The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-02-03

too much to be trihed with, and their de-
parture will herald in q scene of gloom and
misery which should if possible be averted.
Fidelity to the constitution is our only
hope; it is work which was consummated
under the guiding influence from on high.
and will wither and perish when the princi-
pies of Jefferson shall be repudiated, and
the-swaEHngs of Washington and jackson
Ieshalav disregarded, Though New Hamp-
shire is now under the pail of fanaticism
which covers all New England, yet we as
party will stand together in the confident
hope of the restoration of sound political
doctrines. The same kind of influence
which has now overpowered us swept our
fathers under at the first election of Presi-
dent Jefferson, but they redeemed them
selves in the next contest. The same kind
of influence withheld from General Jackson
at his first election the support of New
Hampshire. The appeals at that time were
to the passions and prejudices of men. in
like manner as in the contest which has
just terminated. Bitter denunciation, black
falsehood, and coffin handbills did that
which truth and reason could not combat;
and our opponents were not only success
ful in this State, but carried the whole of
New England by majority of 62, 900 votes
against that eminently patriotic man.
Maine stood against him by nearly 1000
majority, New Hampshire by 1884, Mass.
by nearly $4,000, Rhode Island by nearly
1000, Connecticut nearly 5000, and Yer
mont over 10000. Such were the con-
demning majorities against Andrew Jack
son in 1923, of whom now not a man re-
mains to justify that opposition. Then our
opponents shouted over the downfall of the
New Hampshire democracy, and challeng
ed them to rise again. They did rise and
and at the next spring election, by tri
umphant vote, changed the entire State
government, marched onward, holding firm
ly the political power in their hands, and
in 1882 erased the previous stain from her
electoral record by glorious majority for
the previously condemned Jackson.
refer to these things particularly to
show that results obtained by expedients,
or infammatory appeals, are transient and
feeting, and that those who ride upon the
storm and SOW the wind are sure at last to
reap the whirlwind.
There is but one way to conduct politi-
cal campaign which shall result in perma-
nent advantages; and that is, to be guided
by the constitution, to maintain the funda-
mental principles of our government, and
appeal only to the judgment, the patriotism
and integrity of men. Th narty that docs
this will, in the main, control the destinies
of the nation and when we reflect that for
the last sixty years the democratic party
have controlled the affairs of this republic
forty-four years of that time, who can doubt
that constitutional fidelity is the only true
course to retain successfully political pow
er. Look over the history of our country
and you will be struck with the repeated
instances of the limited possession of politi-
cal power by those who obtained it by ap-
peals to prejudice, passion. interest, bigot-
ry, or fanaticism. The march of Jefferson
was stayed by appeals to religious preju-
dices, but time soon proved the whole thing
false. The war of 1912 was bitterly op-
posed, and the public mind wildly excited
by mercenary appeals. The commercial
community were aroused, and those who
then hated the Union had ample scope for
sectional devices. The foes of the demo-
cratic party said, ''let the British retain
the right of search and impressment; it is
no great affair."" said they, 40 lay to at the
call of a British gun and as the poor young
men who have been taken from American
ships, and forced on board the British ships
of-war, they are of trifing consequence,
compared with the injury which prosecu-
ton of this war will produce" But. said
the democratic party, protection Of all men
is a principle ofMis government, and no mat
ter what the cost, we will maintain it
They did so, and acre right. Nov the
booming gun has no terror, and our young
men go out upon the stormy sea fearless of
any earthly power while the stars and stripes
float over them. Religious sentiments were
again aroused, and by force theerof power
and place were withheld from General Jack
son. Time, reflection, and intelligence did
again its work, and those who most bitter
ly assailed him are loudest in sanctifying
his name. The compromise measures of
1850 came up, and almost the entire party
of New England, which have just given
their support to John c. Fremont, loudly
denounced and opposed them. Time ran
on, and now, with almost equal unanimity,
they concede the correctness of those
measures, and acquiesce therein.
now-nothingism next had birth. to curse
and corrupt the country for season and
they also appealed to bigotry. interest, and
religious sympathy. Men we're to be de-
MED their constitutional and legal rights
because they happened to be born away.
Those intensified Americans forgot that the
mingled blood of natives and foreigners
alike nourished the young and exposed tree