The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1870-10-13

dent, recognized aud followed grows
into the sanctity Of law. 1t makes nc
difference how insidious may have been
the introduction Of the precedent. Its
growth and development may have been
the product of years; and so gradual
as to escape observation. Still, its
maturity reached, it gathers to itself
the sturdy rigidness of positive law
This is the history of every tyranny
that has ever disappointed the hopes of
liberty loving people. They were
educa,ed, by slow processes, to fatal
familiarity with the danger they had
not learned to crush in its incipiency ;
aud, once tyrannized over, the habit Of
the tyrant made tyranny necessary.
Instead, therefore, of avowing their
principles openly, aud submitting to
stand or fall by them, the Radicals
rchash the defamation, so successfully
used during the war ito FIRE the national
heart" in order that the public reason
may be darkened by nebulous, unrea-
soning enthusiasm which embodies no
principles and which deies all rational
argument. Hence in all the campaign
documents we have yet seen-irom the
studied Orations Of grave senators to
the vapid out.pourings of club. house
mouthers-irom the stilted addresses Of
State committees to the grand resolves
of county conyeutions-therc is one
duh uniformity Of issues so obsolete in
their application to present needs so
lifeless in their usefulness for the
future, that no political galvauism could
evoke from them single spasm of that
vital aud healthy action needed for both
the present and the future life of the
government.
From these precious documents we
learn how the Radicals antagonized
slavery and gave freedom to millions of
slaves but we are not informed of the
fearful cost of this militant philanthro.
Ply. They charge that the spirit of
slavery is still rampant in the Dcmoc-
racy; aud that in voting for Demo-
crat the olector really votes to re.habili.
tate the institution Of slavery. They
claim to be the opponents of political
aud social progress; and if asked why !?
they point to the thousands of semi.
civilized Africans whom they have
elevated to be the peers of the civilized
Caucasian. They thus people the land
with the ghosts of dead social insti.
tuition, and strive to terrify the imagina.
tions of sensitive people with these
ghostly apparitious. They charge the
Democracy with being retrogressive
because they will not bow to the politi.
cal heresies of DEMONSTRATION, and are
simple enough to hold to the Constitu.
ton as the palladium of their political
faith and the bulwark of the national
greatness. They indict large majority
Of the phde voters Of the country for
disloyalty, because they believe, aud
are earnest in the belief, that the limits
prescribed to power by the constitution
our fathers left US, are necessary to the
security of individual liberty; aud that,
according to President jackson, "every
attempt to exercise power beyond these
limits should be promptly and firmly
opposed"
The intelligent white voter who
thinks seriously over the history of the
Radical party for ten years past ough,
easily to comprehend the reason why
he should cast his suffrage for Mr.
Richie in preference to Judge Smith
aud thus vindicate at the same time tn,
purity Of his patriotism and the dignit,
Of his race.