New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-11-10
PARTY OF .N'EGATTO.N.

1t has ever been true of the two great parties
which, even before the rise of our Constitution,
began to divide this country into hostile camps
Of Politics, that while the one proposed some
thing, the other approved nothing, and has ever
been little more than party whose public poll
cy consisted of scarcely any thing but negations.
The so-called Democracy was originally, before
vet it had assumed that fallacious name, op-
posed as the Anti federal party, to any more
intimate or efficient connection Of the States than
that of the old Confederation; in a word, it did
all it could to defeat the present Union, to which
it now pretends--except the Calhoun and Adolf
ton wings of ito be so violently attached. 1t
was, in like manner, opposed to the adoption Of
the existing Constitution. When that, however,
had, in spite of it, been adopted, it opposed the
Funding of the Public Debt--that great measure
of finance which at once retrieved for us public
credit and alcne made the new government pos
sible 1t next opposed National Bank; which
afterwards, however-conyinced by the war Of
ls12--it turned around and re-established.
Our infant government could, of course, still
less than if it had been full grown one, sup
port itself or pay the Revolutionary debt with
out taxes Two resources Of supply were pro-
posed by Hamilton--an Excise on distilled IL
quors and a tariff on Imports, intended to pro-
tect Manufactures as well as raise a revenue.
Itopposed both, and favored the Whisky insur-
rection 1t opposed the British Treaty, now
acknowledged to have been wise. 1t opposed
that admirable Neutral policy of Gen Wash
ington, which is now confessed to have been the
great foundation of our fortunes as COM
mercial nation. 1t opposed an Army, as dan
gerous it opposed Navy as expensive. 1t op-
posed Fortresses, as sure to be taken by our
enemies it opposed Public Works as unoonsti-
tutional. 1t has constantly opposed that great
and necessary tribunal, the Supreme Court
Under jackson, it was opposed to the Senate, as
an aristocratic hdy. In fine, it has been OPP
posed to nearly every thing but the Resolutions
of Ninety Eight the Embargo. Gun Boats, Hard
Money, the Removal of the Deposits, the Veto,
the Expunge, the Sub Treasury Rotation, Re-
trenchment, Reform, Secession and Free Trade
all of which are only so many negations while
it has set its face, almost invariably, against all
the great and useful powers of the Government
Now, in such system of craftsmanship as
this, there is no great stretch of invention But
it is worth while to consider where we should
nave Dttu. anu hhdp VIC shoula nave huus no IL
nation, if nothing had ever been done in this
country, except what democscy admitted to be
both constitutional and expedient We should
inevitably have still had the old Confederation,
with all its weakness and discord; or rather
have'gone to pieces, and either fallen back by
fragments under British domination, or taken
refuge under that of France we should have
had no Union, no Constitution, no Public Credit,
no Revenue, no Army, no Navy, no Fortresses,
no Public Works, no Supreme Court, no Senate,
no Manufactures, no Commerce, no any thing
but that great perpetual Nought, the demo-
cratic party; which, like its fellow in Arith-
metic, would have been forever nothing at all
ana no better than blank, if it had stood
aiOne' ana not had some positive quantity, the
"n,. VI ''nle wing measure, set before it, to /
niaAo so"e'hihs' Thus even when, in some
i"ie ins''noe' oeihocraey can claim credit for
sone'hins ao'e, ana not for something merely
hlnuereu Ut "aaohe' as the war of 1872, or the
purchase OF LOUISIANA, or the acquisition Of
Texas and calfornia-it claims that crod;t
falsely. For, in the first place, without r.
Union, Constitution, credit, Revenue. arr,
navy, forts, which it denied, we could haya
fought no war and, secondly, upon its own
construction of the Constitution (see Mr. Jeffer.
sons declared opinion, in his Letters and Works
against the constitutionality of buying Louisi
ana and bringing it into this Union) there could
be no acquisition of foreign territory 1t opposes
all public good, every benehcent or even neces-
sary national measure, as strictly forbidden by
the Constitution; and yet the only good things
which it has ever done, were only possible by