The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1862-05-23
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Democratic Membersof Congress

OF THE
Democratic Membership Congress
The People of the United States
The perilous condition Of the country
demands that we should reason together
Party organization, restricted within prop
er limits, is positive good, and indeed
essential to the preservation Of public
liberty. Without it the best govern
ment would soon degenerate into the wors
Of tyrannies. In despotisms the chief use
of power is in crushing out party opposi
| ton. In our own country the experience
of the last twelve months proves, more
than any lesson in history, the necessity
of party organization. The present ad-
ministration was chosen by party, and IN
all civil acts and appointments has recog
nzed, and still does, its fealty and obliga-
ton to that party. There must and will
be an opposition The public safety and
good demand t. Shall it be new orr
ganizatioD or an old one? The democrat.
ic party was founded more than sixty years
ago. 1t has never been disbanded. To,
day it numbers one million five hundred
thousand electors in the states still loyal
to the Union. Its recent numerous vic
tories in municipal elections in the western
and middle states prove lis vitality
Within the last ten months it has held
state conventions and nominated full dem.
ocratic tickets In every free state in the
Union. OF no other party opposed to the
Republicans can the same be said.
SHALL THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY BE NOW DIS
BANDED?
Why should it Are its ancient PRIN>
cIPLEs wrong? What are they Let its
platforms for thirty years speak:
Resolyed, That the American Democra
cy place their trust in the intelligence,
patriotism, and the discriminating justice
of the Amencnn people.
"That we regard this as a distinctive
feature in our political creed, which we
are proud 10 maintain before the world,
as the great moral element in the form Of
government spunging from and upheld by
the POPULAR WILL, and we contrast II with
the creed and practice of federalism, under
whatever name or form, which seeks to
palsy the will of the constituent and
which conceives no imposture too mon
strous for the popular creduhty.
That the federal government is one OF
limited power, derived soleLy from the CON
s11ruTIoX and tie grants Of power made
therein ought to BE- strictly construed by
all the departments and agents Of the gov
ernment; and that it is inexpedient and
dangerous to exercise doubtful constitu-
tional powers"
And as explanatory Of these the follow
ing from Mr. Jefi'erson's first inaugural
The support Of the STATE GOVERNMENT:
in all their rights as the most competent
administrations of our domestic concern:
and the surest bulwarks against anti Re
publican tendencies.
"The preservation of the GENERAL GOV
ERNMENT in It's whole constitutional vigoI
as the sheet anchor of our peace at home
and safety abroad.
"A Jealous care Of the right Of election
by the people
! ''THE SUPREMACY OF THE CIVIL OVER TIL
MILITARY AUTHORITY.
Economy in the public expense, tha
labor may be lightly burdened.
"The honest payment of our debts anc
sacred preservation Of the public faith.
's Freedom of religion, freedom of tn
press, and freedom Of person under ProteC
ton oftbe ha5ed8 corpus and trial byjurte
impartialiy selected"
Such, Democrats, are the principles 0
your party, essential to public liberty an'
to the stability and wise administration 0
the government, alike in peace and war
They are the principles upon which TIL
constitution and Union were founded
and under the control Of party whic
adheres to them, the constitution wou
be maintsined and the Union could not b
dissolved.
is THE POLICY OF THE DEMOCRATIC FART
WRONG, THAT II SHOULD BE DIsBAND
ED?
It's policy is consistent with It's primo
pies, and may be summed up from the bl
ginning as follows;
The support Of liberty as against powe'
Of the people against their agents ard sci
wants, and of State rights as against cor
solidation and centralized despotism
simple government, no public debt; 10
taxes no protective tariff; no generi
system Of internal improvements by fede
al authority; no National Bank; har
money for the federal public dues; no a
sumption Of State debts; expansion Of te
Iitory self government for the Terrific
ries, subject only to the Constitution th
absolute compatibility of a Union of th
States, "part slave and part free" the az
mission Of new States with or without sIi
very, as they may elect; non interference
by the Federal government with SLAYER
! in State and Territory, or in the Distrit
; Of Columbia; aud, finally, as set forth
the Cincinnati platform in 1856, and n
affirmed in 1860, absolute and eternal ''r
pudiation of ALL szeH0NAL PARTIES An
+ PLATFORMS concerning domestic SLAYER
J which seek TO embroil the States and ia
cite to treason and armed resistance
|, Law iu the Territories, and a0hose ayowt