Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1855-08-23


EY The organization and rise of the present
Democratic party is within our recollection. We
recollect also, that when the elements of opposi-
ton to the United States Bank were aggrega-
ting themselves into this same Democratic party
there was no term of reproach too foul for their
opponents to stigmatise them with, no scoTn or
contempt too deep and whitening for them TO feel
and express with reference to them. These OPP
ponents, assuming TO themselves all the learning
and all the decency, refused to consider them
other than as contemplate rabble, and no trou-
bic with which the country was visited, no out
rage by individuals, no violations of good or bad
laws no outrage of social order or well establish
ed social institutions, but attributed at once
to thcm as the legitimate fruit of their war upon
an institution so long established and SO inter-
woven into the interests of the country as the
United States Bank. And all this time their
sole and only purpose was the overthrow of an
institution, arstocratic in its nature, oppressive
in its tendencies, and subversivc of republican
ism, a purpose which through all this obloquy
they moved steadily to the accomplishment of.
That work accomplished, the aristocracy of
slavery has moved forward in its aggressions un-
til republicanism absolutely demands that it shall
be checked and overthrow. The democratic
sentiment of the country is again aggregatng
itself into party to resist this aggression and
overthrow this aristocracy. And they are met
now as at the time to which we have alluded,
and as this progressive sentiment always has
been met, with this same obloquy and scorn.
1,y nd lob for bo
overthrow of this dangerous enemy of republic.
canism and of everything worth preserving in So
ciety, yet not crime transpires, nor folly is
enacted, but the anti-savery party is made res
ponsible for it. If men, brutes naturally, and
maddened and besotted by whiskey and beer,
commit brutal MURDER or if set of fanatics
choose to make beasts of themselves and violate
the marriage tie and our most sacred social and
religious institutions; or whatever the crime or
whatever the folly, we arc told that it is clearly
deduciblc from the efforts to put down slavery.
These slavery aristocrats view their institution
Just as the bank aristocrats did theirs-as some
thing dvinely appointed, to which they had a
Eprcscriptive right, to which the whole country
and all things belonged, and which cannot be
touched by vulgar hands without bvcrting and
destroying all things.
Now we say be not alarmed. Old Hickory
and his cohorts stood firm amid the sea of angry
passions which surged about him and the violent
threats and denunciatons which were hcaped
upon him, and pressed forward to the work in
hand This is all we have to do. So far from
aiming at the violation of law, the subversion of
order, the destruction of religious or social insti-
utions, the success of our efforts viii be exactly
the opposite Of all this. We aim to abolish a
great wrong-a wrong which has incorporated
in its nature the total destruction of law, order.
and all that is valuable in society,-to the end
that justice and right and order may more fully
prevail and be more surely established