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eondenin them for SO doing, but has coyertIy
IL not openly approved their course, and does
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1T not openly approved their course and 5oe.
so now. w.
a. Jetlerson's Democracy was in favor Of
| elevating the masses by the extension of cd
| ucation and the rights of citizenship Tho
Democracy of to-day, having failed to keen
slavery alive, has taken its stand upon the
grave of the institution, and by all the arts of
which it is master is laboring to prevent the
emancpated slave from rising. 1t SCOTS at
all efforts to educate him, and denies to him
the common rights of manhood, which in hot
haste it would confer upon every foreigner
that comes to our shores, no matter now le-
norant, besotted, or low in the scale of being.
5. The Democracy of Jefferson believed in
the people, believed in their right to do whatey-
er they elected to do, while the Democracy OF
to-day carps at the popular verdict, distrusts
the people, would restrict suffrage, and hints
at another armed rebellion to suby ert hepop-
ular will
Q. The Democracy of Jefferson's time was
opposed to monopolies, and everything that
trenched upon the rights gof the individual
The Democracy Of to-day tavors the aristoc-
racy of wealth, snd would place the control of
the masses in the hands of an oligarchy of
ex-slavehOlders and political demagogues.
7. The Democracy of Jefferson found its
warmest supporters in the country, where the
people are least under the dominion of wealth
and combinations, and was treated with the
most coolness in the large cities where class
and position, aristocracy and wealth, comb-
nations and monopolies have the fullest sway.
On the contrary, the Democracy of to-day is
almost universally rejected in the country,
where and virtue most abound, and of all pla-
ces finds it strongest foothold in the city
which, of all others has the most wealth, the
most aristocracy, the most ignorance, and
probably the most simplicity corruption.
s. The Democracy of Mr. Jefferson was as-
gressive, and ready at all times to grapple
with any evil, no matter how gi-
gantic or by whom upheld, if it was deemed
prejudicial to the peoples rights. To-day
Democracy plumes itself upon its conservatism,
hugs old evils, is timid in everything favorng
popular rights, and gets down obsequiously
upon it knees at the bidding of lordly aristo-
Gratis, ready to foreswear the doctrines of the
Declaration Of OfIndependence, and to exult in
the triumph of despotism over individual and
personal liberty.
.. Mr., Jefferson regarded the Supreme
Court of the United States, with its life ten
ures and total irresponsibility to the sorereign
power Of the nation-the people-with sus-
piston, as the dangerous element in our sys-
tenn of Government, undemocratic, anti-re-
publican, 'monarchical and despotic. The
Democracy of to-day clings to this same tri-
bunal as the sheet anchor ofits hopes, and ap-
peals to it to stop the progress which the SOW
ereigh people have decreed shall be made in
the future.
10. Once more, and finally for the present,
the Democracy of Jefferson was in harmony
with popular instincts, and was regarded by
SHAREHOLDERS with suspicion, and held by them
in adherence because of its equalizing, level
ing tendencies, while the Democracy of to- day
tramples upon the best instincts of human
nature, scouts the idea of a higher law than
that of party obligation, and is regarded by
the friends of human slavery as their only Ie-
lance against danger; their only hope of sal
walton against the aggressive tendencies of the
popular will, and the humanizing develop
ments of the age. tf7A % fh'a1 'oo
We bespeak for the contrast here drawn
careful consideration. Let the reader, espec-
tally the young man, reflect carefully upon
the statements made, and then it he will
make thorough investigation into the history
of the old Democracy he will find that all that
is retained of it by the Democratic party of
to-day is its name. This is TIE only sJock III
trade that it has inherited from the past