Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-06-21
Miscellaneous.
The Democratic Party.

republic. Founded as it was by the i'm
mortal Jefferson, on the principles Of truth
justice and equal rights, it was destined
to accomplish great and good work. And
we arc free to acknowledge that our coun.
try prospered well under Democratic rule.
We clip the above from the PsttSton
Gazette, of week before last. With its
personalities aside we regard the Gazette
as the fairest, as it certainly is much the
ablest, Republican paper in the county
The article sounds to us as though it had
been written by one who had once been a
Democrat, but who from personal consid-
crations, disappointed ambition perhaps,
or likely enough like many others, in some
dark hour of the history of the party was
foolish enough to exchange for new faith
and for new associations, and is now,
when too late, bewailing in sackcloth and
ashes the fate of his country and the mad
ness and infatuation of his own judg ment.
1t looks to US as though this were the case
because it is hard to find one Of the old
Federal stock of Republicans who will now
admit that the principles on which Jeffer-
son founded the Democratic party were
correct, or that the Democratic party ever
was anything else than positive curse to
the country. Another reason why We
think it was written by man who had
once been Democrat is, that it goes on to
use the same arguments that every rene
gade always has at his tongues end. The
stale old cry of corruption-that the Dem
ocratic party had been cOrrupt--is the
same that Simon Cameron, Secretary
Welles, John w. Forney. Dave Wilmot,
and every other scoundrel that has ever
been kicked out of the Democratic party
uses as an excuse for leaving it. We by
no means mean to call the Gdcette editors
scoundrels-we only say that they are un
fortunate in the respects we have mention
ed, in their use Of language and style of
thought
Since the organization Of the govern
ment there have never been but two great
political parties in this country, and as
the Gazette frankly admits, that Thomas
Jefferson was the founder of tho Domo-
cratic party. Who in Jeherson's time
was the founder of the othcr-known at
that day as the Federal? From every
candid political historian the answer is at
once, Alexander Hamilton-the party
that was represented by the administration
of John Adams Adams was Federal.
f ist and believed in a strong central gov
ernmcnt-just as the Republican party
has always advocated the centraliz alton of
power in Congress to lcgislate for the do
mestic concerns and institutions of the ter
ritories, in opposition to the doctrine of
peoples sovereignty. Adams advocated
more power in the hands of the President,
hence the Alien an Sedition Laws, by
which, at the will of the Preside mt, news
papers could be suppressed and individu.
ais imprisoned or sent out of the country
for speaking i'll of the President or his ad.
ministration, just as the present admins.
tration has done ever since it h as come in.
to power Thomas Jefferson advocated
, the doctrine of giving all power to the peo-
pie, and he and his party made war upon
the Alien and Sedition Laws, which never
, ceased till they had wiped out those laws
and driven the administration from power
just as the Democratic party of to-day is
opposing the unconstitutional measures oi
Lincoln and doing battle for the rights
0 that the constitution guarantees to every
, person, high and low, who is entitled to
Q its protection.
, 1t will thus be seen that the same gen.
eral doctrines upon which the two parties
were constructed distinguished them to.
$ day. The Democrotic party, through all
D the mutations of time and circumstances
. has preserved its Organization, name and
doctrines, under which the Gasette admits
the country prospered to a wonderful de.
gree. The other party has been as shit
| ing as the sands of the desert, till they f.
nally protest that they are now mo party
-Four times since John Adams they have
temporarily acquired power, only to bring
. the country into difficulty and distress
= Going on from bad to worse, the fourth
t time, under Lincoln, they have involved
the nation into civil war-a civil war the
. most stupsndous the world has ever seen
1 Nearly a million of our own countrymer
cutting each others throats, is the result
Y of the mad and fatal policy of that party
nova result predicted by Jefferson him
self, and against which We have been ad
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