The Jeffersonian

The Disunion Democracy.

The Democratic party is now led and controlled by the Disunionists of the South and their apologists at the North. There stands the record, and it cannot be ignored or invalidated. Stern history has graven its lines so deep and indelible that public intelligence cannot be deceived, and posterity will not forget. Nearly thirty years ago John C. Calhoun raised the flag of disunion, and his doctrines have continuously gained disciples and force until they have finally acquired absolute mastery of the Democratic party.

To consolidate the more aggressive elements of the slaveholding interests and make it the power by which to control the politics of the National Government, was the cherished expedient of that fertile and powerful brain. And when he went to his grave his views were received and intensified by men less pure and more audacious than himself. To day the very worst type of Calhounism has entire possession of the Southern Democracy, and drives the machinery of the whole party. These controlling agents of the Democracy, now on the floor of Congress, daily threaten disunion, if their views are not approved by the country, and their threats are applauded and apologized for by almost the entire Democratic representation in Congress, and indorsed by their presses; while the Republicans in Congress teach none but the most loyal regard for the Constitution and the Union, and applaud Union sentiments whether they come from the North or the South. By doctrine, by fact, by record, by necessity, the Republican is the real Union party of the country.