Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-08-26
From the Cincinnati Eaquirer.1
RIlc History Of the Democratic
-. ~ '-' PHrtv

~ AAoO y lSCl u WARM OlO1
OF pride and satisfaction when they loo
back to the glorious history of that OF
ganlzaion, which, commencing its ca
reer with the existence of our govern
ment has administered it so triumphant
ly and brilliantly, with but brief inter
walls, ever since. There are but fey
things which inspire more pleasurabl
emotions than happy memories of tn
past; and that organization or ~associa
eohN winch has an honorable history
appeals most strongly to the confdenc,
and feelings of men. The annals ofou.
country, for the last sixty or seventy
yearssare thiekly strewcd with the sto
ry of the continued and repeated tri
umphs of the democratic party, and o.
Its Industrious representative men, over
the opposition, which has been arraye6
against It'll so many forms and phases
The9sympathies o fyouth, and of all who
admire greatness and glory, cannot bat
be enlisted in favor of the party which
has given to the nation ten or eleven of
Its fifteen presidents: which has persis-
tently shaped its national policy; which
has originated and carried every great
measure that has tended to the aggran-
dlzement and honor of the country;
which has always been intensely patri-
otto and American in its feelings; which
has never once struck the flag OF its or
ganization, but which has successfully
beaten and overwhelmed half a dozen
a different 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
career of triumph, the Union consisted
of but thirteen States, and, under its
auspices, against a tremendous opposi-
tion, Raaeteen new states have been ad-
ded TO its national constellation. 1t
acquired an empire from France and
another from Mexico: it brought q sep
crate republic (Texas) into the Union;
won the golden soil of California, and,
immense acquisitions, it made our
boundary extend from one great ocean
of the world to the other-for the At
Iantlc Washes Its eastern and the Pacific
its western shoar. 1t looks forward to
the time when Cuba, the queen of the
Antilles and the gem of the Gulf of
Mexico, shall be added to our brilliant
%coronet, and, when manifest destiny"
shall carry American institutions and
the American flag into realms that at
present Ge,far beyond our political Wis
Ion. No other political organization
that was ever formed in this Union is
calculated to inspire these feelings, but,
on the contrary, they call up remini-
scence that we would fain Danish for
ever from our recollection. In the
commencement Of our history, the fed
eTs1t party was the great opponent of the
democracy. Atits head were many of
the Illustrious patriots of the revolution.
1t contained a large amount of private
responsibility and public virtue, and at
hrst 1T bore off the laurels of success
from its antagonist. But, alas, follies
and treasons darkcned its escutcheon;
its high-handed proceedings under the
administration of John Adams, in 1898,
ITS want of patriotism and its
British proclivities during the war of
1917; its malignant violence against its
country IN that struggle finished its ca
reer, and ever since the name of s'fed-
in a political sense, has been
considered to be opprobious. Next
came the national republicans" a
high astounding designation, but its ca
reer was ephemeral and brief, and is as
sociated in our mind with exploded and
ideas of government, whose
history it is unpleasant to recall since
they are only redolent of defeat.
Then came the anti-mason crusade.
which, for a while, in some sections of
he country, was very popular, sweep
nS'eyerything before it and threaten
ing that venerable and illu,trious socie-
ty with ruin, as we'll as the time-honor-
Ell democratic party, against whom it
was politically arrayed. But the lorna
soon spent its force; those who had
been largely governed by the impulse
and feeling in support of it became sens
lbie that their fears of Masonry were
but phantom, conjured up by designing
political demagogues and knaves for
their own benefit, and in a few years
the crusade was dismissed as a most re-
diculous and ll-advised political move
ment. Its successor in the political
field was the whig organization, that
name having been chosen because it
identified with illustrious revolu-
memories, and, therefore, like
y NOROP0Ao HOE IH6ulH years IL
struggled hard against the democracy.
Il was led by men of genius and talent
1t was powerful in numbers, but it
accomplished nothing. As its measur-
IS were behind the progressive spirit of
he age and were lacking in genuine
american feeling, and the masses felt
hat 1T could never be entrusted with
The direction of the government. When
It's great leaders were laid in their graves
t was -disbanded by its adherents as a
allure, as they fastened to connect
with other organizations.-t
With the career of the two parties which
'ose upon its ruin, the so called Gamer
can and republican" our readers are
amiliar, and we think all will agree
they have conferred no glory upon
he country and reflected no lustre up
n their. organizations. Defeat and
disaster have thus far attended them,
ithough, in their infancy, they are
by the dotage of age, and
t requires no seer to predict that in a
time they will follow their sue