Year: 1859

In entering upon the struggle Of life and as
suming the duties and privileges which attach
to the citizen. the young men of the country
should not overlook the important obligations
which rest upon them, with reference to the
State Each individual citizen is a sovereign,
and in the discharge Of the duty imposed upon
him as an elector. he performs one Of the high
est acts of sovereignty. By the simple ballot,
deposited in the box he not only makes choice
of men for public servants, but he expresses
his opinion o. public measures, approving or con-
demning as to him may seem meet and proper.
lie ought not to vote through predjudce, whim
or caprice, but seek to give effect 10 such policy
as he, in his best Judgment, believes to be the
most effective to promote virtue and integrity
in the politics Of the State, and secure the bes-
sings of Liberty and free government to HIM
self and to his posterity.


Parties have existed, and always will exist
IN government like ours, and the simple ques-
ton for young men 10 ask is, which OF the po-
litcal organizations is the best calculated TO
promote the interests Of the people, and secure
the blessings of Constitutional liberty. A can
did and impartial reference to the history OF
the past, will, we are quite sure, solve this i'm
Ep0rtant question to the satisfaction Of the can
did inquirer. The government Of the United
States is peculiar TO itself, and is better adap-
ted to protect the citizen in the enjoyment OF
his rights of conscience and his person, proper
ty and liberty, than any other government now
existing or that has heretofore existed. We
have grown under cur free institutions as no
other nation ever did. We are still in our very
infancy asa nation, and yet occupy a position
as one Of the first powers of the earth. With
but slight intermissions and those for brief Pc


ho -, nf+ tod
has been the controlling power aud has guided
The administration Of public affair All the va
rious parties thal have been organized against
it, have failed to supplant it in the confidence Of
the people, and almost every distinctive measure
advanced by it, has been approved and placed
upon the statute books OF the nation, as the
rule Of conduct for the government of public
men, while the measures submitted to the peo-
pie by the opposition party by whatever name
| it may have been known, have been invariably,
after discussion before the people, rejected by
them. Its, therefore, apparent, that all we
have and are as nation, our growth, prospeIi-
ty and distinction we owe to the menahd mea-
sures Of the Democratic party. AT several Pc
RODS in our history faction has shown its bra
zen front, and occasionally, for brief period
dark clouds have appeared in the political hori-
son. but the Democratic Party has, in every E.


nergency, stood by the Constitution and sus-
tanned successfully the Union of the States.


With its glorious antecedents, its rehown
and fidelity to Jaw and order, it may we'll in-


vte tue young men of the country to an exam


nation Of its principles, and invoke them to
join its standard. 1t is the only party that has


a record, and TO that its votaries may point with


pride, That record is the growth, expansion


and glory this nation, through the policy and
administrative success Of the Democratic States.
men Of Ameriea,-n- SLntesQ7an. ... ~