The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-10-22

forms of law arises should not ybrate in much confu-
sion around point OF go much difficulty that OF disso
luton OF our Union No who feels sincerely the ties
OF fraternity which constitute us one people and who al
the same time recognises the danger which would
be produced If sacrificed to those ties the prnc-
Piles OF separate State sovereignty, will scrutinize
severely, or eensure rashly the conscientious doubts
OF those, whether on the one or The other side OF
such question OF duty. who may have gone too far
not far enough in the line OF conduct ultimately recog
Missed by the people the safest and wses This spirit
OF forbearance certainly cherish; and we think we
may confidently appeal 10 the columns OF the Washing
ton Union for the proof that this spirit has in instance
ceased to influence all that have addressed to
readers when endeayorng reconcile every portion OF
the democratic party reunion the platform Of its
old doctrines expounded by Jefferson and Jackson.
But we shall acknowledge that exeons have been
fruess if the ttrasm of the Nashville convention is 10
be considered part of the democratic creed and especi
ally if its authors claim The right to prescribe those who
have aimed TO guard the people against the caames
threatened by such extreme party.
The time, however, has arrived when this iorbearanoe
seems to be no longer invoked for any purpose Of friend
ship or common interest. The people. Judging Of the
motives and dispositions of those who have appealed to
the crisis called for; and opposition to their will is the
announcement thai further agitation is intended and that
the party in the minority will still try to the
tendency due the party oil the majority this fearful
subject Such is the inevitable result Of the demands
put forward by such newspaper organs as the one
we have already quoted from and hence il becomes i'm
portant that the democracy. in whose they profess
to- speak, should know under wha, circumstances it is
hats a.
the agitation of the slavery question: and again the
unsatsed desire of the Nashville convention for remedies
unknown to the constitution.
If the Washington Union has committed an error in
defending Messrs Cobb and Foote as democrats, it has
committed the error in defending Bigler, of Penn
syvana for acquiescence in the Compromise. and its
faithful maintenance the vital points in the positions
of them all isimpossble for thing be democratic
in one section of our Union and not democratic in
another Democracy, in judgment, is and indi-
visible. 1t is coextensve with our Constitution and
Union the only safe defender of both, and incapable of
dsorganzation long both acknowledged by the
American people. 1t is the thing in New York that
is in Georgia. and he that attempts to make sectional
violates its object and degrades its character The con-
stution, compact between independent soveregntes
literally and honestly interpreted. the chart of this
pary-construing it in OF doubt in favor OF the
States and the people, and guarding against all nnova-
tons interpretations by frequent first
principles, and by the cultivation of habi,ual reliance
the decisions of the people the sovereign arbile
the last resort, Of all the claims 10 power. Standing
such platform, this party has the light of experience in
the conduct of the government through three fouhs of
the operation of system; and has also the maxims
OF its great founder Mr. Jefferson and the many eminen,
men who have followed ia his footsteps, down to the
close OF Mr.. Folks administration. Should, unfortu-
natey, the decision OF the majority constutionally
pressed produce local oppression and the sectional
of power against the intent of the parties the
pact them in the language OF Mr. Jefferson, there is the
great resort the ultima ratio of injured people, not
a constitutional but a natural right, which dem
ocrac statesman has ever denied. This was not only
the doctrine OF Jefferson and Madison but that also OF Gen
Jackson This last-named patriot had thought
inconsistent with this doctrine in his proclamation or in
any other document which received his sanction in
long life OF public service He the ardent supporter
OF Mr. Jefferson in 1900 and had frequent opportunities
TO understand bis real views in that interesting crisis long
after the passions which il called into being had sub.
sided nor did he in the signal contest of 1892 with
out knowing that he within the limits OF the chart
which had guided the great Apostle OF Democracy.
Standing where Gen Jackson did. feel that we are
and that cannot have erred in urging
upon the South 10 together unit 10 enforce the
laws, and not to ncede from the laws, and that that
counsel is democracy which promotes this union, and
tina, that is not democracy which prevents such union
We feel tina, that alone democracy which preserves
platform for the action OF all the members OF the
party in whatever quarter Of our land they may dwell
The object Of this union to maintain the constitution in
lis original equity and simplicity and II is the glory OF thus
union in the crisis which jus, passing that that provs
on OF the constitution which secures TO the southern man
his right of property will and must be maintained
,redly any other part OF tina, instrument 1.-THE coun
sells OF the Nashville convention bad prevailed the union
Of the South would have been menace to the union OF
he North and the condition OF reconciliation would have
been surrender sectional passion and prejudice. with
no power the federal TO nterpose with the
voice of authority with the OF calm persuasion
With hgher-awsm end Of the cord OF the Union,
and armed resistance the other-each denouncing the
Compromise as &C, OF oppression and raud-ihs cord
would have been broken, and we should now be in the
mds, of the new experiment proposed BY Mr. Cheves, OF
South Carolina.
Deuoc rsus Meeting.