Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-11-20
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crate party, during the long period OF Its
power, was the high ground it always main
tained on all questions touching the rights, the
dignity, and the greatness OF tho Republic. 1t
~, Mes TINS, perhaps, more than any other one
thing which 50 endeared the party to the
American people, and caused 1t to he so deep
ly rooted Ia their pride and affections.
Almost at the very time when MesSrs
Webster and Everett were lnnOyating upon
the temper OF the Wing party by trying to in
spire it with the popular Democratic spirit on
foreign questions, smother Whig OF great pro-
mtnence made carefully prepared statement
OF his objections To the Democratic party, un-
der hve heads, Its foreign policy standing first
IN the list. There was the usual partizan un-
falfness and distortion In the incuipatiOn but
It Is the habit OF partisans to color, and exaR-
geHate facts rather than invent them that
statement OF an enemy IS, with proper abate-
mentsb valuable attestatiOn Of what we have
Deen saying OF the foreign policy of the DEM
| ocratlc party. He begins the first head of &c.
/ cuSatiOn, as follows tt. .-I.t.fT
The party calling itself Democratic party,
IS, as regard to foreign powers, the more bel
ilgeTent and aggressive party. 1t takes delight
IN shaking rs hsts ID the face OF mankind in
general 1t made all the foreign wars in which
our country has been involved since her de-
pendence was acknowledged.
Certain 1t is that lame and pusill animous
party, party that has ever failed to assert
national rights, and maintain the national
honor, would not be assalled in this way The
impetuouS partisan rhetoric about shaking
hStss DC, Is mere cOlOFing. What Is charged
IN substance Is an excess of national spirit
but none OF the successive parties opposed to
accusation.
| What Is said of the foregoing arragnmeni
about foreign wars, Is true and it might have
been added with equal truth, that, up tC
that tme, every foot OF new foreign
territory had been acquired by the DemocTa-
tic party. Had the policy OF is opponents
prevailedi our western boundary would now
ba the Mississippi river, and our Southern
boundary an extension on the line which d.
vldes Georgia from Florida. AS to the for
elgn wars, they were successful wars, and thei
record forms the most glorious pages Of oul
national history. The Democratic party ma!
be stiRmatZed as tie party of territorial a.
gradizement, as the party, Of manifest des
tiny" but It will always remain true that
was the maker OF our history and the create
OF our national greatness. We continue til
quotation from its vehement accuser
'In its secret councils the wrestlRg o
Texas from MEXICO, and her annexation t.
this country, were plotted. There thu
} Mexican war was preelpitated by th
J absurd claim that Texas extended to TIA
Rio Grande del Norte, aud BY sending Generu
TAYLOR down TO take post in the very heart {
a Mexican department, under the guns Of il
capital. 10 those councils peace vas refused I
Mexico aflsr she had besn healen into a cOneei
sion of the Rio Grande boundary, unless sh
!, would further consent 10 sell as vast aeFes {
. TERRITORY which il was not even pretended tbs
/ she owed ua, which by offering her fifteen mi
lions therefor. oar Tulers plainly confessed tbs
we had no Just title to- In those council
were plotted the several invasions Of Cub
: under the pretenss that her inhabiInn
: pined for delieveranes IION Spanish asceI
. dancy." . .
The impas3iOned mixture Of truth and plat
b sible exaggeation, bears ia the same generi
9 direction as the preceding extract. With a
its partisan bitterness, it gives reluctant test
mony to the sense Of Justice by which the Dent
cratic foreign policy was alwayS tempere'
= When the whole OF Mexico. pFOstrated by oil
+ brilliant victories, WAS in our power aud v
J, might have appropriated every square nile
n it without resistance, we OfeEed and gave ia
g compensation for all we acquired which wi
j not involved in the original dispute. As
. Cuba. it was aagrant brrach ef candOr 10 bO
y the Democratic party responsible for the fl
: clustering expeditions. Two Democratic Q,
. ministFalions offered TO purchase Cuba Of Spa
L on terms which were not only liberal, but gene
: ols; aud the Spanish Government made a gre
9 mistake in rejecling those olferS.
The able Whrig writer from whom we haN
I quoted was fully aware Of the great populari
It Of the Democratic policy, and in his defence
, VI 'hs Uhik party iOA oPPueiuB IL oS eoiu' Al
: is not the way TO win huzzas and elections, y
: il IL often The course dictated by duty and ge
Il uine patriotism. Homer, then, TO that par
4 which has repeatedly dared to stem the mi
D. torrent Of revenge and lust Of conquest, aud
II receive into lis bosom The darts aim'
d at foreign people, states aud natiOns"
Notwithstanding the vigorous, but vain
g VsciiVes aimed at the Democratic party, Il
y sober judgement Of the American people, loo
: ing back upon the events Of their history, a
= proves and indorses the vigorous foreign poll
which was 30 Vehenently malianed. II
IS whole country is proud OF the Democratic va
10 and it would not part with an inch Ofthe Deu
cratic acquisitionsof foreign territory.