The modernity appeared in the Central and East Europe in 19th century mainly in the form of imported, political (or meta-political) language. In the Polish context this process was accelerated by phenomenon, known as “the Great Emigration”. In the result of collapse of the November Uprising against Russia (1830-1831), thousands of former soldiers decided to go to France or to the UK, where they participated in public life and acted in contact with the forms of modern political language of that time. The biggest and probably the most important group, which emerged between the emigrants, was the Polish Democratic Society (Towarzystwo Demokratyczne Polskie), created in 1832. It was the first political organization in Europe and second in the world with the adjective ”democratic” in its name. My considerations focuses on the discovering of political modernity by the representatives of Polish Democratic Society, basing on the journals (for instance “Polish Democrat” - Demokrata Polski) and on the handwritten circulars (Okólniki) from the 1830s and 1840s. Firstly, my intention is to take into account new words with suffix “-ism”, which emerged in political language of the Polish Democratic Society, first of all after translations from French. Probably the pivotal “-ism” in this context is the word “democratism”, understood in the broad sense, not only as the form of government, but likewise as a program of far-reaching rebuilding of the social structure. Secondly, I want to scrutinize, how the representatives of Polish Democratic Society discovered new potential forms of the political organization, which went beyond the previously forms of coteries and factions, well-known during the period of rules of Polish nobility (16th-18th century). And thirdly, I tend to show the redefinitions of political concepts: for example “fatherland” in the Polish Democratic Society’s political thought ceased to mean only individual or family goods and started to matter whole country and public sphere as well. My ceasura results is due to two important events, which had an impact on Polish Democratic Society: in the period 1846-1848 the insurrectionary attempts on the Polish grounds suffered defeat and, in 1849, in aftermaths of a strong commitment of this group in the Spring of Nations the Centralization (the decision-making organ inside organization) was forced to leave France and moved to London.
