In The Minds Of Thorough Democrats It Will Be
Considered Much That The Poorest Man Of The People Should Be Enabled
To Go Into The Legislature, If Such Poorest Man Be Worthy Of That
Honor.
I am not a thorough democrat, and consider that more would
be gained by obtaining in the legislature that education, demeanor,
and freedom from political temptation which easy circumstances
produce.
I am not, however, on this account inclined to quarrel
with the democrats - not on that account if they can so manage their
affairs that their poor and popular politicians shall be fairly
honest men. But I am a thorough republican, regarding our own
English form of government as the most purely republican that I
know, and as such I have a close and warm sympathy with those
Transatlantic anti-monarchical republicans who are endeavoring to
prove to the world that they have at length founded a political
Utopia. I for one do not grudge them all the good they can do, all
the honor they can win. But I grieve over the evil name which now
taints them, and which has accompanied that wider spread of
democracy which the last twenty years has produced. This longing
for universal suffrage in all things - in voting for the President,
in voting for judges, in voting for the Representatives, in
dictating to Senators - has come up since the days of President
Jackson, and with it has come corruption and unclean hands.
Democracy must look to it, or the world at large will declare her to
have failed.
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