Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-05-13
THE wHIG AND DEMOCRATIC PARTIES
NY THEODORE PARKER.


Money is Pope Ia America Il is King in Amer
lea; II is also Noble in America. No nation ever
grew rich 80 fast am thankful we have had
chance; it furnishes the material basis whereon
we shall, doubt not, erect a grander superstruc-
ture of higher qualities than were ever seen in
America or elsewhere.
| In American States, money is constitution; the
ofhcial men ought to be sworn the federal cur
reney, and the dollar should be their official SYM
bolic mark. In community, money is the noble; 1t
is transmissble social power il is aristocracy il
makes man into vulgar gentleman. Mr..
Famous-born Is the noble in European socicty but
in America, Hon. Dives Snob American aristoc-
racy is bottomed on n cent Great applause
Money is thought better than love ''none but the
the rich deserve the fair" Great applause.l Now
money has the power, not by itself alone; il
Leagues with old despotocracy and so inaugurates
itself in this strong position, and wieds the triple
power Of the old thcocracy, monarchy and aristoc-
racy. But, have said il has one great check,
which is the passions Of the majority, and accord
ingy there are two great recognizable forces in the
country one is money and the other the majority
Each of these must, Of course, have party which
represents it. So, there is party organized about
the dollar, MS its nucleus and idea the dollar is
the germinal dot Of the Wing party its motive is
pecuniary; il legislates for the rich and against
the poor with it everything must yield to money
and that is nothing the dolarshas universal right
of war.
The greatest man Of the Whig party for some
years, said: Z" The great object Of Government is
the protection Of property" Money is the Wing
god. The millionaire is the highest social product
lie is that which has come up to the standard of
the perfect Wing man. Great applause There
must also be party to represent "the majority"
which holds money in check. The majority of the
people do not differ much from the few men that
are rich only in this point the few men have got
rich, the many have the desire to become rich.
uhfar | l. H.. LII. A
arises Democratic party which is organized about
the majority" this party represents the aqusi-
tive instinct of the people To this party belongs
the young the poor, the old the audacious are its
leaders,-Inen commonly destitute of any lofty
character and any great idea [Great applause
Not very careful Of justice, love or religion, the
party sneers at the rich as the Wing party sneers
at the poor. The Wing party cannot trust the
people the Democratic party cannot trust any
body else. This knows no law higher than the will
OF the majority, the other none higher than
money.
! Protestants worship the Bible, collection Of
books the most excellent in the world written with
ink in Hebrew or Greek translated out of the
original tongues: with the former translations dill
igenty compared, ordained to be read in churches"
and to him it is the word of God. So the Whig
worships money the Democrat 'the majority"
To the Whig party it is no matter how money is
got by smuggling opium. by selling rum, by steal
ing slaves--for money is god. To the Democratic
party, no matter what the majority votes it is best
The Democratic party may choose whom they
please. Polk is as good jackson, when voted
in; and short Pierce is as tall as jackson when in
the Presidential chair; election makes all men
equally tall. If the majority wants n violation of
the Constitution of the United States, of n Decla-
ration Of lndependence-yes. or the Constitution
of Conscience and the declaration of the Most
High God-the answer is, "there is no higher law
| let us do itW There is vital difference be-
tween these two parties with respect to moral prin-
ciples The one has got the other wants to get /;
so the one inaugurates the thing got the master
principle, and with the other the desire of thething
is its master principle.
In times which try the passions, which are the
souls of parties, then both coalesce and on the
same level one is but the continuation Of the
other there is only hand-rail between the two /;
lean little on it and Mixed so that we cannot
tell who is Hard and who is Soft Loud laugter.
In common times the same thing happens for the
| Wing is only an old Democrat, and the Democrat
is young Wing. Applause and laughter. In
mercantile phrase the Democrat is Wing on
time, and the Wing is a Democrat arrived ut matu.
rty, whose time has come. Loud laughter Ac-
cordingly many man is a roaring DemocIat when
young and poor, who becomes roaring Wing when
old and rich In Boston knew men who, in 1912,
were most violent Democrats; the world could
hardly hold them; they went privateering against
the oppression of England to take sailor out Of
British ship. In 1923 the same men were Wings
1 saving the Union, and banding with slavery Graf
and lines. Not n feather was changed it wat
! only Wing on time who had arrived at maturity
Great applause