The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1854-02-14


Monroe; and Mr.. Clay Mr. Rush, Mr.. Barbour
Mr.. Southard, and Gen. Peter b. Porter, who
constituted his Cabinet were distinguished
members and leaders of tho Same party when
it battled against its old antagonists the Fede.
ralists; while many of the prominent Federal
lists; such as Mr.. Buchanan, VIM. Viking.
John X. Kane, Jno NJ Read, Gov. Hubbard.
Euel Williams, Gov. Vroom, Garrett ID. Wall,
Gov. Chittenden, Col. Drayton, and "too nu-
mcrous to mention" become jackson men,
and subsequently Democrats! If we take a
glance at Congress duiing tho four years OF
Mr.. Adams administration and the eigh. of
General Jnckson's when party spirit ran high
/ and debates were characterized by equal viru-
ience of attack and order of defence, wo shall
| gee art9yed or both sides about an equal mum
Iber those who formerly belonged to the "Re-
publican party" aud had beon prominent in 1t
| under Madison and Monroe.
From this hasty Review Of parties and
their measures you will perceive, what is tho
fact, that the Wings have never advocated any
measure Of public policy, with the exception
of the dist ibution of tho public lands or their
proceeds, (Which was new question: that
had not beon advocated by the old Republican
party, and had not been recognized rs belong
ing to the distinctive measures and policy of
that party in its palmy days, under Jefferson,
Madison and Monroe. This may surprise you,
as il probably will many of the politcons of
the present day, who labor under tho mistaken
notice that the present Democrat party has ev-
or been the same that it now is, and has from
timo immemorial, or at least from 1901 down
10 tho present moment. advocated and opposed
to the same measures which it now advocates
and opposes. You will thus sec how mutua-
Bile parties sometimes arc, and how they con-
tinue their hostility TO each other long after
tho original causes which brought them into
existance and antsgonism have wholly disap-
peared. and nothing is left but tho mutual hate
engendered by former conflicts for principal
and a blind prejudice while mputos all preju
dice which-impules all principle and goodness
to tho one, four own,) and all that is unprinci-
pied and evil to the other.
AS party, the Wings have strongly oppos-
cd tho accumulation of power in the hands of
the Executive, tho one-man-power, as did their
namesakes the Stuaris in England and Amer
lea during the contest with tho mother coun-
try which resulted in our Independence
Hence, they strenuously opposed what they
deemed ErecutiUe usurpdtion during the Ad-
ministration of Gen. Jackson. Their purpose
has eyor been to promote tho great business
interests of the country by the adoption Of
such measures as would encourage industry
and protect capitol and individual rights; 10
mako oil feell secure who had invested money
or embarked in auy business or enterprise cal
culated to give profitable employment to labor
or to advance tho general prosperity of the
country. 1t was naturally therefore, that tboy
should desire to protect and encourage our
rising manufacturers, which gave and now
give profitable employment 10 hundreds of
thousands Of industrious laborcrs. until those
manufacturers could gain strength enough TO
ct md md VIZ to al No.,
held the same views upon this subject as did
Mr.. Jefferson, Mr.. Madison and all tho leading
Republicans from 1901 down to 1920.
They advocate internal improvement because
they believed that few measures could do
moro to promote the general welfare" of the
country than improving the navigation of our
rivers, rendering safe our harbors, opening
channels into tho interior where none existed,
to enable the farmers to send their produce to
market by cheap, certain, and easy conveyan-
es,and thereby encouraging on increased sup
ply of agricultural productions to be consumed
by the increasing manufacturing population.
The Democratic party professed and profess
ses to be tho peculiar friends of the Iaboring
man, by holding that no has rights equal to
the highest in the land, mot denied by tho |
Whigs,) and assuring him continually that the |
Wings were and are aristocrats, holding such |
as him in contempt. The Wings have sought
less to win than to servo him; they rely moro
upon their acts and measures than their pro-
fessions and trust moro to the discernment |
and good sense of tho masses than to their |
preiudces. While the Democrats held that
there was natural hostility between tho poor
and the rich, (and some Of them were but to
willing to excite this hostility for tho purpose
of gaining the support Of the poor,) the Wings
hold that the interests of every class in the
community were indissolubly linked together,
so that whatever measures promoted the pros
perity of tho one promoted in the same degree
hat of the other; and they relied and rely on
the honest sagacity Of every class to discern
his political truth, and to bo governed by it,
Though represented by their opponents as the
enemies of tho working clnsses, they have ev-
Or shown themselves to be their truest friends.
As party, too. tho Wings have uniformly
maintained tho involablity Of tho public faith;
md havo therefore, on all occasions, opposed
population and all public dishonesty. They
iave also with equ sincerity uphold tho in
egrity of tho nation by insisting on tho strict
observance of public treaties, and opposed
heir violation by those who upon tho shallow
,retence of"extending the area of freedom,
would rob others of whatever gives valuo to
reedom. They have ever been foremost in
promoting and in disseminating useful infor-
nation With Wow 10 elevate tnc masses, NOR
lily and politically; nor have they ever been
backward in establishing and cndowing charit-
bile and philanthropic institutions, calculated
. rclicve the wants, improve tho condition,
md provide for the children Of the unfortunate
md distressed They have boen the doners
# nine-tenths Of the capital bestowed upon in
titutons Of this kind, and thcse most abound
where there are the greater portion of Wings. {
say this with no i'll feeling towards Demo- ,
rats; but when those undertake 10 draw COM I
'arisons before the public favorable to thcm-
Olives and uniavorable to thoir opponents. jus 6
leo requires that tho truth bo spoken aud that I
acts shall not be withheld. These impel me
urther to say, what every man of intelligence {
nows to be true. that were learning and intel q
gence most abound the community Is dcci.
cdly Wing; while in tho most unonlightencd {
cgons of the country and polluted sections Of I
ur cities tho largest Democrat majorties nrc
ounted on and given at tho polls. do not
{ course mean to say that that great party
ocs not contain men as enlightened and eve- Z
y way as worthy as can be found among tho Z
Wigs; but 1t will scarcely DO denied that {
cry largo portion of tho uneducated natural