The weekly union record., 1864-09-24
Democracy.


which The latter said TO the former:
Il admit your Conclusions in regard TO Us
Southrous- That We are essentially sristocssiic
| cannot deny. Bot We can and 90 yield much
to democracy. This Is our sectional policy
We are from necessity welded to that party,
however much it may occasionally clash with
our feelings for the conservation Of cur interests
II is through our sffiliatioE with that party il
the middle and western States, that We hold
power. But when We cease thus TO control
this nation through disj5inted democracy. or
any material obstacle n that party which shall
tend 10 throw rs out OF that rule and control
We shal! then resort to the dissolution Of the
UBiou. 1be compromises Of the Constitution,
uuder the circumstances, were Sufficient for our
fathers but. unier the altered condition Of our
country, from thai period. leave 10 the South
20 resource but dissolution for 10 amendments
TO the Constitution eau be reached through a
convention Of the people, under their three
fourtbs rule. A55ous History Of CivlL
IFar IN -fmerica, I'ol Isl, page IS.
This language Of Calhoun, quoted above, IS
key which explains to the otherwise doubt
ing Thomases" the true cause Of our present
national troubles, aud the course Of the demo
cratic party for the last thirty years.
Calhoun was the Original agitator OF discord
in our national council and the practical appIi
cation of his principles. doctrines and theories
have brought upon US oar present calsmities
II has been the custom of the Democratic party
under bis teachings. to accuse the opposition,
by whatever name known, Of an aggressive
sectional policy, subversiye of the Constitution
and destructive of Southern rights.
Anything like careful perusal Of the Ian
guage quoted above will enable person Of any
comprehension to discover the inconsistency
absurdity aud utter falsity of such charge
The language there is not that the South have
been, Or are in any danger of being, despoed
of any rights guaranteed BY the Constitution
but that BY some BOGUS pocus new rights have
been acquired-rights neither granted in the
Constitution, nor reserved to the States or
people-rights having DO existence at the time
of the adoption of the Constitution. and having
no relation 10 democratic principles aud there
fore foreign to our form of government, ard
which the arstocratic Southron wisely conjec
tured could never be engrafted upon the Con
stitution under the three fourths rule.
The plain English of the whole matter is
this: republican institutions, based upon the
democratic principle that all men ale by nature
free, allow the son of a greasy mechanic to
compete with the scions of arstocratic nabobs
for the highest honors in the land. and this
does not suit the taste of the lordly Southron
who boasts of his alliance with the European
blood royal AND WHO CLAIMS THE RIGHT TO
RULE AND CONTROL THIS NATION, and who atfili-
ated with, aud become welded to, the demo-
cratic party-not because Of any lore for dem
oeraey-not because Of any regard for The
masses Of the people. but for the scke Of powsr;
to rule and control h's nation. The rigbt 10
rvlc, and the interests incident to, aud atfndant
upon the erereise Of po,csr, are tn. assumed
rights dnd interests which the chyarlc sons Of
he sunny South hare lost through "disjonted
democracy" aud SO they seek to dissoire the
Union. Every other pretended cause is mere
pretext. To these degenerate sciOns Of pre-
tended royal ancestry belongs the honor of
reviving the "irrepress;be conflict which will
be waged until aristocracy ceases TO spread its
blighting curse over this free land, or the prin
ciples of sefgovernment are once more lost to
the human race-bured beneath the ruins of
this, our opce noble Republic conflict inau-
gurated, not by Northern fanatics" but by
Southern aristocrats-not by one section Of the
country against another. but by despotc ambi
tion against the freedom OF mankind- not BY
q Northern sectional party against the constl-
tutioual rights of the Southern people, but by
an arstocratic clique to undermine and over
throw the principles of self government.
BY their affiliation with the Democratic
party, and the adoption of You t,ckie me and
Wf'c&le you policy, they managed to hoodwink
and pull the wool over the eyes Of the loyal
masses of that party for period Of thirty years.
Many Of tha! party are still wearing the band
age of wool in hopes Of being ticked once more
with the spois of Office aud falling crumbs from
their masters tables. Others appear TO have
entered into full fruiion Of those delights
with which incarnate feuds revel in their lust
and hate, rejoicing if they can but pull one
sinner d WI 10 writhe with anguish in that
dread abode, and who outherod Herod in their
base attempts to do their masters bidding.
lamenting the deep damnation Of their taking
off, by which they los; their federal pap and
regulation diet.
JCDGE GILMER, late Police Judge Of Sacra-
mento, an old Dougla. Democrat and until
recently ciassed with the Copperheads, has
repudiated Little Mac. and on Tuesday night,
at Union meeting IN bat city, made a speech
in which be said;
The Copperhoads SAID it would make no
Il ference a honf their niatfOr1o. that NrClelIon