Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-05-17

| "Ihe honest payment OF our debts ana |
sacred preservation of public faith.
"Freodom Of Religion, freedom of the
Press, and freedom of person under the |
protection of the Habeas Corpus, and trial
by juries impartially selected
Such, Democrats, are the principles Of
your party, essential to public liberty and
to the stability and wise administration of
the Government, alike in peace and war.
They are the principles upon which the
Constitution and the Union were founded
and, under the control of a party which
adheros to them, the Constitution would
be maintained and the Union could not
be dissolved
Is the policy of Tie Democratic party
wrong that it should be dsbanded?
Its policy is consistent with its princi-
pies, and may be summed up, from the
beginning, as follows The support of
liberty as against power; Of the people as
against their agents and servants; and of
State rights as against consolidation and
centralized despotism; q simple govern
ment; no public debt; low taxes; no high
protective tariff; no general system of in
ternal improvements by Federal authority;
no National Bank; hard money for the
Federal public Dues no assumption of
State debts; expansion of territory; self
government for the Territories subject
only to the Constitution; the absolute
ompatibility of union of the States, part
slave and part free;" the admission of new
States, with or without slavery, as the
may elect; non-interferenoe by the FEEDER.
al Government with slavery in State and
Territory, or in the District OF Columbia;
and; fin ally, as set forth in the Cincinnati
Platform, in 1856, and reaf!irmed in 1860
absolute and eternal "repudiaton of all
sectional parties and platforms concerning
domestic slavery which seeks to embroil
the States and incite to treason and armed
} resistance 10 law in the Territories, anil
WdoSe aoowed purposes, ~ conSunmated
a must end IN CIVIL WAR AND DIsUNIoN.'
Such was the ancient and the recent
t policy Of the Democratic party, running
through period of sixty years-a policy
: consistent with the principles Of the Con-
= stitution, and absolutely essential to the
n preservation Of the Union.
e Does the history of the Democratic par
n ty prove that it ought to be abaEdoned ?
"By their fluits shall ye know them.'-
s Sectional parties do not achieve Union tri.
S umphs. For sixty years from the inau.
d guration of Jefferson on the Ath of March
It 1901, the Democratic party, with shor:
= intervals, controlled the power and the
: poicy of the Federal Government. For
n forty eight years out of these sixty, Demo.
y cratic men ruled the country; for fifty.
}. four years and eight months the Demo
It cratic policy prevailed. During this Pc
IS riod Louisiana, Florida, Texas, New Mex
IS ico and California we're successively an.
: nexed to cur territory, with an area more
IS than twice as large as all the original
n Thirteen States together. Eight new
d States were admitted under strictly Dem.
y ocratc Administrations--one under the
= Administration of Fillmore. From five
e millions, the population increased to hirty
one millions. The Revolutionary debt
was extinguished. Two foreign wars were
successfully prosecuted, with moderate
/ outlay and small army and navy, and
IS without the suspension of the habeas cor
pus; without one infracton of the Consti
> sutton; without one usurpation cf pcwerj
. without surpressirg q single newspaper
without imprisoning single editor; with
c out limit to the freedom of the press, OF
e of speech in or out of Congress, but in the
!. midst of the grossest abuse of both; and
- without the arrest of single traitor,
though the Hartford Convention sat du
l. ring one of the wars, and in the othe'
$ Senators invited the enemy to "greot oul
volunteers with bloody hands and well
come them to hosptable graves"
# During all this time wealth increased
/, business of all kinds multiplied, prosperity
c smiled on every side, taxes We're low, wa
y ges were high, the North and the South
d furnished market fer each others pro,
: ducts at good prices; public liberty was
secure, private rights undisturb,dj every
y mans house was his castle; the courts wer;
open to all; no passports for travel, ne
is secret police, no spies, no informers NJ
ut bastiles; the right to assemble peaceably
- the right to petition, freedom of religion
freedom of speech, free ballot and FREE
= press; and all this time Che Constitution
Or maintained and the Union of the State
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