The Hillsborough recorder., 1859-05-25


not the acquisition af power for mere selfish
and interested ends.
I See. Gellow.ctizens. how this natural and
Legitimate constitution Of parties has been
perverted d late. in this country. BY the cor
lrupting influences Of the new system Of po-
litical ethics taught and practiced by the
party in power. What were the distinguish
ling principles Of the Democratic party pro-
fessed in the days ot its purity, by its great
founder. Thomas Jefferson Simplicity and
economy in the public expense. q jealons
!. limitation Of executive power--a sacred re-
gard f,r the freedom of clections-a stern
prohibition Of all official interference with
them--peace and honest friendship with all
nations.
{ With democratic traditions. and even pro.
fcssons OF simplicity and economy, your two
last administrations have, in two years. car.
ried up the annual expenses of the Govern.
ment from forty to eighty millions OF dollars,
II speak approximately and in round nun
ber1 having exhausted surplus Of twenty
or thirty millions, and now living from hand
to mouth, ON the beggarly and ruinous expe-
, dent Of loans; while at the same time we
. have seen Democratic members OF Congress,
by an act Of unprecedented capidity aud
in violation Of all decency, as well as the
spirit of the Constitution, doubling their pay
and voting the increase into their own pock-
cts BY q retrospective provision, and sur
, rounding themselves, at an enormous waste
of the public treasure, with luxurious accom-
modatiuns and extrasagant allowances, that
put 10 shame all we read OF oriental magnii.
J Genre und self indulgence.
, With l.ta paf. nj IN n zeal.
oasy of executive power, your President
, modestly calls upon the representatives Of
| the people 10 transfer to him the puwer
af peace aud war--to give him, in eT-
+ feet, the whole treaty-making power.--to
place millions Of the public money athls dis
, ere tion---and 10 invest him with military pro,
tectoratrs over tureign State.. With the
! sains professed allegiance To democratic
principles, he lramples uhder foot the sa
J cred regard inculcatsd BY the founder Of
the democratic party for the freedom Of elec-
: lions, and brings the whOie patronage and
influence Of his high office TO control cleo.
tions in the States, frnm the hunblest repre-
sentative trust up 10 that Of Senator of the
United States. Succeeding to The Demo.
cratic maxim OF peace and honest friendship
with all nations. he threatens all by beIlicose
denunciatiuns, in order To keep up the flag.
gins spirit nj party devotion by Fictitious ap.
. pesl- TO national pride and hoaor.
Can such party as this be said 10 be
; lnun'lcd npon any pnblic princlpies II tits.
il is npon principles directly the reverse Of
those which were taught by the author and
] acknowledged oracle Of the deRncrdtc faith
winch give thar great man tie confidence
: and support Of the penplc--aad which orig
! inal!y established, tie ascendancs nf the par.
: " in the councils Of the nstiun. " III the
intelligent and patriotic people Of this coun.
: try permit themselves % be dipped by mere
. name, seductiye as It may be, when every
: principle which belongs to Il in rs proper
r interpretation. ahd IN its ancient and homo.
rable traditions, j. openly renonncrd and
: dlsregsrded BY those who now assume ns
: But may GO farther. and ask If there is a
single principle Of any sort held in common
: by the members Of the now dominant party
! The favorite and prominent measures Of lhe
present administration are the thirty million
I Cuba appropriatian--the transfer of the
! war-making power--the Mexican pratectnr.
I ate-the Pacific railroad--the protective
j. tariff. and. until lately. the Lecompton Con.
= siitution. Is there ahy uniOn OF npinion in
: the party upon a single nne Ofthese measures
i M. fellOw-ctixens. there l. division and
Z di-sentian upnn sll Of them-ilagrant intcs.
o tine war upon some-ani upon others. il i,
!. hard to decide whether majority OF the par.
a " agree with or differ from the President
!. and chief in the measures recommended BY
/; him.
{ But still. with rare exceptions. they ad
: here 10 and sustain him. Az the living repre-
I sentative aud embodiment of tile party he i
!. to be supported AZ all hazards. The politi.
c cal aseendaney Of the pariy--the power nl
> disposing THE offices. empl0ymeuts emolu.
!. menis, snli,l personal benefits II the govern.
. fnent, Is nnt 10 be jeoparded By lndiscrci
, seruplrs abnut matters oi - little compara-
tive inporfanee a. principles aud tie general
!. interests of the country. such, fellow citi.
!. zen.. are the results vt the Inndern system oi
!. party diseipline--of the code Of the political
!. morals incuieaied by the party IN power
! What l. Il but - proclaim by their own act.
! the justice of the sentence pronounced year.
! ago BY distinguished statesman OF South
. Carolina: that they are held together only
} BY the cohesive power of the public plunder.1
!. One Of the chief arts by which this party
: has - long held possession nf the government.
~ tie sprIuus INJURY Df tie cHnntry and N
. spite Of the reprobation oi their measures by
large and uuqursiionable majority of tie
] people of the United States. is the fabrica.
iion of sectional issues and the fermentation
. Of sectional jealnusies % divide the country.
!, and thereby % prevent numerous masses oi
! sirtu0gs end honorable men in both sections,
who cordially agree IN detestation of their
. practices. frUm uniting ~ any efficient
{ Incorporation 10 displace them from pow.
er. The great INSTRUMENT of popular delu.
!. sion which they WELD Tor this purpose, and
! 20 which alone ihey owe their unnatural foot
hold 10 the South, il the incessant and per.
!. nicious agitation of questions connected
with slavery.
Il They put themselves forward ss the spe.
cal aud exclusive friends n the rights Of
The slave.holding States They ofieiously
Volunteer y make political i.sups tor the