Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-22
warned by the past.

In 1910 the Wing party went into convention
at Harrisburg and determined that they would
elect President without any party and without
any principles. They nominated candidates but
adopted no platform. Harrison was Wing and
TYLER was an old Democrat The arrangement
seemed fair Many honest and patriotic Demo-
Gratis were deceived by the ruse. Hlrrison and
Tyler were elected an opposition majority was
returned to Congress, and the no party victory
was complete. But how did no party work ?
The Democrats we're cheated; the Wings were
cheated the people were cheated, and the no
party Congress and the party Administration
overwhelmed with popular execration and con-
tempt.
Again in Is4s the Wings resorted to similar
means to secure success. Gen. Taylor had never
voted ia his life He was no partisan, and knew
nothing about party-norhing of the principles
which divided parties. He had no friends to re-
ward-no enemies TO punish. The era of good
feeling 10y his election TO be restored, and the
Government was thereafter TO run on as smooth
ly as a maden'S summer dream. Again Demo-
Gratis were deceived by speciOus pretences.
Many OF the discODtented and disappointed Dem
ocratic politicians went over to the enemy.
Many patriotic Democrats went over with them,
thinking to establish political millennium. No
sooner, however, had the new Administration
sumed the reins OF power than party spirit ragged
more iercely than ever before in the country 5
history. The ax cf the political executoneers
at Washington few up and down with lightning
speed, and those who went into office pledged
against political prescription. prescribed every
body but their working partsans. The triumph
of party-the Democratic party-in the Con
gressional e.ectiOns which succeeded, alone Sc
cured the country from the adoption of the most
runOuS partisan measures
he same year that Tavlor was elected por-
ton OF the Democrats of New York under what
they believed grievOus party prOvOcatiOn, aban
dOned the Democratic party and struck lands
with their political enemies. They adopted Il
platform at Buffalo, and attempted To IN Ike use
of the anti-savery clements OF the North in ac
cumplishing their purpose. To this day every
man who cOuntena need that detection bushes TO
acknowledge his part in il. What seemed com
paratively harmless at the time, aided in fnall,
p,unging the country into civil war
Such have been the results of an abandonment
Of the Democratic party heretofore. l. there any
real Democrat " no can fail to be warned in this
matter by the admontions OF the pastI Is there
any real Democrat who does not know that to
abandon his own party under any Dretence is TO
SUR ender the control of the Government To evil
Influences and to endanger its very existence IN
the iuturvg To abandon the Democratic party i
TO renounce the constitutional principles upon
which that party is basel It is to yield the hel m
Of the ship to hands unworthy of trust. The first
step toward compromise with our political enc
mics i fatal step downward. Every Democratic
vote withheld from the Democracy, is a vote
withheld from the Constitution. the Cover ment,
the Union and the laws.-MIiraukee Netrs.