The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-22
Democratic Policy.

The policy of the Democratic party
during the past six years has been the
most detrimental to the interests and
reputation of the Union of any hereto
fore adopted. When we take into con-
sideration the professions of that party
up to the time of Pierce, and its actions
of the present day, no impartial citizen
can fail to observe that, were that party
to continue in power six years longer,
the retrograding movement of modern
Democracy would sink rs as people
and as nation, deep into the vortex
of humility and disgrace. The plat
form upon which Pierce was elected
expressly condemned the agitation of.
slavery, either in or out of Congress,
yet, no sooner did the trainers of that
platform receive the reins of govern
ment than they revived the agitation
of slavery, and in such a manner as to
open the question for an indefinite
time. With the plea of Popular Sow
ereignty they thought to hoodwink the
people of the North, and with the facts,
they counted upon the support Of the
South. But so prejudicial to the inter-
ests of the pro-slavery party did popu-
lar sovereignty work, that its origina-
tors repudiated it, and the bred Scott
decision promulgated a new doctrine at
variance with it, which decision was
cheered and applauded by the most
rigid popular sovereignty politicians.
The fruit of this decision was the Lee
compton Constitution, and although a
dissention has been created in regard
to this Constitution, none can fail to
see that it is but the workings of the
policy pursued by the party who abro-
gated the Missouri Compromise. The
same power that repealed the above
Compromise, endorsed the Territorial
laws of Kansas, with which the Lee
compton Constitution whitens into in
nocence, when compared.
Not only has the Democratic party
rendered itself obnoxious to the people
by its pro-slavery procHvities, but also
by its extravaganza. The expenses of
the Administration have already
reached the enormous sum of one hun
dred millions of dollars AN amount far
greater than any Administration which
has preceded it ever expended in a
single year, and more than some for a
whole term; and it has been computed
that it is nearly as much as the entire
cost of the Revolutionary war, six times
the amount paid in year for the edu-
cation of all the children in the Union
one-third more than the entire value Of
the church property of the country, and
more than the wheat crop of the Union
in 1850 was worth! This vast amount
of money has been expended to carry
on the alleged Mormon war; in buying
property for the Government at ono
hundred times its real value; in adorn
ing the Presidents mansion, &C., &c
We need look for no diminution in the
expenses, or reform in the financial
affairs of the country, during the mex,
two years. The Administration will bt
obliged to continue on, in the line O
policy commenced, in order to secure
any degree of popularity. Our onl.
hope lies in change of administration
fF-the election of an honest man to TIL
Presidency in the place of the unscru
I pulous politician that now occupies thu
{ chair.
j Freemen of Michigan, can you sup
port the odious policy and ruthless ex
travagance of the Democracy? Arr
You in favor of the extension of thu
curse Of human slavery over our entir,