Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-01-22

But StllI 1t would be hope agains
hope; for the Editor says, Gin the futur
as in the past, We shall go where demo
cratic principles lead the way" Tha
dampens u expectations greatly, an,
makes rs fear that it viii be but tn
Eaton Democrat revamped. We see ev
idence of this too in the declaration tina
the Republicans are going to "destro,
this glorious Union of States"
The above precious moroccan we eli
from an article Which appeared in tn
last Register, on the resuscitation of tn,
Democrat. Judging from the ear mark
which are so discernible through thu
whole article, we have no doubt of i
being a production of tho "freedon
~shrieking" pedagogue, who scribbles fol-
that sheet, and whose abortive attempts
at r%aillery and sarcasm, upon the Demo.
crazy of Preble county, during the cam.
paign, have rendered him so very ride.
ulous, as to make, him almost an object
of pity, certainly of contempt. He is
continually sneering at the principles Of
the democratic party, as if they were
not the great Arch Lever upon which
our Government is turning, and has
for years before his bantling editor
ship was thought of. If such had not
been the ease, our country would not now
be the most happy and prosperous one
upon the face of the earth. The pages
of impartial history speak volumes
against the opposition of democratic men
and 1t was those opposed
to democratic principles that got up the
traitoreus Hartford Convention, the OBJ
.ject of which was either to force the
General Government into a disgraceful
peace or else to form a separate confed-
eracy of the New England States. It
was the opposition of democratic princi-
Piles who were at the bottom of the Mis-
souri, agitation about slavery, which
threatened the overthrow of the Govern
ment, and through whose acts, according
to Thos. Jefferson, it was that the North
was first arrayed against the South in
the halls of Congress, upon the negro
question, which it was supposed had been
settled by the Constitution. 1t was this
same opposition who in 1882 allied it
self with the rotten corrupt United States
Bank, which had become dangerous, by
its vast monied power, to the liberties of
the people, and said that the country
could never get along without a United
States Bank, and would be ruined if the
monster was crushed. 1t is the same
opposition who were in favor of a vast
system of internal improvement being
undertaken by the General Government,
which would have increased the expen-
ditures hundreds of millions of dollars
made the administration at Washing
ton all-powerful-sapped the founda-
tons of public morality and virtue
rolled up a great national debt, and de-
stroyed the republican simplicity of our
institutions. 1t was the same opposition
who opposed the Mexican war, and lent
laid and comfort" to the enemy during
the whole contest. 1t is the same OPP
position who organized themselves into
a secret political society, of which socie-
ty both editors of thc Register were sworn
members, and made war upon the fun
damental principles of civil and religious
liberty, the ends of which organization
we're narrow, and bigoted, while its
I'M of procedure was as hateful and
anti-American as could possibly be con-
ceived. And lastly, it is the same OPP
position who are now busily engaged in
organizing parties upon a sectional ba-
sis, to array the North against the South,
the free States against the slave-the
necessary result of which is, if consul
mated, to break up the Union. All
this, and more too, has been done by
the opposition of the democratic party
and democratic principles. No such an
array of odious and corrupt measures
can be brought against the democratic
party, and SO long as it remains as it is,
we shall feel proud to go where its prin-
ciples point the way.
In the face of this array, we are not
surprised that the expectations" of this
"freedom screeching' scribbler, are
somewhat dampened at the prospect of
democratic truths being proclaimed to
the people of Preble county, instead of
s.bleeding Kansas" He sees that the
future, even in this "benighted REGION"
looks fair and promising for Democracy.
and dark and unpropicious for the OPP
position, and that the time is fast has
tening when Black Republieanism will
be entirely obliterated.
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