, 1854-01-14
ADDR ESS

CO"H'~ baNulup, LtWiS county, W. i -
for the nomination of our first Delegate
, to Congress.
FElLow-CITIZuHs or TIE DrMocRATIC
PARTY OF WASHINGTON TERR!ToRY-Yo our
convention to nominate a candidate for
= Delegate TO Congress have brought their
labors to a close, aud the result of their de-
LIBERATION is before you.
The committee appointed by that con-
vcniion, the first democratic convention
ever called in this new and scarcely organ
lied Territory, congratulate their fellow
democrats on the wise choice of that body
OF their candidate for delegate 10 Congress,
and the approaching lrium?hs of their prin-
ciples.
Principles are as eternal and immuablo
as truth, and democratic principles are
truths in political history that when follow
ed out and acted upon have conducted ma,
tions to power and glory when departed
from, national power and glory have retro
gaded in proportion 10 the departure from
those great cardinal principles of democra-
cy. Principles, if worth contending for,
are as sacred and valuable in sparse popu-
lated country as where teeming thousands
conSregate around its altar.
That great truths are advocated by the
democratic party in this government is evil
dent from the of repeated concessions of
our adversaries, that there is little if any
difference between democrats and wings.
Fellow citizens, why is this so
II is because those great truths advocated
by our party have been crowned with sue
cess. Old whig principles have become
an obsolete idea. The party who once
wore that garb aud sported its principles in
the face Of the world, and attempted by bold
and impudcnt assertions 10 drapo forth
falsehood il the habilimcnts of truth, are at
last almost silent, or conccaling those prin-
ciples once SO boldly proclaimed, are wings
in name but not in theory.
Frllow-citizens, happily for the country,
for the progress Of democratic principles in
the world and for the human race at large,
the cloak that covered what was once whig
/ principles has Leeome so soiled aud dilapi-
dated that ,its owners fail or refuse to re-
cognize their own offspring.
All that is good and all that is sacred in
the history of this country may be sought
for and Gnnnd in the history Of the demo-
aratic party of this country. 1t has always
been by that that the area OF freedom l.as
been extended. Let us at all times remem-
4 Der that il was under a democratic admin
isiration that Louisiana and Florida, Terri
tories large enough for an empire, were
acquired that the source and mouth Of the
magnificent Columbia was explored, along
whose banks mighty people will grow up,
where two mighty States will meet and
minge in the embrace of lis pure flood.
Tha! it was the spirit Of democracy that
led the hardy pioneers to the plains Of Tex
as and lighted up the lone star whose un-
dimmed lustre led her band of heroes
through the baptism of fire end blood, and
laid the trophies Of her trumphs at the
feet Of a democratic administration. Un-
der the auspices Of democratic admnistra-
tion the stars and stripes of freedom have
been made TO wave over the golden sands
and plains Of California and New Mexico.
From the formation of our government
10 the present time, the government has
been democratic. II is true, few times we
have suffered defeat but this has happened
mocracy has been exhausted in the compile
ton Of some great work or the establishment
of some great principle; tired nature re-
quired rest, and at those times the reins of
government have in part been entrusted
TO other hands. The result of attempting 10
govern this nation on any other than demo-
cratic principles, have proved 10 every in
stance disastrous to those attempting it, and
the last great struggle for power, those that
made the attempt have met rebuke that
come up from mountain and plain, from the
east and the west, from the north and the
south, from the Atlantic shore TO the Pacific
coast in thunder tones that have appalled,
the stoutcst hearts, and caused them 10 aban-
don principles once cherished but now left
to moulder in the political lumber rooms Of
antiquity.
In the attempt 10 organize the democrat
tic party Of this Territory on broad, compre-
hensive and national principles, we met the
hydra headed monster sectional division in
cur path, the monster VINO has at times
stalked forth over our Union brandishing in
ore hand the bloody knife that was to sever
the bonds that binds this nation as unit,
and in the other the torch OF the incendiary
that was 10 consume all that remained of
what was once good, great and glorious.
This spirit Of sectional difference no doubt
famed aud fomented by those who wish to
divide the democratic party and thus defeat
IN detail what their conscious weakness told
them could moi be done en- masse lad to BE
+ mc! GHd crushed.
Your delegates met in convention and de,
t2rmlnad TO do this. They were seconded
in their endeavors by every democratic gem
tl2man present, who by the parIiality of
their friends had been placed prominently
before the democracy of the country for
their support. And here upon the altar oI