necessary for the preseTva'
i, ton Of social order--who are opposed to the
Bank Of the United States, protective tariff, Of
any other Of the personal and partial schemes oi
the Whigs--who hold the right of instruction
to be the best safeguard against the treachery
: and corruption of public oficers-and who ad'
vocate the largest liberty and the least legisla
ltion, as the surest means Of securing prosperity
3 progress and an advanced civilization. The
/. Democratic party has always loved principles
{ more than men--right. more than policy. Thi.
is the true secret Of all its strength. Whenever
a small portion Of the party have suffered them
selves to be led astray by men,. they have uni
y formly been compelled in the end, to unite will
the enemy, or returned repentant to the fOld.-
3 !, It was so with those who were weak enough t.
II follow TaIlmadge, Rives and Tazewell, in Gen
$ Jacksons time; it has proved to be SO with thos'
Q who were led of by Van Buren; and it will b
eIso with those who have been imposed upon BY
9 Mr.. Benton. There is no cranspk on record b.
q Iwiich II can be shc.Un, that the portion Of an.
= party who prefer rRiScIPLEs TO NEE, hsue eue1
been induced 10 coalesce with the opposition. o.
the other hand, the history Of all parties is full @
: eramplss, proving hosO easy and how frequent I
= thing II IS for those who prefer MEN TO raIEcr
u PILES, to bring upon Themselves the etsrn0! dis
Igrace of such coalition. -,
NJ The Demonvafic marty Of this State, c0nSlltut