Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-06-26
The Democracy of the North.

The Democracy of the North.
The stirring appeal which follows, we
clip from the published record of speech
delivered at Fincastle, in this State, du-
ring the recent canvass of w. +. Sherrod.
DR.. Sherrod is a native of the Old Domin
ion, but has resided the last eight or ten
years in Indiana. He was member of
the constitutional convention Of his adop>
ted Safe was several times a delegate
to the National Democratic Conventions,
and is at present member Of the Legis'
lature, OF whose committee OF ways and
means he is chairman: -.e
Never let the existence Of the demo-
cracy at the North be questioned. Never
will I stand dumb and passive while
southerners are ungrateful enough to de-
ny the force Of the Northern Democratic
party. am proud to rank myself among
the humblest champions OF that noble
cause. Your fight was mere sham bat
Tie when compared with ours. You fought
against an opposition that was distant;
WE against an opposition that was around
our own hearth stones. You. at home.
walked easily over the bodies OF miSera-
BILE minority WE were compelled 10 win
back the erring and misguided from the
ranks of a Wanted ma Orlly. YoUIoughL
against your natural enemies WE against
our friends and our kindred-father against
son, and brother against brother. In our
high sense OF duty we know no tie Of re-
lalionship save the tie of democracy
ELOok back to the contest in the North
west; behold in illinois the mistaken
and hardy few. gaining numbers and
strength under the leadel ship OF " Doug
las Look to Indiana, the dear and Clio.
riOus State OF my adoption, and see her
when State after State had been borne
down upon The tide of fanaticism. when
the enemy flushed with victory, had turn
ed their batteries upon her from every d.
rectlon. see her bold and gallant Bright,
and Il host OF other distinguished cham
piOns, beating back the waves of fanali>
ciSm See the invincibIe WilIaru-the
statesman. the orator, and the man-sur
rounded by an army Of earnest and devO-
ted patriots see him rushing Ike hu.
man tempest over the disatfec;ed portions
Of his State, and making the most incred-
IDLE efforts of that campaign, which was
one long protracted battle see him, f.
nally, plucking victory from the jaws of
peril, and the very throat of political de-
!, struction Virginia two, at least, OF
thy daughter>SIateS were worthy of their
mother.
Look to Pennsylvania and New Jersey,
] towering aloft like massive breakwaters
against the torrents Of fanaticism. " No
northern democracy" do you say Did
5 we not suffer all things and bear all in
your behalf? "No northern democracy
| Is not liberty democracy =? and did we not
! min the triumph that seemed TO the pep,
pie the liberty of selfgovernment? mo
3 northern democracy p Foolish is the
mind that could conceive the sentiment,
} aud false the tongue that could utter it.
Go ask the dragons OF black-r epublican~
ism, which shrink baftled. bleeding. and
covering to their dens of treason, whcth-
er there is a northern democracy. Go
t and ask the Union which stands safe, un
, sullied. and majestic, whether there is q
northern democracy. Then ask yourselves
/ where would YOU have been to-day but
for the northern democracy? Instead
, of this peaceful scene in which the hus-
bandman goes forth to his tilIage, and the
merchant to his daily traffic-n which
the machinery of government keeps its
calm and even tone-in which the evidences
of progressive and prosperous civiIi~
zation rise up everywhere to astonish the
/ gazing world-instead Of all this, We should
have civil war-States, torn by internal
dissensions, and combating with States
f without-the morning ioray and the mid
night conhagratiou. Rude and unbridled
mobs would be let loose over the land ;
, homes once blessed and happy would be-
come the pray of the robber and the as
sassin; and the voice that now addresses
you would either be stilled in death or
heard above the cry of surrounding le-
gions calling on the supporters of the true
cause to protect the constitution. Ap.
plause.
Yes, fellow citizens. let me assure you
that, had abolitionism made an appeal TO
! the sword-had the worst come TO the
worst-there were thousands of us ready
to accept the guage thrown down by our
adversaries. Let me tell you that we
would have pitched our defending tents
upon your border line aud that, before
the foot OF an invader-in. arms could have
pressed upon southern soil, it would have
passed over the dead heart Of the last
northern democrat Applause But.
thanks to Heaven that issue was avoid
ed"
ETA good story is told of a fellow of
North Carolina. Having been put in Jail
f. I