Year: 1873

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What are those glorious triumphs ol
the Democratic party that Gen. Ewing
says they once had? The Democratic
party came in with jackson He did not
| quite take the name. He called himself
| "Democratlc-R Republican" But the party
eventually took the name of Democratic
and We shall not dispute its legitimate
descent from the jackson party. Its first
triumph was in electing jackson a man
of violent temper, if not quite a reputab BILE
character, and of no qualifications for
civil authority save that he had been a
successful soldier. His reign was that OF
personal absolutism. No Democrat dared
to have free soul in his time.


In his headstrong ways, he had so little
regard for public decorum that he broke
up his Cabinet because of a woman whom,
for some cloud upon her fame, some OF
them would not call on.


The financial agent of the government
was the United States Bank, with
branches in every State, whose notes fur
nished currency of equal value. This
fiscal and monetary system worked well,
and the country was prosperous. Jack
son made war on it, broke it up. put the
public money into pet State banks, and
encouraged a bank expansion which
brought on rage of speculation, and at
length collapsed by the breaking up of
all the banks, leaving the country in
bankruptcy, trade and industry ruined, a
large part of the people in the Sheriff s
hands, and all enterprise and confidence
so prostrated that property was unsala-
BILE, the wages of labor more fit for slaves
than freemen, and farm produce almost
unstable at any price.


This is the second glorious Democratic
triumph 1t was like the scourge of
Attilla. Perhaps we should number this
the third; for on top of the paper money
imitation jackson was reelected The
ruin he wrought overthrew his.successor,
Van Buren,. That was notaea glorious
Democratic triumph. 1t was the upris-
ing of a people brought to unusual dis
tress by the mad pranks of bull-headed
tyrant. We suppose that Tyler will not
be numbered as a Democratic triumph.
The next glorious triumph was the cleo
ton of Polk The triumph was over all
the prominent men in the party. The
election was carried partly by the war
cry of "The whole of Oregon or war;"
after which they speedily gave to Great
Britain the bigger half; and partly by
the cry in Pennsylvania of "Poik, Dallas,
and the tariff of AZ, which tariff they
Immediately broke down, thus inflicting
another blow on the country S prosperity.


Polk, in defiance of the Constitution,
which makes Congress the war making
power, made war by ordering the army
to invade unoffending Mexico. The Dem
ocratic party sustained him in this for
that party Ulways regarded the Constitu-
ton as of no consequence when it was in
power. Whig Generals carried off the
military glory of the war, and one of
them, Gen. Taylor, was elected President.
We suppose this is not counted as glo-
rious triumph of the Democratic party.
The party made the war, for the purpose
of party capital. but Whig generalship
turned it against them. But we doubt
If even Folks election is classed as a glo-
rious Democratic triumph; for there was
a general feeling of disgust with him in
the party, and the common expression
was mo more Polk. "a


Then came Buchanan. With these we
had the glorious Democratic triumphs of
the fugitive slave law, which enlisted
gangs of slave hounds in the North; the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise, the
civil war in the Territories, in the at
tempt to extend slavery into them under
the Douglas juggle of squatter sov,
ereignty the long attempt to force the
Lecompton border ruffian Constitution
on the people of Kansas, followed by the
disgrace of the tool of all this plot, the
division of the party in the Charleston
Convention, its defeat and disgace, the
plunging Of the Southern part into war
to break up the republic, and the treaeh-
erous attempts of the Northern part to
tie the hands of the government in its
defense .;.rsf


These are the glorious triumphs of the
Democratic party. Its reign has always
been destructive. When it found the
country in state of prosperity, it went
to work to destroy it. 1t got up was
cry merely to carry an election, recklesr
f the destruction it brought upon ma
terial interests. The greater part of its
regime was either war upon The busi-
ness of the country, an agitation for
foreign war, or a civil war in the Terri !
tories. 1t would never let the country


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