Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-02-04
A Rcnson Tor our FnSthN

4nS poHucRi party IN thtS country aptly
styled Democratic, having no PROSECUTING
spirit, has hitherto contented itself by APP
pesls foe support to the reason and CONF
mon sense 0fthc masses, leaving all un-
worthy pandcring to "isms," and all re-
sort 10 false issues and clap-trap of every
kind to their opponents, under whatever:
disguise or coguomcu they have chosen
to carry out their opposition to sound re-
publican doctrines and practices,
way" through evil and through good re-
port the right in their persons has inva-
riably and inevitably finally triumphed'
and Democratic principles and counsels
have come to be the guiding star foc cur
republic, to which the misgoverncd OF oth,
or lands arc alsolcoking with the tui
assurance that its rays will yet penetrate
all the dark places of the Garth
We believe our party the most devoted
to the Union and its service--that is the
only true national party-ever ready to
act as the guardian an prcserver of our
time .honorcd constitution. We are sure
that the events of the last three years
facts which speak louder than score of
thcories-abundantly sustain our belief in
this matter
We believe that the Wing party make
the most unfounded assumptions to exclu-
E. civc fricndlness to the commercial and f.
nancial interests Of the country. No
stronger advocates Of the true interests of
the trading community, or of a safe and
we'll regulated currency, arc to be found
than in the Democratic party, and the
best evidence Of this is, the fact that we
insist at the outset upon the Indispensable
necessity and practcability of so regula-
ting the circulating medium that the mon
cy ofevcry citizen. high or low, rich or
poor, can be redeemed in specie, or its
equivalent, on demand. The measure of
value in civilized countries the world over
is specie. 1t is the direct representative,
by common consent, of the wealth of a ma
ton, of the product of it's labor, while its
ubslitute-papcr--i mere after thought,
an invention for the convenience of trade.
Without its redecmability in coin, it has
we'll been called "merc rags and lamp
black" In this they are true friends of
our financial interests, for there needs lit
lie argument to prove that what is alike
beneficial to all classes and fairly equali-
zcs the course Of the trade, is of most es-
scntial benefit TO Ike financial and COM
mcrcial interests. and that all systems cal
cuated exclusively to enrich this compar-
atively limited intercst-as compared
with the preponderating agricultural class
es--are entirely fallacious, and will in
time prove completely ruinous.
The Wing party on the other hand are
the advocates of an expanded paper cur
rency, an inflated credit system in bank.
ing as we'll as other branches of trade-a
system calculated to "make the rich rich
or, and the poor poorer" to build up pri-
vileged classes in the republican a word
to make the monetary interest of the
country the all-absorbing one, to the man
ifest detrimen and oppression of the great
producing classes Legitimate business
and credit, asidy from its abuses, so emf
nently disastrous to the laboring classes,
have ever found friends in the Democra-
ry. Their abuses, as in the case of the
United States Bank and its kindred poll
cy, have ever met the opposition of our
party, and thus has what remains of sound
ness in our financial system been Preser-
we'd
Errors on the subject of the currency,
. however, are not the only signs of whig-
gerry, The tariff and internal improve
ments have ever been fruitful source of
agitation with them. To the farmers Of
the Great West, who need market for
their products, they hold out the prospect
under Wing rule, Of government dona-
tons for the improvement of roads, ca
mails, and other business channels. To
the manufacturers of the East they pro-
claim themselves the only true friends of
the interests of this wealthy class of CAPT
talists. To purchase tho support of this
interest, they would fain betray the conf
ding agriculturalst by inflicting upon him
high tariff which would heavily tax the
nccessaries Of life and bear lightly on its
Injuries. OF the truth of this, their last
tariff tinkering affords an abundance of
evidence,
Such are few only of the inconsistent
cies and fallacies of the Wing party, Its
very material renders it corrupt and de-
ccitful, composed as it has ever been of
the odds and ends. the shrods and patch
es, of all the political organizations of the
day. Ul,raism and scctionalism find their
appropriate sphere in it's bosom and work
also, ready fitted to their hands.
Can we, then, demonstrate more clear
" the reasonableness and propriety Of
our fealty to the old Democratic party Of
the Union, and of our advocacy of the
principles and The "platform" which the
wisdom of its venerated leaders has laid
down for the general welfare In all es-
sental attributes the very antpodes of the
party whose errors we have been expo
sing, we should be false to every senti-
ment of patriotism, TO the best interests
of the nation, and to the we'll being and
progression of our race, were we to fail to
contribute to the best of our ability, to the
calculation of the true ends and aims of
the great Democratic family, and the ben
oGts In bo Jor;vod from, lie suDrort 90