The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-20

DEMOCRACY.
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lie, facts give sa< democracy Lss had tn,
fair play the development and The wide hea whch has
s~a permitted oals since hlsor, began what ,nc
pies liked Facts Ia political science other thar
tos~ which have originated with The democracy and beer
sustained by it9 Not
Where arr those casures which have heen inscribed
upon the banners Of opposition parties OF every name
Remembered only by the perverted genius and wasted clio
qsence which fit With phosphorcsoeni ngh, the
graves To admit then that democratic principles sh
principles Of a party having broader foundation
in truth than the inventions Of human Judgment, whicl
give form and opposing combinations is TO shu
our eyes TO the teachings Of history and political phoso
ply. As web might we say religious party or mora
party, II religion and morality In che abstract,
Of opinion Instead Of being instructive senti
mens and yet there have been and and parties
Of great ability opposed to these sentiuen and
who have been willing TO sacrifice them TO temporary
pediency.
ures which have become fixed principles in political sci
have repudiated everything local. limited sectarian
and sectional they have been broad aud national Their
is undoubtedly much tina, ia seductive and fascinating il
which promise exclusive advantages classes
sections especially when those classes sections appea
powerful but however fair to the view the outsid
of the fruit may be- 1t falls invariably into premature de
cay from the rottenness its heart Those therefore VIII,
may feel any influence seducng them from th. broad prin
cples of instructive democracy have evidence
test of their ultimate failure and disappointment in the ver
fact that they have deserted natural law fer party
vention.
Men everything to party they rise superior to th
principles of their creation change them them
use Them and the constituents Of such parties but fol
principle superior to all classes Of II is
stream which flows steadily on and sweeps all nd
viduals combinations opposing its progress
leading English paper, when il learned the result o.
the election which placed Mr. Pierce in the presidential
chair announced that the national choice had fallen upon
"a private gentleman of New Hampshire Such IN an
nouncemen properly interpreted ought TO he full of salts
factory meaning TO every democrat That the most bril-
liant leaders OF sections of many sections Of the de-
mocrncy should have selected the prvate gentleman
New Hampshire was an evidence Of the superiority of the
national faith all local interests personal ambition
narrow sefshness 1t beautiful illustration OF the
broad sympathes of democracy that they could be most
nationally represented by private ctizenan evidence
that no man held the salvation Of the democracy in his in
divdual keeping. A distinction made between the
wide nationality of political faith and the absorbing pre-
dominance Of any element of that faith between the
hriet. any insed
cy has been justified is best evidenced by the nature
the hostility which has assaed the Executive From
whom has it come and for WHAT From sects and nae
tons because he would abandon the broad nationality
be was called to represent from those who from i'm
pulse and expediency would abandon the rigid require
ments of principle
The insane asylum and the river and harbor7 bill:
undoubtedly offered for their approval the seductive brides
of graed personal feeling and immediate personal popn
arity but the principles of instructive democracy-ht
principle of general right and integrity rather than that
partial avordemanded their sacrifice, and the frmnes
which met the demand proves how right the judgment
of the democracy when its choice fell upon the "privatt
gentleman of New Hampshire
The same rigid and unerrng rule Of right close adhe
sion tho fixed principles of democracy disregard Of al
side pretences and contempt for the seductions Of sim
gledea mushroom combinations is the safe and
alive path for every member Of the national faith W.