The daily union., 1854-07-22
From the Peoples Advocate, Salem, Mass
THE SIN OF AITSTERTTTZ

The democratic party has now but duty perform
firm and steady defence of those principles upon which
the administration stands We hear that charge
of reesoilism which but few months ago rang all
the land against the President and his cabinet That false
hood is nailed and its perpetrators have united in despair
in coalition which stamps their past professions with the
odium they deserve The malicious lie which Occus
pies the mouths of these political bandits that the admins
tration given to the spread Of slavery above all
other objects is very fit succession to the and das
tardy msrepresen with which it assaicd in the
outset The stand taken by the coalition of enemies
rotten and base to its very foundation Above the dust
and confusion which they have created the democratic
still shines token of the Austcrz victory which awaits
if we stand firm and true We Gan gain nothing by
wayering, nothing by that policy which "half conceal
half dscloses the doctrines for which contend Let
be ready to go where democratic principles leadhese
principles which engraved upon the front wall of the
administration of Gen. Pierce high in mir for every passer
by to read
In Essex county VIC know where we stand The party
which has adhered to the Baltimore platform, to General
Perces letter accepting the nomination. to his inaugural to
the faith of the tried veterans of democracy has but to
in the very path which they laid in the pre
Dental campaign calling all democrats go with
them, they did then We know that stand with the
great mass of the party in the counywth that party
which elected General Pierce which has sustained his a
ministration which is supported by Cass, and Douglas
and Hunter the star Of Virgna and Toucey the incor
Palmetto State and Pugh the young accomplished SEN
from Ohio and the tried patriots Of the land from
Easport to San Francisco And there mean to stand
until the principles which haze been 70 rumphany
toned by the wisdom of our statesmen and SO boldly
adopted by the party in Pennsylvania and New York in
Indiana and Maine and will be everywhere become the his
toric page upon which we can dwell with pride We say
that the sun Of Austerlz still shines upon usthat sun
which the morning of the second of November 1852
Upon the democratic hosts gathering to the contest and
went down at night upon victory unequaiiad in political
annals. And we see In the unprncplcd alliance of our
eremie earnest of future victory whenever the contest
is begun again. We may be---wc are--beset by doubtful
friends by insidous foes by jealousy and treachery but
We have only pursue and that is the
LIBERAL bold faithful course have adopted heretofore If
the whg party fit to be governed by its natural an-
tiles and to join the abslitoniss what is that to us If
here and there democrat goes the enemy what IS
that to us If labor has been for any good object
heretofore let us pursue STILL ell the rmer for the
test which RACES around We are not alone The great
tree beneath whoze BRANCHES we sit has its root ia ts
heart of our country, firmly xed upon the constitution
and bcsows its fruitful blessings upon the remotest corner
of our country We are not alone And while we labor
in our own sphere extend hand to that patriotic
body OF democratic citizens who stood the hallowed
ground of Philadelphia nations birthday, and
Resorcd, That we reafrm our adherence to the princ
Convention at Baltimore in 1859 that approve and will
uphod the principles which have guided the policy of Frank
lin Pierce in whom and whose administration have entire
and abiding confidence.
Resotra That the people of every State and Territory
this country have the sole and sovereign right to regulate
their domestic institutions and that attempt by the
people of other States and Territories by their
aycs in Congress, to bind them, without their consent
any case Whatever Is usurpation of mans inalenabls
right of government and should be resisted that the
principles of intervention and local self inn
bodied in what known the compromise measures
1850 and applied by the late act for the organization Ne
basfa and Kansas deserve and shall cordial and
united support"
Compare this position with the despotc and ant-repub
lcan doctrines with which filled on the same
day by the advocates OF edon and the denominations Of
the great coalition Compare the stand taken by Stephen
Douglas in defending the resolutions we have quoted
upon the very spot where the sage of country bound
together the bands of our Union with that picture which
Anson Burngame presents standing upon the platform Of
the Essex unto to scatter the fabric of our fathers into
atoms and to misinerpre and belle all their noble deeds
It not too much to say that the democrats of Essex
,ounty viii choose wisely between these two things The
country is with us it-" '