The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1855-07-14
A Liberty Pole.

They have erected 4 elderly pole" in
Pontiac, and the Specification of it is, says
the editor Of the Ners, that all the ''old
parties are dissolved, and that 4 new and
truly Republican party has sprung into
life upon their ruin.
1t is 4 weakness OF human nature, that
when a man finds himself caught in fool
ish sci7pc, he tries to make it appear that
every body else is in the same awkward pre-
dicamcnt. The old whiG party, the 'Libcr-
Wy party, the Know Nothing Native Amcr.
can party, and all the other cphcmcral or
CARNATIONS opposed to the democratic party,
having lived their brief day and gone by
che board, their scattered followers, in their
Epasmodic efforts to fuse under new name,
preface ever rallying cry with the same Zip
pant language, "Now that all the old par
ties are dissolved" &c. 1t is not true and
they know it. The old democratic party,
which dates its existence from the days of
ThO:as Jefferson, is no more dissolved to.
day than it was fifty years ago. Amidst
every sectional tempest, or temporary en-
element of any sort that has arisen during
the history of our country, although at times
many have gone astray, there was always n
faithful band left, with outposts and senti.
ncls in every county in the Union, who,
nnited upon few plain and immutable
principles, have not only preserved in active
and vigorous existence, the great national
democratic party, but except in a few Of
those instances of temporary frenzy, have
maintained its position as the dominant
party Of the country. To talk of the dis
solution Of the democratic party is absurd.
Its existence must be cocval with that of
the American Union. When its principles
are abandoned in the administration of our
government the constitution itself, and the
fair fabric erected upon it, will 90 by the
board, and possibly with them, but not be-
fore them, the democratic party \ strict
construction of the constitution, rigid
maintenance Of the rights oft the states, and
sacred observance Of the compromises of the
constitution-thesc are the foundation prn-
ciplcs Of the democratic party. Our nation
al existence has never been endangered but
by the violation Of one or the other Of those
great principles. When the great consolda-
ton movement, called the american Sys-
item" threatened to merge all the political
power of the country into one central head,
destroy the sovereignty of the states, and
opening the food gates Of endless sectional
strife and discord, to tAd in disuuion.
though temporarily oyc,bornc, the demo.
cratic party, boldly maintaining its doctrine
OF STATE rights and strict construction the re.
turning sober second thought ofthc people"
recovered the rcins Of government, and soon
rishted the ship Of state and restored order
and SAFETY. So when hiIcous moneycd
oligarchy, with sublime assumption, grasp.
ed at the powers of state, and was only dc.
fcated in the amazing attempt by the her.
culean energies Of Jackson, and to secure
the triumph, the constitutional measure Of
the sub-treasury system was proposed, the
democratic party, again ovcrbornc by the
popular frenzy, calmly but firmly bided the
sober second thought" of the people, and
again triumphcd. And so now, when mad
ianaticism is making the daring attempt to
break down the compromises of the consti.
tuition, by which slavery was forever ex.
cuded from the halls ofcongress, and placed
on an exact footing with all the other local
ard domestic institutions of the states,
the democratic party, firmly planted on the
constitutional doctrine of non-intcrycntion,
calmly and hopefully as ever await the re-
turning sober second thought" and will
again, as surely as heretofore, triumph in
the end "Dissolvcdw From Maine to
Texas and from the Atlantic to California
tue democratic party was never more earn
est'y united, or more animated by thor.
oush confidence Of ultimate triumph.