The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1861-09-19

have for thlrty-three years had In
view. Those who have SO often
proclaimed to the world that the
Great American Constitution was
"a league with hell and a covenant
with DEATH" have been successful,
and the results of their labors are
before US in the shape of a great
and terrible wal of brother against
brother. And now, to involve the
innocent with the guilty, and to
screen the real enemies of their
country, and traitors to God and
peace, every true patriot, and con
servator of law and order, is brand
ed with the words,-"traitor" and
"secessionist," and an attempt is
being thus artfully made to induce
the old and Union-loving Demo-
cracy, to renounce its own and
long established and fixed princi-
pies, to form a fusion with the Re-
publican party. The American
Democrats will never renounce
their faith or change their name,-
their political faith being based up
on the laws Of nature-sustained
by moral sanction, and their name
being h csecd from which the Con-
stitution has grown, form a logi-
cal reason why they should not
change their legal and moral plat
form.
We have been, as an impartial
and disinterested journalist, at some
trouble to master the length and
breadth, height and depth of the
laws and principles upon which
the sovereign States, constituting
the Union as it was, and as we
earnestly wish to see it again, rest;
and we feel, therefore, at liberty to
argue, that much Of the nonsense
talked and written in favor of re-
moving State lines, might just as
we'll be kept back as a small and
worthless quantum of trash.
1t was not a national but q Fed
eral compact or government, that
the men of the Revolution estab'
lished in this country. The States
which we're represented at a con-
vention held at Annapolis in 17S6
rejected the words. "frm nationa.
government" used by the Congress;
of the Confederation, and adopted
the words, Federal Government
And what is the government of the
United States but an institution
consisting of a number of sover
eign States, each of which reserved
to itself the right of local and sci
government.
The conditions on which thu
States entered into one grand con
federation, formed a covenant o.
friendship in which the mutua
good, protection, prosperity, and
safety of all the States thus united
were the blessings aimed at, and The
end kept in view. To assert thai
an individual State never had any
sovereignty but what emanate(
from the Union, is not only an alb
surdity, but a vague assumption
contradicted by the treaty will
Great Britain in the year 1783.-
While we admit that the Union o
States was at first very imperfect
and had to be rendered bette
adapted to meet the requirement
of a great and ever increasing
country, the original basis OF
which the Union covenant or com
pact rested, has remained the same
eve the people of the States,'' an'
"we the people of the United
States" were the terms employed
by the representatives Of the PEG
pie, in convention assembled, in
days of old.
!, The people of America have
:, proved themselves capable of self
government, and the political doc
trines which we expound here, arr
, the same that the great statesmen
and Presidents of bygone day
f ably defended by word and deed
Why, then, should the Democratic
party deny their political faith
and make "shipwreck" of a goot
conscience? Now, if there be any
truth in our present remarks, il