The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-08-24
TRUTHFUL AND RIoourEr.

democratic principle is moulded into the
very being of this country. The proportions
of that country's gigantic stature are formed
out of the material of democratic thought and
fashioned by democratic hands Where on the
statute-book can law be found Of finance or
revenue settling the internal policy Of our
country, and aequiesced in by our ceuntrymeu
of all parties, that has, not been placed on the
statute-book by democratic votes, and stereo-
typed on the hearts of the people BY democrats
ic argument T The iron hand of jackson struek
fhe blow that severed the money of the people
from the mammoth bank; and thedemocracy fol-
lowed up the blow by dissolving its conhexion
with the lesser monopolies that had grasped
the spoil. Democratic argument and votes
have approximated the tariff, after protracted
struggles, to the revenue standard !; and the
principle at this late day Is too strongly fixed
in the affections of the masses to be abandoned
to temporary policy, or surrendered to greedy
appetite for spoils. Not less indentical with
the growth of our empireis the name and fame
of the democratic party. Associated With
them are q thousand memories, Intervening
them with every garland of her past progress
and glory. The Mississippi, so long - it
pours its food of waters. to the Gulf shall
mingle with the hum Of its immense ooafhefce
the name of Jefferson, the father of democracy.
Every breath of wind that stirs the magnolia
grove of Florida brings from the land of how-
era fresh fragrance to the memory of Mon
roe, another of the patriot sages of .demoetaey:
The immense cotton and sugar fields of Texas;
and the golden sands of California, all attest
the past triumphs of the democratic policy. and
point with unerring finger to Cuba, destined
soon to be added, with her tropical fruits and
tobacco and sugars, to swell the practical tn.
umphs of democratic rule. Talk about the
destruction of such party, because there are
quarrols in our ranksi Why, the democracy
always have quarrelled, and they always win
quarrel, among themselves. But these quar-
rels are but summer thunder--clouds destined
soon to pass away and leave the atmosphere
purer than before; but bubbles upon the sur
face of the stream, necessary to let of the
noxlous gas beneath. - - Z
The great current rolls on, and must roll on
forever-at least while the Constitution, strictly
construed, needs defenders, and the rights of
the States friends and champions. Those who
argue from present distractions the destruction
of the democratic party have failed to read, or
read with little profit, their country's history.
They miscalculate the inherent strength Of its
principles, and fail to appreciate the confidence
its past career inspires. Look at it in 1S40,
discounted and overwhelmed North and South.
sseit in 1854, triump plant again. Behold its
in 1854, weakened and distracted; !; yet in 1856
we see it again victorious. Though the cleo
tions of 1858 have been disastrous to its pros,
poets, they are scarcely worse than those of
1854 and who shall say that 1860 will not.
usher in another victory as brilliant as that of
1862 a5 e4.t- ssoesii