Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-08-09
What genuine Democracu is.

The following letter of Mr.. Salmon P. Chase,
whom the Democrats and Free Sellers of the Ohio
Legslar ure coalesced to make Senator of the
United States, is useful to show at least one
phase of that intangible and mutiform thing call
ed Democracy, and ought to satisfy all candid men
that the efforts sometimes made TO convince the
Southern people that the Democratic party of the
North is sounder than the Wing party of the
North, are wholly illusory:
LocKpoRr, July Z, 1851.
MY DEAR SIR: regret exceedingly that i'll health
OF member of my family will make it impossible for
me to attend the Democratic Convention to be held at
Wilmington on the 18th inst Few things would give
me more sasf faction than be present on that coca.
sion and confer freely with my fellow citizens upon the
course OF action which faithful adhesion to Democratic
principles now demands; and it is with rea reluc lance
that rellpquish the hope OF being with you
Ceaseless efforts made in certain quarters to
commit the Democracy to the support the Compro-
mise of the last Congress- aGoped under the
auspices and through the influence of the existing
Wing Administration. These efforts NAV be- attrn.
ded with temporary and partial success but thew
duVance IN any way the Democratic cause, hasten
me triumph nj Democratic principles; on the contrary
Just so lar as they succeed they will in nv Judgment
debase the aims, lower the standard and depress the
energies OF the Democracy.
The Compromise measures stand condemned bv de-
moerac principles The assumption of the State Debt
OF Texas; the conversion of the National Free Ter
MO OlaVe lerruOry; the attemp tetter
the discretion of future Congresses in respect to the ad
mission OF new States; the omission cure the in
habanS OF the territories the full endowment of
the nalenabe rights of life, liberty and the pursuit OF
happiness and the assumption of unconstu onal
IN the enactment OF the odous Fugitive Slave Bill can.
not be successfully defended. Who believes that anv
Democrat would attempt defence of them, were it
not Tor the imagined necessity of conciating slave.
holding support to national nominations for the Pres-
dency and the Vice Presidency
But 1t must be remembered that this support NAV be
purchased too dearly. There is a great body OF Dem.
ocrats, who will never consent to subugaon to the
Slave Power, and their number increases continually
They will, if need be prefer independent action under
a truly Democratic banner, and upon thoroughly
Democratic PLATFORM to surrender of Demo cratic
principles for the sake OF mere party success
trust that the Democracy Of Clinton will tand by
the Democratic faith in its broadest development -
They are not the men, would hope, shrink from
any Just application of the principles OF Jefferson II
has become fashionable in quarters to deprecate
the father OF American democracy, and to disparage
the goons truths which he embodied in the Declare
ton OF Independence. The Democracy OF Clinton,
trust, viii follow no such bad example but stand.
ing together upon the broad platform of equal rights
ana exact Justice tor all and special privileges for any,
maintain their consistency and their honor-under all
ieGcumsiances-whelher, for the time prosperous or
aoVefse' Consistency and honor preserved, ennobe
| success and dignity defeat.
x,, 4 ours, very sincerely, S. P CHASE
| W. /. IILLINGHAsT, Esq