The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1862-05-21

GEO. /. PARSONSs Aoitor.
WeosEsDAY MORSlSG. NAY slss. isss.
n~Orx..ssaaiea Of the Democratic Party.
An address has been issued BY fosrteen dems-
cr.ticf members of the lover house OF Congress,
he.ded bv the Immaculate vailandigham, Of
Ohio. ITO the Democracy Of the United states,'
urging the reorganization Of the Democratic
party. This address has been extensively pub
lishsd in the Democratic journals, in the North
srn and Western States, with favorable com
msnts, and pretty general approval By them,
and We may fairly presume that, notvithstand-
ing the comparative insisni6cance Of the men
Who have signed it, and the known characters OF
some of them as traitors, that the democracy
are expected to adopt its suggestions, and carry
cut the programme.
The address occupies two columns Of the Free
Pres, but aside from its iteration of ancient
party platforms, and its vain-glorious boasts Of
what the democratic party, in its life time has
done for the country, the gist oft can be summed
Up in few words:
Let: II proposes to restore the Union az it wds
BY maintaining the Constitution a. ii is.
Very veil! That 10 what the republicans are
sov trying With all their might to 90. We
are glad to see these democratic Congressman
abandon their bowling for " additional Constitn.
sis~sI guarantee"
I'd. Il is proposed to commence the grea,
Rnek nf posto,;oo, ,ba Jrc;nr as :, -, ..d ,c.;c
taising the Constitution it is, by crushing GU,
By ballot" killing -" drying up" abolition,
because 1t 10 the uncean fountain" from which
"the bitter waters of secession flowed first, and
are fed still"
Well gentlemen! II you can fool majority
Of Northern votes into the conviction that abol,.
fis~ 10 the cause Of the war, and that il needs TO
be put down to restore the Union, you will have
done greater work than We think you are ca.
pable Of accomplishing. Blu, whatever you do,
By all means do it by voting, as you propose
II you will con6ne your efforts to voting, and
dssist from your reasonable talking ia aid and
comfort Of the rebels, we shall think better of
you than We now do.
But what reason have you to expect that you
will be able to put down abolition by voting !!
The late democratic party which you now pro-
pose to resuscitste, talked and voted an immense
amount against abolition, but it would not die,
it would not "dry up" Maugre all the attempts
OF the democracy upon it's life, it lived and grew,
from weak, deformed little thing, to at least
respectable proportions. Opposition has proved
in the past, to be the surest means Of promoting
the life AID growth of the heresy. Wendell
Phillips 10 to day a more popular man, than he
WAS before he was mobbed at Cincinnati. So il
seems to Us that the proposition of these demo.
cratic party restorers, to commence a holy cru.
sads against the hated heresy of abolition, is to
aay the least. Of doubtful policy.
But We presume the rank and file Of the scat.
tered and terrified democracy, would be glad.
before entering into any binding compact with
the leaders to carry out their programme, to IN
derstand just what those leaders mean, and what
will be the probable condition of things when
the great work is done; and in behalf Of the
rank and file, We very respectfully wish to pro-
pound to Aessrs. vallandigham l. Co., a few
plain questions for their ediication.
When you talk of restoring and recognizing
the democratic party, do you mean the party as
WAS before it fell from grace? before it forfeit.
ed its high estate! before it was debauched and
prostituted from its great principles of freedom.
to the base and Infamous purpose of spreading
and maintaining human bondage? as it was under
the leadership Of Jefferson, and a. it continued
to be, down through its palmy days, to the time
Of the acquisition of Texas, when the leeisla.
lures Of nearly all of the free States, BY over
wAeIming democratic msjorities, passed free soil
resolutions recommending to Congress to extend
ever the territory which We then acquired, the
immortal ordinance of 1887, with all ito rights,
privileges. and immunities? Do you mean
the good old democratic party" as it was at.
isctionately called in the days of its glorys II
20, nobody will have any objection to your labor.
ing in that direction, if it suits your taste and
fancy, and if you consider that your best hold
but you will remember, and take into account.
in your calculations, that there ia already party
in the FIELD; one Of considerable pretensions,
under another name to he snre. but holdin9 sub.
stantially the same principles as those once held
By the democratic party. but afterwards unwisely
abandoned BY it's leaders; a party, composed in
part Of the best members of that same "old
democratic party" who have stood firmly by
their anciently cherished principles Of freedom,
Of justice, and humanity party Of progress,
equal to the progress Of the age.
But you mean to resurrect the democratic
party - it has precarious'y existed for the last
thirteen or fourteen years, under the adninistra-
tons Of Polk and Pierce, Buchanan and vallan.
dsham. forsaken OF its best men, and forsaken
Of God, polluted from head to foot with political
and moral heresies. bowling, crnging, trembling
q the feet Of the slave power, and ssrvilely do
ing the bidding Of its Southern masters,
afectionately advise you gentlemen, not to IN
dersaks the job. 1t will not pay the expenses.
foe will have your labor for your pains, and will
Ioss your credit If you have any, into the bar.
gain. If you have any shame left. you will be
ashaned Of the foul business. You will end the
easeass will smell bad above ground. Like all
other deformities, the people win make h,sse to
Ct Il oct Of sight - soon as possible. At the
.sxt election they win consign it to deeper
danoason than that from which you have attemp.
Ted 70 sxtsicate it. Let it alone.
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