Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1880 — Detocqueville, a very able French [ARTICLE]

Detocqueville, a very able French

writer, has very timely eaid that in a republio there can be hot two political parties namely, the parly of progression and the party of con*

servetism. Other parties may flourish tor a brief period but cannot have an extended lite or ent a figure in the history of the country. The Republican and Democratic are the political parties of the present day, and It only remains to show which of these two is progressive and which conservative. A brief review of the history of ths Democratic party will reveal the fact that it without doubt Is the stationary party in this republic. Iu principles, professions and history from the time of Jefferson icflhe present bays tended to rivet the firmer her chains to worn-out dogmas of bygone days, to institutions which bear upon their face the stamp of the dark ages, and to bobbies which turn the wheels of progress back over a period of one hundred years and make this government an inconsistency within itself It still preserves the absurd theories of Jefferson, that we should have a rn-boat navy and a skeleton army. through four years of civil war clung to the principle and institution of haman slavery. Its strength to-day lies in tbe war-scaired predicts of the rebellious states, and the electric edicts of southern brigadiers frequently sends convulsive throbs through the Indiana tail of the democratic kite. Its every aot in the formation of the constitution, and since the formation of that instrument, proves it lo be the friend to that hydra headed state sover ignty doctrine, which we supposed had received a death blow when the constitution was fouud. The jewels in the crown of the Demo, cratic party are tarnished, and no profession in its latter day platforms will brighten them. £very man should look carefully, before voting and learn the party whose past history, proves it to be a friend to progress, and equality of rights. As Gen. Garfield, has said we want you to join us in lifting into the serene firmament of the con stitution, to shine like stars forever and ever, the -immortal principles of truth and justice, that all men. white and black shall be free and stand eqnal before the lew.