ОР MODERN DEMOCRACY: HISTORY ነ OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, FROM ITS ORGANIZATION IN 1825, TO ITS LAST GREAT Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by N. C. MILLER, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York. J. J. REED, Printer and Stereotyper, 43 Centre Street. my 14H PREFACE. THE design of this work is to expose a mischievous delusion. Nearly forty years ago was formed a political party, styled by its projectors and leaders, "The Democratic Party." Under faithless pledges of reform it came into power, and, with the exception of a few brief intervals, has since had control of the Government. During its rule incalculable injury has been inflicted upon the country. The currency has been repeatedly deranged; these derangements having been attended with their natural concomitants, financial embarrassments, commercial revulsions, and bank suspensions; the national industry has been several times prostrated, and the general prosperity interrupted; the constitutional rights of citizens have been infringed; the faith of treaties has been violated; free territory has been conquered in aggressive wars, consigned to Slavery, and annexed to the Union; political heresies have been propagated; and corruption has, to an alarming extent, been introduced into the Government. These are a part of a long succession of evils which has marked the career of this party, and which at length culminated in this Rebellion. All this has been done in the abused name of Democracy, to which this party lays exclusive claim. It was defeated in the con 3735 M130114 |