The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-09-08
Modern Democracy.

Modern Democracy.
Ever since the inauguration of the
Pierce Administration there have been
radical changes progressing in the So
called Democratic" party, which has
gradually weakened it until at this
time, there remains but very little OF the
life blood, which animated its followers
during the days of Jefferson, Madison
and jackson. From the high ground
of Madisonian Democracy this bastard
party have departed until, while hold
ing the name, it repudiates every prin-
ciple and element of a Catholic Demo-
cracy and has become the open and
avowed champion of a Slavery propa-
gandism. Wherever Democracy tri-
umphs there slavery extentionists ex-
nit. The "peculiar institution with
despotic array, now tramples on the
sovereignty of States as remorselessly
as though their battle cry had been
estate Rights and State Indepen-
dence, and their champions are to-day
as keenly on the scent to obey their
behests as are their own blood hounds
on the track of the trembling fugitive
fleeing from her bondage. sH
This degradation of party, backed
as it is by the whole patronage of a
lavish, licentious and prohigate admin
istration, by which it is able to reward
with its Judas gold the hireling tools
of its villanous usurpatious, has not
been able to fulfil in the minds of the
honest and true disciples of Democracy
its speeious promises. "Non interior
ence," State sovereignty, and those
other high-sounding verbosities with
which slavery extentionists have so
Hong cheated the honest Democracy of
1.-THE old school have become useless
now that they have accomplished the
purpose for which they were created,
and consequently they have been un-
tremendously repudiated. They are
the out-worn successive creeds of mod
ern Democracy, no longer available, be-
cause they oppose in spirit and effect
the ever encroaching hydra, slavery.
There is sanctity about the name
of Democracy. That party has a "tak-
ing title" In times past it has been
the battle cry around which have clus-
tered the progressive hopes of human
liberty. From its history men are at
tracted toward it. The slavery propa-
ganda with diabolical ingenuity has in
our country obtained the mastery of
the party which falsely assumes this
name, and has advanced from step to
step, upper cover of this fair seeming
name, until the principle of slavery,
which in our fathers day was secuted
as inhuman, and the traffic which they
branded as infamous, are now regard
| ed with complacency and respect by
men high i'll power, wealth and situa-
ton. Indeed it has become the one
! great motive by which our government
is guided.
Modern Democracy is humbug.
While it processes unanimity in coun-
Gil, it can bring forward no one princi-
pie or which it can unite its forces.
While it assumes to .personify do
minion and power" of the people and
a government founded on popular right,
it in reality presents to the world the
most bigoted and corrupt despotism.
With reputation of principles and
an entire abrogation of every element
on which Democracy was founded, adj
vancing doctrines abhorrent to its for
mer policy in insisting on an entire
abnegation of its ancient principles, it
cannot excite wonder that among men
of honesty the party should receive
the rebuke it merits. With doctrines
which cannot be endorsed by mon who
have not been educated lifelong in the
school of slavery, can it be a remarka-
BILE fact that Democracy meets no ia
vor in the North? that it is fast becom-
ing sectional party ?
1t has become sectional party and
where lies the onus of this sectional
ism ? Most surely on those by whom
every compact has been broken, every
tie sundered and every aggression
made; on those, who, under false
cloak, have deceived many into the
support of a sectional principle.