The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1859-04-16
Dem gcratie pyusDects.

e are at among thu.c who believe
that the Democratic party exempt from
the lmGrn''l~s which ekurten the i've.
and end Ike 'sv- uf ether organizations.
1t has proved ,:srf nutab.e. and. If the
lodcatlaas Of the present are promises #
"fst tie future will bring forth. il will
prove l.seif mortal Il is re, too early to
see Whist the exact course of the national
gathering Of til" Democracy al Charleston
stil be, The horiZo ia tina. direction
looks threatening; and IL i. certain that
storm will follo" the contact Of the posi-
tive an1 negative poles which will there
BE- brought together The partisans of
Douglas profess tina, they will be con
tot with mastery inactivity; that they
will permit all differences t. remain =.
they arr, sud make the candidate, who
sonevrr he may BE-, the platform. Their
creed, assumed for al occasion, has a.
Feady secured the election OF their leader:
and though, for pare shame, they would
not 50 soon forsware il. they will consent
to see II quietly and decently pat out Of
.ich', while they g. in for the sp9iIs.-
lie will promise that ~ more sball IL
said Of 'uufrjendly legislation; that, when
the South assumes that State Equality"
must De maintained, they will keep dis
cTeeuy Rum IS to the meaning OF tie
teTm;tbat' Democracy. without, definitions
= Limitations, shall! b. tie watch word.
But the other fiction will insist upon
emphatic declarations. Sileace will no.
satisfy their demands They want speech
They want positive action. They want
agitation. TIE latter is the life Of Demo.
cfats, Whenever personal and peeuuisry
interests can be alarmed BY their frantic
hoTls, They will appear q, Charleston
a. the progressive party making haste
backwards, but progressive nevertheless.
They will dcmand recognition Of slavery
IS national institution and insis, pon
Congressional Code for it, maintenance
10 all the Tc. rtorios o. tn. United States
- code above aud b~yond the effort.
and rcmoa-iraBces IF the propIe who gre
10 BE- affected thereby. Sothin, Gle
Will be accepted Is pledge u peace
Now will Mr. Dou-as and his friends
b content with the degradation which
coh,c>sle4 - Southern dealaud. wuu'd
.asten upoo thea? Ne have no exalted
ida Of tie value Of their free soil prof.s-
sIoas, but uubouud,d confidence Ia err
ree'ncss Of their instinct Of self-prcserva-
ton; hence We believe that they will
no: DIRE yield They will have 10 alter
native, thus must resist. Compliance viii
tie equivalent hut only to defeat tu, TO de-
stactlon. Resistance is 4 feat al.o. but
not surrender Of all honesty and self.re-
sP9ct. On the other hand, W. do no,
Sc how the South can rccedc. How
Damocratic leaders maintain their power
ohty by the continuance Of the alarm
WHICH they have excited in minds Of
holders of slave property. If they back
down from the position assumed, they
art lost. How then. can the coufictiu. in.
ierests be harmouized' low will the
Democracy he saved from the des,ruc,-
lon with which they are threatened -
There is probably no ecrcss from the pit
into which they have fallen -u0 escape
from III" tolls III which their own deceit
has ensnared them. Mr.. Gil4in-s was
right The last Pro Slavery Congress.
which will crer assemble at the National
capitol, adjourned on the 9Th If March !.
last, The Opposition vii take posses 3,
sion Of the Government. The sham De. !
nooracy, sh"rn Of power in all the free
States aud kicked ignominioasIy out Of !
Congress, tile Executive Mansion and the
O.far''nents' viii prove by its rapid dis.
ISOLATION that jus.io still punishcs parties
As we'll as men.