Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-10-06
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We have Published several articles SHOW
ing The views Of aor,hern journals in re-
spcct 20 tho great issus no~ pending before
the American people, Old party line marks
IRE swept Away; she measures for whishl
the two pslis.ca! parties 80 warmly con-
ten3ea have ceased to excite interest, and
no question of marked differenec Of any
great ,moment nos divides the two parties
OF the Union, save thate slavery. That
this is TO be the issue At tae approaching
Presidential election, is new admitted BY
all Of The leading journals both a, the North
sua 1, the Ssa,a. Wshav already given
the views Of several prominent papers upon
this suhiec, and now add the following from
tbs C.srssstoa Msrcsry. oae OF the oldest
and most influential Democratic journals Of
the South:
THE Wing and Demo cratic parties are
sone, The name even OF the fsrmef 10 ex-
tinct. while that OF the latter no longer re-
presents The principles which gave il birth.
Daring the sefs last session Of Congress,
With an over ~helming Democratic majority
in both Houses, PROJECT 10 modify the
Tariff was rejected; the French Spoiiation
bill. the Ha.hor Improvement bill, and the
Dix Lanatic bill were passed, aud, but Tor
the Presidential veto, would have become
the laws Of the land, to the waste of the
public money aud the Disgrace ofthe Demo-
cratic creed. And the Collins bill, asfag-
rant niece of legsliSed swindling IS was
ever perpeira,ed, was finally passed, over
and in spite Of Mr.. Pierce's veto. The
arrange and startling spectacle was present.
ed of a party President compelled TO resist
par,y's violations OF il own principles-of a
democratic President opposing the wild,
wasteful and corrupt measures of the Dem
ocraiic Farty.
Now, what does oil this teach . What,
bu, that the old party questions are buried
or. rather, tha, fixed Constitutional prin-
chile, no longer form the tights Of party
action, and that the Federal Government
is the convenient instrument OF the numer-
icai ualoriiy, regardless OF right or OF Con-
s,i,ution. Tlssre is Eat sin9ie question nor
spon uaics parties can l< ra.,iei-a question
.aliEs al oilers wsici aape arisen IN tie
Go,rraneaf--not oaiy nasionsl. but simply
ea5 natea.y ns:sanG.-.As question Of Slavery.
4 thousand fold more intense than in lS47,
A09alfpB l1S
Democratic, Wing and Know Nothing,
which dared oppose its progress, and sub
ordinated every other party principle TO the
one absolute test. Il matters NOT what po
s;,ion may be assumed upon other questions
the party which bids for Northern sup
nor, must, on this, bow before fsnatcism.
Cansny nstionsl party, therefore, command
success at the North, upon terms short of
u I ~ IL
the Democratic party do it, wi,hered and
shrivsied up as il IS by the breath Of Free
soil, Must not question purely sectional,
Of necessity make parties sectional also'
Ouyh, not the union Of the North for az
gression, compel union Of the South for
resistance.
I, must not, il cannot BE, that in the
South the cry for national party IS to
be raised. She is strong enough, and we
trust, true enough to DO for herseif. unsided
and alone. ell that honor and safety, in the
Union OF out oft, may require. In the long
and burning records Of the past she finds
national parties, associated only with her
betrayal and shame. And now, when the
North spurns national alliances and thrusts
its insoie ut sectional demands in her teeth;
when the question is Of her life or her
death, what folly SO blind, or humiliation so
base, as that which would raise again the
in:suder from the dust, crown him with gar
lands, and 6ifer up to national party the
incense Of adulsiion and seryi!ity . No. it
is not for the South 10 speak of national
parties She has nothing TO lose, which
she can protect, nothing TO protect, which
they will not sacrifice. Let Us heed now
the neglected counsels Of Calhoun, to unite
A.. Il -
and has ONLY, ilaf re can deferid our rights,
,aainsaia or henor, insure OR safety, and
command respecf."