Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-04-24

sentiment, and the determination to repeal the
Missouri Compromise against the manifest will
of the People, fine illustrations OF "a strict
Construction Of the Constitution !"
Deeply sympathizing, says this Barnbnrner
newspaper, with the editor of the Washington
Union, "Mr. Nicholson, in the struggles ne has
thus far passed through it is pleasure TO
know that he has been 80 well sustained by
the Democratic Representatives at the capital,
and that the Union, which has, in the main,
supported the policy adopted by the President
and his Cabinet at the outset Of the Admins
tration--a policy which the factionists OF this
and other States have labored INCREASINGLY to
oyerthrow--is enjoying the confidence q me
Democracy Of the nation In our judgment,
| it's management has not been free from error
but when we remember the difficulties which
have surrounded it, and the endorsements
which have been thrown in its way by those
unfriendly to the Administration, we are sur
prised that it should have sustained itself so
we'll, and cheerfully accord to it the credit OF
standing faithfully on the Baltimore platform,
with single exception, to which we will al
lude by and by,) and Of aiming to fulfil the
expressed and implied pledges which that
platform contained
Hear it discourse of this Baltimore plat
form, conceived in sin and brought forth in in
iquity, villanous compound of contradictions
and denominations! But what is the secret OF
of it's attachment to it! This and nothing
| more-that acquescence in it, as test of De-
mocracy, secured to the Barnburner poti-
cians--we do not say the rank and flea GER
tain proportion Of public plumber One got
mission, another a collectorship, another, a sur
veyorship another, marshalship, another,
| post Office another, mail contract, another, the
printing of the laws, another, clerkship or
the disposal of clerkship. Blessed be the
platform that secures these glorious results-
that brings reward to poor, long-suffering pa
triotism
We begin to catch glimpse of what this
Democratic paper means by Democracy. After
rehearsing pathetically the terrible trials OF
the President, in carrying into effect his noble
policy, Of dispensing patronage on the single
condition of acquescence in the platform, thus
causing the rain to fall upon the Hards " and
the Softs . and the steadfast vindication Of
this policy in the columns Of the Union, it pro-
ceeds:
aDuring oil this time, and from the moment
the President adopted his policy in regard to
the treatment Of the different sections of the
party in the distribution Of patronage, the
4 Union has been true to the Administration
and to its profet sed desire to build up and
I strengthen the Democracy of the Union, and
under circumstances well calculated to induce
it to falter in is honorable and manly course;
and we say that it is entitled to high praise for
the ability, fidelity, and fearlessness, with which
it has been conducted"
Ave, and is enjoying the confidence Of the
Democracy of the Nation !"
We now clearly understand the meaning Of
Democracy. The Union is thoroughly Pro-
Slavery paper It has devoted itself assidu-
ously to the aggrandizement Of the Slave
Interest II has invoked popular indignation
against the policy Of Spain contemplating the
ultimate emancipation Of the slaves IN Cuba
aud called upon the Government to interfere
by force to maintain Slavery in that island
1t has denied the power Of Congress to pass
any law to exclude Slavery from free territory
IL has pertinaciously insisted upon the repeal of
the restriction which keeps it out of Nebraska
/ It has advocated the Gadsden Treaty, with
all the enormities Of its original provisions. In
every way, at all times it has made Slavery,
the maintenance and extension Of Slavery, the
great theme Of it's editorials, without turning
aside to discuss questions Of finance or protec-
ton. And yet, in the opinion Of this radical
Democratic paper, ~ the Union is model Of
Democracy, enjoying the confidence Of the
Democracy OF the nation !" Why, pray? Be-
cause it mas nobly sustained the President in
nobly comforting upon the Barnburners Of New
York, not, indeed, a majority, but q respectable
minority Of good, fat Offices Aye, the Union
did sustain this policy; but it was careful to
accompany its defence Of it with statistics,
showing that the Hards had received major
ity of the best offices, and that none of the
aSoftsn had been favored by the President but
such as had repented utterly Of their e-Soil
ism, and purgcd themselves from Anti. Slavery
faint!
People may be anxious to know what that
slight exception is, alluded to in the course
Of the Union Nothing at all, but the advocacy
Of the repeal Of the Missouri Compromise, with
the intended naturalization OF Slavery in all
Territories Of the United States. This of course
if mere spot ON the sun. The beauty Of
the Democracy that has gladdened the hearts
Of g the faithful in New York with share Of
the "spoils," may be somewhat impaired, but
not essentially changed, by this little error. Is
il not very little sin Our radical Democrat
&c (') contemporary is mild as moonshine.
1--WE regret, of course, that it should have
favored the repeal Of the Missouri Compromise
but unwilling to yield the right to entertain
and express our own opinions on this, or any
other subject, we checrfully concede the same