Show tim THE DE democratic PARTY ita its Jle jie its practice and policy since die the inauguration of franklin pierce pier CC march ath 1853 SPEECH ECH OF 01 tHON rhon HON JAMES II AkLAN HARLAN OS ot iowa den deU denvert vered verl vert june 22 1859 at t des moines mola city before the republican state FELLOW CITIZENS whether disposed to praise or censure censure the administration of james buchanan and franklin pierce all must admit the responsibility of the Demb democratic cratic party kyfor for foy ae the present condition of public affairs it succeeded eded mr Fill mores morea administration in 1852 by the election of a presidency denti denty a vice president and a majority of the members of both branches of congress the heads of the executive departments and officials throughout the country were promptly superseded by Sy bamo Bemo democratic the appointment of democratic cratic incumbents having complete control of the entire machinery of government it was able to inaugurate and enforce its own peculiar policy the justice and maj majesty esak the good name and fame tame of the great north american americ 1 an republic among tho the nations of the earth were committed to I 1 ils its f keeping clothed with this his great trust it startled th the e ears of the friends of republicanism every where aher and delighted the despots of the old gor Vor orld orid ld b by an unblushing denial of the truth ax 0 the tho I 1 e elementary IT tri trl principles rici ples pies of civil liberty as proclaimed r 0 by the revolutionary fathers ata ala established ab 1 i h e d in the adoption of the federal constitution it t u tion and observed in the administration of the government for three quarters oa of a century it assailed the compromise measures of 1850 it repealed the law extending the principles les ies of the Dedla dedia declaration ration of independence as em embodied 1 in the odin ordinance nce of 1787 west of mississippi river and inaugurated its kansas policy it t enact enacted edby by government officials a slave clave code of laws for fon a free enforced their observance with federal federal bayonets it inaugurated its foreign policy by the bombardment of Grey town fown without authority of law and the fulmination of the ostend Manifest manifesto ol bearing the names of james buchanan and the other ministers plenipotentiary from this government to the great feat powers of E europe u rope as disgraceful in principle as dangerous in practice durin duning during the congress the house of depre representatives senta tives was divided between the Demo democrats grats prats republicans and americans neither had a majority of all its members but the senate and prid all the executive departments of the government go eminent with all their patronage and influence were still in the hands of the democratic party at the close of mr r P pierces reels ministration administration J nii kid in 1855 1835 the democratic party continued its po power by the election of a president a vice president es ident and a majority of the members of the ge house of representatives it maintained its sti supremacy demacy in in the senate and acquired political 12 dominion over the supreme court during this period of more than six years from march ath 1853 to the present moment every department of the government except the houe house of representatives for wo sessions when no party had a majority has been unequivocally in the hands of the democracy A democratic president has presided over a democratic cabinet a democratic vice president over a democratic senate a democratic speaker over a democratic house of representatives presenta tives a democratic secretary of war over the armies of the nation and ind 0 to o construction st tion tiou of her public buildings a D Dim ocra tic secretary of the tile navy over our national fleets a democratic secretary of state and Demorat democratic lc ministers and con ams aws kiei over our foreign policy a democratic secretary lr of the interior over our great grent land whitam krum melons patent office and indian if af fairs a democratic post master blaster Gen general elal eTal over our post office system extending into every city village neighborhood and across the seas a democratic attorney general and sd sil preme court over our judiciary system and national police ramifying all the states and territories a democratic c secretary of the treasury over the custom houses with the immense machinery for collecting the revenues ho vo one man is is exclusively responsible for the acts of this administration whatever of og evil or good we rece receive ivd ive at its hands is not nott attributable individually to nir sir buchanan or douglas in to hunter or toombs Toomb sto to slidell or davis it is due to the past organization to the aggregation of the influence of men of committees of conventions township county state and national which control its machinery it is due dite to the tenacity with which individuals divi duals cling clington to the party name and vote for its nominees eve even n while condemning g its policy and measures it is not mr buchanan alone who has done the mischief of which the whole country is complaining the mahi gahl machinery of government is too vast for this he must have the support of the heads of departments of democrats in the senate in the house housey in the courts in subordinate offices of the hopes and fears of ten thousand score of small politicians who cling to the party name for future preferment it is ohp democratic party which is responsible for the acts of this administration does anyone any one vote for its nominees if so he ia is responsible for its it acts to the full extent of his influence as a citizen you must abandon the organization and repudiate it by your votes to escape responsibility for its acts any other democratic president would have been compelled to do substantially as mr buchanan has done by the democratic party as now constituted 2nd and the democratic party in the free states bas has abandoned all its cherished principles and has adopted anaw anew a new naw platform with a sin single le plank from 1836 to 1854 its distinguishing distinguishing a doctrines were 1 an arx ad valorem valoree duty on ampf imported 0 goodlor good sor or direct taxation her ter the su support of the national government 2 an independent treasury for the safe keeping I 1 of the public money 3 the unrestricted veto by the president presidents 4 opposition ign to the distribution of the proceeds of the sales of the public lands among the states 5 opposition to the construction of works of internal improvement by the federal government ern ment on these questions the american people were divided from maine blaine to oregon and from michigan to texas they were discussed all over the confederacy in every political contest but since 1854 they have been abandoned the whig party has been dispersed and the democratic pay party constructed reconstructed re on a new platform anyone any one now in the free states without regard to his opinions on the tariff bank sub treasury veto power distribution of oc the proceeds of the flie sales of the public lands or internal improvements who concedes the constitutional ri right bt of the slaveholder slave siave holder bolder to emigrate r af e with and oid nold noid old his 8 laves slaves in all of the ferri ferritor nes iea oi of th the republic lle ile public ai is a good democrat A We webster biter mim mig 11 5 a clay whig a native american whig a moderate whig 1 an ultra whig without re canting a aln single le doctrine maintained maintain etl til in 1840 and standing on this his platform is now a good democrat crati nen then these whig measures were as wormwood and gall to the democracy but biow now coupled with the toleration of clavery s lavry I avry in free territory they are sweet as honey in the honey hley comb these old line whigs these national men such as reverdy johnson and pearce and pratt and choate and everett aniu ami J G C jones and benjamin and cling Clingman abd and toombs and stephens and thos bijos W CLAGGETT and H IV starr STARK and 11 0 DEAN are leaders in the democratic party and are gent ent forth to proselyte the nation whether when they have made a proselyte rose lyte he is as the scriptures say twofold more the child of hell than before I 1 will not delay to inquire farther than to remark that ever afterward afterwards it is extremely distasteful tate ful fui to such to hear politics mentioned by the pious in ila their lira prayers or the moral delin quenches quen cies cleg of States statesmen men mev referred to by ministers of the gospel but they have recanted nothing they believe now as they did then with mr jur clay that congress has constitutional power ower to improve i har harbors brors and rivers to distribute th the e proceeds of the sales of the public land and among the states to levy duties so as to favor american workmen ac they have not changed one hairs lairs breadth from the old landmarks of the party but now they are democrats democratic leaders apostles of the faith then they were enemies bitter and unrelenting w with all these political tenets and bothin nothing more they are not now democrats with af all ail of them and something else they are Democrat democrats al what is this ll something else eise that makes the change that converts a bitter opponent of the democracy to a Democrat that transforms a political heathen toa to a political Christ christian lan ian a political demonto demon lemon to an angel of light which like the cloven tongues of eire fire regenerates political heretics by the thousand but without the formality of repentance taice faith or b baptise bap 1 tisa tiara what is 1 a this political alchemy alch aich my wh which 1 19 turns avery very babe baie metal which it touches into gold gold this philosophers lo stone is tile THE tiie EXTENSION OF or SLAVERY INTO rree FREE territories ories this ibis is the only democratic test this is ii the only thing re required in the free states for admission into the democratic fold without this none are eligible to membership with this any one orie is received with acclamations of joy this then is the only essential plank im t n the democratic platform I 1 ad ad the democracy of the free states siane share nave have surrendered the of the W government tio southern men tile the democracy of the slave states control every department of the government legislative executive and judicial here is 19 an official list of the 22 standing committees of the senate as arranged at the last session of congress on foreign relations masony mason va chairman boug douglas slidell Sll sil deil dell polk crittenden CrIttonden 3 sward sew ard foot on finance mr sir hunter va vas chair chairman many mani pearce G gwing win fin bright brighty hammond Fessender Fe senden is cameron on com Oom commerce merce mr clay aia ala v chairman bigler toombs reid keld alien allen baralla na ralla chandler on military atra Afra affairs irs mr dayta davig ilis ills chairman gitzpatrick ritz patrick Ju linson ark art chestnut Chestnu tj bred orick erick allson king onnatal On Naval navai affairs mr mallory flat fiat pla chairman thompson N J slidell sli Sll dell deil allen alien hammond belr belt liale hafe on the bayard del chairman pu puga hj green clingman collamer Gol goi lamer iamer on post office and aad post Roads yulee yuleen Tulee chairman fla tia bigler gwin rice nice wardi ward hiie halet haley dixon on public lands landa stuart chairman johnson ark tenn chestnut roster foster harian harlan II arlan on private land claims claim benjamin benjamins la chairman polk shields thompson ky durkee on indian Af affairs fIrs sebastian ark artt chairman drown brown fitch pitch rice nice bell beut houston doolittle on pensions pens Peni lons ions jones iowa lowas chairman airman cb thompson NJ cly clay oly bates thompson ky fotter potter king on re claims shi shields elds minn c chairman ha irman date bate crittenden barkee chandler on claim f verson ga chairman mallory ward simmons clark OB on jbf tb of 0 columbia brown ass 31 maton madon on Johnson Tenn kennedy Hamb hambling lins walso on Paten this thit ht patent domce RII ril NC na chairman ma f J toombs on public buildings add idd grounds bright ind chairman davig davis douglas douclas don Doo clas kennedy mark dark on territories green mo moy chair ch linnan mans mang D Oo u lal ial j jones ones wismer Cl lamer iamer wads we do to sujit and control the contingent espouses of the sent Seni senata senate ito its wright N X J chairman Jo johnson huson tenn dixon fitch filch ind chairman cameron on engrossed bills bill wright N X J chairman usler narlan harlan on en enrolled daig jonesi jones iowa chal chai chairman chalsma rma doolittle browni i on the ithe library iea jea pearce recep 94 tid chairman rayard fes Fea fessenden senden of the 20 chairmen of these committees who control the ug legislative business of the senate 14 ari arb are from the slave states and 6 from the free states the 14 representing a white constituency of about and the ghe fhe 6 a constituency 0 between thirteen and fourteen millions the same injustice to the overwhelming wh elming millions of people and capital in the free states was maintained in the organization cf of the committees commit ees of the house of representatives the ile president of the senate and speaker of the house were both southern democrats the legislation of both branches branch ea of congress Congre sawas was thus placed under the control of the southern democracy the su supreme reme remd court of the united states is composed oe nine judges five of them are from the slave states and four from the free states the judicial circuits are so formed as to require lre ire the appointment of a majority from slaveholding communities embracing less than one third of the white population of the country leaving the minority to represent the fe feelings elinia and public opinion of more than t two WO thirds of the people and the business of the nation of the heads of the seven executive departments of the government four are from the slave states and three from the free states the di disparity in the patronage they control I 1 is much greater than the disparity in their relative number the secretary of war the secretary of the interior the S secretary creta r y of the treasury and the post M master aster ister general all from slave states disburse four fifths of the public treasure and control the appointment of more than nike nine nine tenths of the offic officers ers of the government leaving the people of the free State states with a rt presentation representation without numerical power and almost destitute of official patronage D ath the increase of the expenses of the government under thit this southern democratic rule has teen been enormous and unnecessary this is manifest from a comparison of the expenses for the last six years with preceding years the expenses since june 1843 to july 1 1857 were as follows ye teal yeal is expenditures xela excle total sive alye of debt 1843 1841 4 20 01 sa olo 85 1844 6 71 1815 1845 6 69 90 1846 7 1569 37 74 1847 8 tl 77 6 19 9 1843 1643 9 2933 61 74 71 1849 0 09 44 25 1850 1 48 21 1851 1651 1 2 56 83 1652 3 35 64 74 1854 4 Sl 4 68 1 8 5 4 5 72 2 96 1 S 1 6 45 43 72 67 1856 7 78 ST the secretary of the treasury in hla hia last annual report keport see sed seg sec paga page 2 fidance finance report says I 1 the tb fiscal cicil JT loor ending nta ala june juns on go ism were alloi the expenditures ot of the first quarter of 0 the current fiscal year ending seir 30 1858 1853 were 21 the estl matei matel darine darlne the remaining three thieo quarters to june jane SO 30 1859 ar are P making in all actual and estimated forthe for the present year but he proceeds proc eeds ceda 0 to o say kay ito to this estimate should be added the cm sum |