Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-06-28
WASHINGTON, d. G..
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1884.
OUR political SURVEY.

the Wings, independent Democrats ana REQ
MA az The free States, in relation to Tho Me-
brassa Question, and the Slavery issues IN.
volved III it
To-day We present the Administration m
its true character, and shall follow this up To-
morrow, by directing attention to the move
menis Of several classes Of voters III tho Tree
States, who arc either openly, OF covertly sns
tanning IT.
After that, We shall turn our view South
wardly, and introduce our readers Ia the po-
litical movements among the Slaveholdera who,
by u ridiculous MISSIONER, are called Wings or
Democrats.
THE ADMINISTRATION AND IT'S SUPPORTERS
1t il common to speak Of the Party that
sustains the present Administration, ~ me
Democratic Payty We shall be guilty a
no such misnomer. Democracy is, government
by the People, for the benefit OF the People
Democracy in this country, il genuine, is 'p.
posed to government by classes, sections, iae.
tons ciques, or executive power and patron
age. A Party which sustains such a Democ
racy, and sympathzes with it in saeh Oppose
ton is the Democratic Party. On the other
hand, Party which sustains u faction, clique,
sootion, class, or an Executive Power, in oppt-
sition to the People, for the sake of an inter
est, adverse to their interests ia essentially and
grossly anti Democratic whatever it's preten-
SONS.
The supporters Of tho present Administers.
ton constitute precisely such Party. Its en-
tire policy from the time it commenced the
dispensation of patronage, down to tho passage
OF the Bill for the repeal Of the Missouri Com
promise, and the inception Of the conspiracy
to obtain Cuba, has been steadily aimed at
the establishment Of IFS own power by suhju-
eating the will and interests Of eighteen mil
lions of the free people Of the country, not in
terested in what is called slave property, to the
will and interests Of four hundred thousand
persons, with their dependents, Interested in
such property; in other words, by suhjecting
the People to tho government of Class, Of
which it is the active, nntiring, unscrupulous
agent.
From it's inauguration in March, 1883, till
the meeting Of Congress in December, the only
Domestic Question on which it acted was
Appointments TO Office, and Distribution Of Pat
ronage-and the essential condition to the be
stowment Of Office or patronage was, unqualified
adhesion to that article in the Baltimore Plat
form, which embodies q pledge to consider tho
Legislation Of 1880, especially the Fugitive
Slave Act M a finalify, and to resist all agita-
tion Of Questions of Slavery, in Congress or ont
of it. This pledge was not required by the
People nor was il made for the benefit Of the
People. IL was required by the Slaveholding
Ongarehy, and made for It's benefit. 1t as
Immoral and Anti. Democratic but adhesion
to it WAS unif'rmly insisted upon by the Ad-
ministraton, u test OF fitness for Office or the
reception of patronage.
For nine months the Administration employ
ed itself upon this Question, acting upon this
Anti Democratic Principle and yet his sup
porters claim TO be The Democratic Party
The annual message TO Congress was no far
devoid Of any distinctive Democratic doctrine,
that it received almost equal commentator
from all Parties, except that Party which, in
its re-afirmation of Pro-Slavery creed, saw
enough to vitiate its whole position and policy
Some Abstract dissertation there was on Stric,
Construction and the relations Of the FEEDER
and State Power, made up Of commonp lac,
dogma., which nobody ever thinks Of utterpg
unless for want of something else TO say, or for
the purpose Of yelling some usurpation Of
power.
Since the message was delivered Congre,
has be. u ia session seven mcnths, with an over
whelmng Administration mn Jority in both
braoches Surrlv, q Democratic President, with
such majority IN the Federal Legislature and
throughout tho country, ought TO have don,
something during these long months to prov,
his CLAIM Ia the title.
The immense commerce ofthe great West hal
been suffering incslculable damage for many
yeare, Cor the want Of rafe hsrbors on the Lakes
and necessary improvements in The large riv
ers--a commerce in which twelve millions Il
the People are directly, and all Of them indi
rectiy, interested. An appropriation Of one ~
two m,liions from q Treasury with surplus
Of fifty millions, would have been wise, benefi-
cent popular measure. But, no movement to
wards such an act has been made; this Demo
cratic Administration was hostile to IL. IL was
very wlse and entirely constitutional without
Censolting the Peoples Representatives, TO offer
twenty millions to Santa Anna for enough Of
Mexico to form two slave States, and open the
route OF Southern railway across the CONT
neof, from Charleston to San Diego, bnt very
unwise aud entirely unconstitutional to appro-
pirate one or two millions Tor the protection of
life and property among twelve millions of
People That IL wise ard constitutional which
she Glass Interest, Of which the Administration
is the agent demands: that is just tho reverse