Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-04-28
RUTLAND HERALD.
TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1864
Aris,scracy and Democracy.

We have in this country the singular
exhibition of so-called democratic"
party working for the establishment
and perpetuation of an aristocracy. The
democratic party South has long been in
the hands OF an aristocracy whose cardi-
dinal doctrine is that the capitalists
must own the laborers. Under the thumb
OF these slaveocrats has also long been
the democratic party North. For the
sake of sharing in party spoils, North
ern democrats have betrayed and cut
loose from every principle upon which
the democratic party was originally
founded. The democrats South take
up arms for the forcible establishment
OF the worst possible form of aristocracy
that based on the absolute ownership
and degradation of the laboring classes,
black and white. The democrats North
give them sympathy and such aid as
they can in this attempt to carry the
world back to parbarism.
On the other hand the Union party is
struggling with all its might for the
perpetuation of free government and true
democratic principles. Genuine democ-
racy hangs in the balance against trea-
son and the enslavement of labor. All
patriots see this; the people abroad,
yearning for the blessings Of free gov
ernment, see it; yet there are still many
laboring people at the North SO en-
thralled by the potent name of q democ-
racy," stolen by the Northern abettors
of Southern slaveocrats, that they fail TO
see how lacking in the substance they
fail to see the fact which seems so plain
and self-evident, that in blindly follow
ing the lead of treason-sympathising
mis-called democrats" they are going
directly counter to the best and dearest
interests of themselves, their children
and their children's children,-that they
are doing their utmost to ruin the hopes
Of a free people, and to surrender all in
to the hands of merciless, people-aba-
sing, labor enslaving aristocracy.
Give it time enough, however, and the
truth will prevail. 1t is mighty, though
sometimes very slow. The above facts
have been apparent from the beginning to
all who go with their eyes open. Others
are seeing them and we have now, it
seems, book, northern democratic"
book, which must greatly aid those still
blind, in recovering their political sight
Written by democrats" and said to be
approved by other leading democrats"
it openly and undisguisedly advocates
the propriety and necessity of "high
grade ofaristocracy," and proposes to de-
mocrats (and here it has the merit of
frankness) to throw off the disguise of
" democracy" and assume new name.
The New York Evening Post says
MIR. John Jay, in a pamphlet, the
sheets of which are before us, says that
a book has been lately published in Chi
cago called Citizenship Sovereignty
by Professor J, s. Wright and Professor
j. Holmes Agnew, both democrats,
ohu Which puIpoItS W nave met the ap-
proval of Charles O'Conor, DR.. s. F. B.
Morse, and other distinguished gentle
men of the same school, 1t takes ground |
distinctly in favor of aristocracy, and
frankly assumes for its party the name
of Federal Republicans
These writers say on page $50 of their
book: E" If we cannot have and perpetuate a
high grade Of aristocracy, from aohich our
r'sters shall be almost uniformly elected, we can
never sustain free government. Revolu-
tions and anarchy must be our fate, till
we find relief in despotism, and then for
tunate shall we be If, by establishing an
hereditary aristocracy, with all its bur-
dens we shall reach as free condition
as Britons enjoy" Elsewhere they as
sure the British nobility that they hare in u.s.
s.e. these model democrats, earnest coad,u-
tors. Asserting throughout the SOW
ereignty of the states, as against the SOW
ereignty of the people, they contend that
the Union is not nation, but a federal
republic, and they make their appeal to
the citizens who support their views un-
der the name Of the Federal Republi-
cans y