Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-09-15
Democrats, are you Ready !

Democrats, are You Ready
The Presidential election is upon US
on the I'd day of November next, you
will have to vote-not quite fifty days left
in which to work. Are you ready Is
there not much more you can accomplish,
and will you not devote the few remain
ing days from this until the Cd day of No
vember, to your country, her institutions,
and the preservation of the work of your
fathers 1t cost years of toll, almost riv-
ers of blood, and an immense sacrifice of
human life to achieve your independence.
1t cost years of experience, the exercise
of wisdom, the sacrifice of opinion, and
the cultivation of spirit Of compromise,
to form for us our present Constitution,
and secure Union which has brought
with it peace at home and respect abroad.
To preserve it, the same spirit of compro
mise which led to its formation has been
more than once invoked-again and again
have the foes of the Union. aided by dem
agogues and fanatics, rocked it to its centre.
Scarce two years have elapsed since the
passage of the Compromise measures,
which it was fondly hoped would silence
the maddened clamor of the abolitionists
and forever quiet slavery agitation. But
in this reasonable hope the people have
been disappointed. We have seen great
party assembled in convention, sacrificing
at the command Gifts Northern wing, the
supporters of those measures of peace and
nominating as their candidate, the protege
of Seward, by far, in our opinion, the
most dangerous man in this Union. The
Wing party have received for their candi-
date the chosen nominee Of Seward and
his reserve guard" and the Southern
Wings, with few honorable exceptions,
have submitted for the sake of the spoils.
Contrast the course of the Wing party
with that of the Democratic party. Four
years ago, the Van Buren, faction attemp-
ted to dictate to the National Democratic
Convention their dictation was spurned
and disregarded, the Democratic party
preferring defeat with their principles. to
success without them. They nominated,
in despite of the Van Buren's, Lewis Cass
as their standard bearer, and were defeat
ed. Nothing daunted by this defeat.
with frmer determination if possible,
than ever, to adhere to their republican
faith and conservative principles, they
met in June last, again in Convention and
nominated as their standard bearer, Gen
cral Franklin Pierce, of New Hampshire,
a consistent Democrat, a politician of the
Virginia school, devoted friend of the
Union, and thorough supporter of the
rights of the states, an experienced
Statesman, ripe scholar, an honorable
man, endowed with an intellect that pla-
ced him in rank with the first intellects of
the age. We point to him with pride, as
the candidate of the Republican party OF
the country, who in peace and in war has
shewn himself TO be ever ready, in the
tented field as we'll as in the Senate Halls
TO serve his country when that country s
need demanded the ablest heads and
stoutest hearts of her sons. Franklin
Pierce was not selected by Free-soilers
as their favored candidate, his nomination
was not forced upon the Democratic par
ty by a miserable faction with Seward
for its leader, but it was the spontaneous
act of the whole party without his knowl
edge or agency, and in view of the fac
that he had requested his own State no
to bring his name before the Convention
Relying upon the virtue the intelligence
and the patriotism of the people we d,
; not for moment doubt as 10 the result
yet at the same time. we recollect tina
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,
therefors we say, Democrats Of North