The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1852-10-07

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ind nine.tenths of their naster-splrits ac
tive partizens Of that snme Democracy.
What ia the instinct, the sympathetic
ichord, which attaches them so uniformly
10 this party? Will you consider?
i 6. II were required to characterize
the two parties respectively in the fewesi
words, should say, 'The Wings support
.ltheir party for the sake OF its measures;
the Democrats support their measures tor
lhe sake Of the party II accident and
audacity had not enabled the heterogeneous
host which rallied around Andrew Jack
son in 1928, 10 appropriate to itself the
i Democratic name, who believes that IT'S
power would have been so great and its
rule so long inyincible? If the party la
be!ed Democratic were now 10 favor OF
Protection to Home Industry and River
land Harbor improvements instead of be-
ling adverse to them, who believes that the
! great mass Of poor and unlearned citizens.
Native or Adopted, who now compose It's
better part, would on that account turn a
gainst it? Suppose it were the Democrat
lie party which at this time affirmed the
| ln,y Of cherishing and diversifying our
/ National Industry by duties discriminating
so as to protect endangered branches from
overhrow by the relentless competition OF
Iolder and more powerful rivals, does any
man believe that the Democracy would
loose any of the votes it now receives from
1.-The Laboring Glass on that account!
Would it no, rather receive more OF their
votes, and be supported by them more
Heartily? And if it were the Democratic
party which now urged the duty OF improy-
ling the navigation of our Rivers, and the
, accessibility and safety of our Harbors,
/ while the Wing party resisted it aud de-
feated bill after bill intended to provide Tor
these improvements, does any one believe
tha, any considerable proportion Of our
present Democratic isborers would there
fore leave their party and join the Wings?
!; And is il not unfortunate that SO many cit
zens should vote Tor a party by reason OF
Its name rather than because their unblas-
ed Judgment commends the measures Tor
which that party is distinctiyely contend
ing?
| 7. often hear it said with confidence
| that the Democratic party has prored right
lon all the questions which have hitherto
/ divided the great psriles-that the Curren-
y Icy, Tariff aud oil other great questions on
which these parties have been at1ssue arc
lnow settled in favor OF the Democratic pol
slicy. This is partly untrue, and partly in
conclusive The forcble expulsion OF the
Cherokees from their immemorial homes IN
Georgia and ,he dlacent States which they
had ever possessed and enjoyed, is fixed
! fact; but because farther resistance to i
would be alike useless aud mischievous, 1t
5 docs by no means follow that such reno.
Iyal was right, The Annexation OF Texas
lis practically irreyocable; but the essen,
/, tial iniquity Of the means whereby Mexico
: was dispossessed of that territory, and al
Iterward of still more, Is not thereby dis.
fproved. So it may now be conceded that
il would be unwise to urge the creation Ct
!, any such National Bank as we formerly
had. and that the Currency has finally
sett led into tolerable condition, without
al all admitting that the crusade OF vio-
Hence and defamation by which the last
s. Bank was overthrown was either patrl-
o,ic or bene6ceut. Ifthe National Capt.
ltol were mined and designedly blown into
The air, one might very cogently argue a.
paipst its rebuilding in any shape akin to
1.-The present, without at all approving or
i ius,iiying the CONFUSION whereby il had
been destroyed.
i But it is not true that the Democratic
party has triunphed on all or nearly all
The great issues which il has made with its
antagonist. Not to speak here OF the Tar
iff or River and IIarbor Improvement,
fnei,her Of which is yet settledO it has al
ways been instinctively jealous of and hos
tile 10 Business Corporations; and yet they
have almost every where been multiplied
and expanded in spite of this opposition.
The principle Of Individual Liability, or
the holding Of each stockholder in corpo-
ration liable for all the debts of said corpo-
ration, has been strenuously upheld almost
every where by party Democracy, and YET
has very generally been overruled and
condemned Us unjust and pernicous. The
General Manufacturing Law OF New York,
closely parallcled by the kindred laws Of
other States, is a triumph Of common sense
and public good over Democratic repug,
nance and hostility. So with the attempts
of party Democracy to suppress or inter,
diet our Paper Currency. Though backed
by strong appeals to party feslty, and Tor
lifted by constitutional restrictions. they
have been overborne in State alter State
Illinois and Wisconsin being two OF the
last that have yielded. And so the Sub
Treasury, enacted and upheld by Congress,
finds no favor practically with the States
which are mos, vociierous IN imposing il
on the Nation; but nearly every one col
lects its onn revenue in Bank Notes, and
most Of them deposit it in Banks for safe
keeping. And thus common sense is per-
petually overrulng and reluting the crude
theories which have from time 10 time been
put forward as The dictates and tests o.
Democracy.
Democracy is, | know full well, word
of power. know that il has charm Tor
the hopeful, the generous, the lowiy, and
1.-The aspiring. as well as for many darker
spirits. know that he who aspires to IN
Ianence, office, and honors, rather than 70
usefulness and an approving conscience,
will naturally be led 10 enlist under is
hammer. often druggng his moral sense