Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1856-05-17

devout worshipper of Mr.. Calhoun and his
faith is his religion
The party in Louisiana acknowledges Mr..
Soule as its leader. A malcontent from France.
who as Minister of tho United States, insulted
the governments of France and Spain by way
of acquiring Cuba, through peaceable nego-
tiation, depending for its success on the good
will of both !-and then proposed in the Os-
tend conference to ravish it by force from the
arms of Spain on the ground of necessity I
This gentleman carries the delegation of Loui-
siana to choose President for the democracy: !:
a function to which he is recommended by the
boldest speeches for secession made during the
debate on the compromise of 1850
"Two military chieftains hold Mississippi un-
der sort of martial law The Secretary of
War is provided in advance to represent her
in the Senate during the next administration,
and for the present he commands in the cabi-
net. In the Senate, at the session of 1850, he
out-Heroded the Herod of South Carolina in
pressing towards secession. He had taken all
but the last step, that of walking out of the
Senate and the Union with his hat in one hand
and his state in the other. His second in the
command of the Mississippi democracy, Gen.
Quitman, also caught the pronuncamiento in
fection from Mexican Santa Ana and the he
roes of his cast. Gen. Quitman, it is thought,
would have been content to take himself out
of the Union for the sake of Cuba, and leave
our poor republic to shift for itself He could
not compass his wish, and he remains to con-
quer the North for the South, making fillibus-
tering in Kansas, non-intervention, and the put
ting down of the ballot box, the test of popu-
lar sovereignty.
"In Tennessee, Senator Jones and other in
veterate enemies of Gen. jackson have sup
planted the old democracy.
"These are the heads that manage the poll
tical concerns of the shareholders party, and
managing them fatally for their ultimate in
terests They have put "Me democracy proper" !"
(to use Gen. Jackson's expression, to dstn-
guiSh those he relied Oh from the Calhoun pre-
tenders to the nancy under foot They hold
the administration under the thumb, and every
other Presidential aspirant at the North, look
ing to the Cincinnati Convention, and the fifty
thousand Office holders who seek to retain their
stations and expect their preservation from the
election of some one of these aspirants, COM
pose the rank and file of their northern mercen-
aries, whom Mr. Cushing may be said to repre-
sent having first figured in Mr. Tyler's corpo-
poral's guard.
These are the elements of that spurious
democracy which Gen. Jackson's intuitiye sa-
gacty feresaw would be the offspring of the
political embraces of Calhoun, Tyler and Polk.
Among the last letters ever written by him. he
predicted the ruin of the cause to which he had
devoted his life and that Mr. Polk would be
among the first to lament the course that led
to it."
In the days of JEFFERSON and JACKSON, De
mocracy did not consist in the name alone nor
did it constitute the entire mission of the de-
mocratic party to extend and strengthen the
institution Of slavery. Mr. BLAIR may be sup
posed to understand the difference between
Democracy then and now. The following is
his definition of modern Democracy =
The Kansas act is now the test of democra-
cy. This is the declaration of the President
of his official organ-of his officeholderS.
and of the Shareholders The jefferson and
jackson democracy is utterly secuted And
how is this test of democracy represented in
Congress In the House, from the North,
s. The JHloa' counts about seventeen and
of these there is scarcely one that did not reach
his seat upon other issues than the Kansas
question. In the Senate, from the North, there
is not senator who can stand by the test,
without notoriousy miSrepresenting his state
From the south there are no longer wings or
democrats-all parties are swallowed up in
notification of party principles for the purpose
of extending slavery over new regions, and
without the Justification of the want of room
in the slave states, The fifteen slave states,
with little more than one-third of the inhabi-
tants of the free states, have an area of S5I
sos square miles the free states only 6I2.
591 square miles-the slave states having al
so the advantage of better soil and milder
climate
What revolution in the course of the first
half century has slavery wrought, in the prin-
ciples that gave birth TO our republic Free
dom was the basis of that republic Ii is now
insisted that the constitution carries the prin-
cipe of bondage wherever its flag makes an
acquisition. The democratic party made JEFF
ferson the apostle of its faith. Compare the
Kansas act with the Declaration of Indepen-
dence, and the ordinance of 1881. In his
6rst paper, Mr.. Jefferson asserts the rights of
humanity-in the other, excludes slavery, from
all the territories of the Union The Kansas
act weuld spread it over the continent and
to effect it, establishes new system of politics
and morals for the democratic party, for which
it is prescribed as test.
1t is democratic now to break plighted faith
between the states, in compaets made to pre-
serve the Union and its peace.
1t is democratic now to break faith with
constituents and violate the representative
principle on which our republics are all founded.
1t is democratic now to disobey the instruc-
tions of constituent bodies, and exert the force
of the government to defeat the efforts of the
people to redress the wrong committed by one
set of representatives, by turning them out and
choosing another.
1t is democratic now, after nullifying the