Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1860-08-17
From the New yok Post
How the Democratic Party Forfeited
the Confidence of the Nation.

10 ls IToulsacy ln tue eApchuI'uIo VI pun
lie money, and in corruptIng the channels
Of legislation. IL 50 happens that with ma.
ny. one Of these consideration. 4. para.
mount, and with many more, the other, bu,
1t rarely happens that they are taken TO be
what they really are-one and the same Of.
fnec in different stages OF manifestation.
The federal government is proaigato aud
corrupt because IL repre.cnts minority Of
the country aud owes It's very existence TO
the unity and determination of compact
body o! capitalists, whose interests. rs they
understand them. do not harmonIe with
the interests Of the majnrity as understood
by them. OF course, government no,
resting on the popular willard no gov
crnmont in ,hi. country ever can, that make.
slavery the paramount material interest OF
the naton-musi purchase the support nee.
es.ary 20 carry IL on. This the democratic
party has been doing ever since q, has under
taken onationa!ite slavery. now some twelve
years gone. IL began with giving jobs in
the Mexican war 10 keep the country quiet
about the annexation Of Texas a. nucleus
Tor i've new slave staies--It launched the
federal government into the steamship bus.
ness under the plea Of creating a CONNER.
cial navy when it rcjcc,ed the JcaersOuian
policy ~ reference 20 the territories. All
the foreign diplomatic lund vas appropriA.
tel Tor one entire administration 20 indcm.
nlfy the traitor. who assisic! in repcaling
the Missouri Compromise, and the Utah war
was declared, tia, an expenditure Of twenty
or thirty millions Of dollars might assist
the President m compelling the people Of
Kansas to asccpi tho I.ecompion Con,titu.
ton.
10 thi. grand. and, to use fa,orite wofJ
OF the party We sreak Of. these national
cOrruplon.. We should add the direc, brib.
ery OF individuals, which ha. been found
necessary a, divers times to sustain the Al.
minl.,raiiou Ia It's unequal warfare with
thc people.
Asa specimen Of ,hi. mode Of carrying
on the government We will quote a few par
agraphs from the testimony taken last win
ter before a committee OF Congress, Of
which Mr.. Covode. Of Pennsylvania, was
chairman. Tn, question before the eonmit-
tee va. How was the LecomptoE con',i.
tuition carried through the House VI Repre-
-cntatiyes ?" Cornelius Wendell, OF Alba.
ny, the notorious agent Of the President Ia
negotiating the result, was the witness. AZ.
ter severe examination, in which he estab.
lishcs very clearly tha, the end was aehicy.
cd by his disbursement Of large amount
VI money, or according TO the testimony Of
Mr Bean. Of 80 bushel of gold" (pase
l2s,) MIR. Train sums up all by the folloS.
ing comprehensive ,n,crrosa,ory, which Mr..
Wendell answers quite as eOmprehen'i'eiy
10 wit:
"By Mr. Train
"QuestOn.-Thc amount Of IL all i,, tha,
YOU swear YOU expended thirty thousand
dollars and upwards. upon three men
Bean, Hay and Walkcr-IO carry this till,
(ihe LecOmpton) not knowing how that
money Was 10 be expended, whom they were
to influence, or Ia what manner that money
was % be brought to bear, ~ elect the pas.
sage Of the bill -
"Answcr.-ies sir not knowing or car.
ing how the money was 10 be expended. |
desired. alter the money left my hands. no,
to know anything about 1t, (page 1881
"By Mr.. Olln
"Q-llad you no idea 10 what use IL was
to bo put. no conversation as 10 how II
might DO used eiieclualiy ?"
~ II do not know that had. might
have had. | have paid larger amounts than
that, without asking questions as to what
became OF IL.
"Q-YOu expected il would be used IN
some particular way.
Al expected /, would be used to ac-
complish the end
"Q.-lt strikes mo that money would
hardly have been paid without some definite
object or purpose " be accomplished with
the money.
"A.-fhe objec, was accomplished and
tie money paid.
"By Mr.. Train:
"Q.-But ths money was paid before the
Object was accomplished, was II not?
al think soma OF 1t was paid before
the bill passed"
such transactions as these. about the
character Of which no two intelligent men
can differ, are recognized us part Of the
regular business Of government by the poll-
,ieIans oi the Administration party just rs
much as by our New York Aldermen.
Without them neither Pierce nor buchanan
could have carried one Of the cabinet meas.
ure. through either house Of Congress, aud,
as 1t was, Buchanan never succeeded in get.
iirg any OF his measures through more than
one house.
Thus to carry slavery along at all hazards,
the democratic party has been compelled to
give up all its distinctive principles; its
doctrines Of strict construction of state
rights, or economy in the federal finances,
respect Tor the will Of the people, free trade
and free labor. All these results follow
directly from the attemP, to give political
preference to one class Of capital, and one
kind of labor from every other.
No party can carry ON the government
respectfully and honestly that does not 70.
,pcct the will Of the people cOusli.u,iOnally