The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1859-11-24
WHO are ti,e Democratic massese

We hear much laudation of the Democratic
Masses" the pure, reliant conservative, Union
saving Democracy. Forbearance almost ceases
| TO be virtue, to hear these thinvs reit.ra. cd
over and over again, just as if there was some
hing intrlnsically profound and noble in the
masses OF the party. 1t is perhaps high
lime these boasted and much Wanted sources
OF Democratic power, were made to stand out in
heir true character before the people, That
there are honest and good men in these Demo-
cratic masses is true, There is no need of
employing epithet 20 characterize truly the mod
en Democracy-iacts and statistics are sniff
Gent. Where are these much talked of Demo-
cratic masses most surely to be found What
are their certain localities, the employments
and moral associations where they do most con-
gregate Who can object to our giving cleo
ton returns from some reliable localities Last
year We published the vote cast in that lannon's
precinct in New York city, known as the Five
Points, in the sixth ward the vote stood Re-
publican ); Democratic 241; In the entire ward
whose moral history the world mas heard, there
were cast 253!Republican votes an 9 .265 Dem.
ocratic votes. This fall the returns show tba,e
w ere cast in the aforesaid Five Points election
precinct Republicans 0, Democratic % In the
entire ward, Republican l49, Democrat 1888,
he democratic masses" as will be seen by
comparison with last year, did not get walked
up at the last election III that notorious Quarter
Perhaps it will be replied, this is an extreme
case lake any other locality in that city pro-
verbal for Immortality and compare the vote
Take any other city or village and mark the spots
where the Democratic voting comes from the
general rule holds gOed, go where we will.
The New York Tribune has an article on "Po
ittical Instincts" which tells so many truths
directly to the point, that we cannot refrain
giving a few extracts for the consideration of
every candid reader
For example. things are brought TO this pass
when such State rs South Carolina is called
Democratic, and Vermont Anti-Democratic :
when hlllbusters, and communities where slave
trade captains always get acquitted and disun-
lOnists, and Lynch-law advocates are called
friends of law and order, while the maintainers Of
great constitutional questions by constitution
.all meansa are styled Radicals and Disorganizers;
when the masses Of the Sixth Ward and of the
alive party, and the masses of our rural districts
are stigmatized AS revolutionary and incendia-
ry when every rum-hOe in New York
ogerhows with meu.said to be devoted to union,
aw. and true political morality, while the major
ity Of those who are found every Sabbath in the
churches of our various Christian denomina-
JioLs are stgmatized as Back Republicans,
friends Of y.u.1Ace, and enemies OF social order
Ad d to all this an equal paradox, men who con-
end that he Constitution carries slavery where
it VIII not carry citizenship yet calling Them
selves the friends of State rights, aud of course
Ireyi.lng rs opposed 10 such rights all who arc
unwilling to surrender the most precious and
essential attributes of every Republican com.
muuty.
There are moral, political and spiritual, as
well rs chemical atfinities. These give direc-
ton to parties. while platforms and individual
! declarations are often used to disguise those
! startling paradoxes, those staring absurdties
! that time bring, cut in the contrast between the
! professions and the actual tendencies of men,
Can hese af!initieS be mistaken How is there
a religious Damocrat--f0r however inexplicab1
the fact it must be believed that there are some
such--but now is it that he does not sometimes
aeriously ask himself, What is the mysterious
reHson that the great preponderance OF the vile,
he Incorporate. the debased, runs naturally
into the party to which bclongl What does
! this prove OF some radical evil belonging to it,
! though hidden far beneath the surface Of plat
forms, and resolutions, and the superficial use of
sucn names as order and conservatism Why
| is that my social position throws Inc so much
among men of one class, wniie political relations
are all with the Other? Why is it that such a
| large majority of the men who are found in stea-
! dy attendance in our churches, men whom
meet in the benevolent movements, or in the 1T
erary circle, belong to the one party, though alb
surdly sigmatzed as radical, while the vast
number who spend the sacred day in the grog-
shops are known to belong to the other Z
Some might demur, perhaps, to the first state
ment, although it is undoubtedly true, even in
our most Democratic city of New-York, while
in the country towns and villages no man of any
party would think of calling it in Question Bnt
the latter part OF the proposition is too evident
to admit of the least denial In the dens of
vice and drunkenness, who thinks of making a
count There is not a member of the Fifth
| Avenue Conservative Democracy who would
have the hordhood to deny his confident expec-
tation of finding there a majority, large ma
jority, OF his own most Conservative confeder-
ates, Right here every one expects, and right
| Iy expects the heaviest Democratic majOrities.
! Without them no Democratic ticket would ever
be elected.