Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-23
For the Delaware Gazette.

For the Delaware Gazette.
Mr.. EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE sin the call
for a Democratic Mass Meeting on Friday the
9th inst, the following very modest language
is employed IS Remember the days Of yore
when the Democracy fought the combined OF
position under the name of Federalism ; re-
member the days of jackson when we fought
the same enemy under the name of Whigery ii
remember, &c, &c.,-and remembering this,
let us make one more vigorous effort to hurl
from power these modern Federalists and re
store the State government to its former puri-
ty." How rery modest and unsp8suming-but
really, we think it locks very like 8 sfeat,s,g the
ifcery Of Hearesl to segye tke Deea IT,"
1 remember the days of yore when there
were TIVE great parties known by the distinct
i've appclation of Republican and Federal
Ultra Republicans called the Federalists to-
ries. l WAS then only Il child, and knew nothing
about politics, and believed, with many other
ignoramuses, that they were in reality tories,
combined with the British to overthrow the
young Republic and reduce the States to colo
MICS of Great Britain again. But a better
knowledge of the principles and policy of the
coNAS pa y ACfN - iAC tSNNe 7" @SN ENf'
itself in comparison with the so called Demo
cratic party. The Federal party were distiu-
guished from the Republican party by their
attachment to a strong central government
while the Republicans were jealous of the Fed
eral government, and fearful of trusting it
with unlimited powers-the very thing which
modern Democracy is clearly arriving at.
There is also another point of resemblance
between the ancient Federal party aud modern
democracy-in which both differ from both
ancient and modern Reruflicani5in- Tho Fed
eral party was d free rad party, and So Is the
Democratic party-the Republican party had
enacted Il protective Tariff under which the
country was making rapid strides towards
wealth and power when the fatal compromise
checked her onward course and paralysed her
energies and it is this want of protection,
which was restored for a short period Only, in
connection with a corrupt and extravagant adj
ministration which has caused the long %contin-
ued stagnation of busincSs,and bankrupted the
National Treasury.
: Thouhg the Federal party was clearly in an
error, yet it was an hoHest party, and led by
some of the best men and patriots of the Rev
olqtion. Who can deny the patriotism of
John Adams, Gen. Hamilton, and hundreds of
others that space will not permit to narDe
And now, this modest Democratic party.
who are charging the Republicans with being
the same party Democracy fought in days Of
yoFc, have Placed in the Presidential Chair an
old nan who was i Fcdcr;JIst in days of yora,
and remained so us long as the Federal party
had any cXistencc-and are moving heaven
and earth to crush out State rights, and to
merge the State government IN the central
government government already possessing
alarming powers and patronage power and
patronage which the preceding AMI present adj
ministration have shaIpcfully, og rather shame
lessly abused
There arc sorfe twcRfy-scven Thousand Post
Masters in the United States, all holding Office
during the plcasuFc of the President, who also
appoints awi commissions all officers of the
Army and Navy, and the Judges Of the Uni
ted States Courts. When eoE@rss Mas asked
to rcfew the Charter of the Omitted States
Bank, Gen. Jackson vetoed Il bill for that pur-
pose, giving as an objection to the Bank that
it was Il vast e,gffN Of cOry1ption-dangcroN5
to the liberties of the people, and an encroaclr-
mcnt on State rights. Bst ii was Il mere hand
mallet by the side of {: forge hammer, conlpar-
ed with the vast engine in the fIarls Of the
President, which he can, and which hc has at
tempted TO Use to crush out the liberties Of the
people! And why should this vast engine eyer
have been paced in his hands and why should
it remain there? Are not the people as caIa-
bic of choosing their Post Masters and Judges
as they are of choosing Their Justices ri the
Peace. their Representatives, and their Prcsi-
dent ?
But the Democracy fought the conbjncd op-
position under the nanc of federalism in days
sc yorc, Will the com5incI wisdom of the
Democratic Central Committee inform lis
what were the clements Of the conoh1nation?
Again the Isenaocraey are called on to i" IL
member the days Of jackson, when we fought
the same enemy under The name of Whigcry.'
Were Gen. jackson now here-he who once
led our armies. and who called on the eolorcd
population TO IA y around the standard Of their
country against an invading fo~c-addressing
them us his feIiow-citizens, he would refuse to
have his name used i'll connection with Il party
who hold that negroes, such as he was wont to
address as fellow citizens, have no rights that
white men are bound TO reSpect-a party
only ur,Hnlocracy consists in their dero-
ton to the Slara p~owtr-t6 the ;;"G!ulsition OF
slave territory and the extension ana t1"rPtSH-
alton Of slavery.
But there is Il point Of time in the history
Of the Democratic party i'll tfffs Ssate, towhich,
probably the Central Committee allude, but
which from inadvcrtancy or some other cause,
they did not pan :~ic2larIy point out, by refey-
ring to great names, or important e1ents-and
which had they done, would have added great
weight to their cNhortation to the faithful to
- make one more vigorous effort to hurl from
power these modern Federalists and restore
the State government to its former purity
The TIM of its former purity must have been
the days of ~I}resiili, & Company. When
the Treasury was robbed by these great wor-
thics, of some tllrce-lourths Of a million of the
peoples money! And though the Committee
failed to call attention to this important event
III tho history OF Democracy, yet this great
robbery is of too recent occurrence to have
been 50 soon forgotten by the people, and they
will probably lie slow III restoring to power a
party so corrupt, so void of principle, and so
hollow and h~eartlcss.
- ltEFUELICAN oil IuEE.
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