The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1866-08-02

of the same faith-belieying in TIN
same creed and l desired, Will
you, to worship at common alter
that / might catch the inspiration
of your pure faith, and be warmet
by the fervor of your enkindlet
zeal. And so 1 accepted the inv
tation and | came to-day, thougl
to do 80 | was obliged to leave som,
true New England Democrats il
Boston last night. | am glad
have come. This meeting show
that your zeal, and yigor, and cour
age are unimpaired; and fills mt
with renewed hope for the future
1t shows that whoever else may
fail, Berks county will do her dutJ
to the country. IOheers, 7
In my own State, in my owr
city, we have several Republican
newspapers, which delight to tel
us that the Democratic party il
dead. We try TO convince them tC
the contrary; we hold our conyen
tions, make our nominations, con.
duct campaigns, poll two hundred
thousand votes, scare them always
[laughter], beat them sometimes,
and yet each day more positively
than the day before, they tell us
that the Democratic party is dead,
and the disease of which it died
They will learn, if they live long
enough, that it can never absolute.
ly die SO long as government shall
last; that in this country it will
maintain its vigor SO long as the
States shall have free government,
and the Union shall be 4 confeder.
alton; for in o the States, it is the
party of the people against power
in the Union, it is the party of con-
federation against consolidation
1t has always been so. ah 1''
In the discussions which prece-
ded the convention to form the
Constitution in that o convention
itself, IN the conventions in the
several Statesy in the early admin
istrations two different and oppo-
sing theories were advocated by
able and patriotic men. The one
insisted that the country should be
a unity, and that the government
should be strong and centralized
the other maintained that the gen.
eral offices OF government should
be performed by the States, and as
little duty and power as possible
should be confded to the Federal
Union. In the convention, there
were extreme views and extreme
men on both sides. The extreme
men gave up the work-Hamilton
lett the convention, Luther Martin
refused to sign the Constitution
the extreme views were toned
down by the prudence and moder-
alton Of Washington, Franklin and
Madison, and the Constitution was
the result--that Constitution which
has given us for seventy years
prosperity and liberty; that Con-
stitution which, by its origin at the
hands Of these men whom | have
named, by its benefcent Influences,
became sacred to all American
citizens, till the fanatics of our day
dragged it from its high place and
degraded in the mire of their par
tisan schemes. Loud cheers.
The opposing forces gathering
strength during the administration
Of Washington, but they were held
in check by the power which he
possessed. They met in fierce col
lision in the term of Mr.. Adams
The Democratic sentiment could
not be neutral in that struggle. 1t
was, indeed, the gchiefl combatant.
1t emerged victorious in the elec-
tion of Mr.. Jefferson, and
brought with itdia. compact,
vigorous, disciplined organization
to support its policy and opinions.
Our Democratic party is that par
ty, and it insists to-day as it lnsis-
ted then, that these fundamental
maxims of political science are ap-
plicable to our Government at all
times, in every emergency, and
never more applicable than to-day
in this crisis of our ghistory-that
government is best which governs
the .least--that 9 confederation is
best which leaves the, greatest pos
sible amount ofopowerr with the
constituent States, and eonfdes the
least possible power to the federal
head-that all just, government
derives it's power from the consent
of the. otgovernedr1that taxation
without representation is tyranny
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