The Phoenix herald., 1880-09-10

publican with National as prefix.
 But there really was m change but
 in the designations. The Demo-
 crats were getting nearer to the
 masses, while the National Repub-
 lie,A were orly the old FederaIists
 in disguise. Andrew Jackson
 Democrat, was elected in 1928 by
 a large majority in the Flee oral
 College over J. Q. Adams. Jack
 son, in pursuance of the law above
 mentioned, got his second term.
 His competitor on that occasion
 was Henry Cl,y, National Republi- i can. Jackson was succeeded by
 Martin Van Buren in 1886. In
 this year the opposition called it self Whig, not because it expressed any particular tendency of the par
 ty, but because a new name was
 wanted. At this date the institu-
 ton of slavery began to impart to
 politics an intensity not previously y
 known. Martin Van Burcn ought
 to have had his second term, in ac
 cordance with the usual develop ment of parties. but he was beaten by his old competitor, Wm. H. Harrison, in the celebrated hard cider cam Psign of 1840.
 In the next contest the Demo- crats recovered their ascendancy with Polk. who beat Henry Clay by handsome majority. But the alliance with slavery was having it's effect on the Democrats. James G. Birney appeared as tho Liberty candidate against Polk and Clay. but without producing any great effect on the result. Whatever in- huence his candidacy exercised, however, was preiudicial to Clay, the Whig candidate. This third party element gave Van Buren a hint which he was not slow to take. In the election Of 1S4S he run as a Free Soil candidate, and thus wrecked his revenge on the Demo- cratic party and defeated Lewis Caes. The President elected how ever, was General Taylor a southern man. In the next two contests the Democracy elected its candi dates, Franklin Pierce in 1852 and James Buchanan in 1856. But the party was an absurd patchwork. It up. held the rights of man in the North and the lash in the South. It was equally insincere upon all econom- ical questions of import lnce.
 Meanwhile the party of liberty under the discarded name of Repub- licans was gradually forming in the North. In 1860, by the divis- ions which grew up among the pro slavery Democrats, it elected its candidate. Abraham Lincoln. It stai ted off with the same momen- tum exhibited by double terms in the old Republican party of Jeffer- son, to which, in vigor of thought and aggressivcness, it was very sim ilar. It elected Lincoln twice and after him Grant twice. Had it not been for the selfish ambition of it's leaders, and, in a lesser sense, the of some, which always begin 10 tell on a party in the middle part of it's life, it would have elected q President the last time who would now be a candidate for reelection, with q certainty of success. The break in its ranks in 1876 was not as severe as that of the old Republicans in 1924, when J. c. Adams. the coal ition candidate, got in. The new party barely elected their ! President in 1876. This is mani l fcsted by the open and candid posi- ton which General Garfield has taken on the Chinese question, while | Hancock maintains d sus picious silence The Democratic party of to-day is q party of false pre- fences. It is really the ariStocratic 1 party. II is the defender of privilege and caste, and IS masQuerading in false name. The Republican party las as long a career before il as the ,ld Republican party which gradu- lily shaded off into the Democratic party. II has claims on the support of the country, which nothing but he grossest incompctency can set side for many years to come--S. r. Bulletin.
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