Smyrna times., 1862-10-30
MISCELLANEOUS.
Written for the Smyrna Times"
To Democratic Voters of Delaware.

the important crisis now pending in your
country. You claim to be Democrats so
do l. You call yourselves Jackson Demo
Gratis, par excellence. l not only voted for
Andrew Jackson, but was & member of the
first meeting that nominated him for the
Presidency in the United States voted
for Martin VanBuren and for James X.
Polk Why then am l not voting with the
present party called Democrats! will tell
you why There is no such thing in the
country to-day as an organized Democratic
Party. The party calling themselves Dem
ocratic are not so. They repudiate every
principle of Democracy. Do you say that
this is only my assertion7 Listen, then, to
one whom you dare not dispute, the Hon.
Daniel S. Dickinson, of New York, its for
mer Democratic Governor, and the intimate
friend of the lamented Silas Wright. Mr.
Dickinson, in speech in New York, few
days ago, said of the party calling them
selves Democratic:
"The Democratic Party, forsooth! A
knot of men with some stray accidental
honest principles with here and there an
honest Democrat, who supposes this is a
was with abolition almanacs with leaders
composed of Free Soilers and Aboltionists
of 1913; old Wings, looking for a re-char-
ter Of the United States Bank crippled
Democrats, who have for life been carried
in the ambulanccs of the party; Struggling
Know Nothings, not inapty named ILards
so hard that they cracked in seasoning ::
SottS and shysterS Of all shades and periods.
who proposed to poultice the Democratic
Party which is to save the country.
"Ihe members of the named trading.
tricky faction, who now strut the sclt-con-
stited heroes Of the Democratic Party, a
name they have learned to mouth better
than they have to practice its principles
where nine out of ten were against it in the
days of its organized action, or, if with it,
were its mendlcants, office-seckers and camp
followers.
ga lifelong Democrat, do not hesitate
to declare, responsibly, that the organized
action of this knot of politicians is spurious
Democratic Party, which has done and is now
doing more to encourage this rebellion than
!
that such is the public judgment-more
than all the vessels which have run the
blockade together. The South knew the
old Democratic Party as a party of power
and influence. They hope and believe this
faction is its successor, and possesses some
of its influence, and wait its triumph
"Could the Inurderous tatterdeInalions OF
rebellion, who are described as reelling with
a rank compound Of rOttenous smells, shag-
gy with shreds of what were clothing, and
creeping with vermin, attend our polls they
would give the Democratic ticket unani-
nous vote. Could it succeed, jeff Davis
= would illuminate Richmond; and well he
might, for its success would be more hurt
; ful to the cause of the Union than the loss
of the army Of the Potomac, and the cap
: ture and sacking of Washington"
s Here you have a picture of the party
claiming to be Democratic, drawn by ;
master hand, whose purity of life and char
: acter none dare dispute. But let me ash
d you to reflect for yourselves. What was
o the first offence taken by the South agains
1t Northern Democracy? Was it not the ef
;, fort of the Democratic Party to protect th'
!, laboring ,chite man against the slave labor
a of the South The high protective tarif
e of 1882 caused South Carolina to proclaim
notification. That tariff was passed by tn
~ Democratic Party, as was every prior on
y from the first organization of our Govern
& ment. Remember, fellow Democrat, tina
m this country was united under its presen
Constitution, not for the negro slave alone
but for the working man. 1t has been trul
styled the working mans Constitution, 70
after the Revolution each State was SOY
ereign-had its own revenue laws. Th
New England States were commercial
They imported foreign labor or its product
to the injury of the working man, who wa
the sufferer under the old Confederation
1t was the working man who first felt tb
evil and sought the remedy, which was
constitutional compact, in which, anon
other things, it was provided that Congres
and not the States " shall have power to la
and collect taxes, duties, imposts and e,
ss cises, and they shall be uniform throughou
nd the United States" In conformity wit
he this provision, the first act of the first Coz
ni nd gress was assembled under the Constitution
de which was Democratic one, passed an a,
Tor entitled " an act for the protection of labor
sr sr The South then were in favor of tariff, bl
Y when they saw that the protection ofth
H. H. poor laboring white man of the North W;
Fp rapidly filing up her population, and lilSel
Z to out run the planting States, the cunnin
. iof q Calhoun detected o preponderance