The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-10-23
WHOLE NO. 1879.
publican as Horatio Seymour is a modern

publican as Horatio Seymour is a modern
Democrat.
Again, in 1916, the protective policy
was sustained by Lowndes, Calhoun, and
Forsyth, National Republican leaders,
and it was opposed by Mr. Webster and
the New England members. So, in 1924,
Governor Yates, of New York, recon-
mended protection. In 1927 State Con-
vention was held at Albany, which de-
clared it to be the duty of Congress to
pass protective laws; and Ambrose Spen-
Ger, Samuel Young Benjamin Knower.
and other National Republicans were
leading members Was modern Democ-
racy the heir of these views? In 1927
the New York Legislature unanimously
passed resolutions for protection, and
even General jackson wrote that he was
in favor of a 'Judicious" tariff Up to
this time where was the great, original,
American party known as the modern
Democratic? Did the principles (which
are suited to all times and circumstance"
charter a bank in 1915, and destroy it
twenty years afterward2 Did they insist
upon protection from 1916 to $780, and
then proclaim free trade? The Demo-
cratic party, as we of this generation
have known it. the anti-bank, anti-tariff,
anti-internal improvement, hard money
party, was the party of jackson and Van
Buren,. Henry Clay was the last leader
Of the old National Republican organiza-
tion, which merged with Antimasonry in
the Whig party.
But if the Jeffersonian doctrines of the
limited function of government in gen
eral, and of the very narrow bounds of
our national government in particular,
were not acknowledged by the National
Republicans, who chartered the bank
and passed protective tariffs, how much
less has his great cardinal doctrine of
human rights and equality ever been re-
cognized by the Democratic party The
Ohio Democratic platform calmly says
that the party INSISTS upon equal and
exact justice to all men?' Since when?
The antislavery agitation began with the
administration of Jackson All that
Garrison and his friends demanded was
equal and exact justice to all men. But
Jackson s Postmas ter General broke open
the mails to make injustice more secure,
and Van Buren, in his message denounced
| the Abolitionists as provoking popular
indignation" in the implied approval &c
| the mobs and riots that assailed ,ba,',
| j effersonian doctrines EqU~-,, and avaot
jastice to all men! Wihv. from the he.
! ginning the Democra tic or jackson Marty
was the mere flexible machine of slave.
holders, and its policy for generation
/ before the war was monstrous inequality
and absolute injustice. Its adherents
began to suspect it in 1910. They saw IL
clearly in '48 In 1855 those who held to
| the original faith of Jefferson left the
ranks, and united with the Wings in the
Republican party. And now when that
party IS supreme, slavery, despite the
Democratic party, abolished, and the
democratic theory of secession annihi-
| lated, the party of the principles that are
suited to all times and circumstances
oiandiy declares that it holds to equal
and exact justice to all men, which is
precisely as. true as that it is the great.
original, American party.
When the Democratic party last wear
nominated Mr. Greeley it was certainly
comlcal proof that what it now calls its
principles We're suited to all times and
circumstances. 1t announced by that
nomination that it no longer pretended
to any principles but 'the spoils.'r Its
conventions are therefore mere imperti-
nences. They stand for no policy. no
principles. They are only meetings of
poItlclans, whose party name is fatally
associated with the national disgrace of
slavery and who seem to suppose that
by resolving" themselves to be yirtuous
they will be thought by the country safer
guardians of its liberty and peace and
prosperity than those who have secured
liberty and conquered peace. There NAV
be sharp criticism of the Republican
party, and by unwise and reckless ac-
ton its hold upon the country NAV be
relaxed; but so long as the alternative ia
the Republican party or the Democratic.
the Republicans are secure Poor Mr.
Greeley learned that truth last wear and
1T broke his heart.