The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-09-12
n U NJ Err III.

I resume where left off on Saturday, and
assert further: While these "Democrats ="
have opposed protective, ".julicious tar
iff has been the idol of their hearts while
they have opposed general system of inter-
nal improvements. all special systems that
benefit members of the Democratic party are
always found to be free from constitutional
objection. While they have opposed ma
tional bank, they have brought into existence
and sustained an illimitable forest of wildcat
banks that have covered the land with their
leaves-impairing the credit, and degrading
the currency of the country.
Opposed to the credit system, (those who
deal on borrowed capital ought to break,
said General Jackson,) they have, in at least
one of the States of the Union, highly i'm
proved and developed the resources of the
State on borrowed capital, and then unblush-
ingly repudiated the debt. And the question
of reputation has been for years. and is now,
the test Of Democracy in Mississippi, and the
ed the repudiators and applauded their sue
cesses And this is the National Democracy!
the Democracy that must always have the
Presidency to prevent their getting angry and
dissolving the Union! They said the election
of Col. Fremont would have dissolved the
Union. Who would have dissolved it? Not
the friends of Fremont, surely! Who then
would2 Answer for yourselves, Union-lov-
ing Democrats
That the Democracy-this Democracy
if defeated, would in its wrath dissolve the
Union, if they could, am ready to believe,
but have vague notion that in trying to
dissolve the Union they would only dissolve
themselves, and strengthen the Union to the
extent that they weaken their own organi-
zation.
But it is not 80 much the Democratic
platform, as Democratic practices that de-
serve censure. Any party can make its out
ward form look toleiably we'll, but it is the
interior working-the deeds of those in Of
fice-that make it good or bad. 1t is known
to every intelligent man in Washington, who
has ever had business with the federal offices,
that in every department of the government
where monetary affairs or other property in
terests are adjusted, favoritism prevails, and
that just claims of opponents are rejected,
and unjust claims of partizans allowed-that
this is general, and the partiality glaring.
Allusion has been made to the demoraliz-
ing tendency of the Democracy of the day,
which indeed opens the way to all the multi
farious evils of the party. Do we not see
proof of this tendency everywhere all
around us, and among us 2 Men in social in
tercourse, in performing public duties, and in
private quarrels; and in all the affairs OF life
do things what they know will outrage a
sound moral public sentiment, and rely on
Democratic sentiment to sustain them
Courts and juries and all public officers are
governed more or less by reliance on this
Democratic sentiment in committing acts
which they know will not square with the
stern rules of integrity and justice. We see
these things occurring daily, and if committed
by members of the party, they are approved
Dy the party. Aye, acts are approved that
would have consigned any man to scorn and