The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-04-06
Wrtklq Crprrss.
WEDNESDAY MORNINe,......AP 6.
OUR TICK EFT.

| There has been good deal OF buncomb at
tempted to be manufactured, over the democrat
ic ticket nominated on the 10Th inst at the Coul
, House. We have observed the course and ten
dency of this pretended indignation with NOR
than ordinary in,ere st, that we might if possible
reconcile hostility among our own party friends
if it existed; but we have come to the conclu
sion that it arises more from whig strategy, thai
from genuine democratic indignation. True
there are few, who are suffering from the NOR
tfca,ion of defeat at the Convention, that ar,
endeavoring to find relief in hostile demonstra-
tons towards the ticket and especially towards
those who were successful owe, them but thi
greetfui and unbecoming, and by no means a:
dangerous, as the strategy OF political foes
1t is always the policy of the minority to raise
false issues, encourage invidials distinctions
excite unjust prejudices and APPEAL to the pass
ions rather than to the reason 6 men, in order
to overcome a cause and supplan party, which
they have no power to injure blythe force of in
trnsic merit or legitimate coure of party dis
cpline This is one of the grea evils of party,
and it has prevailed from the earliest knowledge
we have Of representative government By an
appeal to national, political and religious pre-
udices in days gone by, nation las been array
ed against nation, province against province,
neighborhood against neighborho,d and brother
against brother, to the breeding # wars, pesti-
lence and famine and the inmens sacrifice of
human life. But it is humiliatineto acknowl.
edge, that the same elements OF superstition
vindictiveness and moral turpitudeexist in this
age of universal intelligence and inths free and
highly favored coun,ry-a countrywhich boasts
of its capacity and disposition to ese the bur-
dens Of the oppressed of oil nation (which af:
fords one common platform of equay for every
man to stand upon and professes to despse al
distinctions Of class, creed or counsy-tha, ex.
isted in ages gone by, when ignorace was the
common patrmony Of the great mss of man
kind. Leaving out the two highestoffices with
| in the gift of the people, the Amercan consti-
tuition recognizes no difference, htween the
native and foreign born citizen. 10th classes
| are governed by the same laws, crevned with
the same privileges and entitled ts the same
favors, social. political and religious The gov
eminent recognizes no particular cred, but re-
spects, protects and venerates all Why then
should we-a little community, unitd by one
common interest, pecuniary, social an CONNER
cal, desirous Of attaining one commo. elevation
of prosperity and animated by the mole impul
ses of patriotism, philanthropy and frternal cit
izenship-array ourselves against eac other in
deadly social and political hostility, a Ameri-
cans, Irish, Germans, English or Eench =
Have any thing to gain for ourelvcs or
place, by such war Of classess AZ we by
such course. consulting that noble and self
sacrificing spirit Of compromise and fraternal
affection, which guided the counsels o. our ia
theirs in framing the institutions of ,h country
and has conducted ii to state of unprecedented
prosperity Pause for one moment mn of in
telligence and reflect upon the ten housand
baneful consequences, which must ipvitabIy
result, fiom the encouragement of sue a de-
PRAYED public sentiment The consequences
would be fatal to our happiness as community
and our prosperity as place. Our pcnniary
interests would become divided and anita onistic;
local hostility, such as upper and loer and
Eastern and Western Town, would spng up
classes would have their particular frehs to do
business with !; men would approach ech 9th
er in the streets. as two strange dogs APPROACH,
with growl and a display of their ivor, ready
for disgraceful and perhaps fatal renornter
and even the juvanile portion of our plac from
imbibing the spirit of their parents or gardians
would become hostile and desperate their
habits of intercourse with each other.
Such is the natural tendency of cias DIS
tsnctions, especially when they are iouned up
on national or religious prejudice and of,l the
vile and desperate causes for engenderin, social
treason and depravitv, we invoke the intposi-
ton of Divine Providence, to protect II. from
that superinduced, by the above named auses
Cannot political parties exist, without ndan.
gering the peace of communities, by incedary
appeals to national prejudice? Canno. they
meet in a spirit of manly independents and
concession and select their favorites for,ffice,
without allowing passion to drive reasolfrom
its throne and transform the man, into the rue.
If not, far better would it be for US, to abadon
all government and recede into the rud and |
barbarous condition Of the savage, who mixes |
hunting his occupation and war his God We
regret that party zeal, should overcome tn, bet
ter judgment of many of our Wing, and few |
of our democratic friends, and lead them into !
course of thought and action, VIII ch ispro-
ductive Of nothing but evil to the placeand |
community. Although these appeals to nat,nal
prejudice may be made-as they often are-,ith |
an air Of. frivolity and triumph, yet they ave
the effect to keep the subject before the ON
munity, mortiiy the pride of those whare |
directly affected by Them and lacerate the wand
already inflicted. IS
Every liberal and judicious man, shald |
frown down, as unbecoming the intelligence nd
dignity Of an enlightened and christian com,u |
nifty, this spirit Of Nativeism. II inherts he
elements Of social depravfiit,y viii, and ply scal deny
and cannot be too promptly and sternly rebukd
Fhe only Legitimate qualifications for office, ae
honesty and capabllity; and not whether a mn |
owes the accident Of birth upon a soil, With |
Columbus discovered, all Europe has occupnd I
at one time and an other and distinguished 70 |
eigners participated in achieving the indepel
dence of, or upon one consecrated TO KIM.
Princes and Despots. The sacred charter f
our liberties contains no such debasing reous
ton. The idea is foreign to our institution,
repuIsive to liberty, dangerous to the peace an
perpctuity of our country, morally unjust an
politically oppressive. i
Let us then, in that enlightened and Hber
spirit, which animated our fathers to acbieva
their independence ano transmit to US governl
ment, admirably adapted TO elevate and ennobl,
human character and advance human happiness
teach the world, that we are not the recirienrs
OF civil boon, which We have neither the hear.
nor the desire to appreciate, W
ae a ADtEL.-The Cincinnati Nonpareir Of the
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