The daily Minnesota pioneer., 1855-07-23
The Democratic Party.
All men who calmly review the present


All men who calmly review the present
state of political affairs, must inevitably
come to the conclusion that the Democratic
is now the great conservative party Of the
Nation. From the troubles, and excite
ments, and angry differences of the new
political creations of the day, they must
turn with disgust aud entertaining feel.
ing of gratitude that there exists power in
the nation which, appealing to true sense,
thr dictates of justice, and the common
rights OF men, is determined to maintain the
constitution and the laws Of the land,-re-
solve with all their will and all their might
to uphold it. They must find that it follows
no false lights--that it is proof against the
aIlurements of sudden changes = that it
has a steady course to steer by-and a
single object to subserye, and that is the
permanent good Of the country They
must feel that all the rude shocks of the
modern /" "isms," have been powerless against
it, and know that the recoil of the blow
has done deadly damage to the impudent
assailants
The whole land has been wrought into a
feverish excitement by demagOgues who
have propounded and urged all sorts of
doctrines, their united strength, though
at first almost irresistible, has been made
as nothing. Democracy has stood the at
tack and overcome it, and is still as it should
be, the ruling conservative power of the
nation. Embodying in itself all the elements
which promote healthy progress, and can
check an unwise or foolish departure from
the principles upon which our government is
based, it has had progress marked con-
stantly upon its history, but it has not
yielded to doubtful or ill-considercd expert
ments and in seeking the greatest good of
the greatest number, it has mnistered wise
ly and we'll to human enlightenment and
necessities 1t belongs to the whole country
and knows no sectional divisions or inter
ests, but seeks to deal alike for the whole
and for the general good.
While these principles are linked with it,
it must be the party of every patriot, and
being the exponent of them now, when bad
AMI urs rupulous men are madly striving
to strike at the roots of our liberties, to
curb free speech and thought, it behooves
every one who loves his country to rally
around the Democratic banner, and over
whelm all attempts at discorl, disunion, or
the abatement of individual rights Even
here, in our Territory, the bad spirit which
has had recently such fearful sweep in the
different. States, may be seen in its horrid
deformity, and with the Democratic party
rests the destruction of it. 1t is long since
such u state of affairs as at present exists,
has occurred, and the evils which have been
already created, while they are deplored,
should teach the stern determination to stop
their further action. 1t is at the Ballot
Box that "islns" and their attendant folles
are to be. met and vanquished !; and the
Democratic party owes it to itself, in the
discharge of its high duty toward the
country. to leave no stone unturned, to drive
all disturbing elements from the political
field. that the right and the truth may
prevail.
The contest upon which we are entering,
calls for the aid Of every Democrat Let
them not be eleventh hour men, but be ac-
tive and constant ia their labor of opposi-
ton to that oiEand-water, vinegar-and-sugar
compound of the present time, miscalled
s sRepublicanism' .r4 fqr-