Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1858-07-15
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The History Of the Demo-
cratic Party.

The History Of the Demo.
cratic Party.
Those who are attached to the Demo-
cratic party may well feel warm glow of
pride and satisfaction when they look back
to the glorious history of that organization,
which. commencing it's careering with the
existence of our Government. has adninter-
ed it so triumphantIy and brilliantly. with
but brief intervals, ever since. There are
but few things which inspire more pleas
urable emotions than happy memories of
the past; and that organization of associa-
ton which has an honorable history appeals
most strongly to the confidence of men,
The annals of our country, for the last six
ty or seventy years. are thickly strewed
ofthe continued and repeated triumphs
of the Democratic party and ofits illuslrious
representative men. over the opposition.
| which has been arrayed against it in 80
many forms and phases. The sympathiss
of youth. and all who admire greatness and
glory, cannot but be enlis ed in favor Of that
party which has given to the nation ten or
eleven of its fifteen Presidents; which has
persistently shaped its national policy:
which has originated and carried every
measure that has tended aggrandizments
and honor of the country; which has al
WAYS been intensely patriotic and national
in its feelings, which has struck the flag Of
its orgaization, but which has successfully
beaten and overwhelmed half dozen diff
erent parties and combinations that have
been arrayed against it. and which has
over and over again been endorsed as the
only party that was fit to rule and shape
the destinies of America.
When it commenced its remarkable ca
reer Of triumph, the Union consisted Of but
thirteen States. and under its auspecies.
against tremendous opposition. nineteen
new States have been added to the national
constellation. 1t acquired an empire from
: France. and another from Mexico; it bro
a separate republic Texas into the Union;
won the golden soil of California; and by
immense acquisitions. it made our bound
ary extend from one great ocean Of the
world to the other--fcr the Atlantic wash
es its eastern and the Pacific lis western
shore. It looks forward to the time when
Cuba the Queen If Antilles and the gem OF
the Gulf of Mexico, shall be added to our
brilliant coronet. and when manifest des-
tiny shall cary American instituti ,ns and
the American flag into realms that at pres
ent lie far beyond our political vision. No
ether political organization that has ever
a been formed in the Union is calculated to
inspire these feelings but on the contrary
they call up the "reminiscences that we
would fain Danish forever from our recol.
lection. In the commencement of our his
tory. the Federal party was the great op.
ponent Of the Democracy. At It's head
were many of the illustrious patriots of the
Revolution. 1t contained large amount
ofprivate responsibility and public virtue
and at first it bore off the lursls of success
e e from its great antagonist. But, alas. iol
) lies and treason soon darkened its esoutch
!, : con; its high-handed proceedings under thu
j. Administration of John Adams. in 1898
o and it's want Of patriotism and British pro
cliveties during the war of 1919. its ma..::.;
nant violence against its country in tha
struggle, finished its career, aud ever sine
the name of .Federalist,' in politi,a
\ sense. has been considered to be opprobi
ous. Next came the National Republic
! ans high sounding designation, but it
ID career was ephemeral and brief, and
associated in our mind with exploded an
!. erroneous ideas of government, whose his
}. tory it is unpleasant to recall, since the
are only rsdolent to defeat.
Then came the Anti Mason crusade whic
for while. in some sections of the country
= was very popular, sweeping every thin
before it, and threatening that venerable 81
cret society with ruiz. as we'll as the tim
- honored Democratic party. against who'
tits politically arrayed. But the tornad
ps soon spent its force; those who had bee
largely governed by impulse and feeling
their support Of It, became seusibh u,