Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1857-07-17
Republican Nomination.
For Governor.
LOT NJ. MORRILL,.
OF AUGUSTA.
Keeping Step to the Music Of the
Plantation,
OF AUGUSTA.

reer OF apostacy from true democratic
principles. when it may be said to be in
the attitude and well qualified it is by
its training under Pierce, Douglas and
Atchison Of keeping step to the music
of the Plantation
No party in the history Ct this country
can show such recreancy to avowed
principles. as the present constituted
party OF doughfaces, self-s,yled Demo.
cratic. From having started we'll and
having performed many mcritor;ous acts.
and representing at times the progressive
sentiment Of the nation. and identified
with some OF the rest measures ever en-
acted for the welfare OF the people. i, has
come now to be only party Of negro
slavery propasandists, and party rep
resenting the wors, forms OF despotism.
This sad degeaeracy has come about BY
long course of training under leaders
who are selfish ambitious and reckless,
in the extreme. Silas Wright nor Levi
Woodbury. from the North, nor Calhoun
or hing from the South, W hile they were
the idols Of the party, possessed sufficient
power, ii they hid been reckless enough
to attempt it, 10 have "ltt down" the
party to It's present dissraceful position.
To-day. with ten or fifteen years previ-
Gus training for TIE fall. Douglas has
succeeded in bringing the once proud and
independent Democratic party on 10 It's
marrow bones. forcing i. to eat its own
words, deny its former principles, and
lovingly and devou;ly kiss the fee; that;
once kicked it - This is humiliating to
sensitive men; but It is the price OF
government bread and butter" and the
only way leading to the avenues of Tn
Gle Sam Treasury. In the DAYS Of JEFF
ferson and Madison, jackson and Van
Buren,, the party had higher princi piles
lmpeling it TO action, than mere Office
hunting; and had a more exalted view OF
the high duties of democratic orsaniza-
ton, than tina, of extending chattel Sla-
very. and founding an aristocracy to gov
ern the country by and through its ow-
nership of human bones and sinews
One looks in vain through the eleven
resolutions Of the recent Democratic
Convention a, Portland, for any living is
sues worthy of great par,y's efforts
They are made up of common places, it
Grated professions Of love for the Union.
which means, in the party sense, love Of
slavery extension, and the belief that
freedom is no better than slavery; with
a laudation of James Buchanan. We
ought, perhaps, to except the 9Th one,
which reads thus
Resolred. That every individual of the
democratic party stands OF right upon an
equality with his associates ard that any
usage or doctrine that contrayenes or mar.
rows this principle, is wrong in theory
and pernicions in practice.
How narrow and limited For great
party to stand upon, what plank: If
it had asserted that every individual of
the nation, instead of democratic par
ty." stands of right upon an equality
with his associates, in CIVIL RIGHTS, it
would have been worthy of the party in
its palmiest days, and would have meant
something. Now it means that the
Board of Trade"-Nathan Clifford and
his -patriots-ough not TO have any
more influence in parcellins out the Offices
than Shepard Cary. This is a subject
worthy to be woven into a modern dem
ocratic platform, Bat. says some one,
this may allude to their Mormon brethren
and to their usages and doctrines of
plurality OF wives. 1t will be recollect-
ed tina, the President and rulers of the
Mormon Church, just before the Presi-
dental election, issued a proclamation,
condemning the Republican party for in
GLIDING their institution in the phrase.
''twin relics Of barbarism,' and declar-
ing -
''The Democratic Convention in Gin
cinnati, which nominated James Buchan.
an for President, passed the following
resolution -
Resolved, That Congress has no
power under the Constitution to inter-
fere with or control the domestic institu-
tions of the several States, and that all
such STATES are the sole and proper judg- |
es of everything pertaining to their own
affairs not prohibited by the Constitu-
ton
This is the principle of the Democrat
ic party. which they have extended to the
territories as we'll as States, and the doe |
trines of sovereignty apply to US in the
desert as we'll as to the settlers in Kansas