Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1853-09-08

Democracy VS. AristocracY.

every pdtTlOLlc leader IN the DeLnOcrdtlc party.
On this exciting subject the party is in great
danger Of being rent asunder and its future
harmonious action rendered impossible. The
organization Of political parties in this country,
was necessary incident to our republican
form u government. History and experience
has shown US, that there exists among man
kind two antagonistic principles-the Demo-
cratic and the Aristocratic. The Democratic
principle reposes full confidence in the masses
of the people, and acknowledges their rights,
and capacity for selfgOvernment.
The Aristocratic principle arrogates to a
favored few the sovereign power, and looks
upon wealth as the great and leading idea in
the State-and views the masses of the people,
as merely machines to be operated upon by the
wealthy and powerful Upon these principles
were founded the two great parties in this
countryside Democratic party representing
the masses of the people and their interests
and the Wing party representing the Aristoc-
racy. Their principles and practices are in
utter antagonism to each other, whatever may
have been the names whiggery may have as
sumed, or the guises it may have worn.
The Democratic party, is, and ever has
been, the party of progress, and all that has
ever been done to advance the honor or interest
Of the country has been achieved by it. To
that party are we indebted for the extension of
our territory-the augmentation Of our wealth,
and, indeed, for the comprehensive national
policy which, in less than three quarters Of a
century has raised US from thirteen poor dis
cordant States with a population of about
three millions, to be one Of the most powerful,
free, and happy people on the earth.
That there now exists among the advocates
Of aristocratic notions, design to break down
the Democratic party, not only in this state
but throughout the cOuntry-must be evident
to every unparalleled observer of the signs
of the times. The grand lever with which
this is to be accomplished, is the SO called
g Maine law" There is to be a fanatical cry
raised, that the democracy are what the Oppo-
sitiOn please to style, the g Rum party" An
attempt is to be made to array the moral force
Of the country against them. Already has the
New York Tribune and kindred prints set
themselves in motion in that direction, with
the intention and expectation of rallying under
one common banner of fanatacism, all the va
riOus factions, which oppose the Democratic
organization. The battle ground for the OPEN
ing of this fanatical campaign is selected-our
own State is the chosen arena for this gladia-
torial show-and the first shock of the fierce
opposition, which a venal and corrupt party
are to wage upon the administration of Gen.
Pierce is to fall upon the democracy of Maine.
The peculiar situation of parties in this
state and the division of opinion in the demo-
cratic party upon the subject Of the liquor law,
as we'll as the courage given to the opposition
bv their partial success in the last campaign,
render our state peculiarly exposed to such an
attack
The wing candidate for governor Of last
wear, who was on all sides of this ques-
ton, is made to espOuse the cause of the
90 Maine law" and is held out as its peculiar
advocate and champion. Wing editors, who,
last year, fretted and threatened vengeance up
on the Maine law and its supporters, as some
of their most honest men left their party on
account of the dubious position Of their gubi-
Material candidate upon this subject, wrote
furious editorials in favor of the Maine law
and in denunciation Of the Rum proclivities o.
| IL Jaroooroou updar tho incnirinr ;nA,onao 90
Mint Juleps.
Men notorious as liquor drinkers in the whig
ranks are put in nomination for public offices
and held up as temperance candidates Every
effort, that the ingenuity of an unprincipled
party stung to madness by their recent nation
al defeat can invent and use, is brought to bear
to break down the democracy of the State
Money is raised, and unprincipIed venal and
corrupt men are sent through the State as lee
turers, with their mouths filled with falsehood
detraction, and SANDER against the Democratic
candidate-even some of their clergy are de-
ceived and led away, and induced to take a
part in this infamous work, and under the pre-
tence of sustaining the cause of temperance
lend their influence and talents to forwarding
the corrupt schemes of desperate and reckless
politicians. These itinerant lecturers appear
to act upon the principle that :" the end justi-
fies the MEANS" and no course is too low--no
SANDER too base to be resOrted to by them.
The notorious Willey-the libeller of Gen.
Pierce is at his dirty work again-casting
forth his filthy slime upon every thing that OPP
poses the wild fanaticism of his disordered
brain. His miserable sheet is constantly
| teeming with the basest and foulest Islander of
the democracy and its nominees-which are
greedily caught up by the wing managers, and
echoed from thousandlying tongues through
a true unvarnished statement of the situation
oflaffairs as they now exist in this state, and
shows most conclusively, that it is the object
of the wing managers to break down the dem
ocratic party by means of this miserable liquor
law controversy, and then to organize under
the black banner of Federalism all these fac
tious elements of opposition. Shall they sue
coed i .r l.s..... 4- aa
This is question which the democracy Of
Maine must answer on Monday next. ha-a
Should the opposition succeed with their
new hobby in this state, it will embolden them
in their efforts in other states-the marriage
would then be solemnized between temperance