Mariposa Democrat., 1857-05-20
THE RECENT ELECTIONS.

The result of the recent elections in certain
localities of this State, is gratifying evidence of
the continued determination of the people to
sustain the Democratic cause. The last Presi-
dental election hushed Qorever it is hoped) the
roaring voice of faction, and a rejecting and
devotedy patriotic people emphatically re-
buked the busy agitators against the Union
and the Constitution. The people swore new
fealty, and almost the whole nation solemnly
and sublimely avowed to maintain the country's
welfare by the now only means-the Demo-
cratic measures. The instincts of people,
clothed in warm and generous impulses, yelling
direct from the heart often surpass the closest
wisdom of practiced rulers, too much habitua-
ted to square questions of government, by cold,
rigid and stoical rule. Now since the battle
smoke is dissipated, the skies clear, and the
thrilling peans of victory over-does any one
who TRANQUILITY surveys the scene, question the
wisdom of the nations verdict, and its PARTIAL
ty for the long, oft-tried, and observation-disclosures
ing tenets of Democracy? Who now so blind
to the instincts of our fellow-lreemen, their
radical aversion to injustice and political inc
quality, as to assert that the triumph and car
rying into effect the doctrines professed by the
Republican party, would not have knelled the
death of this admirable and inestimable Repub-
lie? Or where is the liberal thinker but that
must ignore the certain dangerous and disas-
trous consequences to our political system that
would have ensued, had the American party
succeeded in their aims against the consttu-
tonal rights of the Catholic religion, and the
privileges guaranteed by law to the adopted
children of the countryY
The people of Sacramento, Stockton, Neya-
da, Orovillc and Benicia, in their late elections,
decisiyely manifested these impressions, by
electing their Democratic tickets. These Hes
peridean fruits are quickened, and in great
measure spring from styears famous victory.
From them the Democratic mind turns with
pleasing hope and anticipation to the ides of
next September, and draws on fancys canvass
the splendor of crowning triumph. The straws
which mark the winds courses, are not more
prognostc than these cheering signs What
then behooves our party to do, so as to reap
the harvest which destiny offers 1t is to keep
bright and pure the vestal fires of their mex
tinguishable prncples-to be watchfu that
the mantle of governing may fall upon meri-
torious and competent shouders-to guard
against internal contention, and not suffer their
energies to be lulcd with the intoxication Of
success.
Under our polity which provides annual po-
litical tilts and tournaments, each member of
our organization ought to consider himself en-
listed during the war" with duties Of sleep
less vigilance, and constant readiness fo- every
exigency of the contest With Spartan firm
ness he should be ever resolved, that come
veal or wo, not to lag nor swerve from the
cause of Democracy. Thus actuated, he should
never forget the rights and lessons of the Con-
stitution, especially that of tolerance to the
opinions of others who choose to differ about
the roads of national progress and prosperity
to remember that an ardent zeal for that pre-
cious instrument in all its aims and parts, is
tolerance and justice in the fullest sense and
is neither blindness nor bigotry, which those
more reckless of its sacred character, sometimes
entertain themselves with.