Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-08-28
VOL. Mo. 6.


ministration of Mr.. Jefferson
Mr. Pierce placed himself on this plat
form of 1852; when nc accepted the nom
in0tiOn. Did not every act of his Admin
istration exhibit unswcrving fidelity to its
principles? Mr. Buchanan did the same
thing in 1856 In what single act of his
| Administration has he rcpudiated the plat
form, or Ignored any article OF the State
! Right creed? SO it will be in 1860, ard
will continue as long as the Democratic
| party maintains it's organization. 1t could
scarcely be otherwsc--the Executive upon
his nomination, solemnly pledges himself
to his friends and opponents that he will
administer the Government in strict con
( formity to the principles laid down by his
| friends; iftlosc principles do not reflect
| his sentiments and he cannot carry them
into execution, every sentiment of honor
would impcl him to decline the nomination.
When he accepts, to prove faithlcss to his
1 pledges, would entail on him such deep
dishonor as to drive him in shame from the
face of society; and | undertake here to
say, that no man who will ever become the
standard bearer of The Democracy for the
Presidency will have the temcrity to traito-
! rousIy abandon the principles and platform
upon which he is elected What has the
Democratic party done TO manifest its foitb
! bv it's works? The statute hook of Can.
grcss will show that all vour constitutional
rights are now more fully recognized and
more c}lcctuollv nrotcctcd- vour cbor.
ishcd principlcs arc more intimately incor.
porated in tho laws and policy of the Gov
crnmcnt than thev have been for forty Years
and Won are indebted to the Democratic
party for it all 1t has done much. vsyv
much to restore the princinlcs that sicnai-
lied tho Republican administration Of Mr.
Jefferson. Ii was the Democratic Marty
that crushed the Bank, that reduced the
Tariff and placed it upon a revenue bass--
! that wiped out the brnkrIp. and distribn-
ton acts. 1t annexed Texas; and here
let me say, that important as was its ocnui.
/ sition to the whole country. to the South it
was Indispensable for her safety forcivu
and domestic, and vet the elections which
resulted in the triumph of that policy. when
I Polk and Clay were the candidates shcwcd
larger relative vote in favor of annexation
by the North than tho South. Mr.. Ciay.
| who was opposed to it, received arocr
pro RITA vote in the South than he did in
the North, and Mr.. Polk received \ LARGER
pro rata vote In tho North than tbc Soutb
| The issue was made in the platform of 1874,
and the Northern Democracy maintain.
cd it with a noble energy that crowned
our common efforts with success It
annexed California Utah and New Mex.
leo 1t stranglcd the Wilmot Proviso--
adopted the policy of fnon-intcrvcnton in
organizing Territorial governments rcneal
ed the odious Missouri restriction, and re-
stored us to our rights in the territories
planted itself upon the doctrine that Slave
States had equal rights to admission in the
| Union with free States, and us a party va
ted to admit Kansas as slave State under
the Constitution. 1t passed the Fugitive
| Slave Law, and will acquire Cuba for MS
at the earliest practicable day. Every
measure detrimental to your rights and Vi
olative of your Interpretation of the ConSti-
tuition that has been defeated, has been de.
fcatcd by the Democratic party. I'm say
ing what have said for that party with re
ference to slavery, do not intend to con
vcy to you the impression that it isa pro
slavery party. 1t docs not profess any such
thing-many, perhops most ofits members,
are opposed to slavery in the abstract, and
opposed to Introducing it in their rcspec-
tive States; but what [ intend to assert
and maintain is, that as 4 party in it's plat
form and votes it recognizes all our Const
| tutlonai rights on the slavery question and
the Northern portion oft, Notwithstanding
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