The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1859-12-24
TEE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

we make tho suhjoined beautiful and truthful
extract:
TEE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
The Democratic party is party of the
people; its name is no unmeaning designa-
ton. its power reposes with the masses; it is
the great antagonsm of privileges and com
bination, and the friend of political equality;
it lives and moves, and has its being, wher-
ever strong sinews grasp their implements,
and warm and generous hearts pusate. 1t
is party of to-day as well as tomorrow
and forever; it takes counsel of the expert
ence of the past but seeks to redress the
grievances of the present and provide for
the abuses of the future. Like great army
it marches forward to its destination, leaving
none but those who suffer and sicken for
lack of promotion, who are wounded by
dejectel expectation, or die by suicide, from
disappointed hope and the places of all
such are supplied by new instaments from
the young, and healthy, and vigorous, and
from the mature, who are won 10y the justice
of its cause. Like all armies it must have
its camp followers, and lag ard, and Cassand-
ras; but while they are more expensive than
oTudiIlctl'd VI usOiu hO'V"O' 'O'"i" ~"
progress, control its movements nor swav
its principles. It's mission is to and its care
for the living. 1t has no time to mourn
over the grave of dead and buried issues,
to redress personal griefs, real or imaginary;
TO stand as arbiters between the conflicting
claims of rival leaders, strength to waste
upon the aspirations of personal ambition,
nor sympathy to expend upon individual con
troversies for position. Its solcitude is for
the many and not for the few, for the people
and not for the politicians, for masses and
not for individuals, for principles and not
for men. Tie great 81 art of Democracy
may be read in the the De. laraiion of indie
pendence; its guiding star is the Constitn-
ton; its strong and radical analysis exposes
and casts off error, and its grand and majes-
tic conservatism forms barrier against
which the waves of falsehood and fanatcism
may dash in vain for ages. Its ''irrepressi-
be conflict" is a conflict of freedom, equali-
tv and the rights Of man, against falsehcod,
favoritism and privilege; for complete equal
ity of political rights between persons and
for that equality of fright between sovereign
States which the genial spirit of the com
p,ct suggested, and the provisions Of the
Constitution guaranteed; an equality Of
rights to be asserted in theory and maintain
ed in practice; to be read in the letter and
enforced in the spirit, without technical
evasions or mental reservations; embracing
persons, property and political rights, through
all the variations of mood and tense, with
out regard to kind or qualify, or gender,
number, person or case It's "irrepressible
conflict" is with the destructive who would
break down the barriers of the Constitution
erected for the common guidance and pro-
lection, that he night array people against
people, brother against brother, State against
State, in war of determination even to bat
ties of blood, over an institution recognized
and secured by the guarantees of the Con-
stitution which unies all in common con-
federacv. It's ''irrepressible conflict" is with
the spurious phlanthrop;st, whose confused
dreams and social progress have turned him
from the pathway of justice and sound reas-
on to disturb the public peace by ofiicious and
offensive Intervention in the domestic con-
Germs of other States. Its 'rrepress!ble con-
1ct" is with that wierd fanaticism which,
will. ;.s ;,i-r, would destroy the confed-
eracy; free State and slave State together,
with their institutions Of religion, charity
and learning, in the common conhagralion,
that it might abolish forever domestic sla
very by violence. It's ''irrepressible conflict
is with honest error which, misled by gloss
ing pretension, endeavors to work out vision
airy reformation in other States by a process
reple,e with mischief and injustice The
only "irrepressible canhct" which democra-
cy would wage between the States of this
confederacy is conflict Ct generous rivalry
in the performance of fraternaI duties; in
observing and obeying the obligations en-
joined by the Constitution; in securing to
each other, with alarcity, every constitutional
right; in strengthening the ties and bright
enng the claims which bind them together
and in making numerous free, sovereign,
equal and Independent States, one in senti-
ment, friendship and kindly regard. Any
other "irrepressible" or aggressive "conhict''
between the States of the confederacy, or
the people thereof, with a view to absorb,
or change, or exterminate the institutions
of each other, or interfere with or deny
their protection and enjoyment, must be a
conflict Matched by the incubations OF treas
on. AMI ending in enlargement, sectional
strife, blocdshed and disunion. Every great
measure of the Government, financial or ter
riorial, foreign or domestic-from the pur-
chase of Louisiana to the acquisition OF
California, from 1900 to ls59-has been the
fruit of Democratic policy, against the heat
ed and unyelding resistance Of the opposi-
ton; aud every important issue raised be-
fore the people has been decided with the
Democratic, party and its wisdom has been
sanctioned by the results of time, trial and
experience Such is the Democratic party
such its principles such lis purposes, such
its mission. 1t will SO long as it has exis
tence. sustain the cause Of popular rights