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Show .uctrw-'aa ide-pendence was !':rt write-.-.; and thumb-red into the cars' u tl- t-..:j;f.!!e-.t j. nnu-nt then fn: t-artii ; - i-ii tt'.ey wore watered by-the by-the blood shi-d throti-h a buiL- and' tediums war finally established in the Constitution of the United States, rhc principles of the American Democracy Dem-ocracy began to promulgate and to bless the whole world by their bene-ficient bene-ficient inlhienr.es. To be a Democrat and a tine one one must of necessity be a firm believer in that Sacred Document framed by those of the greatest men that have ever lived. These immortal im-mortal men have studied well the history of ancient free governments:! and directed by what seems more than human wisdom, for they set forth those inalienable rights and priveleges of freemen which arbitrary arbi-trary power can never successfully or long wrest from them while the people peo-ple remain true to themselves, and faithful to their political trusts. 1 adhere to a strict construction of the Constitution because I believe hit- -man rights and liberties have the same old foe to contend with, and! having safely guided the ship of 1 State through its hitherto unparrled prosperous voyage, I am unwilling to change my principles but bid it Gd speed through the ages to come and serve the same blessed purpose down to the latest period of Time. It was in the Declaration of Independence Inde-pendence and the Constitution that I was taught my first lesson of a True Democrat. County Register's nothing has been said through the column j of your paper about the two political parties,we thell)emocrats and Repub licans, I will give you a few of my ideas, and why I am a Democratic believer. The rise and progress of Democratic principles may be traced far back in the history of ancient government. Their origin the very dawning of the light may be seen in the free government of ancient an-cient Greece and Rome.' Let tie note, hewever, the starting upon American soil by reaton of the attempted at-tempted opprestion of the mother country, and for more than a century cen-tury nurtured and cultivated ilong the Atlantic coast, preceeding the1 American revolution. Even ia Cel-or.ial Cel-or.ial times here in the Western wilds of America, governments were established at a meant of protection "of the people, by the people, and for the people," and this even when the British Soverifn still frettnded to possess the power to grant these God given rights to his dutiful subjects. sub-jects. But when . the Declaration of 1 |