Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-02-10
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

| Forney's Philadelphia Press in A.4---- =
! those who are DESTROYS to know what course
the Democratsgho agree with the Press. de-
sign to take gitlarrfeteDce to the next Presi-
dency says:
ii we KNOW these Democrats, we think we
can say that icy are the followers OF no espe-
clal eantidgFT Speaking for this Journal
alone, we repYat for the hundreth time, that
no man will receive our support who does not
stand up squarely By the principles to which
We consider ourselves pledged, not only by our
whole political lfe, but especially by the great
1 issues Immediately involved in the contests O
1893. Theselare primary essentials. These
constitute the positive precedent conditions
having discafpad nsurped organization, to
save certain lfnperilled truths, we are not vet
Wiling to REJECT these latter for any individual.
no matter how high his title or bouudess his
lame We have the warmest personal regard
Tor Staphen A. Douglas. We honor the man
Tor what he hasdene, and we confde in him
Tor the future, assured that he can be elevated
10 emiAence higher than that which he now
occupies, if he shall stand steadily by his own
declarations, eSsH if that eminence should be
the Presidency ITSELF But when we behold
the extraordinaFy doctrines boldly preached at
w ashlng ton n1Sepking to the consolidation of
enornoas po#e fla the hands Of single indi-
vlduai; when We see conventions captured,
public men detauched, premiums offered for
treason by the small despots who have reached
power sinpps " sesray it, we should neither
] De just to ourselves, nor to Judge Douglas,
nor to any other man who may aspire to the
Presidency by committing this journal to the
exclusive championship of any special candi-
date.
Looking over the political field, it is anus
ing to see heiv md there q party brigade
lighting under the flag of some little leader;
aud it will be v no less interesting sight to
see these coutepding factions overwhelmed by
the great wave of public opinion which is now
organizing itself upon principle, Indifferent for
the time beingsto the man who shall be the in
strument aadtfe embodiment of that princi-
Pile. In the confusion of tongues that prevails
at Washlngton'on every mooted issue, and es-
pecially in regard to the heresies which the
present administration would erect into the
gospel OF our faith, we recognize an example
which teaches n the virtue OF that celebrated
phase OF Mr.. Calhoun, the virtue of g master
ly inactivity . Not indeed, that we should
be inactive in observation; we advise the most
vigorous sigilauce; but we shall avoid those
preparations which come after the creed is as
certained, and which relate merely to the Sc
lection of oufsyf two mortal men, who will per-
ish when that a4eed shall survive "amid the
wreck of MATES and the eruih of worlds."-
We do not beldng to the party Of Antony, nor
to the party ofCasar; we are for Rome If
the iniquities Of the present Administration
are to be woyeh into the framework of the
Democratic party we would not wish our worst
enemy, much less our best friend, to stand upon
the scaffod that would be held together by
such bonds as these.
1t will reqniP the efforts Of all patriotic
men, OF every prty, to rescue the ship of State
from the tempest that howls around it, and to
save her from the breakers upon which she is
rushing, without helmsman or captain When
doctrines against which the whole history of
the country, not only the Democratic, but of
every party, is living protest-doctrnes dis
earded by the fathers of the Republic, and
doctrines repudiated by every organization
that has asplred TO popular confidence, are
boldly asserted and made tests upon the peo-
M, i Y y "a t.. thial sisiste
think G Beans Of deliverance from an i'm
pending evIEe