Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-06-12
np,,ocpArv AND WHIGGERY.

The greatest evil now pFeNdISAO -
is that which seems to be inherent IN our az 20
svstem and f. calls for the candid scrutiny OF eN-
- 800 in the country. PreJudlces ana Precoh
!,aJ n,,;n;ons should for time give place 10 d
f,II ,fo;r and candid view OF our PohUcAi niS'Oiy
au,i ''r roIitical condition. The past can be con-
mIted with safety to test the value OF PrlnclP1e'
% rrell as the motives and purposes OF individuals
H. democratic party is entitled to consldera-
ton on account of the mere assertions ana decia
rotions of its members Its platforms and resoru-
tions are of no other value than to test the adne
renee of that party with such principles and meas
ures as have in their action benefited the PeoPie
of the United States. If evil. has resulteo lro
its pocy-f its principles have proved olssS.rous
in their operations-f its measures nave oPPreSseo
,nankind-f thew have not been fully sustained py
the experience of the peope-if they have not II.
l,,o+rotad and fulfilled the mission OF truth ltse'
,,,o would cav thew should be abandoned, and oth-
ars more consonant with the public neceSsltles at
once adopted If they have not been CONSISTENT
Tn;form and benefcial-if they have not been
tnofo;ont in their operations and certain in their
ends. we should say they are not genuine, out
connterfeits The Democratic Party rests Its claims
n nubIc favor upon what it has accomplished, and
not mon what it has promised. Its measures and
its men are entitled to no credit and consideration
save on the score of their good works. ihey ask
nothing from faith they ask every thing from "nat
thew have accomplished in benefits to the people
Government: their measures are to be judged IN
the nresent condition of the country. Their men
have two or three times been driven from the pup
lie administration; their measures have renamed
in specifies eloquence and power, 10 Pleau Iheir
cause and prove their value in the practical opera
tions of the Government. The former were us
credited the latter could not be. There IS not a
General feature of the Republic in which the cltl-
zen NAV not trace the lneaments OF the Democrat
IT, PARTY not a great measure that has been nXeo
in the statute book but which be traced to
that party. We 90 farther. There has not been
wear since the election of Mr.. Jefferson that the
Democracy have not struggled with their opponents
to secure those measures in the pubic adinnlstra-
ton of the Government 1t is said sometimes by
careless observers that noU there is little difference
between the two parties. The difference may not
be readily defined but it exists in full force IN the
very organization of the classes OF mind which char
acterze the two great party sections OF the country
1t may not appear in the advocacy OF given poll
cy it is found nevertheless, in the Liberal and IL
liberal it is found in the spirit of men upon gen
eral subjects if not in details. 1t is found IN the
spirit of freedom and the fearless determination to
work out the destiny of man on the one side, and
in the doubling, complaining, fearing, changing
and uncertain policy on the other side 1t was
found upon the question of National Bank, which
was sought to be created by the Wings, who be-
leved its power necessary to unfold, though 1t
might control, the business interests OF the coun-
try while it was opposed by the Democracy, who
had confidence in the operation of general laws,
and regarded such an institution as dangerous to
the best interests of the country. Experience has
enabled all to see which was rig ht. The differ
ence between the two parties is made to appear
still more certainly in the fifty years advocacy by
the Wings of what they term Protective Tariff
tax which they propose to lay upon the great
agricultural interests to benefit few manufacturers
"a law efectng distribution between capital and
labor giving the former all the advantage, and re-
ducing the latter to a legal dependence upon the
great money interests of the country. This scheme
has ever been opposed by The Democracy; and If
for nothing else, every farmer in this broad Re-
public should rank himself in the Democratic par
ty Agriculture is the great primary interest !;
and to have made it not only dependent upon the
manufacturer but absolutely placing it within his
power would have been shameless act Of legisla-
tion alike disgraceful and destructive to that first
of our producing branches of industry. But the
difference of the two parties is made still more
ifest by recurrence to past history in time OF
war; In 1912, the Democracy were bitterly as
sailed for indicating the national honor against
the merciess assaults of Great Britain upon our
citizens. The struggle denounced, and the
catalogue of epithets was exhausted to find words
of denunciation and condemnation of the act. In
1916, when another national struggle occurred be-
tween us and Mexico, the Democracy was again
violently assaied, and armies invited to hospt-
able graves on the field of their glory. The heart
of Democracy breathing out its fervent prayers for
the success of men, met by the freezing,
cold and soulless denunciation of our Wing oppo-
nents; and the blood of Americans flowing freely
around the watch fires of Liberty and consecrating
the noble cause that led our men to arms was con-
gealed by the troop of barking hyenas of the OPP
position then in the halls of legislation at Wash
ington. The spirit of the Democracy was then, as
ever, equal to the demands made upon it; and re-
ceiving courage by the very fierceness of the as
saults elevated by the low cowardly attacks made
upon them, they stood firm in the midst of peril,
and sustained their country till victory had crowned
every battle, and justice had consecrated every dead
soldier in that heightened and perilous struggle.
The end of the war brought to us our possessions
on the Pacific and secured peaceabe neghbor,
who before had done little less than imprison our
people, and confscate their property, when caught
within the jurisdiction of their laws Is it the
Wing Party to whom we are indebted for those
noble triumphs? Was it the Wings that vindica-
ted the national honor and brought to us bound
less possessions the western portions of the Con-
tinent Are we indebted to the Wings for that
empire now rising up on the shores of the Pacific
and turning its channels of commerce into every
city Of the world Wherein, we ask, are we in
debted to the Wings for single measure now fruit
full OF good to the American people? In what por-
ton of the statute book is to be found the record
of their principles and the history of their meas