Freeman's champion., 1858-07-01
Republican or Democratic Where
To?

ing mind for many months past, that
the varied and multifariouS elements
found in the ranks Of the Free State
party could not much longer hold to.
gether. This fact being established,
the question at the head of this arti.
Gle acquiesces an Importance which
it behooyes all Of us to weigh well
The political parties now in this ma
tion are undergoing a rapid change
They, themselves, are but the repre-
sentatives Of twoideas, forever to be
found existent in a. artificial society;
we mean that of liblerty and tyranny
or as may bemore fifty expressed fol
our times, Capitalization and individ
uality. There meyer can be, in any
government which allows the small
est amount of freedom, but two real
political forces or parties which will
represent in some form or another
these two ideas. Parties may exist,
or struggle to do SO, which aim to
stand in the middle, and steady the
see-saw" plank Of politics as it
swayS up and down; but their mis-
sion is q sham, their position a fool
ish one, as they will find to their cost,
when any extra impetus iss given to
the machine, which will send them
flying from their pharisaical position
to be the laughter and scorn of all
opponents.
AT the present day, the two forces
mentioned above are to be found EN-.
bodied in the Democratic and Repub-
lican parties Of this nation. The
American organization, which am
bitiously sought to ride the middle
of the plank, has been over-topped
and sunk so low that it's form is
scarcely diSccrnible. The Democrat
ic party has achieved The usual fate q
all political organizations, viz: that
of the monopolizing defender Of ex-
ternals, while the substance and ma
terial of our freedom is being made
victim to an overweening and tyran'
nical oligarchy. Starting out as the
defender of popular rights, and re-
naming so as long as out Of power
the Democratic party has become in
Solent and corrupt with long contin
ued success, and to-day stands before
the world in fellowship with tyran-
ny everywhere, and the representative
and defender of the foulest and mos
filthy system Of oppression that the
bright sunlight has ever shown upon
amid all the many shifting and chang
ing forms Of wrong which the spirit
of evil in man has assumed to rult
and reign over his weaker fellows
1t is essentially the party Of retro
gres>ion--of Federal Capitalization
in opposition to State Sovereignty
Governmental Oligarchy as opposed
to Individual Freedom and Progress
in fine, it is the embodiment of tn,
old idea Of the fright Divine" Of tn,
strong to rule, in opposition to th'
grander gospel which the newer apos
tles Of Humanity teach in the presen
ago of Light and Liberty; that relig
ion which found voice in Christ, ant
to-day is asserting itself through al
the many voices to which kncwledg
has given power, and the conStan
burden Of whose psalm, is the sacred
ness of human existence, the separat
and distinct individuality whicI
clothes every soul, and the vindicatio'
before all the world Of the right 0
the poorest and humblest to them
selves to the possession Of "lifc, lib
erty and the pursuit Of happiness.
The Democratic party, by makinl
itself the subservient tool Of tn
Slave Power, has placed itself in op
position to the manifest destiny whic
had dccreed that the priests OF human
ity, the prophets and apostles Of tina
creed which found so glorious an OK
proysion in the Declaration Of indie
pendence, shall hecomc the rulin
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