The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1856-03-20
rhe Attitude Of Parties.

| II would seem a. il the course OF parties il
the Union had only been brought TO In present
stage, 10 order TO compel oil classes Of men "a
pay tribute 10 the principles Of tho Democratic
party. We do not merely speak Of the spec
tacle exhibited by the crowd or Northern Fed
eralists and Abolitionists at Pittsburg, elect.
ing Funcis 4. blair ~ their hcad because be
has the scent OF Jscksonsm in bis garment
retractiop Of all their abuse and iaisehood and
malice heaped with such proihsion On the path
and about the footsteps Of that Old Chief, and
on tho head OF its editor nor Of the adulatiou
paid 10 the name Of jackson, by the motley
Convention at Philadelphia, when they placed
the degenerate Donelson. second on their tick
ct II IL TO the principles Of the party. aud
still more to its attitude Of stability and firm
mesa amid the general dissolution Of factions,
that we allute
The Know Nothing Convention adopted the
principle Of popular sovereignty The Pitts
burg Convention In the single pledge il gave
to The settlers Of Kansas, virtually adopted the
same doctrine. While Whitfield sits IN Con.
grcss a. the representative Of the legal author.
ity Of Kansas. Recder wandcrs In the lobby
and waits his chance A. the embodiment Of u
purcr and les alleged squattcr sovereignty
The two wings Of the Wing party pick up a
recusant Democrat. Banxs, and elect him to
the Speakers chair The P;ttsbury Consen-
ton talks Of Fremont tor the Presidency - on
the ground that he IL the son-n law Of Benton.
They banker after Democratic connection, no
matter how remote. They implore Democrats
20 come among them. to teach them Democracy
to teach enough at least 10 enable them to
cajole the people by the prctcncc and simula-
zion Of H.
But the task is foreign TO their nature and
they cannot master il. They praise the dead
jackson, after twenty years Of r.aiedlctions sp,i
opprobrium and they would worship his robes
and kiss the hem OF his garments, il they
thought that good omens would How from il.
But they would hate and SANDER and prose
cute the living Jackson, now as before, were
he In his post, proclaiming the supremacy OF
the laws. denouncing disunion. chasing the
traitors from the party, and the huxterers from
the lobby Of Congress, and proclAimiDg and
enforcing the doctrine Of the equality Of all
citiseus before the law, and the equal rights OF
all to civil and religious liberty. They would
hate him a. they hate his crccd and with such
base avowals a. were made at Philadelphia,
and sach paltry evasions ~ characterised the
men a, fi,sburg. neither Of these factions
would have dared to approach him Tie would
have spcrued them from his presence
The Democratic Party still lives" While
the fragments Of faction, broken OF from the
so-callsd American party. itself but compo-
site Of DESCENDANT parts and the sectional
gathering a, Pi,,sburg, are willing 10 find q
basis Of coalition. and outstrip all other hnat.
iesms by the intensity o, their prospective reai,
thr Democracy will move on in its regular
course. proclaiming its steady adhesion to its
doctrines, and exempliking its ereed in lie acts.
II viii triumph as Il has always triumphcd -
Ba, its triumph in the Approaching contest
will be more signal than ever eeior. tlbsRy
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