Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-05-12
ROSS & RossER, Publishers.
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we generally read with great pleasure, under
takes in a recent article to asc5ibe the tri-
umph Of Black Federals in Connecticut. al
the late State election, to the fact that tn
| Democratic candidate suffered under the
disadvantage of being supposed to be favor
able to a cessation of hostilities against the
South, or in other words, because he wa.
charged with being for peace.
And in speaking of the coming Chicago
! Convention and the issue of the Presidential
contest this year, the editor uses the follow
ing language:
''Such Convention is soon to meet, and under
thecircumstnnces cannot be considered presump-
tion to submit to the Democracy of Connecticut
AMI of all the States the fact that the election
there has proved the impolicy ofcommitting the
party 20 any declaration which involves, even
in ndrectly, the cessation of hostilities until the
insurgent states acknowledge the authority oi
the Constitution. The majority of the people in
the Northe. n States do not ask and do not wish
that the war be prosecuted to enforce the negio
policies now offered as the terms of peace, but
they demand its continuance until the Confeder-
ates consent to return to the Union.
"We simply present the fact nat this is the
popular senti nent, omitting in the connection
all consideration of its correctness. Whether it
be right or wrong, the success OF the Democratic
party is iscentingent upon its agreement with this
sentiment. Unioni>m Is stronger than Aboli-
tionism, and we can triumph in the Presidential
election by preso nting Il candidate and platform
which appeal directly and strongly to this alb
sorbing national feeling. The presentation must
be Of fashion which will operate as an injunc-
tion upon all cavil and Misrepresentation other
than rude, deliberate fAlsehoo1-"
If this does not 60 the full subj ugation
coercion, blood and shoddy doctrine, and
frankly admit that "the success of the
Democrat party is contingent upon its
agreement" with such o doctrine, then it
means nothing.
We admire the care with which the edi-
tor avoids all coDsid Grafton Of the '.correct-
ness" OF the doctrine-so palpsbly wrong
that no hon est Democrat, having the good
of his country at heart, need consider a mo-
ment as to its full and complete rejection.
The Democratic party is an entity. 1t
still exists. 1t will always exist, SO long a s
it adheres 10 principle-so long as it advo-
Gates doctTiues, the correctness CT which is
clear an3 self evident. 1t began in 1893.
when Black federalism in New England,
uuder the guidance and lead of the elder
Adams, undertook, through the agency of
the Federal Government. to encroach upon
the rights ofthe States. The issue was then
made, whether the Federal Government,
the creature, was to master and tyranize
over the creators, the States; whether the
agent was to control the principal, or tn hs
principal TO control the agent; whether, in
short, we were to have a consolidated CEN
trai despoIism or a Federal Government of
limited powers-an agency-snbj ect to the
and States which created it?--
That IS the issue now.
Mr.. Jefferson and Mr. Madison preser ted
this issue fairly in the celebrated resolutions +
passed by the Virginia aud Kentucky legis-
latures Of 1898. Those resolutions, from
that day forth. constituted and now cousti-
tute the chief plank in the platform of the
Dem ocrstic party. They embody plain,
truths, which no honest and
intelligent man, IA m ilisr with the history of
our Government, can for a moment 4ues-
tion. These truths underlie all other tenets |
of the Democracy. Take them away, and |
you take away at once the only distinguish
ed differences between Democrats & Federal |
ism . Black Federslis rejoiced with exceeding
great 10Y, when it falsely claimed that Gen.
j ackson had, in 1862, yielded by his proc
lsmation the great doctrines of 1898. ltl
made him Doctor OF Laws Of Harvard and |
Yale Colleges and toasted him at a gre at !
rate, because he threatened South Carolina
while be used, successfully, his influence
to secure her justice and remove the griev-
ances of which she mplained.
But Black Fed deralism counted without
its host: Whenever, as in 1848, the ques-
ton came up seriously to be considered |
again as TO the powers of the Federal Gov
ernment and the rights of the States, the
Democracy of the Union, true as the needle
to the pole, spoke out in tones of thunder.
1t turned to the history Of the past, t,cons;der-
ed fully and fairly the relations of the
States toward the Federal agency at Wash
iugton, and, impressed with the self-evident
truths. in the resolutions Of '99, embodied
them in the platform of the party. Fifty
years had wrought no change in the rights
OF the States nor any in the character of the
Federal Government. Fifty years had
wrought no change in the words of wisdom
embodied in the celebrated resolutions
which emanated from James Madison, The
father of thu Constitution. and Thomas
Jefferson, the apostle of civil liberty and |
author of the Declaration of Independence
"A paper which asserted the old thirteen
to be Tree and independent States Fifty |
years had wrought no change IN Black
Federalism, which. in every possible guse,
was seeking to unJ eTmine the great doctrines |
OF State rights. FIlIy years had wrought
no abatement nor change in the vigilance
and patriotism of the Democracy. And
lust fifty years after the adoption OF the
restitution OF '98 the Democracy OF the States
again turned to them in the hour OF need
and adopted them down as guide through
all dangers. --
Gen. Lewis Csss-the bosom friend OF
Andrew Jackson-the distinguished hero.
and diplomstist Of the North, accepted the
nomination Of the Democracy for President,
and in his letter o. acceptance pledged him.
self TO uphold and main tain the resolutions
referred TO. So did the gallant William ..
Butler oI Kentucky. and right faithfully !
has the latter adhered to his pledge. So
did the whole Democratic party North,
South, East and West
Again IN 1862, were the same celebrated
glorious resolutions embodied by the Dem
ocrAcy, in she Bsltimore platform upon
W which Gen. Frank Pierce, was elected