Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-02-20

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keep the democratic party united ga -.
eaally 70 have ~ democrats 81 Is 1900 4.
the Presdeasial slecsion. Bot Nv, howey,s. a
even thc.e Who are most ardent and assute
seem 70 think Il Of much moment 70 tale IA
aeccunt political principles In eascsinr o. con.
anding this Union. Il would be dinlcui, Ter.
naps ior them 70 tel what constitutes cemocrss
~ u 1854. The democratic party rcnder.s.
IL day great and important service, a In
eomplished the purposes for While, 8, and ae.
taisd. Bat the Bank, the cp- - wsa ihsa'
dental aasss;os. een. 4sary, and other hi.
no longer II cor. ..eeted With the finances, are
posed Of IT, ..royersy. Until they we're dis
Ia 4 gro. ere we're antagonist parties engaged
the;- - intellectual and political struggle for
The end sought has been accomplished. One
81 the parties engaged In that mighty contest,
extending through . period Of twenty wears,
found the verdict Of the country emphatically
asaina it and practical experience and oi,serys.
tion have satisfied the minority tina, the views
Of their opponents we're less objectionable than
they had imagined. and the result, h the de.
tested party las abandoned iss organization.
And no longer has an existence. There are no
danerences 81 opinion among the pr 5ple in rela-
uon 10 The past questions. Instead OF being is
sues, they have become matters Of history. o.
the giant minds that entered on tina. great strug-
gle, lev, comparatively. remain, jackson, Wright,
Forsyth, Woodbury. and Grundy, with Webster,
Clay and Befrien, are no longer among u.s.
Benton, who stood second TO none in zeal, abili.
", service and resolution. survives; but those
who arc talking Of the Union OF the democratic
party would scarcely admit that this veteran
soldier Of thirty years belongs to wha, they now
call the democrAtic party. He, meanwhile.
would probably be u little disposed TO recoe.
nixe those who have adopted the name, n the
same Den who, under the lead Of himself and
others, fought the real battles Of democracy in
years that are gone.
There ID an administration party in the coun'
try, and great efforts are made 10 strengthen it
by appropriatipg 70 II the name Of democracy,
aud thus giving II the benefit Of those services
which other and better minds have achieved
But ia there any analogy between thems The
administration party Of 1855 bears no more com
parison with the democratic party Of 1886, than
DO the qualities Of Franklin Pierce with those OF
Andrew jackson. One elevated the character
OF the country and the government, the other
has degraded both. While even opponents
were compelled to respect and admire the stern
patriotism and elevated tone of the adlainistra-
ton twenty years ago. the supple friends Of this
administration feel their inability to defend II on
Its own merits, and strive in vain to connect Il
with the past
The men most anxious to sustain this admins
tration, and ss solicitous as any TO baptixc it
with name jackson, Benton and their ass, e;
stes earned, are the Cushngs and Wis and
T0ombses that gather round it--mep who were
the violent opponents OF the der ocratic party,
SO long rs the old issues w>.rc .nsntaned. !.
These and their associate, not only shape and
direct the policy Of >, mis- administrator. but
.., ~,, Wy sJ' .ning managers of the pro
poeu nne Convention, in connection with
e "a'"e these implacable opponents oil
He must be superficial observer, who
20 no' aware that the psesent administration
pa. " IL the reverse of that which twenty years
since gave character to the country. Those
who rule in its councils were the antago
nists Of the democractic party in the days OF 1T
ren0wn.
Mr. Pierce was, at that period, in Congress
and associated with the democratic party, mar
of pleasure, Of indolent habits, investigating ne
questions himself, but relying on the labors o
Wright and Benton and others, to whose views
he conformed. But Gushing and Wise were al
80 then in Congress, opposing with all the zeal
industry and ability they possessed, every meas
urc OF the democratic party. Jefferson Davis
came into Congress at later period, the pupi
and disciple of notification, and active for year
il, getting up conventions under the prompting
of Mr.. Calhoun, to enforce his peculiar and pro
vincal policy. These are the leading men o
the administration party, the Mentors that hav,
taken the place of Wright ard Benton with thu
Prcsident--they are arranging for n Presiden
at Cincinnati, and it is earnestly entreatcd tina
nil democrats will unite to sustain their nomina
ton.
In the long-dclayed organization Of tn
House of Representatives---in the candidates o
the administration party for Speaker, as well a
the whole proceedings OF the administration
itself, there is little TO commend itself to the oil
democrats or indeed to any party. In present
ing Richardson, man of admitted inferior qua
iications, but who had been chairman Of tn
committee that reported the abrogation of tn
Missouri Compromise, an insult was offered t
the whole OF the free states; and when, finally
after obsructing the operations of the govern
ment until the people were becoming FESTIVE
they changed their candidate, Mr.. Orr, a Sout
Carolina nuinfer, was substituted for Richardson
Herein are seen traits and features that discos
the policy Of the administration party, but moth
ing that ideatiies 1t with the measures or tn
democratic party.
Extreme anxiety Is manllesteu among CcT
tain class to surrender themselves to the dc
crccs and management of the convention a
Cincinnati regardless of all principles, past, pre-
sent and futurc--a convention in which the sub
stantial democracy of the free states, on the oil
financial questions will be powcrless and impo
tent Most of the better minds will refuse t
ally themselves to that intrigue, for they hav
the sagacty to perceive that it is mere con
trivance to promote the designs of the nulliter
and renegade politicians who are associated will
them, whose aim is to prolong the policy of thi
administration.
Whether the candidate nominated shall b.
Pierce, Or Buchanan, or Bright, is of little mo
mcnt the policy which the nulters have intro
duced under this administration, they propose t.
continue in the future, through the instrumen
tally of the Cincinnati Convention. Intcnsel,
partisan ITSELF the administration compels its RI
taincrs to be not less SO. The letter which Mr.
Attorney General Gushing wrote at an early da,
to Massachusetts, and WHICH Mr., Davis tclc
graphod to Mississippi, announcing, in the name
of the President, that it was intended by thu
government to "rrush out opinions" in the
states that did not conform TO the standard
which the nufers and wings had established al
- Washington, was missive to every custom
house oAicer, postmaster, attorney, marshal and
law officer in the country. Hence, the govern
ment officials scattered over the country, are az
administration committee of vigilance, to pro-
mote its party schemes and views--to see that
delegates ace duly elected to the administration
convention. and to unite all whom they can Sc
duce into that great intrigue, under the delusive
pre,ext that ii Is scheme to unite the democratic
party. Unite II in whats for what objects for
what principles Not those of jefferson or Jack.
son. or, indeed of any President that preceded
the present Incumbent