Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1854-10-16
From the Washington Union.
The Ultimate Triumph Of Democratic
Measures and Men.

Whenever the Democratic party has los
ground it has done so from its fearless ant
uncomprcmising adherence TO principle
aud this has been the great truth that has
made every Temporary defeat but resting
| place for approaching victory. The very
measures under which we prosper at pres
ent came into existence amid storms oil
abuse, threats OF violence, and prediction
of national overthrow. Many Democrats
may think that the Nebraska bill has been
abused and falsifed By the Wings to an
unparalleled degree. 1t IS a mistake
Greedy, who would Tomorrow break UP
the Union without remorsc Ii 1t could,
was even more coarse, indecent, protane
and vulgar in his abuse to the tarll Of 1916
His assaults upon Secy Walker, Geo. NJ.
Dallas, and all others in favor Of that great
measure, were in the last degree coarse.
calumnious, and reckless. He and his
partsans-the same that now help him to
fill up the crazy cry against Nebraska,
President Pierce, and Judge Douglas
thought that Pennsy lvania and other States
were to be ruined outright, and declared
that all who had brought about this antci
pated ruin should be hung in advance Of
the catastrophe So much for the tariff of
1916. But the same slanderers carried
their abuse TO the same frightfu extremes
against the independent treasury law, and
all who favored it and their course
against the opposition to the Bank of the
United States was distinguished for its Yio-
lence and virtuperatioH.
The reformers Sho stood by these great
measures were often denied, the attributes
OF human beings, and more than once
were Threatened with assassination. Col
porteurs, strong minded women, thread
bare lecturers, purchased newspapers. and
bribed Legislators, made the welkin ring.
SO as to speak with ;natiemas and curses Of
the Democratic party because OF its stead
iastness 70 these measures. General jack
son, then conspicuous III the advance Of
party leaders, was denied BY inflated
priests an entrance into heaven and other
Democrats were consigned TO the most iery
depths of hell. Who does not recoiiect ii !:
Who does not recall il 3? And yet we OF
these days think all this a most terrible ai.
fair, and believe nobody ever was abused
like Jackson and his friends and disciples.
But this is 9 mistake too Jefferson, long
before Jackson was prescribed. was hunted
down by federal slanderers aud by every
wretch TINT longed iot British gold and
they did not hesitate TO impugn his good
name and to SANDER his personal character
anybody fond Of federal prophecies, and
desiiious OF contrasting them with ihe re-
suits, has only to 80 back during Mr., JEFF
ierson's tenn, and read the sreeeh Of o.
siah Quincy against The acquisition d
Louisiana, and he viii read ihei4. L. : esed
| q predictions aae abuse nos iiatilleu D
Greedy aud other aaitators and knaves in
New Eng land and New York. The
practice is half a century old and it has
been improved upon since it began.
Democrats need not think, therefore,
that Nebraska is more attacked than any
other Democratic measures OF that Gen.
Pierce is assailed more than his Demo
cratic predecessors. This would be great
honor, but it is not reserved to US OF the
present day.
Nebraska will, however, be INDICATED,
like other Democratic measures, and Gen
eral Pierce will come in for the final reni.
tence and praise Of the very demagogues
who now recall with pain, and recommend
with gIaduess, the measures and men they
were once so free to abuse. This will
complete the history aad the poetic JUS
tee Of tie contrast. How is the re-
cord
The Federaists that detained and rail-
ed out against the acquisition Of Louisiana
yielded, amid deep coItrition, 10 its glori-
Gus results The Wings that stained his
tory with their caiumnies of Jackson, now
chant praises to his memory. Add to
| these
The enemies of the Democratic opposi-
ton TO great bank
The friend of a bankrupt law
The malignant opponents oil the tariff Of
1916
The opponents of the independent treas
ury law
The assaiants Of the annexation Of Tex
as and the acquisition of California
The foes of our last war with Mexico
The abolition adsersaries Of the COM
promise measures
All OF these foes of the Democratic par
ty, and all the most abandoned, unscrupu
lous, and celumnious assailants of eyeri
Democratic President from Jefferson tC
Pierce, now iebuke themselves by theil
silence in the face of the victorious yindi
cations ofthe measures they once approved
or else publicly acknowledge their error
by applauding that which they can no lon
ger misrepresent.
The Nebraska bill is the last Of the Sc
ries and Franklin Pierce is the most re
cent horror of an anti-Democfa.ic opposi
ton. The near future will prove the az.
veisaries Of each have been as insane ant
as cruel as those they initiate the seque
will be in harmony with the repeated de
teats of Federalism. The near future will
prove that the list Is not complete ill
Whiggery and abolition have contessei
the iniamy of their falsehoods upon Pres
ident Pierce and the guilt OF their fraud
upon the A nerican people in regard to th'
Nebraska bill.
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