American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-12-13

Democratic MEMBER oil eNV
South Carolins,b has held a posi- tiortem x y
animation on tho body Of the Shais: Dess
moeraey, and pronounced tia dead eosktN
in the MI. He should have spared hisPar1q
tx from tie feeling of sadness which his
address Is likely TO produce This exit
.mipatou of Dr. Mood ward 'eorrobofates+l
public opinion. The Sham Democracy I
are dead and rePudiated. FWea MilEHuw
proceed to lay before our readers the syr e
depce gathered from DR.. Wood wards 4
speech, delivered on the-6lh of SePtem-
Der last, at Falladcga, 5. CT and We if1fi
yite our readers 10 follow us in our q z
bios. 'sa.,ste : I
The Doctor sets ous, like all Shams byE,
saving that heis not a member of The A.
merican party, aud never designs 10 be
He objects to its secrecy and its pEoscrip1
ton of individuals or ~oEisses, lie Jsaysl
that halns been faithful and true t01he
Democratic party, be argues thar Die ots
eanizstion Of the Democratic party is 10
capacitated for doing good and mlstgo
overheard for the following reascHs
LIST. Because the Issues which brought
it into life have been disposed Of aild can
not be. revived, and that If the Demoera,io
party insists upon existing i must stahlI
upon asingleiden and that ideaisfhs spread
ofslavery.
end. That is existance c~ommemorates
aud protracts old revenges sHe authorizations
-parAlyze the South apd divides the
North. He says that the Democracy
shoulders Southern rsghtssdoctrin car
ries it towards the North, and about Mason
d Dixon's line trade il of for. Squasteit
sovereignty. He says they have D o'iaiti
in the Squatter sovereignty but b stradesy
is male for tho benefit Of the South and
That the South repudiates the SquGteh,si
creed because it cdn never obtain 4 ms
iurity in a Territory in order toaGarry out
the creed and establish slavery heJeins
He thinks the Nebraska bill has killed lhe
South by permitting the iorsignorte croud
the nativeaway from the polls. He alledges
that the Democracy. has been Ii, ing upon
fashin-in-the pan issues such as iifty-tour
forty, and the Mexican war, n I0iat such
diet has produced a dyspepsia fromwlieh.
the patient canrot possibly recover. Bat
let the DR.. speak for himself as he waxas
warm, as follows: ,s-ss .,as ,
But, Kansas being disposed Of. one way
or the other, what win be- the situation Of
parties? What will the next Presidential
election turn upon? Most certainly upon
the slavery question, ualeSs soms stirring
issue can DO gotten upland be pronounced
10 be- Democratic. The annexation OF
Northern Mexico msy be the question -
But that Of Canada aud Cuba has priority
-..-., -. "a. fnu,. nunola fn, a..
North, Cuba for the South. This seed
was planted about four years since The
ball was to be put in motion by %rouainl
mass meeting in Washington city, : Iswai
then and there assured that the flags wer,
painted. and this was the motto: 'Cas
and Co5b-Canada aud Cuba" This wa
a lucky hit-a compound alliteraion-d
Cidedly an improvement on ''Tip. lyle
and the Tariff"
But let progressive Democracy bring int
this Union one million Of Spanish Papist
black. brown, and tawney-under tn
name Of acquiring Cuba for the South
eight hundred thousand French Papists
under the name of getting Canada for III,
North, two million Of Mexican PapiStS
under tho name OF extending the erea o
freedom; let these things DO done. an,
progressive Democracy viii never suryiv
to make another experiment il issues
With five millions oil Papists in a mid
-four millions being of foreign birth, aan
three millions and a half speaking q fo
sigt Language, all taughtfron birth loAd,
test Professionalism as a crime-an Amer
can party would become an absolute pol
teal necessity. It woulI not be With
the range Of possible events that auy, ma
would ever teach or even approach the Pr,
sidency who did not command the Catholj
vote, unless an American and Protostai
party should organize against them !,
Romanism cannot avoid combination q,
keep It's fingers out of pohics.
The Dir. is certainly telling tales out 4
school. and Pierce or Douglass will ha'
TO undertake 10 close his mouth, or lie W
spoil the calculation Of the Sham Demo
racy, But as he progress es In his inyes
cations he let's out some wholesome truth
which he must give in his own languag
Gentlemen: III ii has been shown III
the Democratic organization cannot pro,O
the South, then we have no other altern
tive but disunion, or submission, or d
formation Of q new national organizaio
But II no national organization can
effectual, except II be founded in ideas nj
sentiments that shall deeply concern /
North, then the question ID does the An
rican party meet the emergency Of The cas
Wether il do or not the people Of I
North must be the judges: and they la
said in tones Of thunder that il does 4
American movement at the North was
explosion Of the. popular bosom. WI
the sentiment that Americans shall n
America was first announced. the peo
o fthe North knew we'll what IL meant.
They knew precisely what political gr
vance and humiliation had brought 10
this sentiment. and they rose up almost
one man. The American movement Y
of TN people. = The part ofpoliticians
all sidct has been TO surpress and defeat
One while it was called an abolition G
spiracy, then a pro.slsyefy conspita
then Wing trick, then an ant, Nsbra
movement, and next an Atchison plo,
And its secrecy exposed il TO all sOr,
suspicious and accusa,ions. People bee
afraid that the American sentiments did
really lie at the bottom. butthat somell
else did. The present strength. Of
party, therefore, isno proof Of what
TO be when the people shall tfind out W
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