New-York daily tribune., 1856-03-12
A DRmOCEATEC OPINION.

the pIest ut Administration had declared that tae
Government Of this country ought to be q limited
monarchy. We have no doubt that such al opn-
ion has been expressed. Many Of the leading man-
ayers Of that great political organization called
tie Democratic party undoubtedly entertain 1t.
| The tendencies OF that organization have all been
that way for several years. The debauchery OF
political sentiment among its leaders has been going
On to such an extent of late and has obtained such
finn foothod, that The more honest among them
have been everywhere quitting ii in disgust. To
show this, it is enough that we mention Ihe names
of b enton, Blair, Preston King, Abijlh Mann,
Niles, Bryant, Il. f. Butler, Gov. Chase, and
Others whose names, scarcely less distinguished,
will occur to every political render These men
belonged to the old Jackson party and were honest
in their professions Of Democracy. Bnf seeing the
manner in which the political organization they had
30 long acted with and of which they were the CHIEF
supports and the greatest ornaments, was being pros
tituted TO purposes foreign to its true objects by
aliens TO the Democratic fah they have one by
one abandoned il; until now the more independent
and infex;ble Of the leading members OF the old
Jacksonan Democracy are all outside the ranks Of
what is yet termed the Democratic party
Those who remain in that party cannot, con-
ssteutly with the views Of the privileged class who
now inspire its doctrines and give it tone and di-
rectOn, refuse to adopt this idea of leading mem
Der of the present Administration, that our Gov
eminent should be limited monarchy 1t is the
proper complement and fitting result of the views
incucated ON every hand, and especially by the
leading organs of the party. There never was an
era in our history when the idea of force in con-
trolling the people was put forward with more
bOldpess than now. There never was time wlen
the true doctrines Of the rights Of man, and above
all, OF State rights, were more unblushlngly dis
ayowed, than by the present Democratic party, so
called There never was "a time when more per-
sistent endeavOrs were made TO undermine the
principles of the Declaration Of Independence.
There never was a period when more disgusting
comments and ribald reflections were uttered upon
good men of the past, who lived and died laboring
in the cause Of their fellow men. On every hand,
from those in hostility TO the great Republican
movement of the day-a movement which has Tor
it's main object the revival of the spirit OF liberty IN
tie people, and the roassertiOn of the good old
principles of Revolutionary times-we hear the
enuncatOn of sentiments which belong only to
despotc or monarChica countries.
The writer's of the political articles in the lead
ing journals opposed to the Republican movement
seem to be foreigners who have not yet compre-
hended the true spirit of our institutions. They
are either such, or they are, like the advocate OF
monarchy in the Cabinet, apostatos from American
Repubcanism. But whether one or the other,
makes little difference We simply call atten-
ton to the great fact that those who lead the
Democratic organization, and the writer's who
uphold it, are advocating doctrines more start
ling than were ever before advanced by any
party in this country. The doctrines laid down
and intmated on the fundamental question OF hu-
man rights, and Of the rights of the citizen under
our State Governments, as shown in the enactment
and Interpretation Of the Fugitive Slave law, the
high. handed proceedings of Kane judges, the ex
trayagant demands of the champions of Slavery, the
discussions, messages and proclamations on Kansas,
the actual aud threatened military demonstrations
against the people, all 90 to show that the Demo-
cratic organization has not only become intensely
IL
cld-fashoned federalism, and is on the high road to
the adoption of the dogms of the Democratic
Cabinet officer who, according to NJ. Parker, has
declared that our Government should be limited
monarchy.
Practically themOstearnest opponents ofReplbl-
canislo have already reached that point. We have
recently been told BY one Of their leading organs,
that in order to keep the spirit Of liberty in proper
subsection, "the same modes must be resOrted to
here as in monsrchcsl countries;" that is, pow
der and ball. We have seen citizen of neighbor
ns State dragged from his family, and incarcerated
Tor months within the stone walls OF a feon's
prison al the order of a Judge who receives his
iDspiratoI-and probably, in the case alluded TO- his
direct orders-frOm the very member of the Cabi-
net who says this Government should be mon
arcly. We are boldly told in Congress that
Government which was imposed upon the free set
tiers of Kansas by the hired tools of the Slave
power, and which makes circulating The TRIBUNE
in that Territory a stste-prison ofense, and pun
ishes the observance of the Golden Rule with desth,
is Government whose victims must respect and
obey il, or be hung. And those who are the lyeli-
est end most forward in discussing these topics in
the press, engage in daily ridcule OF the doctrines
of WashingtOnssaDd Jefferson and Franklin and
Madison, on this side Of the water, and of such
names as Wilberforce and Clarkson, and other
great philanthropsts and friends of their race, on
the other. There appears TO be a concerted effort
10 cecry the great principles which underlie the
Constitution. The Courts are called upon to as
sert The reign judicial terror, and promptly pun
len every sign ofrepugnance to the rule Of Slavery