Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-11-10

public mind, defeatsth popular voice
by chicanery and fraud. and subyert
popular government and establish an
imperial monarchy upon its ruins.
A distinguished author on national
ethics said "The greatest dangers are
not always the most apparent; but
few observers can doubt that the grav-
est danger now threatening us as ma.
ton is the supplanting of our cherished
theory of government of, by and for
the people by new system, namely,
government OF, by and for party. In
fact, party has already usurped the
throne, and the dictates of spurious
party morality are loudly proclaimed
as the doctrines of national ethics"
This is strictly applicable to the Re.
publican party under the rule OF its oil
garchy of radicals. They have been in
power so long that they begin to think
that the government belongs TO them
as matter of exclusive right. The
theory that the government originated
from the people, was made by them
aud for them, has been perverted, and
according TO the ethics of this party
the government is from aud by and for
this political party. When the ques-
ton of any public measure arises with
the highest officials of this party it Is
not "ls il required by the welfare and
safety of the country and authorized
by the Constitution" but the chief
inquiry made is "Will 1t advance the
interest of the Republican party or
tend to secure its success" II it will
do this then it is all right.
Washington in his farewell address,
warning the country in the most sol
emn manner against the dangers of
sectional parties and the baleful effects
of party spirit, said: "The alternate
domination of one faction over anoth.
er, sharpened by the spirit of revenge
natural to party dissensioDs, which, in
different ages aud countries, has per.
petra,ed the most horrid enormiIies,
is itself frightful despotism. But
this leads at length to more formal
aud permanent despotism. The disor'
ders and miseries which result gradu.
ally incline the minds of men TO seek
security and repose in the absolute
power of an individual, and sooner or
later the chief of some prevailing fac
ton, more able or more fortunate than
his competitors, turns this disposition
to the purposes of his own elevation
on the ruins of public liberty
The people of this country have the
highest earthly motives TO profit by
these warnings Of the Father of His
Country" aud preserve the institutions
under which the country has grown
and prospered and advanced, not only
in greatness and power, but in the arts
and improvements and in all that ele-
YATES, fefnes aud ennobles civilized
man. In this vast country, from the
Atlantic to the Pacific ocean and from
the lakes Of the North to the Gulf OF
Mexico, is the grand seat and abode
for the freedoms aud civilization of n
homogeneous population progressing
in their onward course of development
and improvement under the free iusti-
tutions of our Federal Union Of re.
publican States. But if this progres-
sive development is to be stayed and
defeated by the chickering's and wran-
glings of sectional parties and factions
for the offices, bonors and emolumenis
of the government, this vast scope OF
country will become the seat of dis
severed and discordant States, of jar
ring, rival and hostile dynasties and
factions--a vast theatre of constantly
recurring strife and contention and
warfare. dishearteuing to the patriot
and pbilanthropist, and ultimately
overthrowing the last great expert
ment of man for free government.