The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1857-09-23
Address of the Democratic State
Central Committee to the People
of Ohio.
COLUMBUS, Sept. 10, 1851.

OF Ohio.
= COLUMBUS, Sept. 10, 1851.
The State Central Committee deem it
their duty to return to practice for some
time fallen into disuse, and briefly address
their fellow citizens upon the issues in
volved in the present political canvass.
Comprehending, as they think they do,
the Importance of the questions now to
be resolved by the people, and fully i'm
pressed with the conviction, that the pop
ular will is about to recall the Democratic
party to administer the affairs of the
State, the Committee believe, that they
ought not to neglect to confer with their
fellow citizens in this manner.
The perpetuity of the Union is now, as
heretofore, an object upon which the De-
mocracy is infexibly resolved. The par
ty in this State, one of the largest integers
in the National Democracy, have always
made it cardinal principle of their faith.
The preservation of the liberties of the
people is the chief end of the Democracy,
and the maintenance of the Union is in
Indispensable to its attainment. The bulk
of cur opponents do not intend to destroy
that inestimable legacy of our wise and
patriotic forefathers; but considering the
blind fanaticism of many of their leaders,
the reckless and unscrupulous ambition
which animates another large portion of
them and the success which has hitherto
attended their efforts in lighting up the
baleful fres of sectional animosity and
| tdistrust, we are compelled to regret, that
SO many of our fellow citizens should have
suffered themselves to be drawn into their
pernicious and dangerous organization.
ISupport given to that party creates a
seemingly well-founded suspicion in the
mindsof your brethren of the South, that
la large proportion of our people are pre-
pared to renounce the compromises of the
Constitution, and to interfere with the
domestic institutions of the;several States.
The inevitable result of the established
success of the Republican party must be
the destruction of all fratcrnal confidence
among the people of the States, and the
J ! final disruption of the confederaey. The
country, SO grand and majestic in the
eyes of the world, not less from the SIM
| plicity and wisdom of its political system,
than from the splendor of its achieve
ments the vast extent of its domains and
the marvellous rapidity of its moral and
physical progress, is threatened with dan
ger where, alone, it is not impregnable
Impervious to all attacks from without
and able to contend with the world il
arms in defence of our homes and liber
ties, internal dssension menaces the safe
ty of the Republic. The fortress which
cannot be carried by assault succumbs a
, last to the sap and mine; and this EN-
!, pire of the West, which defes with impu
nifty the combined efforts of all the des
pots in the world to overcome or restrain
it, may fall by the perseyering wickednes
of few treacherous agitators. Th
Goths are not at the gates, but in tn
: heart of the Capitol.
. When the great body Of the peopl
:. North aud South shall have become es
= tranged, and hostile to each other, it vii
), not require a question of real magnitnd
to hasten the development of the fright
;, full consequences. In an exasperated Stat
: of the public mind. such as mustfoilo,
the success of our opponents, some mat
ter of trifling import, like the reporte
;, suet on the cartridges of the Sepoys, ma
. be sufficient TO rrecip tate the destructio
3 of the august fabric our fathers raised
: and to sever the Confederacy they cor
= Istructed, into numerous Petty and hostil
= communities. When such feeling pre-
walls, the peace and well-beiDg of the bod
: polite are no longer within the control {
: the just and prudent, of any party; but o
:, the mercy Of the first knave or madma
= who may be found to rush upon destruc
ton for the sake of anarchy. The fire
of hate, so insidiously kindled by the enc
mits of the Union, burn low at FIRST; bu
/ If not extinguished by your efforts in dn
season, they will sometime burst forth in
b general confagration. The Committe
n earnestly call upon you to stop that i
the green tree, which may not be stayed
o the dry. 39@ i'.tlt = saAie' - eel
it The Committee believe that upon Il,
It success Of the Democratic. party the pres
10 ervation of our race pure and intact, i
h Ohio, mainly depends They proclaim
l. once and for all, their unalterable cor
rs viction, in the graduation of races. Til
,e white race of people in the United State
n. like the ancient Romans and the Englis
m the offspring of the most intellectual, enc
getic, perseveriDg and warlike varieties
the Caucasian people, is believed to /
y the highest type of man yet developed Q
Is the globe. The crafty and savage tribe
Il of this continent withered at its near NJ
ss proach, by reason of some mysterioi
r; agency never explained, but'never by an
n barbarians long withstood. 1t supplan
Id ed the French in all their vast possession
h below the Great Lakes. It elected IL
y former occupants Of the Northern an
r; Western shores of the Gulf of Mexic,
M 1t appropriated the coast Of the Paclf
a from the thirty.second to- the forty-ninl
Or degree of North latitude. It has reGu
es ed to its dominion all the intermedia
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