The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1853-08-18


Weds,day EvSRins Ang. ~, 1883
LocoFoeo PRIEcIPLEs.--Pcrhaps there
never Was a party which made SO much fuss
about what 1t calls its ''princlPlesp as the
Locofoco party does. By every demogogue
ON the stump. every petty little editor on
his tripod, and every gathering in market
houses, court houses, and coffee-houses, much
Is said respecting ''demoeratic princiPles.'
Much. is also said aboutthe answering on
stany with which the Locofocos adhere to
their "principles." The iron,bearted, I'm
terrified, undertaking men who profess to
believe ntheir "principles" are eulogized as
the backbone of the nation and the hope
q fthe country. One who has never made
himself acquainted with all the wonderful
faces and expressions of countenance as
sumed by Locofocoismsmight be induced by
what the Locofocos say, to suppose that a
Locofoco is welded to his "principles" as he
is to his wife, and that nothing but death
can part them.
1t would be a very curious though not a
very successful task to inquire into the ma
ture Of these "immutable prtnciples''ofwhich
we hear SO much. Such an inquiry would
show that of all shifting things in this world
these immutable principles are most muta-
BILE, and these answering Locofocos are
most unstable. Had an active aud thorough
Locofoco, by some Inscrutuble dispensatior
been paralyscd only tho gears ago, he would
have come to IL dead halts and would now
discover that lis cid friends had Progressed
50 far ahead Of him, that hobble along as he
might, he could not possibly osertake them.
Drowsy Democrats of the Rip Van Wrinkle
class, fellows who do not their loco
motive powers, chaps who sleep uncon-
scious of the changes taking place around
them, speedily find themselves ccmpanlon-
less, their friends having advanced INTO re-
glons of political truth not discovered BY
the Democratic party of Too years ago.
A striking exempliication of the wealth
ercockism OF the Locofoco party hasrecent-
ly been furnished by the present Admins
tration in regard to the Pacific Railroad
Every one of our readers knows that no is
sue between the two great parties has been
more fairly made up or more distinctly de-
fined than that relating to the construction
OF works Of Internal improvement by The
General Government. The Democratic
party always contending that such a policy
was unconstitutional. Bat a change seems
to have come over the spirit of their dreams,
and we now find them eagerly grasping and
appropriating to themselves this cardina'
principle of the Wiig creed. The Nationa.
Iatliiysncsr in speaking ofthe course par
sued by the present administration in regard
to this measure makes use Of The following
language:- on
~We brought TO the notice of our reader
in our number Of Saturday last an editoria
article of the Washington UaiaR, detendln!
the constitutional power of the Government
to construct a rail- Dad to the Pacific ocean
1t was a remarkable article to be found II
tie %colurERs Of that journal, and, regarding
it as. evidently speaking for tho Executive
we read it with as much pleasure as surprise
The arguments were not new to US; we ha
heard them in former times repeated iron
year to year by the great champlon.ol Inter
ifai improvements, the illustrious CLAY,wtt
all the power of his peerless eloquence, an
especially in his great speech in the Hous
Of REPRESENTATIVES in l9l7-l8, and we coul
not suppress the qualification we felt at see
ing them substantially reproduced as Dtm
ocratic arguments ia support of a great n0
tiona! measure"
THE Pittsburgb Castle in speaking ofth'
movement says:
"The Union and Post both came out yes
terday in favor of the construction OF III
Pacific Railroad by the General Govern
ment. This committal to a policy whic
has beer for some time pressing upon2pug
lie attention, does not result SO much troI
the Inherent Importance ofthe question |
self which has been as worthy of a~ttentio
atany time within some montbspast ASH
now, as from the fact that the President un
his Cabinet have lately committed then
selves in favor of the policy, followed,
course, but ut a humble distance, by I'll
Presidential organ at Washington. VIII
the. Pacific ~railrohd was not able to obtai
upon its own merits, is freely accorded TO
now that it has the Presidential endors'
ment;and democratic presses throughout u
country, having obtained the cure from tt
Washington Union, will henceforth ince
sanity gloriIy a measure of which they ha'
hitherto been obllvious.
The whole democratic party, at least tn
part Of it which has the facility of forge
ting or ~disregarding the old doctrine o f"stri
construction of the Constitution" will thu
in very short while, be found advocatiI
the construction OF the Pacific railway |
fhe National Governments; and as that pa
d. fy has the power in its hands, we may lot
Ito theanext Congress for the, adoption
measures towards putting the project fair
on its feet" $500
ay But this is not all. Not content wi
Ginning to. be the advocates Of the WI
policy of I%nternOl Improvement, they ha'
also com outin bold terms in favor of
etTarif policy. Their organ, the Washin
ton Union, makes use of the following la
guage:- y
"The prosperity Of a people adependssu
on their ability to turn theirlabort to accoun
and unless the objects Of labor are diversi
ed there can be no'general success"
Upon the above, the Richmond WI
makes the following we'll timed remarks
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