The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1869-12-02
The Democratic Party.

The position Of this great party, to day,
before this nation and before the world, is
proud and triumphant one After all the
assaults, all the slanders, all the boastings,
all the threatenings, all the prescription
md outrage from its opponents, it stands,
to-day, unbroken and unconquered and un,
scathed, as stands the oak, after having
withstood the blasts and storms of many
years. What wrong and injustice what
foul charges hns not this party, and almost
every member OF il, suffered from its reck
less and virulent enemies, in the last ten
years. ...
Our intent is not to rake up old injuries,
old ISLANDERS, and long ago passed outrages
which have been so commonly dealt upon
the Democracy in the last few years, but to
look forward and counsel our great party to
shape their course, as great power in the
Commonwealth, in such manner and with
such character as to be prepared, on its nc.
cession to power in 1872, 10 restore the
true Union-the genuine patriotism, pros.
perity, permanent peace, and advancing
glory Of our common country.
The principles Of this great party laid the
foundation Of, and preserved our glorious
Its conciliatory and compromising course
warded off aud beat down sectional anmos.
ity, from time TO time, to such extent as
10 render civil war positively impossible
and it was only ia its defeat that sectional
vengeance triumphed and the Union bowed
its head and died, shedding the tears of the
blood Of civil war in the agones of its
violent death.
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compromise with wrong--we can never
give way to evil.
We aver that compromise signifies a
yielding, in some degree at least, to what
our judgment, our pride or our obstinacy,
looks upon as evil. There eau be no com.
promise, unless evil on the one side or the
other is yielded to. If both parties looked
upon each other as in the right. there would
be no need Of compromise-therec could not
possibly be compromise in such a state of
things. Compromise is the foundation, the
life blood Of all just governments.
Is any true American patriot sorry, to.
day, that the Constitution and Union of
our country was established, and existed
seventy years, and that this great people
fourished and Advanced in greatness and in
glory during that period, and in consonapce
''''' s"as IVY p'hNApit VI toHGlllhtiOU ne
tween the sections, as no other nation ever
progressed since the foundation Of the earth?
Can any man with true American heart
grieve in contemplating this picture? Do
such grieve that civil war was so long in
coming? Are they unsatisfied that the
election Of Aaron Burr was not accomplish.
ed by the mean Vaccinations Of the FEEDER
alists in 1901 and that he Union was not
thus dissolved? Are they sorry that the
Missouri compromise did not fail in is20-2l
thus sundering the Union or that the
compromise Of 1850 was effected still pre-,
serving the glorious union Of the fathers
We trust that the Democracy on their
accession to power in 1872 twill BY their
practice in the intervening time) become
perfectly prepared to restore, as soon as
practicable, the friendship and good will
between the sections, that existed before
the war and thus lay the foundation Of per
manent peace and increasing confidence,
prosperity and unbroken union to our com
mon country. The assured certainty of
the return Of the Democracy to national as
tendancy, in two years, viii have an effect,
doubtless, to smooth down the rough edges
OF Republican sectional hatred and bring n
degree OF calmness TO our councils and con.
sequent good to the people. Let all good
Democrats aod all good men adopt the fol.
lowing admirable sentiments from Shak
speare:
"Be just and fear not.
Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's.
Thy Gods and Truths;