Litchfield enquirer., 1860-08-16
DEMOCRACY-WHAT IS TIT

DEMOCRACY-WHAT IS IT? ' No. 2.
 MR. EDITOR Tn my first number, in reply te your correspondent Hamilton, gave you briel history of the nature and essence" of Democra- cy. And, now, as his chief, ostensible object was to look at the party calling itself democratic, as it now presents itself, distracted, torn asunder, sectional rancorous," too will look at t in truth and candor. The whole history of the opposi- tion to the Democracy, in their struggles for power, has demonstrated the fact that they were conscious of the weakness of their cause with the people, and hence their uniform efforts to distract and tettr asunder that Democracy. The advocates of Tippecanoe and Tyler too' in the contest of l840, are ashamed of their expedients resorted to in that campaign. And, after their success and the inauguration of Harrison, were their principles established and was corruption banished from the Administration Ills friends, l know, attempted to charge all your misfortunes upon poor Tyler. But, in the next year, the people had an inkling of your real principles and signal were your defeats.
 But, in reference to the Democracy of the pre- sent day. Hamilton says" If it possesses prin- clples at all they are 50 oatagonistic that the party cannot harmonize upon them"
 This affected ignorance, by the enemies of De- mocracy, that the party possesses any principles, is an old and ue'y stale game. That man of Hamilton's intelligence should repeat this slang charge is humiliating to human candor. From the year l19S to the present time the Democra- cy have ever, in all their primary meetings, in their popular conventions, and in their legisla- tive and congressional resolutions, embIazoned to the world in plain language thcr real princi ples.
 Does Hamilton affect ignorance of their prin cipes as announced in their Baltimore, Cincin- natl, Charleston and other Platforms But, stop says Hamilton, they are noac distracted and torn asuno'er." But, distracted upon 'chat-thei7 en- ! lire system of principles? He kno,cs better Mou hat Why not have the candor to tell your readers that the present schism between Breck- enrldge and Douglass consists in one idea one principle alone? And that in the entire system of Democracy which contains many-very many most excellent ideas, there is a general concord and harmony between them. Need 1 inform Hamilton that this excepted idea--hhis apple of discord, consists in the alleged and denied pow CT of Congress and of the territorial legislatures to e.rclude or admit slavery in the territories Of the personal relations existing between Mir. Buchanan and Mr. Douglass which may have embiHered this discord, I have nothing to say, except to ask if you have no such feuds among IilO lCttuluS mou Ol your OWu pdTbyI Anu, IS this state of facts sufficient to justify the charge that To hais end platfo,nas have been a9optetL plaJorms, ffalse and specious, platforms hauing double construction, oesignedly and intention ally so constructed, looking 10 aud dhdring TO other purpose but success, Mrough deception" How can I, with becoming decency, reply to such wholesale islander as this
 If success alone were the object of the Democ- racy, is it reasonable to believe that there would be any schism between the adherents of Breck- enridge and Douglass? You affect to adduce this schism as proof of the aca,t of principle or of plain language in the platforms of the Democ- racy' when you ought to know that it is proof of the contrary.
 During the last sixty years the Democracy have controlled the Federal government except four years of J. Q. Adams, one month of Harri- son, and four years of Taylor and Fillmore eigh' years and one nsonda of the sirty years!!
 And during all this Demcc -atic rule the nation has advanced in prosperity, in enlargement of territory in the increase of population, and in the development of mental and physical resour- ces, as no other nation ever advanced before in the history of the world And during all this Democratic rule their enemies have continued to pour out upon them such torrents of islander and pondent, Hamilton.
 But, permit me to turn the tables upon the enemies Of the Democracy, by glancing at their present attitude.
 1 Of the late Whig party, as such, have ever regarded them as friends of the Constitution and the Union, but they erred in my opinion, in their construction of the Constitution But, how shall write concerning the principles, ends and aims of the present party who have usurped the name of" Republican 2"
 | Whilst they have the modesty to charge on the l 1nr,1nn %hnka Il ll their struggles, regardless of the means, honora- ble or dishonorable, they have abandoned all the old issues which for so long a time divided the two great parties, and intending to deceive the masses by appealing to their sympathies in be- half of the African race in this country. they have constituted the condition of the nigger and wholesale denunciations as hei, arhele stock in trade.
 Knowing that at the time the Constitution was made, twelve of the thirteen States were slave holders, Mey spurn Ais tact as nothing. Knowing that the services of these Africans were guaranteed to their owners expressly in the Constitution they have the un6lushi'eg Aarolihood to deny ttis andeniabIe fact.
 the South would never have joined this Union, taey utterly repudiate Mis gudrantee.
 ! Knowing that their strength lies in the free states alone, and that they cannot carry one electoral vote in the fifteen slave states, Haml ton has the amiable candor to charge the De-
 mocracy with being sectional
 intent only on obtaining the reins of govern hent ana thereby dispensing eighty millions an
 nuany oI tae public revenue, the Republicans
 nay nave lost sight of the ordinary claims of justice
 ths connarp common osotherhood between all sections o F upon the labor of the slave and the forbeaIancs G M l, and liberality of the mastar tho -oA standard of morality above that of the e'a sayt owner. Forgettlng the arrogance of the Phari Knowing that the territories are in iust;ce th, e joint property of the thirty-three States. the, M @ cooRy announce to the fifteen slave states tha taey have no part nor lot in this joint propertv < Knowing that, ever since the Missouri Com ,f promise, consented to by the south only for tn l. sake of peace and harmony, the anti-slaver ,f spirit has continued it's aggressions upon tn n slave states, it is constantly belching forth it s, charges that the Sontt ts h1e aggressor! Is Knowing that by law of nat,lre dense n,a