The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-12-15
THE NAME OLE DEMOCRACY.

THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY.
AT moment when thousands of heretofore at
tached to rival organizations anxious for the safety and
stability of institutions unhesiatngy turn from their
accustomed paths in politics. and join the democratic party
in its march of true conservatism and rational progress
the willy leaders of the opposition army ndusrousy APP
peal bygone and buried preudices against the name Of
democracy stupidity forgetting that by the very epiihes
they upon this honored appeaon they aronspg
the suspicious of those democrats whom they have betrayed
into the councils of aboonism and the lodges of know
nottingham They address these epthes to such citizens
have been members of the wing party in order to rally
them into ranks which they claim to be filled with demo
cras The difference between those who uniting
themselves to the democratic party and the consistent adj
herents Of that organization has lately been reduced to
mere name-a name, indeed, we have said before
rounded with glorious associations and made memora
BILE by the efforts of distinguished intellecs and the r
umphs of political science but when anaticsm sought to
overthrow sacred guarantees and essential institutions
this difference forgotten and the signal of de-
mocracy became the watchword that rallied both to a
standard 1t unnecessary that should 60 back
to recapituate the struggles between the old whg party in
its palmy days and the organization now
arrayed in opposition to the elements of anarchy and of
revolution camorous for power in the federal government
Those ennobng contests and if the democratic party
may claim the proud honor Of having in most cases been
victorious it is but justice to history to declare that it
found in every instance foeman worthy of it's steel But
where could honest go in such tumuuous and try
ing times these il not into such party as the democ
racy Their machinery has been usurped by denla-
gogues Even in the latter days of Clay and Webster
those great not powerful enough to rescue the
wing party the free States from the hands of aboltonis
and with their dying breath they excaimedthe that a
the he the whig party abolitionized he de-
sired to see defeated and the other that its national
sence had ceased.
Observe that those who continue TO oppose the democ
racy and to defame the democratic perfectly viii
ling take who has been democrat if he win only
allow himself their candidate and consent to be
called after his old name But when they called upon
TO support who deserves the of democrat and
who proudly it, they seek to revive forgotten ami
mosities and excite the prejudiccs that prevailed
among the national wings years ago 1t is their interest
uphold the glarng sehood to the people of the South
that Salmon p Chase, of Ohio is member of the demo-
cratic party when they know that he has been repudaed
by because of his COLLISION with the enemies of the South
1t is their delight cry out that Martin Van Buren, s still
democrat although he has done all in his power to break
down those principles to which the democracy
than attached To such the great glory Of Pres
ton King that he member of the democratic party
though the time they studousy conceal the fact
that he deserted his friends and gone the flu
sion Such expedients these acceptable to the
in the North who try deceive the admirers of dem
ocratc principles by holding these false lights while
the other hand they acceptable to opponents in
the South who point them beacons show that the
democratic party be trusted the great questions
of the day
to Join the only constitutional party in the country
because it is the democratic party how sadly they forget
the fatal inconsistency of which they guilty when they
place in nomination democrats like Shortrdge, of Ala
bama and Andrews of Georgia, know-nothing candi
dates democratic votes against the demo-
cratic party Democrats only to be hated and opposed
when they do not unite put down their party and
when they the rights Of the States and the in
tegrity of the Union but when they willing lend
themselves the foes of these rights and of thus integrity
they become especial objects of admiration and of graft
tude
We sympathize with all who in this crisis are
faithful to the constitutions whatever their past associa
and preudces may have BEEN and especially DO
hail such men coaborers in the great in which
we all enlisted whcn the recent elections have
shown, they have voluntarily opposed those who have
sworn 10 exermnae the democratic party, and esab
lsh upon its ruins the combined laws of political fana
cism and religious bigotry.