Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1862-05-21
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xHK RKoRLE OF xaaE usrrKn sr.rYs

xaE PEOPLE OF xME URKTKn STATE,
The peraloas condition OF our countr,
demands thai ws should reason together
Party organisation, restricted w:thir
proper limit, II = poaitisa good. and IN.
deed essential e the preservation of pub.
ne liberty. Without ii she best govern.
mens would scan degenerate into shs
worst OF tyrannies. In despotisms sh,
eAlef usa OF power u In crushing out paEty
opposition. In our own counsry tho az.
pegieaee Of the last swalve moath proves
more than any lesson in history, the NE.
eessisy Of party organization. The pres.
ent administration was chosen By q mar.
SIS and 10 all civil acts aud appointments
has recognized, and still does, iss feaIty
and obligations 70 that party. Thare
must and viii be an opposition. The
pubic safety and good demand it. Shall
u be new organization or an old one
The democratic party was founded more
man sixty years ago. Ii haa never hasn
dlsnanded. To-day 1t numbers one mil.
lion FIVE hundred thoasand electors In the
States still loyal 10 the Union. Its racent
| numerous victories in municipal elections
IN the western and middle States prove
ifs vitality. Within the last ten months
y has held State Conyeations and nomi-
mated full democratic siekets In every
free State In the Union. OF no other
party opposed to the republicans eaa the
same be said.
SHALL THz DEMOCRATIC PARTY BE now MS
- s--a HAEDKDF j.
Why should it2 Are its ancient priu-
aipals wrong? What are they? Let its
platforms for thirty years speak:
"ResolUed, That the American demoe.
raey place their trust in the intelligence,
the patriotism, and tho discriminating
justice OF the American people.
"Fhat VIC regard this as a distinctive
feature In cur political creed, which we
| are proud 70 maintain before tha world,
~ the great moral element in tha form Of
government spTinging 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 coneeaves no impossure too
monstrous for the popular credulty.
s'That the Federal government is one
OF limited power, derived solely iron the
Constitution; and the grants of power
made therein ought TO be strictly con-
stsued by all the departments and agents
Of the government and that ii is inex-
pedient and dangerous TO exercise doubt
fal constitutional powers"
And as explanatory of these, the fol-
lowing from Mr.. 3eEferson's frst in
augural:
"fhe support Of the SrArz GovKRx-
EESTs IN ali their rights as the most com
potent administrations OF our domestic
Concerns and the surest bulwagAs against
anti-Fepublican tendencies.
''The preservation Of the GENERAL GOV.
EKSHRsT in its whole constitutional vigor
Is the sheet snchor Of our pcaee at home
and safety abroad.
ga Jealous care Of the right 0! election
By the people.
"THE SUPREMACY OF TIE CIVIL ovKR THE
MILITARY AUTHORITY.
ECONOMY in the public expense. that
labour may be lightly burdened.
"Ihe honest payment of our debts and
sacred preservation OF the public faith.
"FEEKDoH or RELIGION, FgKxDoN or THE
PASS, AND FREKDox OF PERSON UNDER pxo.
TEcTIoS or THE HABxAs CORPUS AND TRIAL
BT gUafKS INVARIABLY sKLEcTxp.n
Such, democrats, are the principals Of
your party, essential to public liberty and
TO the stability and wise administr alton
OF the government, alike In peace and
war. They are the principles upon which
the constitution and Union we're founded;
and under the control of party which
adheres to them, the eonssstusion would
be maintained and the Union could not
be dissolved.
Is THE POLICY or THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY |
WRONG, Ta4r II SHOULD BE DIsBAxpEpP
Its policy is consistent With its princi- |
pies, and may be summed up, from the |
as follows:
The support of liberty as against pow
err; of the people as against their agents |
and servants; and Of State rights as |
against consolidation and centralized dcs- /
potism; a simple government; no public
debt; low taxes no protective tariff; no
general system Of internal improvements |
BY Federal authority No National Bank: |
hard money for the Federal public dues
no assumption of State debts expansion
Of territory self-governmeue for the Ter
Titories, subject onlo 10 the Constitution;
The absolute compatibility OF Union of
The STATES, ''part slave and parG free -
he admission of nov States with Or
without slavery, as they may elect non
BY the Federal government
With slavery in State aud Territory or In
he District of Columbia; and finaAy, as
let forth in the Cincinnati platform in
1855, and reafirmsd in 1860, absolute and
'ternAl "ropudiation of ell sectional
parties and platforms concerning domes-
lie slavery, which seek to embroil the
States and incite to treason and armed
assistance TO law in the Territories, and
chose croaCBsd purposes, if coras1sra-
mated, must end in eiviT agdr and dig
snion.a h
Such, democrats, was the ancient and
he recent policy Of the democrotic party, II
unning through period Of sixty years
policy consistent with the principles of /.
he constitution, and absolutely essential |
o the preservation OF the Union.
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OBS TIE HISToRY OF TIE DEMOCRATIC PAYYY
FgovR THAI RI ouaF TO SIS ABANDONED
''By their fruits shall ya know than. y
+setienal parties do NOT achieve Union
For sixty years from the In.
ugnration Of Jefferson on the 4sh Of !
tarch, 1901, the democratic party, with ]
hort intervals controlled the power and !
ae policy OF the Federal gorsrnmens.-f II
or forty eight years out Of these sixty,
emocrasic men ruled the country; for \
fty-four years and eight months the =
amocratic policy prevailed. During this {
eriod Louisiana, Florida, Texas, Nsw
lexico and California were successfully y
aexed 10 our territory, with an area more b
ian twice rs large as all the original 0
lirteefa States together. Eight new n