"We would, if the thing were possible, exclude the word Democracy altogether as unnecessary, and apt to mislead. 'We committed a great mistake,' said JOHN C. CALHOUN to us in 1840, 'when we dropped the name Republican and suffered ourselves to be called Democrats; names are things, and by adopting the name Democrat, we are led to substitute Democracy for the Constitutionalism founded by our fathers.' The Jeffersonian party, in JEFFERSON's days, never went by the name of the Democratic party, and to call, in our younger days, a member of that party a Democrat, was regarded as an insult. The party called itself officially Republican, and never assumed generally the name Democratic till the reelection of ANDREW JACKSON in 1832, when an effort was made to assimilate the American Republican party to the Democratic party of Europe."
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The New York Times “WHAT IS DEMOCRACY?--ARE WE A DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE?; Democracy not an American Idea--The Fallacy of the Democratic Party--Its Failure and Final Extinction--A Republic Sustained by Justice, the American Idea” p. 5 (Feb. 28, 1864), NYT quoted Mr. Hickey from the Brownson's Quarterly Review
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