American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1856-06-14
DEMOCRACY" AS 1T rs.

Among the resolutions adopted by
the twenty odd cold Line Wings" Of
the State of Kentucky, whose appa-
rent position of armed neutrality gave
so much delight to some of our demo
cratic cotemporarics, is the following:
Resolued, That one or moro lines of
National Railroad to the Pacific is of
far higher Importance in the practical
legislation of the country, than any of
the distinctive measures proposed by
either Of the two existing parties, and
that we pledge to its construction by
Government aid our cordial support.
Many and cordial have been the IN
vitations showercd upon these old lin
ers by Democratic journals, amongst
which those of our own vicinage have
certainly not been the least pressing,
to walk into the Democratic parlor.-
No sort of objection, so far as we have
observed, is made to the old Wing
principles that used to be so abomina-
bic to locofoco nostrils, or to the new
feature contained in the resolution we
have quoted. In fact, if we are cor
rectly informed, the invitation was not
needed. Messrs. Dixon and James B.
Clay-who, by the way, has been
strangely mistaken for his patriotic and
truly american brother, Thomas H.
and others who figured in this Convcn-
ton of pretended "OldLinc Wings"
had already assumed position of an
Itagonism to the American party, and
labored for its defeat in the Kentucky
elections last fall. Having been sig
nally beaten then, they are sent forth
as a set Of docoy ducks from the loco
foco pen, in the hope of bringing in
few stragglcrs amongst other bats, Of
this Pacific Railroad bill.
With Dixon, Clay and Gwin as the
advocates of the National Railroad to
the Pacific, and Hunter, Butler and
Brown denouncing Internal Improve
mcnt by General Government;
With Pierce, Douglass and Richard
son advocating the Kansas Bill as ga
proposition in favor of freedom" and
Atchison, Mason and Rusk, claiming it
as ga measure of justice to the South !;
With Cass, Gushing and Jones exult-
ing over the unmistakeable establish
mcnt by the Democracy of the princi-
pie Of 'Squatter Sovereignty and
Kcit, Caskio and jeff. Davis protest
ing that the Democracy have establish
ed no such thing;
With John Van Buren, leading the
"freesoil wing Of the Democracy"
(our quotation is from q Southern
Democratic journaD to the support of
the anti-Amcricah nominees, under the
flag of no more Slavery extension, and
Wise and Rhett threatening to dissolve
the Union if Congress shall ever refuse
to admit a State because slavery is al
lowed in its constitution;
With a fragment of the strict con-
structionists of the party clinging to
the plank of tho Baltimore platform
which denies the right of Congress to
dispose Of the public land except for
the common benefit Of all the States,
and their quondam leader proposing to
give them away to the squattcrs at a
merely nominal price;
With the Washington Union pro-
claiming that the FreesoH democratic
leaders Of the North are a regular por-'
tion of the Democratic Party, and the
Southern anti-Amcrican journals stri-
wing to conceal the determination from
their readers;
With the Richmond Enquirer con-
tending that the Administration of
President Pierce is emphattcally a
sdemocratic Administration, and the
Richmond Examiner !" speaking of
its trusted agents as ga pack of hired
plundcrcrs," whilst the Washington
Sentinel denouuccs the powers that be
as weak, vascillating and corrupt ;---the
American people arc presented with q
picture which admirably illustrates that
condition Of the pseudo democracy,
which provoked the bitter sarcasm
conveyed by the Enquirer's remarks,
that tho Democracy constitute the
only national and conservative party y
Richmond National American.
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