Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-07-04
The Nationality of the Democratic Party

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The Nationality of the Democratic Party.
The democratic party and American nationality
have gone hand in hand, and have been one and
inseparable ever since the author of the declara-
tion of Independence, Thomas jefferson, ushered
forth to the world in 177s that they would treat
England as they would do the rest of mankind,
enemies in war, and friends in peace This is
the rock on which the enemies of the democratic
party have always split. They not only wish to
treat Great Britain as friend in peace, but as
the model of their government, and the reflection
of their policy. Hence. all their sms, and all the
batteries directed against the democratic party,
had their origin, either directly indirectly from
the policy of :. Great Britan'' 1t was the policy
of that nation, and the subject of of the com
plants against its Prince, that he was endeavor-
ing to prevent the population of the states, for
that purpose, obstrueting the laws for the natn-
ralization of foreigners, and refusing to pass laws
to encourage their migration hither, and raising
the condition of pew appropriation of lands AT
a very early day this policy of George the third
was adopted by the enemies of the democratic
party exhibited in the passing Of the g Alien and
sedition laws,'' and promptly put down by the
democratic party, the national party of the coun-
try. This new spawn of party, is now attemp-
ting to revive that Old obsolete act, as the law
yers say, by scre facias" " in their crusade against
the naturalization laws and foreigners; but their
doctrine cannot be better described now than it
was by Thomas Jefferson in the declaration Of In
dependence. The acts of the Hartford convention,
and the blue lights ofConnecticut will now be ad-
mitted by all to have been British policy, directed
against the national democratic party. The bank
of England, is the great balance wheel of that ma
tion, and we all recollect how the country to
be ruined, and the ferocity of the enemies of the
national party exhibited, when General Jackson
undertook to wind up our own balance wheel in
Philadelphia. modelled after that of England.
The abolition party had its start in England.
From the days that one of their bonbastic poets
declared that,
Slaves cannot breathe in England,
The moment their lungs receive that air,
That moment they are free,
They touch the country and their shackles falP
Yet notwithstanding that declaration, there is
not SO great slavery in any christian country on
the face Of the earth, as there is i'll that boasted
land Theirs indeed is genuine slavery, not in
nane but in reality; not only the slavery of the
body. but of the mind. Millions of people reside
in that country, above and beneath the ground,
who never heard there was such thing God,
nor such stage of existence, futurity. A
great many of them would lose by comparison
in freedom or intelligence, not only with the slaves
of the southern states, but with their masters hor
ses which they groom. The same hatred and
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negro that characterizes the inhabitants of " Great
Britain,r was adopted and clung to with tcnacity
by the enemies of the democratic party in new
England, and in other parts Of the United States
and now them straining every nerve to
give universal suffrage to the negro by their leg
islative acts; and endeavoring by the same acts,
TO disfranchse the poor white man if he be for
egner. This is nothing less more than beg
carly initiation of the policy of England. Sc
much is this the case, that if were poor for
eigner, and intending to visit Boston. we would
have our hands and face colored black, and de-
clare to those Philanthropsts. we bad ran off from
Virginia Kentucky, instead of telling the truth
that ran OH to escape the tyranny and oppres-
sion Of Europe. We would be feasted and Ion-
lied in the one case, and degraded and scorned in
the other.
The old colonial bgotry brought over from
Eaglana against the Catholics still fingers in the
bosoms Of the enemies Of the democratic party
Ii was in its full force and vgor at the time Of the
declaration of Independence. BY the bigotry O
Benedict Arnold, the untin.ely death OF Montgom
merry. and precious piece Of Rhetoric that wa.
sent by the then congress 10 thepeople Of . Great
Britian,'' stigmatizing Lord North, for having
established a religion in Canada. that hal lenget
their island in blood, and diffused inpiety. bigo
try, persecution, murder and rebellion il.rsugl
every part of tie world, J,uss... was prevented
from coming into the confederation of the apite1
states. This petition sent by congress was speed
lily translated into French, and scattered anon,
the Canadians by British agents, and it had tn
desired effect In 1777 when the colony .os New
York held their convention to form their consitu
tien section was inserted granting free federation
of religious worship TO all. Mr.. John Jay, moye'
to amend, by adding. except the professors Of tn
religion Of to church of Rome. Adding the usll
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