The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1857-10-12

Democratic editors and orators are very
fond u talking about the asc Of the Dem
ocratic Party, and what il has dome Ger the
country, and III those immortal Democrats
vi the oi.icn times, Jefferson ami jackson.
Ridiculous The present 90 called Demo-
cratic Party is just al,ou, four year old
Il Is - widely different irom the old Dem
ocrafic party as a jacka-- j. ftnm a iull
bioodrd Arabian c,itser. Jefferson wuuld'
not recognize q. Jackson wouIi seorn and
sp,t upan It, The present party which
seeks rrsrsctability from tile reflection oi
the past, dated lie first life irom the passage
of tho Kansas Nebraska Law. The Derno.
cratic party then left it, old lines and land
n,Arks, sunk its old issues and principles, and
became in the North a tottcring. miserable
shrunken faction, trembling at the feet oi
the Slave Power, where il had FRUSTRATED
itself under the lead u selfish mon in puf
suit Of the objects Of their unholy ambition.
Thousands upon Thousands Of the old-timc
Dsmocsaas in the North, however, ccmpri.-
ing soms VI the most brilliant men in thai,
party, refused to submit to the d,etum o.
such lnsn - Pierce and Douglas, and g.
Sorswear their own lifelong principles, 50 the
party LEFT them They did not leave the
party. Where are these old Democrats
now to be iound7 Not In the Democrat,
Party. The great macs OF them are witt
shs Republicans. Many Of them stand a.
high with ~ - they did in the Democratic
party, before the nAine was snatched ava,
% give responsibility to faction in the
North which u now laboring Cor tho extern
siuo Il Slavery. Are these old Democrats
or are the uacmbers VI the present 50 called
Dsmecratic party, occupying the position Of
the Democratic party we once knew in ih.
North on the question of Slavery
Ii il q notable fact that the Democrats,
party in the North were in lS49-5o as mucI.
opposed to the extension Of slavery in free
territory Is j. the Republican party al thi.
day. Democratic State Conventions in
psarly Isvsry Northern State, At that pc
rod when ting exciting question of New
Nexics was before the people, declared thu
party opposed 10 the extension # Slavery
Even hsrc 10 Iowa, the Democratic Scnat,
passed. resolutions rs strong as ever issued
from . Republican body, against the cxten
sion 0 Slavery and against Slavery az M
evil-~sntimcnts which the party have sinc
outraged IN the most lnfamous manner
Those Democrats, who arr now with th,
Republican party, stand precisely whsn
they did when they endorsed the resolutions
o( the Democratic Senate In the Iowa Lcg.
,slaturs in lS49, aud when the whnle part,
in the North endorsed the sa,l.e Views.
TAsy do not recognize the party which now
calls itself Democratic, Ia be the party
which they once knew and loved and served
under the same name. Thar party Is a
dead a. its old opponent, the Wing party.
Two new parties have risen upon their ru.
ins. There may be minor ia~uss u distinc-
ton, but ths one great question upon which
they differ is that relating 10 Slavery
There Is no Republican party in the South,
though a strung and growing Republican
asntiment-and how l. il possible there can
long b. with this great issue before us
Democratic pro-slavery party in the NORTH
let the peoplc of Iowa speak out next
Tuesday, and declare that this part, shall
Not govern the Free State ii Iowa