The southern aegis, and Harford County intelligencer. (Bel Air, Md.) 1862-1864, 1862-05-17
THE OLD AND NEW PARTIES.

restored, and the Government administered upon
the principles of the Constitution, they must re-
move from power every Republican and Adolf
ZIONIST in the land. There is no hope of a return
of the Government to its former purity, while
Abolitionism rules the nation. The whole life
of the Republican party has been q life of corrup-
ton, and of continued violations of all the prn-
ciples upon which the Government was formed.
In the better days Of the Republic we were equals
our fore-fathers framed for us a Constitution
which guaranteed to each member of society all
his just rights, and made him the equal of his
fellows, and which made the little States of Della
ware and Rhode Island equal in power with the
great States of New York and Pennsylvania
And this is the theory of free governments; and
the practical workings of our own has fully de-
monstrated that the people never prosper so well
under any other form of government, when
it is managed by patriots and statesmen, such
as filled the councils of the nation during our
earlier history. a-M f-r
The two great political parties which were
until the last few years, arrayed against each
other, commended about mere questions of public
policy, but the measures which were advocated
by the one and opposed by the other, menaced
not the natural and nalenable rights of even
the poorest member of the community, nor did
they make the slightest approximation towards
aspbversion of the fundamental principles which
lie at the basis of our institutions The Wing
party believed in and pursued certain course of
and% ba haas ,c@b o
differed, and pursued another course of policy
But each was patriotic party, honest in all
their notions of public policy, and desired only
to promote the public good. Under this rule,
demagogues and corrupt politicians were exclu-
ded, in a great measure, from the high places of
power, and to them there appeared nothing left
except to form party, the principles of which
were in direct opposition to the form of govern
ment under which we live. Out of this inclna-
tion>and determination for power sprung the Re-
publican party, the acts and doings of which,
since it came into existence, are but so many as
saults upon the rights of freemen.
Our Government was made by compromise,
and by compromise all our difficulties might
have been avoided; but the Republican party
have always been opposed to compromise, and
their history has been, and is now, history of
repeated usurpations of power, and violations of
the constitutional and public and private rights
ofcitizens. Their party, however, was organized
On this very principle of injustice Disregarding
all the teachings of The past, they Immediately,
on their organization, entered upon the most fla.
grant violations of the rights of others. The
real leaders Of this insane faction, seeing their
own inability to occupy the highest places,
brought forward men of less note and compare
lively unknown, and who are, in truth and in
fact but clay in the hands of the potter, to be
fashioned and moulded to suit the peculiar views
and notions Of the great architects of this party
That the party in power is nothing more or
less than the Abolition party, no wel-balanced
mind can doubt. The apparent difference be-
tween the Republican and Abolition parties con-
sists only in matters of policy, the more violent
being less shrewd than the Stewards and Trum-
bulls, but equally honest. No scheme of the
Abolitionists has yet failed during the present
session Of Congress, and none which have been
passed have failed to receive the signature Of the
President. But say some Of the apologists for
these Abolitionists, these obnoxious measures
could not have been passed. If all the representa-
tives Of the people had remained in their seats.-
But suppose these men had remained would that
have induced the Republican members Isl to perform
their moral obligations to the country2 Had
they not the same inducement to do their duty,