The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-09-13
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The time is rapidly coming rs is plainly evidenced by
the movements which have commenced among the DEM
ocracy Of the North and West when the great struggle
between the radical and truly conservative elements
| to be inauguracd.
almost objectionable delay, has entered upon
of action which is most cheering that great Demo-
cratic party, of which he at time hOnored
and valued member and to which he well knows he must
look, as the chief agent by which Ibis policy must DO
carried to successful issue. 1t is true that OF
friends Whom the force OF events and whose good
has induced them for time past cooperate with
the Democracy, have expressed wish that the
"Dcmocrat should he suppressed and that of "COnser
vatve" substituted thercI This is impossible if
in Maryland were disposed and so decided solitary
| and alone would We stand and in fact all that is true,
all that is just, all that is conservative to lac found
(t matters not how much or how far individuals may
have at different times proved recreant) nculcated and
enforced by those political dogmas, which combined form
the true Democratic faith. We might rs well ask the
sincere believer in the religion to which he may happen
to belong to consent to change the name of that faith,
sacred to him by all the haowed rccolectons of the
past to ask the Democrats of this country to adopt
any other name than that by which they have always
been KNOWN and under which the country has acquired
| all the prosperity it ever possessed.
in 1856 the Democratic Central Committee of Hartford
county previous TO the Presidential election issued
address to the people OF Hartford which contained the
| following:
against this so-called Republican party, with its
baneul and neiariOus designs, have most fortunately
for the country great Democratic organization arrayed,
national i'll all its features recognizing section of the
country paramount to the rest being entitled
to any particular rights liberties guaranteed to
the remainder permitting from any the least
interference with intrusion upon the privileges
errcd by the Constitution and laws the respective
States of the Cnion upon those rights surrender
ed by them at the time of its ADOPTION and also opposing
the slightest infringement of the civil and religious pre-
negatives which attach to the person OF every Citizen.
This party has from the inception of National Gov
eminent been in existence Its origin is coeyal with our
nations BIRTH and what it advocated then it still main
tains. 1t knows change, it has its foundations
deeply land upon the firm basis of truth and Justice
equality and Its superstcture is national honor and in
| tegrity"
This great Democratic organzaton it is true has been
disturbed by the civil war which has so terribly
yused country but it beginning to close up
its ranks for the impending and momentou5 struggle
which is to decide upon the political future, whether
are to retain the freedom eft constitutional form of gov
eminent, or to have firmly riveted upon us tho
manacles of u centralized despotsm
Firmly believing that to the Democratic press of the
country to look, the great and powerful engine
by which Radcasm is to be ultimately triumphanty
crushed again to its hdeous 'front.' every Of
should be used to extend the circulation of our pa
pers Those among us who have means should at