The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-08-20
Grus Nortl)erner.
PAW Paw. MIcnlGAS, AUG. 20, 1875,
ST.. Louis AUGUST eth, 1875.

ST.. Louis AUGUST 9TH, 1875.
Special Correspondence of the True Northerner.
1t has been the boast of the Demo
cracy that they never changed but re-
NAMED fixed in the principles their
fathers taught them. This might yet
be true if We could determine the pa
ternity OF the various Democracy, for
as in some sections it is not always an
easy matter to determine the RESPONSE
bic sire of certain offspring, SO it is
matter of dispute as to what particular
set of fathers should be attributed the
variegated Democracy of to day. Most
of them swear bv General Jackson and
then swear at every good thing the lr'
rascible old hero taught them, repudla-
ting here and elsewhere not only his
Spartan patriotism and devotion to the
Union. but also his financial theories
Doubtless could his martial spirit re-
visit the glimpses of the Moon and hear
himself charged with the paternity OF
such Democracy as we now have, some
energetic "by the Eternals would hill
the air. To attribute the paternity OF
anv of its phases to Jefferson, would be
libel on that good mans memory,
while all it's traits point to such men as
Calhoun, Toombs and jeff. Davis as its
fathers. or foster fathers. There very
clearly is "A remarkable likeness between
the teachings and conduct of such men
and the thing called Democracy as il.
Illustrated in Missouri, where it remains
essentially.
THE SAME STRAIGHT BoURRoNDIsM
it was years ago when those men were
its acknowledged leaders, forgetting
nothing, aud learning nothing. Having
studied aud witnessed its manifestations
here under all circumstances where men
are wont to give expression to their
real character and sentiments, l have
failed to discover any marked differ
ence between the party of the present
and that which mobbed Union men in
the streets of this city in 81, or earlier
forced its piraticsl code on the protest.
ing settlers of a neighboring territory,
and it bears striking likeness to that
which threatened to destroy the coun-
try in '32.
The merely transient or casual ob.
server might be readily deceived as to
the real status of the party, for want
ing votes, Offices, power, it ordinarily
uses plausible words, and
smooth of assimilation, skilled to grace
A DEVILS purpose with angels face :
but driven to the wall where it is for.
ced to declare itself more explicitly, as
in party conclaves and deliberative
bodies, its true character is revealed
and the same revolutionary doctrines of
the part, the same ultra State Rights
theories and the same.
aEpUGNAYCE TO NATIONAL SUPREMACY
pergade its ranks with the same refrac-
tory tendencies as in the days of uullif-
cation, or as on the day when the first
Dem )cratic volly was fired on the Union
flag at fort Sumpter. Facts stubbornly
prove the foregoing statements. In
the State Constitutional Convention,
which adjourned last Monday, over
whelmingly Democratic(D We might
have expected, il anywhere, some au-
thortatlve erldence of conversion from
the vagaries of the past and an une.
qniyocal expression of devotion to the
Union if such exist in the party In
stead of this the first act of the body
was one of insult to every Union senti
ment of the country, in choosing for its
presiding officer defiant, venomous,
unpardoned rebel, and its first official
act was one of hostility to national au
thoriry, in rejecting from the Bill of
Rights, Section 6 of that now in force
in tue existing Constitution, declaring
That this State shall ever remain
member of the American Union that
the people thereof are part of the
American nation; and that all attempts
from whatever source, or upon what
ever pretoxt to desolyt said Union, or
to sever said nation ought to be resisted
with the whole power of the State ;"
and Section I declaring:
" That every citizen OF this state
owes paramount allegiance to the con.
stitutions and government of the United
States and that no law or ordinance of
this state in contravention or subver.
sion thereof can have any binding force"
Not content with rejecting the above,
containing nothing Objectionable to any
man or party accepting in good faith,
the results of the war, the Convention
also voted dewn proposed new Sec
ton embodying in one, precisely the
language of the two as quoted, refusing
to admit it by the decisive vote of 48
to only s ayes
This discussion preceding the vote
called forth the most refractory senti.
ments of opposition to the supremacy of
the Union, and the Bill Of Rights as
adopted, stops but little short of declar-
ing the state absolutely sovereign and
independent, going as far in that direc.
ton as deemed safe, or expedient. And
whoever supposes that the party as
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