Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-05-05
The True Democratic Party-A Good Time
Coming

Coming
In the Senate Of the United States on the l4h
ult., during an exciting discussion of five aud a
half honrs' duration. Mr.. Wilson. one of the
blackl Republican Senators from Massachusetts,
took peep into futurity, and saw a good time
coming, when his party. the black Republican
party, as it is called, having obtained possession
Of the Government, through the ballot box.would
govern the country "ds the true Democratic par
ty'' Here are the vision and the prophecy:
"A quarter ola century ago the conquest and
subjugstion Of the Republic complete. In
situations of learning, benevolence, aud religion.
political organizations and public men-ay. and
the people them selves all bowed in unresisting
submission TO the iron dominion of the slave pow
err. Murmurs of discomfort sometimes broke up
on the ear of the country here and there soil
tary voice uttered its feeble protest against tho
domination which held enthralled the heart. con.
science. and intellect of the conquered North;
but the over shadowing despotism was complete.
Twenty-Five years have not yet closed since n
few heroic men raised the banner of impartial lib
erty. Then we had not a single member of the
Senate or House of Representatives. Not Il sin
gle State Legislature was with US. The poliii
cal press Of the country covered the humble move
ment with ridicule and contempt, always except
ing the New York Evening Post, then conduo-
ted by that infe ribie Democrat, William Leg
ge,t, who went to a premature grave cheered by
the assurance that he chad written his name in
inefaceabe letters on the abolition record"
Twenty years ago the public voice sneered at
and defied the few prescribed and hunted follow
ers who rallied around the humble leaders who
inaugurated the movement that within two years
has secured popular majority in the free States
of more than BOG. 900. We have an overwhelm-
ing majority there to. day agains. your policy,
and if that majority is united we can control the
policy Of the country. We shall triumph; we
shall enlarge this side of the Chamber we shall
thin out the other. Laughter. We have done
some of that work recently in New England. W.
shall have majority in the other House and WI
shall have a at the other end of the avenue
We shall take the Government of this country,
and we shall govern the country as the true Dem
ocratic party"
The true Democratic party" That's the idea
1T is by the spread of true Democratic principle,
that the abolitonists hope ultimately to succeed
in. their purposes. 1t was because he regarded
the principles of genuine Democracy as favo
rable to freedom. that Gov. Chase, as he hmsel
has declared, attached himself to tho Democrat
icparty! If the principles Of pure Democracy
were now carried out in this country, the institu
tion Of slavery would necessarily and inevitably
be abolished We progress towards abolition a.
we progress towards pure and simple Democra
,oy.
This is the language of a contemporary. Is i,
not true? Il there not something in the radical
progressive, innovatory spirit of unbridled de-
mocracy that invites and encourages disregar,
Of compacts, of established institutions, of vene
rabls usagesl lsitnot true that in the eyes of tn
thorough democrat nothing is sacred or invola
Die Does he not detest every thing like conser
vatism, and ignore the teachings Of all who hav
gone before him Must not Abolitionism Of ne
.cesi4y End its readiest converts anon
the restless. revolutionary. aggressive. an
Iawlsss masses. who horde together in all cour
tries under the name Of democracy. Ho
else are We to account for the fact this
80 many of the old leaders of American democ
,rscy are. engaged in the cause of slavery agita
ton. Ledk at .Birney. Butler: Van Buren,, Hale
Wilmot. Tsuubull, Blair. Niles. Wells. Reedei
BRYANT, Lane, Benton. Fremont. Grow. Nye
Mann, King. Chase and others. all taught in tn
schools Of democracy and learning from it tina
nothing in government should be shielded from