The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-26
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Democracy as ID was and is-..By q
massachusetts Democrat. atl :
The following article, from the pen of a
Boston Democrat of tnE, 60 school, al
though written for Massachusetts, is good
for any meridian. Let no one skip 1t on
account Of its length. 1t is worth all the
space it occupies: r s..,...,.
This Commonwealth is the center of in
tellectual activity in America. 1t is the fo-
Gus of American civilization. 1t should
therefore be the source of Democratic ide-
as. In Massachusetts, a man commonly
begins life with little or no capital. He
earns his own bread by his own labor. He
gains his credit by his own character. He
forms his character by his own will. There
is no career-there is no position in society
or in the State which he may not hope to
fill. AT every step he is compelled to feel
that he is never beyond the reach of his
fellOw-citizens. But he is never in their
power but by his own misdeeds. The
movement of social life goes on by Demo-
cratic principles. The townships are the
selected models of democratical govern
ment, and even the churches are conducted
according to democratlcal regulations
Universal intelligence-ineXhau en-
ergies of every kind--great material pros
perity, enjoyed by unexampled multitudes
security not to be calculated upon any
where else-associated very curiously with
an enterprise SO daring that it touches the
confines of the romantic-are the well
known fruits by which the Democracy
proclaims its presence to mankind. In all
those fruits this Commonwealth may have
equals, but it has no superior. Yet no.
&l,.r oh, ~
sincerely and thoroughly Democratic Com
monwealth Of Massachusetts is the Demo-
cratic party so sincerely and so thorough
ly despised!
There is sufficient reason for this. The
Democratic party deserve it. And to at
tempt to evade the charge by raving about
Massachusetts fanaticism'' is simply to
earn more contempt by descending from
explanation to abuse. .et
And why? Because we abandoned our
principles to follow our leaders! Because
webartered our honor and our conscience
for the votes of the Amalgamation States !!
Because when South Carolina hated Free
dom, and honestly proclaimed its hatred,
we who hated slavery, meanly pretended
to like it. To please the planting interest
we made ourselves odious at home. Think
of a Democrat, the champion of the rights
of man, cringing to his natural enemy, the
slave breeding Amalgamationist of the ne
gro States, and all for vote! Think of
the sense and judgement of the men who
advised him to do it! Think Of the keen,
sagacious, intelligent voters of Massachu
setts, before whose eyes this honorable
performance has been going on lor thirty
years, and you will wonder with me, not
that we have few voters here, but that we
have any.
The men whose want of judgment
brought us so low, were strongly repre-
tod IN enfi nd hon al
defeated. Their defeat, however, only
turns our faces in the right direction. Our
noble old Democratic party-the party of
Jefferson and Livingston and Jackson-is
exposed to-day to that kind of danger
which threatens mans business when un-
principled and irresponsible ex-partners
steal the trade marks Of the old firm and
place them upon worthless and deleterious
goods. So few political sharpers are
stealing our good name and tacking it on
to their own malignant stupidities. From
the Peoples High Court, the Convention,
we got a temporary injunction upon these
gentlemen. Allow me in this paper to
show cause why it should be made perpet-
ual. .ai
1t was our own pride and self confidence,
not their ability, which empowered them
to injure US.
Owing entirely to the goodness of God
We never yet endured the yoke of real
government We have, indeed, had people
at Washington and elsewhere holding pub
lie offices. But what sort Of people? With
few illustrious exceptions they have
been bankrupt shoe makers, insolvent
manufacturers, ruined grocers; men who
would have been bank -fellers but for the
necessity of knowing how to count; sur
geons who could not be trusted to cut a
corn; lawyers who could not tell an indict-
ment for murder from writ of replevin;
preachers not able to preach or even to
spell. Real men betook themselves to real
business, contemptuously leaving petty
politicians to play their petty game, at sal
aries inferior to the wages Of second rate
salesman in respectable jobbing house.
The consequences degraded every party
and may possibly ruin the country. AL
most every example Of desperate incura-
BILE incapacity-the refuse and rinsings of
business and of trade-the scum and dregs
OF society We're sluiced for years through
the public offices into the managing COM
mittees of the great political parties. Who
then can wonder at the election of such
Presidents as Harrison and Tyler, and
Buchanan? Who can be surprised that
men of ordinary responsibility prided
themselves on having nothing to do with
politics? From the off-scourings of the
public offices came our former leaders and
their tools, the present Breckenridge gang.
Under various names they have played at
government for us during many years, and
what they do not know about running a
party or a country is hardly worth consid-
ering!
Upt the time that Buchanan broke with
Douglas these men had carefully preserved
their "s1onding'' in our party. Up to that
time, Standing" in the party had supplied
the want of common sense, the want of or
dinary good manners, the want of any
Trade or profession by which an honest
living is commonly earned-the want of a
and even the want of average cleanliness
and dsobriety to many men of considerable
public Importance. While we had peace
they were tolerated. But we always found
reason TO complain of our indulgence
situated as we are on this continent we re-
quire genuine Democracy as much as we
require food and clothes. Yet genuine De-
mocracy no more resembles the Democracy
these men made us put up with than steak