, 1872-07-25
gnget Saund 1ispatth.
Democratic Republican.

tlmOre-and which no power Oh ea1tu
can thwart or defeats but return to
first principles-the restoration of Demo-
cratic Repubicanism ,as taught by Jetter-
son and Madison, and as finally cor CIR
red in almost unanimously throughout
the Administrations Of Jefferson, Madi-
son, Monroe, Adams, jackson, Van Bu-
rem, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fill
more Pierce and Buchanan. Parties
were divided upon measures, but all
professed Jeffersonian Republican prin-
ciples none more so than the founders
of the present Republican party, up to
! the beginning of the civil war; every
platform of both political parties reaf-
frming the Jeffersonian doctrine. from
which the Republican party derived its
name, in contradistinction to Federal
ism, or Capitalization. MIR. Greeley,
who always opposed the jackson De-
mocracy. during the campaign of 1914
edited campaign paper called the JET
fers0nidf, and after the organization of
the present Republican party, all its
representative men, public speakers and
writers. claimed for the party legitimate
succession to the Republican party
founded by Jefferson and Madison, and
all spoke of modern Democracy" as Il
departure from Jeffersonian Democracy,
In some of the States, as for instance IN
Wisconsin, the opposition to the Demo-
cratic party, under the lead of Carl
Schurz, took the name of estates Rights
Democracy" upon the platform of the
Virginia Resolutions of 1898, and every
State in which the Republican party tri-
umphed substantially endorsed the same
doctrine by the passage Of acts nnllify-
ing the Fugitive Slave Law.
The chief measures upon which par
ties were divided for the past twenty
years having been disposed of, and the
settlement of which has been universal
ly concurred in, the contest reverts to
original principles-the conflict between
force and consent as tie basis ofgovern-
ment. The former is represented solely
by successful military chieftain; it is
not the Republican party, but the Grant
party; it adheres to no single distinctive
principle upon which the party was
founded; i. retains among its leaders
few if any of the founders of the party
it assumes to represent; it is composed
of men whose only watchword is power
and patronage; and its sole policy is
that of the Federalists of the early days
Of the Republic, who had no faith il
the ability of the people tc rule; poll
cy nearly unanimously repudiated al
the beginning of the present century
and renewed only as IL measure of Wal
and conquest. The latter is represent
ed by all who hold the reverse Of these
doctrines; who believe in the inherent
and inalienable right of the people tt
govern themselves; that governments
derive their just powers from the con
sent of the governed, and that munici
pal independence is essential to perso
nal freedom.
The choice to the people is between {
man whose sole claim to their supper
is based upon military success-the ex
ercise of the despotic will and iron haut
of power-and the untitled American
citizen who from the lowest walks O.
peace name as illustrious as any borne
by the fathers and founders of this grea
Republic; between the military adven
turer of day, and the sage, philosophe.
and statesman of generation; between
the representative Federalist of the las
century and the progressive Republican
of 1874. What Democrat or what con
sistent Republican sacrifices any princi
pie or stultifes any of his former profes
sions by supporting the latter agains
the former? Late party names are nov
merged in the glorious old name of Dem
ocratic Republican.
Mr.. Greeley places this matter upo1
the right ground in letter dated JUNE
II, 1872:
l have no possible claim to democrat
ic support and never made any. Th'
democrats will of course, be governed
by a consideration of their own inter
ests. 1t is nowise proper or probable
that they should be influenced in ma
king their decision by any considera
ton personal to myself, and If they
could be l do not desire it. Hence
have said nothing to any democrat un
less he first addressed me. and ever
then, I have gone no further than te
saw that, if 1 should be elected, 1 wonle
treat all those who supported ne alike
not asking whether they had been III the
past republicans or democrats. Yours
HORACE GREELEY.
L.CoSSEE, w. T.. July IL, 1872
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