Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1862-12-11
Consideration.

The Mtelligencer says:
"Bre. CowAN in this weeks issue of the
Qhoraiclc says that he is not very certain
hut that he is Democrat / and if some
one ask the question, do you believe III
tho primary basis of Democratic principles? !?
there is hut one answer that we could in
conscience give and that would be, Yea,
yeap
But he adds that he doesn't believe in the
Democracy Of the present day-it isn't, in
his opinion, what it was in old HICKORY s
time, Well now, Bro. CowAN we venture
to say that the principles of the Democratlc
party are precisely the same now us they
were then 1t may be true, as you say,
that the Democratic party is not now, man
aged right ); but then that is no reason why
you should abandon the principles.
You know that errors will creep into all
organizations religious as well as political
but you would not change your religious
belief because your church contained some
black Sheep certainly not, but, on the
contrary, you would go to work acithlaa the
church to correct these errors. And so IN
political matterS--instead of leaving the
Democratic organization because JIMMY By
CHANAN or any other man didn't come up
to your JAcKsoNIAN standard, you should
have exercised your influence eoithis the or
ganization, to bring the party back to first
principles.
1t wonld seem from the above, that the
IatelIiqencer is somewhat interested in "Bro.
CowEN,n that, in its opinion, "Bro. CowEN'
should not have abandoned the Democratic
party, when he found that that party had
abandoned the true principles of Democracy,
that the thing he should have done was to
labor in the party to correct its errors, as he
would labor in his church to regulate and
correct wrongs, if "black sheep" had gotten
into tho fold, BRO CowENp would lender
his thanks to the LatelIigencer or "any other
man,n when in sincerity he or him would
offer word ofadvice, for''Bro. CowEN' does
need advice, he is by no means intallable,
oh No No But what wonld BRO. Cow
EMS" friend say if the clique calling itself
the Democratic party, but which IS not, IN
BRO. COwEN'Sn opinion, the true democ-
racv.:-what would he say if that clique
utterly rejected "Bro CowEN and his little
effort in defense of true democracy while he
claimed to be working in his small way for
its good - What would he say II that
CLIQUE would not allow "Bro. CowEN' to
know any thing Gifts midnight cabals and
coiling the wires and kneading its doughY
What would he say if some of the coulurers
in that clique hated BRO. CowEN" because
he honestly declared that the manner OF It's
doings aud intreiguings and dcceivings and
imposines on the creiulity of cREENNEss
was not fair but very unfair and dishonest,
and then they rejected Bro. CowEN and his
little bit of advice in defense Of the Democ-
racy that really is democracy IN earnest,
and would not own him as one Of them
Now "Bro. CowEN'' Is as true a Democrat TO-
day as he ever was, in the sense IN which
he understands Democracy, but he IS not
democrat Of the clique sort who have as ne
thinks. abandoned the true Democracy and
gone with the Devil and his angels to con
iuring up a mock Democracy and gulied the
people " ith it 50 that they "go It bhnd'
One article in BRO. Cow EN,s Democ-
racy is, UCome out from among the ungodly,
and touch not the unclcan thing.