The National Democratic Party: Its History, Principles, Achievements, and Aims (Classic Reprint)

In all its departments it is administered by their agents, chosen from their ranks, and chosen by themselves, cither directly or indirectly. Under such a government, political parties necessarily arise either as representatives of some particular theory of government, or as advocates of some special or temporary policy. The student of the history of the first century of our national existence, cannot fail to be strongly impressed by the indestructible vitality of the Democratic Party. I t, alone of all parties, has a history co-extensive with that of the Federal Constitution, and its most unreasoning foe will scarcely claim that it shows as yet any symptoms of dissolution or decay. This is not accidental. It can have no other rational explanation than that the party has been, from the beginning, the guardian and defender of some fundamental principle, or principles, of free government, in whose truth and permanence it has found its life and its growth.
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