Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1859-02-18

worn the party badge, not from the love Of Its
principles, but from mere personal advantages /
which they supposed il YOU'D confer. There are
others again who have some impulses for demo-
crazy, but who from interest. association or pre-
judice aguinst names, hsve not the moral courage
10 avow 4.
We were little surprised at seeing the
foregoing in the Union O. American en-
dorsing she position of the States, that
there is no democratic party True, the
Nashville organ does no, say il in so many
words, but the logical inference from its
language says it with distinctness that
leaves no room for cavil about its mean
ing. Thousands have claimed to be
democrats who never knew what demo
cracy was" All such, of course, are not
democrats, according to the reasoning of
the organ, and taking the number from
the sum total of rank and file, how many
will remain? Let us see; and in making
the calculation, we shall assume the demo-
cracy of the Union and American to be
the simon pure article.
Douglass is not a democrat, neither are
those who take him as their guide-and
their name is legion. The advocates of
the Pacific railroad are not democrats, be-
cause they advocate internal improvements
by the general government-thesei include
the followers of James Buchanan. Those
who advocate specific duties are not demo-
Gratis, because they advocate tariff that
will discriminate in favor of protection
an odious whig doctrine-these, too, fol-
low James Buchanan. Those who advo-
cate the re-opening of the slave trade are
not democrats; neither are those on the
one side or the other of the Cuba question,
the Mexican protectorate, the Central
American fllibuster movements and the
Homestead bill--a third edition of the
Wilmot proviso-a fraud upon the South
to extend freesoilism. They are not demo-
Gratis who swear the party badge, not from
love of its principles, but from more per-
sonal advantages )" and to sweep the plat
ter, at one stroke, they are not democrats
"who never knew what democracy was.
This last proviso annihilates the whole
party, for there is not one man, claiming
to be a democrat, who knows what demo
cracy is. Each one has his vague, un-
defined opinion of what it is, but no one
can point out single measure, policy,
principle, out side of the spoils, upon
which the party is united, national. Then
there is no democratic party, in the sense
in which the term is used, and those, who
claim to belong to such party, are like
pack of hungry wolves that hunt to-
gether, But each actuated by tie single
desire to satisfy his own cravings-eveu
to the extent of feeding upon his fellow
But, not content with the severity with
which it handles those who have never
claimed to be anything but democrats, the
Union and American deals cruel blow
at those old line Wings "who wear the
party badge, not from the love of it:
principles, but from the mere personal
advantages which they supposed it would
confer" Have no THE new recruits from
the gallant whig ranks voted the locofocC
ticket, bearing the badge into the fgh
against their former friends, wearing tina
badge, as livery that enobled, rater thar
cast stigma upon the wearer? Have
? they not borne, with meek patience, tn,
contempt with which their claims have
been treated, and the sneers that gree
them as deserters who sought "mere per
sonal advantages" at the sacrafce of con
science and principle? They have don,
all this, according to the Union & Ameri
can, and they are rcaping their reward
They are proclaimed to be unworthy t.
bear the hallowed name of democrat, ant
are denied the personal advantages
which they supposed it would confer"
) Perhaps this is adj right ! but it doe
not square with our ideas of justice ant
common dccency And had it been GU
misfortune to have assumed the demo
cratic badge from whatever motive o
personal advantages this hint would no
have been lost upon us, and we woulc
have 'cussed'' thewhole concern, trampleC
) the badge under our feet, and enlistet
under another flag, where, if we received
J no pay, neither would we receive insult
--
pas" We publish, to-day, the proceed
ings of the democratic Congressiona
caucus, thinking it as well to go to tn
source of Congressional action-kin
caucus having taken the affairs of tn
Nation under it's own immediate control