Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-08-03
An Address 70 the Democratic Party.
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carnations OF men, especially where society
progresses, rs in America, your party has
odtiived its usefulness, departed from its orig
nal principles, and become corrupt by its re-
sort to temporary cxpedients for the perpet-
uation Of its power You are, indeed, . par
ty no longer. You are not held together BY
common creed you do not, and cannot,
follow common leader. You are 90 far 1t
war among yourselves that half you would
prefer to see the enemies of both your fac
tons triumph, than have your particular fac
ton beaten by its particular opponent. The
old politician under whom you achieved your
last national victory, is about to depart from
his post Of responsibility and power, used
up man-politically disgraccd, the last pres
idcnt of a used up party. Better men than
you, or he, must take charge Of the govern
ment, or the government itself win fall
There is to be great reaction from oil this
corruption and diablerie, and this reaction is
identified with the republican movement
When that party like yours shall become
corrupt or useless, It will die as yours is dy.
ing to-day God forbid that it live long
enough to become rotten like yours! If it
die; sooner or later, Is we suppose it will, let
it be surrounded with associations Of gallant
struggles and noble men, like the chivalric
old Wing party! Let us remember it with
respect
In view Of your approaching dissolution,
there are few words of counsel which, as
members Of q party that died one day, We
feel peculiarly qualified to say to you.
1. Admit, at once, what common sense,
analogy and common observation teach you
that, Is party, you are going to die, and
then 70 Immediately and make preparations
for your funeral. Do not stand up through
aA this campaign and try to make people be-
lieve that your party is bound to win. What
Is the use Of lying; and trying to convince
yourself and others that you are notin articulo
1mortis? Die gracefully-die good natured-
". Make the best of what you cannot help.
You know you do not like the way your
party has been going on for few years
past, and that there must be reform. You
know that the old issues on which the dem
ocratic party was originally founded, have
faded out, and that the party cannot in the
nature of things survive them. For that, at
least, you are not to blame. &c. give up the
old concern, and il there is anything pleasant
shout it cherish it, in your memory.
Z II. When you die, die. Don't be 1--WE years
shout II. Look about you and see what
spoonies lot Of respectable old wings have
made of themselves. The poor fellows did
not suppose it was possible for the wing par
ty to die; and when the noble old organiza-
ton was cntombed, and the mourncrs went
about the streets, or went of Immediately to
look up now connections they "could not
make it dead" Simple-hearted, chivalric,
devoted men, they believed that the party
had only hidden itself for little season, and
that ultimately il would come forth, conquer
ing and to conquer. Some of them still, with
the eye Of sublime, unwavering faith, look
forward to . golden day in the far future,
when, the whig party, with its name upon
its forehead, will appear, and believe that the
whole nation will fall down and worship it.
Look at these old fellows, and sec how they
arc laid up, forgotten, shelved and done for,
and all because that they will not believe their
party is dead. No, no. When you die, die,
and be done with it. If you sec among the
machines left on the track any that you think
you would like to ride after jump on. Other
wise, wait till the new machine comes along.
Don't be left behind to accommodate anybody.
If you do, you will be so. ~ for it xsaong as
you live, and possibly, DO left at last to get
up Bell and Everett parties, or something else
as foolish.
III. Having recognized the fact that the
democratic party is dead, and that it has no
more claim upon you, and has in it nothing
more for you, bring to your realization the
fact that It was killed by the niger, and try
to understand that from this time forward
this government is to be niger or anti-nig-
ger. We mean by this nothing more nor
less, than the irrcpressible conflict between
free and slave labor. The great interest of
slave labor has ruled this country in the past
for many years. The slave power has been
the dominant power; and because the whole
Of the democratic party, as Of old, would not
consent to have it continue so, has that pow
or seeded from the party and broken its
backbone. The party dies because of the
niger. In the future, then, IS in the past,
the niger will rule, or his opponents win
rule. There can be no half way, fencestrad-
ding position in this matter. There can be
no ignoring Of the niger. That woolly head
stands up above all other heads, and win not
down. ....
+ Nv. Having realized the fact that your par
ty, though predisposed to dissolution by
many other causes, died of the niger at last,
and admitted the truth that the niger can
be ignored no longer, make up your mind on
which side Of this great slavery question you
are ready to stand. Do you believe in sla-
very : Are you in favor of the spread Of
slavery in territories now free! Are you in
favor Of slave code for the territories! Are
you willing to have all restrictions removed
from the slave trade, and to allow commerce
in human cattle to be re-established? Do
you believe this country was made for slave
labor and shall be held subordinate toit? No.
Where are you going theni We tell you
that no party in this country can prosper, or
can even live ten years, that is not on one
side or the other of these questions. There
is no middle ground, and you have got to be
either Black Republican or Niger Dri-
yer: You may fool around, As some of our
old wings are doing, and try to straddle this
question, but it won't amount to anything.
v. What are you going to do!
TIE Two SLAVE CoDE PARrIEs.-The Nj.
souri, Republican-the ablest and most inau-
ontial Douglas Journal that we receive-has
letter from . New Orleans sympathiser who
says:
sf !" As Douglas and Breckenridge stand up
on tie came platform IL regard to the rights
Of Slavery IN tho Territories, few thinking
men assert any preference for the latter on
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