The weekly union record., 1864-06-11
Democracy.


The present party calling itself Democratic
serves only TO remind one Of those great con-
vulsions in the material or moral world. when
from the general wreck and crash there remains
but the debris of former existences, all strewn
in indistinguishable confusion around and about
the mere vestiges of former worlds and Or
ganizations-the mere mementoes of former
greatness, vanished and gone forever. or how
many was it once the pride to vaunt that they
we're Democrats-Democrats 10 the back bone
Democrats dyed in the wool" and Demo
Gratis even from their mothers womb and the
milk they drew from their mothers breast.
To such base uses has Democracy come at last
that those who always opposed Democrats
and Democracy as it has been known in the
party annals of America, take q delicious
pleasure in calling them Democrats and the
Democracy" and allow that they are Demo
Gratis and the Democracy indeed" They point
at them as they pass, with the finger of scoru,
and say "these are Democrats" and "this is
Democracy" even as the Wings Of the Revo-
luton were wont TO point at the tories Of that
day, when the United States bad achieved
their independence. Democracy in its true
sense means 1.-The rights of man." and as it has
been exempli6ed in the party annals of the
past, is associated with many glorious recollec-
tions, and much of national glory, alloyed, it is
true, with imperfections incident to all things
human, but, after all, thing not to be ashamed
of. But alack and alas, look at the thing
calling itself Democracy, to-day. What and
where are its principles, and who are its fol-
lowers? Why, Federalsts, Wbigs, Know
Nothings, Aristocrats in a large proportion
Monarchsts. and the fag ends of all the 'isms"
that have ever figured in politics and, TO cap
the whole, now comes Fremont, John CochraDe
Wendell Phillips-the "woolly horse" and ALL
The democrats" now assume a patronizing
air towards Fremont and the Radical Democ-
racy," even as the Devil recommended Eve to
eat OF the apple Of the tree Of life. But what
do these Democrats agree in p? In nothing but
one thing-tbat is, Good Lord or good Devil.
save, oh save the Digger" No two of these
Democrats agree in anything but that. Some
say the States are absolutely sovereign and
independent, and the General Government was
and is but the agent of the State sovereignties,
and the States have vested right TO secede
when and how they please. And these fellous
lnsiSt that the Constitution guarantees SLAVERY
IN the States! That is to say, the Government
OF the United States, which has not q particle
OF sovereignty. guarantees to q State which has
sovereignty certain right, to wit: the right
of slavery; which is very much like John
Smith guaranteeing that England shall observe
its present treaty stipulations with France and
other sovereign powers Another set thinks
that State has not exactly the right TO secede,
but then the States are sovereign, and can do
pretty much as they please. The States, being
sovereign, are under no obligations to ybody,
and if they kick up bloody row why things are
so constituted that the States were responsible
for nothing, but they insist upon holding the
General Government which they say has no
more sovereignty than John Smith or anyother
man responsible for everything. They hold
that the seeded States are 10 the Union, in
contemplation of law, and that the rights of
those States and the people thereof, shall be
and remain unimpaired, and condemn war,
coercion, sublugatioD, ETC., as unconstitutional,
and pile mountains Of wrath upon the Admin
istration therefor But not q word have they
10 say against JEFF Davis and his proceedings,
not single word. They talk by the mile,
about petty order of Beast Butler, but full
hundred thousand Of the most atrocious, cold
blooded savage and inbuman murderers, and
assaSsnatioDs of prisoners and non-combattants
including men, women and children committed
under the patronage of JEFF Davis, and by his
direct advice and instigation, they never say
word about and thus indirectly approve OF it.
and thus approving of it. are accessories after
the fact. This is the character of the present
Democracy.
Their usual assertion is "they have nothing
to do with JEFF Davis" but how is it if these
States in rebellion are legally in the Union
they have nothing to do with the atrocities
committed by JEFF Davis in those States?
They seem to have everything TO doif a niger
in those States is used by the Administration
against JEFF Davis. Then they will talk you
deaf and dumb and blind about impaired
rights" The grand chorus of the whole latter
day Democracy is Good Lord, good devil
save the Niger "