Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-11-16

what and whore is the Democracy.

as IL remains u liIaAi W A-'%' -
our own existence. y Democrat.
The misfortune Of our brother OF the
Democrat is, in installing names for
things. That a Democratic party will
control the destinies of this country, as
long as it is Republic is inevitable, but
that 'the party now known as Democrat
ic" will, is in our view sheer nonsense.
The editor of the Democrat assumes APP
parently that because principles are eter-
nal. parties are also necessarily eternal;
that because party is democratic ona
bank Issue before the country it can ne
yer fall from grace, but oneYery issue and
at all times viii be equally democratic.
Did the editor never hear of an indi-
pid9.ql changing his position from that OF
Democracy to Federalism, and If nc di',
is it not possible foT all aggregate Of IN
diyiduals, who make a party under GER
tain circumstances, to do the same thing.
And if federalism does not become de-
mocracy, because an individual who was
onoo a democrat. practises It, is it any
more likely to become democracy, when
an aggregate of individuals practice it.
Principles as We remarked, are eternal,
bat the issues or eUentS which grow from
principles. and which make and divide
parties, are temporary in their character,
and constantly changing. Thus, for in
stance. at one period in our history, the
Bank Issue presented itself, and to some
extent changed. reformed, and remodel
ed old parties. Well, the Bank issue was
not. and could not be eteynGl for the sim
Die reason. that the knowledge obtained
by the people through the agitation OF
the question, and the knowledge attain
ed also by experience mast settle it one
way or the other. and in good time it EaS
settled, and the parties which areTe made
by that question, of course had no fur
Their relation to each otherin that respect.
But in virtue Of the growth and pro-
gress of the people, other questions must
! arise. and these new questions of course
will change the party relations Of men to
each other. Just as the Bank issue did.
At this time, no sensible man will deny
that the slavery principle, in its generals
and details. is the question now before
country. This was moi the question: which
organized the present Democratic party,
and we ask what reason there is to sup
pose, that the inairiduq!s who made that
party, will think Sufficiently alike on thH
nelu issue to continue to act in concert
upon it. Indeed the facts are all the 9th
or way. They do not think alike and do
not act in concert In the South that
party which was Wig has merged Itself
into the Democratic party, and they act
! in harmony on this ncp issue. In the
north, there is not state in which this
question has not rent into fragments the
| party; and why ! simply because it is a
ne1o issue upon which the men who made
| the Old Anti-Banl party do not hin&
alike and consequently do not act alike.
Yet the editor Of the Democrat assumes
that the party nolo known as Democratic
will control the destinies Of this country,
for all time.
What and where is this party? Is it
the party which in New York votes for
Bronson or for Seymour, or Ullman? Is
it The party which in Wisconsin votes
for Billinghurst or Macy? Is it the par
ty which in Illinois has elected screen
members of Congress or that which has
elected t,r0? Is it the party which in
Michigan has just struck down Gen. Cass,
or is it the party which sustains him?
Who, uhat and trhcre, at this time, rs this
great controlling party?
The editor Of the Democrat says Wells
is Anti-Nebraska; the editor Of the News
on the other hand, says his election is a
Nebraska triumph. The former insists
upon it that Democracy is -4nd-Acbras-
ka and the latter insists just as stom|y
that no man can be Il Democrat unlea,
he endorses the principle Of the Ncbras-
ka bill. Now if this present Democratic
party is to control this country il has
got 70 rally and unite its dismcmbered
parts sIM gather up its scattered fraS-
meats, and when it does what platform
will it stand on? Cass and Douglas and
Pierce proclaim one thing. and the edit
or Of the Democrat and thousands Of
others proclaim something else. And
yet in view of this most manifest condi-
ton Of things. the editor Of the Demo
/ crat tells US that this party is 70 control
the destinies of the country.
Can any mar Of sense be in doubt as
to the present condition Of things. The
new issues before the country are renod-
cling the parties OF the country ana dis
solving the Old relations. The pro-slayc-
~ power of the country has obtained the
control of the OH Democratic purity ma
chincry, and by means Of this machinery
seeks to make the Democratic party It's
aIly. The liberal men Of the party can
not be thus used, and they are breaking
away from the machinery and forming
new combinations. That party which
has the machinery Of the old Democratic
organization, and which will retain the
name Of Democracy for a time yet, is the
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