The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1856-09-19

De frce, lu't 30 long Will the people continue
to vote against their candidates."
The vote Of the people Of Maine shows
pretty exclusively that there was general
impression that the democratic Speakers
and newspapers" were bypocritcs, and VIC
are not sure but they lost ground by being
such as the Day Book declares. At any
rate they deserved to be beaten, and on thi.
point we come TO the same conclusion tina,
the Day Book does, only that we have a va.
riety Of reasons for thus believing. while the
Day Book only assigns their want of hon.
esty. 1t says:
Snow, then, such "Democratic party''
as these men represent ought to b. beaten.
IL is teaching our youths to hate slavery
il is teaching them that il Is a curse and d
crime, and exciting their sympathies for the
"down-trOdden and oppressed African"
"Our youths must be taught to love
Slavery, and then the Democratic party
stands some chance Of succeeding. So the
Day Book argues. This is the plan it sug-
gesis to save the party from future defeats ;
"lf the Democracy succeed nj all with the
people, il must be done honestly, and with
consistency. They cannot make equal that
which God has made unequal, and so long
Us they strive to make any other emocracy
20 down than equality for white men and
subordination for negroes, just so long will
they find themselves beaten. They must
come out boldly, fairly and honestly, on the
true old Democratic platform"
Now, while it is pretty plain that the
Sham Democracy is to be beaten at any rate,
we would commend this counsel Of the Day
Book to "the Democratic Speakers and
newspapers" as being in itself timely, mas
much as some honor would be saved by
them If beaten after taking open grounds in
favor of Slavery. They would at least be
saved from the contempt that the people
entertain for hypocrites.
The Day Book assumes that "the true
old Democratic platform" was in favor Of
slavery. We think great many old Demo-
Gratis would regard this as the great dis
covery Of the age. There is some reverence
yet left for such old Democratic doctrines as
Thomas jefferson taught, but the Day Book
has no such reverence for Thomas Jefferson,
the immortal author Of the Declaration of
the Independence, the Trainer Of the ordi-
nance Of l7S9-who lived and died opposed
TO the extension of the anti-Republican ele-
ment in our government. The Day Book
discourscs in another article in the same
paper from which we quote as follows:
THAT Mr.. Jefferson, like other men of his
day, who coniounded negroes with slavery,
was opposed, or fancied himself opposed to
so-called slavery, there is no doubt; but to
assume that, if now alive, he would be OPP
posed to 1t. is to imagine him next door to
u fool. II Mr.. jefferson, went astray, in
the earlier period OF his life, and said some
things on this subject that it were better had
never been said, his reasOninSs on the
moral effects Of "slayery'-that uncon-
trulled power called into active exercise the
worst passions Of the master. &C., of course
and otneceSsity are simply absurd"
Certainly new light has sprung up-Jef-
ferson "next door to foOl''-and Of course
Washington, who could not die without
freeing his bondmen, must have, according
to this new light, been a fool outright, and
all the patriots Of the revolution who fought
and bled ''to secure the blessings Of liberty
to themselves and their pOsterity," should be
included in the same category. The Day
Book is doing good service to the Republic
can cause, by calling in question the sound.
ness OF Mr.. JellersOn's reasoning.
In this connection perhaps, we ought to
publicly thank Judge Jacob X. Cole, Dana
Blake, the Postmasters of Saco and Bidde-
ford, for the service they have done the Re-
publican cause in the efforts they made to
extend the circulation of the Day Book in
our vicinity. Through their instrumentali-
ty in the two places, towards two hundred
copies have been circulated, and through
them the people Of our place have obtained
the pure essence Of Democracy as set out in
the Cincinnati Platform, and corrObOnted
the position taken by the Republicans that
the present Democratic party was in favor
Of Slavery extension. If these copies have
not made Buchanan voters, the faul, Is no,