The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1859-02-16

if by history, acts, organization and men,
we cannot trace the democratic party from
JEFFERSON TO JAMES BUCHANAN as read
lily as the house of Guelph can trace back
its accession to the throne of England.
Among all the black republican editors,
who have attempted to be facetious upon
that sentence, is there one hardy enough
to deny this. If there is he must be eli
Their knave or fool. For there are hv-
ing men, prominent politicians, who are Of
themselves connecting links in the history
of the democratic party from the days of
JEFFERSON until this hour, living men
that have attended its conventions, helped
to make its nominations, and borne q
prominent part in it acts. We can trace
from BUCHANAN to JEFFERSON as readily
as we can from BUCHANAN to VAN BU-
rem, the same organization, and the same
actors, in the list of democratic Presidents
and democratic Congresses.
But our republican editors seem TO
think it impossible that a press can adj
vocate principles of christian morality and
democratic policy. AS there are but the
two parties, republican, alias abolition,
and democratic, the irresistible inference
is that it must be abolition in its views,
or have either no politics or no religion.
Now we have been unable to learn as yet
that CHRIST was an abolitionist. He
was on earth ut time when slavery OK
listed in the Roman Empire, and he was
surrounded by it daily. A slavery Of
white men and white women, ten times
more absolute and cruel than our present
system of slavery, giving unlimited power
to the master, and placing the awful pre-
rogativc of death in his hands; but HC
had no abolition lectures TO deliver; had
no war TO make upon the government O
the country. lie was not as far advanced
was not as well posted as his modern disci
= pies and preachers, who have made the
discovery that politics is a part of religion
IL tkol tlo.o - ,,,o.o ,,,orol foroa IN on.
of Sharpe's rifles than in hundred bibles
This is truly an age of progress, whel
men. with no more brains than CLUBB
|, reNela'loilS i'll Inur"I anu rvII5rO's., 49,
that the philosophy Of JESUS never con
9 ceived. He did not think it part of hi
mission TO denounce civil governments
but counseled obedience TO them. Blu
the editor of the Clarion, and Elk
BATES, more wise than the master the
= profess to follow, deny the authority G
our courts, and avow that q mans indi
vidual opinion is q sufficient warrant 70
resisting the commands of our constitu
ton and laws. Sagacious CLUDB! Inge
: NOUS BATES! And yet man can no
: conduct a public press, and advocate
christian principles, without being an alb
olitionist. God save the mark.
Again: Our republican editors pro
fess n profound reverence for Mr.. JET
PERSON. Good! Did it ever occur Il
them that Mr.. JEFFERSON, at the time h,
wrote the Declaration of Independence
was slaveholder-and that majority
of the signers of that Declaration werc
shareholders. Did it ever occur TO CLUB
and BATES that THOMAS JEFFERSON add
ed more slave territory to this nation, il
the purchase of louisiana, than any-per
haps than all other administrations We
have ever had. Did it ever occur TO Mr.
BATES that it would be well for him &c
read the Declaration of Independence be.
fore quoting from it and italicising; that
Mr.. JEFFERSON in that instrument wrote
just what he intended to write, and if he
did not, that tho editor of the Grand
Traverse Herald has not the requisite
amount of intelligence and brains to
supply Mr.. JErFERsoN's deficiencies, il
there were any, in his writing. The edit
or of the Clarion says-and his learned
friend, BATES of the Herald, echoes the