Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-05-12

office seekers, that swsrmed about Wash
ington to catch Federal crumbs, and swors
by the resolutions of '98, have adhered tc
} their oft repeated pledges.
Where are the Dickinsons Of New York
lever ready to snap q crumb-Butler o
M observation-disclosures warning on Virginia'i
daughters and th cir little ones-IIolt oil
Kentucky-paudering like a miserable sy-
cophant, where thrift will follow ia wning-
where is Guthrie, too, associated with Prem.
tice, and the bloody coercionists of his State
But digress
Again in 1856, the same glorious truths
practical truths, as they soon promised to be
-were embodied in the platform of the De-
mocracy, aud Mr.. Buchanan, as he himself
said. became the platform. He was elect
ed, with John G. Breckinridge, as Vice
President-both on the same platform-on
the same ticket. Douglas sought nomi-
nation on the same plstform=was willing
/ nay, anxious to be the standard bearer of
the party. and do battle for the great prn-
cples of State rights, as enunciated in the
resolutions of '98.
And, still again 10 1860-when the dark
cloud Of Black Federalism which bad grown
into frightful proportions, and was threaten
Ing to burst iEto torrents of destruction aud
overwhelm every vestige of State rights,
and convert our form Of Government into a
consolidated despotism. to be controlled by
the miserable fanatics who lord the country
with such a high hand-the Democracy
met 10 Charleston. The object was to agree
upon platform. and select leader to resist
the march of the destroyers, who have
since involved the country iu bloodshed and
ruin. The party differed about men. But
as to the great truths contained 10 the reso-
lutious of $3.50 frequently consd ered-so
often asserted and procisimed-thers was no
difference of opinion. Democrats from the
South; Dem ocrats from the North; Demo-
Gratis from tn" East, and Democrats from the
West-all-all cordially agreed upon re-
affirming, re-indorsing. and upholding the
Cincinnati platform and the resolutions of
'98. as containing the cardinal truths and
doctrines of the Democratic party.
Stephen A. Douglas--the giant of the
Northwest--with all his friends, agreed to
these truths as eternal principles. James
Guthrie of Kentucky, with his friends from
The South and West. agreed to them
Dickinson oil New York, Butler of Massa
chusetts, Lane Of Oregon. Slidell of Louisi-
ana. Cobb of Georgia, Davis of Mississippi,
and John G. Breckinridge of Kentucky
all, stood shoulder to shoulder affirming and
proclsimiug the great principles Of State
sovereignty. Still they differed about men.
They adjourned to Baltimore.
In Baltimore the fatal division as to m en-
occurred. But in reference to the resolu-
tions oil '98, both wings inscribed them on
their banuers.
Douglas Of Illinois, johnson of Georgia,
with their friends, proclaimed the great
truths o. Joffsrsou and Madison throughout |
the land, as their rule of faith and conduct.
Every where they were held up as cardinal
principles and self-evident propositions,
und erIying the fabric OF our Government
The resolutions of '9S received the support
of both wings of the New York Dem
ocracy. So, too, throughout the East and
Northwest.
Breckenridge of Kentucky, and Lane of
Oregon, proclaimed the same truths. No
man claiming the name of Democrat dared
question them. rss -F...
Buchanan and his Cabinet, the renegade
Holt of Kentucky Cushing of NJ assach usetts,
Ssymours of New York and Connecticut.
the Dickinsons. the Dean Richmonds and
the Albany Regency, the Tammany Hall
aud the Mozart Hall Democracy. the Ohio
Democracy. and the California Democracy,
the Democracy of Maine and the Demo-
cracy of Texas, the Democracy of Virginia
and the Democracy of Pennsylvsnia-all
taught, ond all held to the principles of '99
Are these principles less true now? Truth
is immutable. Interchangeable, and immortal.
The Constitution we are all struggling to
support and save from the ruthless destroy
ers now in power, is the same now it was
when j Jefferson penned tn g resolutions of '9S
The facts, the objects. the purposes which
led to the formation of the Federal Consti-
tution-which has guaranteed the rights Of
the States and imposed unnists keable re-
strictious upon the Federal agency, are the
same now as they were then. Adherence
to the great truths con tanned in those resolu.
tious 10 times past is what gave to the
Democracy its power, its hold upon the
popular affection. and enabled It to guide
and direct the Government so successful,
and save it from Black Federal destruction.
Those truths have been to the nation its
"pilar of fire by night and of cloud by day"
its conpass-its salvation from ruin.
+ Why abandon truth, now in our day OF
trial and need? Strike from the Demo-
cratic banner the principles OF '9S aud its
power is gone. Deprive the Democracy OF
truths, so long advocated, so fearlessly pro
claimed, SO self-evident and so plain, and
YOU may as we'll succumb b at once to the
black cohorts Of Fedora lism. Never, never
let it be said that the Democracy is no
longer an advocate of principle. Never
yield q great truth, an i'm mutabie principle
to mere expedisnoy. Once strike the dag
of State rights-once yisld-sven for the
moment-the truths Of '98 and the country
is lost, forever lost. Then State sovereignty
will be among the things of the past. Then
the right of self government will be gone
The Black Federals will clap their hands
for Joy. and all lovers of civil liberty Will
wee D sears OF gloom and sorrow. TH
The principle of State sovereignty as set
forth in the Kentucky resolutions, penned !
by Jeffsrson, is in the following words:
sThat whensoever the General Govern