The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1862-05-28

your party, essential 10 public liberty aud
to The stability and wise administration of
the government alike in peace and war
They are the principles upon which the
constitution and The Union were founded,
and, under the control oil parry which ad :
heres to them, the constitution and the
Union could not be dissolved
Is the policy OF the democratic party
| wrong that il should be disbanded?
Its policy is consisten, with its principles
and may be summed up, from the Begin.
ming as follows: The support of liberty as
against power, Of the people as against
their agents aud servants, and of state rights
as against consolidation and centralized des-
potism, simple government no public
debt. low taxes, no high protective tariff,
no general system of internal Improvements
by Federal authority, no national bank,
! hard money for the public dues no assump-
ton OF Stale debts, expansion OF Territory,
| self government for the Territories, subject
only to the constitution. the absolute COM
patibility oil union of The states, part slave
and part free, the admission OF new States
with or without slavery, as they may elect,
non interference by the Federal govern
ment with Slavery in state or Territory, or
in the District of Columbia, and finally as
sci forth in the Cincinnati platform, in 1856
and reaffirmed in 1860, absolute and eternal
"repudlaion of all sectional platforms con-
| cerning domestic slavery which seeks 10
embroil The States and incie 10 treason any
armed resistance to law in the territories,
and tchOSe arotced purposes, if conStmmated,
must end in ciUi wGr and disunion
Such was the ancient and the recent po'-
icY of the democratic party, running through
period oi sixty years-a policy consistent
with the principles of the constitution, and
Absolutely essential TO the preservation
Of the Union.
Does The history of the democratic party
prove that il ought to be aband >ned BY
their fruits shall ye know them Sectional
| parties do not acheive Union trium phS.-
For sixty years from the inauguration of JEFF
ferson on the 4ih OF March, Is0I The demo-
cratic party. with shcri intervals, controlled
/ the power and the policy of the Federal
government. For foriy-eight years out- of
these sixty democratic men ruled the coun
! try, for fliy-fonr years and eight months
the democratic policy prevailed During
This period Louisiana, Florida, Texas. New
Mexico and California were successfully
annexed TO our territory, with an area more
/ than twice as large as all the original thir-
teen States together Eight new States
were admitted under strictly democratic sd-
ministrations-one under the administration
oi Fillmore. From FIVE millions the popu-
lation increased 70 thiriy-oEe millions. The
! revolutionary debt was exlineuished. Two
foreign wars we're successfully prosecuted
with moderate outlay and small army
ard navy, and without the suspension of
the haheas corpus; without one infraclon
/ of The constitution, without one usurpation
of power, without suppressing a single
newspaper, without imprisoning a single
/ editor, without limit to the freedom of the
press, or of speech in or out of Congress,
bnl in the midst OF the grossest abuse of
both and without The arrest of a single 'trai-
I tor though tie Hartford Convention sat du-
ring one of tie vars. and in the other Sena.
tors invited the enemy 10 "gicet our vol,n-
] teers aoih bloody hands and spticome them TO
hospitabie grauss "
During all this lime wealth increased ,bu-
siness of all kinds multiplied, prosperity
smiled on every side, taxes were low, wa
ges were high, the North and South fur
nished market Tor each others products
at good prices, public liberty was secure,
private rights undisiurbed, every mans
house was his castle, the courts were open
to all, no passports for travel, no secret po
lice, no spies, no informers, no bastiies, the
right 10 assemble peaceably, the right 10
petition, freedom OF religion, freedom OF
speech, free ballot, and free press, and
all this lime the constitution was maintain
ed and the Union of the States preserved.
i Such were the choice fruits of democrat
ic principles and policy, carried out through
the whole period during which the demo-
cratic party held the power and admins
tered the Federal government. Such has
been The history of that party 1t is a Union
party, for il preserved the Union By wisdom
peace and compromise, for more than half
a century.
Then neitherthe ancient principles, the
policy, nor the past history of the democrat
ic party require nor would justify its dis.
bandmenf.
Is there anything in the present crisis
which demands it? The more immediate
issue is, 20 maintain the constitution as it is
and 10 restore the Union as it was.
To maintain the consultation is to respect
the rights of the States and the liberties of
be citizen. 1t is TO adhere faithfully 10 the
very principles and policy which the cem-
ocraiic party has professed for more than
half cectury. Let It's history, aud the re-
suits, from the beginning, prove whether
il has pracnsed them. We appeal proudly
( II, n roo1rd