The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-04-11
What Has Democracy done for the
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We find the following in the Boston Travek
Ter, a Republican newspaper
A Democratic journal in Alabama having
invited the Union men to unite with that par
ty, the Selma Reporter thus answers:
"Unite Nth The Democracy! II What has Democ-
racy done fer the country, which should induce
patriots, like our Greene county friends to join the
corrupt organization?"
"tWhat has Democracy done for the coun-
tryf" The question implies either profound
ignorance of our country's history, or a degree
of partizan malice akin to that which induced
BENEDICT ARNOLD to- betray the cause of his
country.
"What has Democracy done for the conn
try 2" It has accomplished all that has ever
been accomplished for it. It founded thi,.
Government of white men-withoat a reco G
milton of equality with Negroes and Indi ans
under which we live. In the BIRTH of the
Constitution, the winds and the waves OF M.onar.
chical and other adverse systems, be at elgainst
it, but Democracy prevailed Tho Constitu.
ton under which we live, and under which
our country has achieved its une-xan.pled pro.
gress, are the results Of Democra tic policy and
Democratic ascendaney: Under the benign
policy of the Democratic party, the population
of the Union has increased fro m three mil
lions to thirty millions-ow. Territory from
three million two hundred thousand square
miles. And all these acquisitions, and all
these achievements, be it remembered, have
been accomplished in the face of the steady
fire and bitten revilings of an INSCRIPTIONS
"Opposition," at one time calling themselves
Federalists.; at another, Hartford Convention
lists; at another time, the War Party-then
again the Peace Party-always being, through
oat every contest with a foreign power In
which our Government has been engaged,
Afths war party in peace, and the peace party
N war" at one time calling themselves
AIdberty Men - then Abolitionists at another
time Anti-Masons; then Wings, and finally
Republicans" Not a step of progress has
our country ever made-not an inch of terri
tory has it ever acquired-except in the face
of the uncompromising hostility of this pie
bald Opposition"
""What has Democracy done for the coun-
try?" Under the blessings of heaven, 1t has
made it WHAT 1T Is-with one exception tie
most happy and prosperous of any country up
on the face of this globe;-that one exception
being that its quiet and order, and fraternal re-
lations are continually disturbed by the trea-
sonable agitators and raids of Brown and Hell
fer Republicanism. All adverse parties that
have, at long intervals, succeeded in obtaining
control of any of the departments of the gov
eminent, State or National, have illustrated
their incompetency to conduct it, as islnow
daily being exhibited in the conduct of the
Brown Republican House of Representatives.
Except the passage of the alien and sedition
laws, a bankrupt law, and a few other odious
measures which the popular Indignation swept
? from the statute books almost as soon as enact
ed, the Opposition" have never, up to this
time, succeeded in interrupting the steady and
safe progress of the country under an almost
unbroken Democratic ascendency of nearly
three-quarters of a century.