The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1862-05-23

| to the preservation of the Union.
/ DOES THE HISTORY OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY PROVE THAT IT OUGHT TO BE
/ ABANDONED?
g By their fruits shall ye know them
/ Sectional parties do not achieve Union tri.
umphs. For sixty years from the inaugu-
ration Of Jefferson, on the 4th of March,
1901, the democratic party, with short in
| tervals, controlled the power and policy oil
The Federal government. For forty eight
years out of these sixty, democratic men
/ ruled the country; for fifty four years and
/ eight months the Democratic policy pre-
vailed. During this period Louisiana,
! Florida, Texas New Mexico and California
were successfully annexed to our territory
with an area more than twice as large as
| all the original thirteen States together.
Eight new States were admitted under
strictly Democratic administrations-one
under the administration of Fillmore. -
From five millions the population increas>
ed to thirty one millions. The revolution
airy debt was extinguished. Two foreign
wars were successfully pros ecuted, with a
moderate outlay and small army and ma
w, and without the suspension OF the ha-
beas corpus; without one infraction OF
the constitution; without one usurpation
of power; without suppressing a single
newspaper without imrrisoning a single
editor; without limit to the freedom 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
ring one Of the wars, and in the other,
Senators invited the enemy to "greet oar
golunteers wah bloody hands, and aCelcome
them to hospitable graves"
During all this time wealth increased,
business Of all kinds multiplied, prosperity
smiled on every side, taxes were low, wages
were high, the North and the South fur
nished a market for each others products
at good prices public liberty was secure
private rights undistuIbed; every mans
house was his castle the courts were open
to all; no passport for travel, no secret po-
lice, no spies, no informers, no Bastles,
the right to assemble peaceably, The right
to petition ; freedom of religion, freedom
cf speech, free ballot, and free press );
and ali this time the constitution main
tained and the Union of the States preser>
we'd.
Such were the choice fruits of Demos
cratic principles and policy, carried out
through the whole period during which
the Democratic party held the power and
administered the Federal government
Such has been the history Of that party.
It is Union party, for it preserved the
Union, By wisdom, peace and compromise,
for more than half a century.
Then, Democrats, neither the ancient
principles, the policy, nor the pas: history
of the democratic party require nor would
justify its disbandment.
IS THERE ANYTHING IN THE PRESENT CRISIS
WHICH DEMANDS IT?
The more immediate Issue is to main.
/ tain the Constitution Is 1t as, and to restore
| the Union as 1t aras.
To maintain the Constitution is to res
pect the rights Of the States and the Iiber
ties of the citizen 1t is to adhere faithful
ly TO the very principles and policy which
the Democratic party has protessed foI
more than half century, Let It's history
and the results, from the beginning, prove
whether it has practiced them. We ap,
peal proudly to the record.
( The first step towards restoration O
the Union as it was is to maintain the con
stitution asit is. So long as it was main
tanned in fact, and not threatened with in
fraction in spirit and in letter, actual Of
imminent, the Unicn was unbroken.
To restore the Union, it is essential first
to give assurance to every State and to tht
people Of every section that their right
and liberties and property will be secure
within the Union under the Constitution
What assurance SO doubly sure As the res
toration TO power of that ancient, organ
lied, consolidated Democratic party whicl
for sixty years did secure the property
rights and liberties of the States and 0
the people; and thus did maintain th
Constitution and preserve the Union, an,
with them the multiplied blessings whicl
distinguish US above all other nations'
To restore the Union Is to crush out sec
tionalsm north and south To begin tn
great work of restoration through the bal
lot box is to KILL ABOLITION. The bite
watels Of secession flowed first, and are fe
still, from the unclean fountain Of aboli
tionism. That fountain must be dried "
Armies may break down the power ofth
Confederate government in the south bn
the work ofrestoration can only be carrie
on through political organization and th
ballot in the north and west. In this grea
work we cordially invite the co operatio
of all men of every party who are oppose
to the fell spirit of abolition, and who, i
sincerity. desire the constitution as it
, and the Union as it was. Let the dea
past bury It's dead. Rally, lovers Of til
. Union, the Constitution, and Of liberty, t
, the standard Of tie Dem ocratic party, al
; ready in the field and confident Of victor
That party is the natural and persister
enemy of abolition Upon this questio
, its record as a national organization, how
ever i, may have been at times with ps'
, ticuar men or in particular StateF, is cles
and unquestionable. From the beginniD
of the anti slavery agitation to the perio
, OF the last Democratic national conventio
| il has held but one language in regard
Il it. Let the record speak.