The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1859-10-20
PALLADIUM.
RICHMOND, IND, OCT. 90, 1859.


Notwithstanding the fact that for many long
years we labored with and were proud of the
glorious old Wing party. and are now equal
y proud Of the Republican party and its
principles, yet we have always been .Jcfer-
soni4n democrat in the fullest sense Of that
term. We have never stood and never will
stand but upon the same platform. 1t is to
be found in the following plank:
I'VE hold these truths 10 be self-evident
that all men are created equal; that they
endowed by their creator with certain ina
lenable rights; that among these are life lib
erty. and the pursuit Of happiness; that to
secure these rights, governments are ins;itu
ted among men, deriving their jus. powers
from the consent OF the governed; that when
ever any form Of government becomes des-
truciiye of these ends, it is the right of the peo
pie 70 alter or abolish it, and to institute rev
government; laying it's foundation on such
principles, and organizing its powers in such
form, TO them shall seem most likely TO
effect their safety and happiness"
This was the pUhijshed platform. Jeffer
soa had another PUNK. which was omitted
fom the Declaration, because three of the
Representatives from Georgia objected to it,
and because all were DESTROYS that tie Dec
lafarion should be unanimous. We give it
here, however. part Of the platform
which constituted Jefierson's Democracy-
Read it.
lie has waged cruel war against human
nature itself, violating It's most sacred rights
Of life and liberty in The persons Of a distant
people who never offended him, captivating
and carrying them INTO slavery in another
hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in
tLeir transportation thither. This piratica
warfare. the opprobrium Of Hsfdel powers. is
he warfare Of the Christian king Of Great
, Britain. Determined 10 keep open market
s,htfe MEN should be bought and sold, be
as Iroslituted his negative foi suppressing
every legislative attempt TO prohibit to re
strain this execrable commerce. And that
this assemblage of horrors might want 30
fact cidist'ngui-hed die, he is now exciting
those yeIy people 10 rise in arms among US,
and 10 purchase that liberty Of vs. ich he has
deprived them, by numbering the people on
whom he also obiruded them; thus paving off
tcIner crimes &C mmittcd against the Lt5,1ties
f one people with crimes whicl..he urges
tEcm to commit against The LIVE Of auoth-
err
THIS was part of lie original draft Of
the Declaration Of lndeI Evidence, in the
hand writing of jefferson, as preserved in
the National Library at Washington
This was democracy in the days Of its
putty. 1t would choke a modern democrat
10 death to attempt TO swallow such senti.
nents. We however commend it to the
honest and candid friends Of freedom in that
party, and invoke them to iecur to the DAYS
when Jefferson stood at lhe head of the great
democratic party.
III democrat were 10 got up in n conven.
ton Of the party NJ W. aud use the language
quoted above, and incorporate the sentiments
therein expressed in a proper shape for
platform. how soon would lie be charged with
scGiton 10 the party and turned out OF the /
house. The Republican party has no other
platform than he sentiments expressed by
Jefferson quoted above. and they present
them o the American, and iuqu re which
party is best entitled TO the name of Demo