Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-11-06
The rree oil Prooivitles ofNorthern Demoo
racy.

The nes;,;sf.s taken BY John Van Buren,, the
leader of the Softs, in the speeches he is now
making in New York, and the declaration in his
letter to the Washington Union, that seven out
of nine of the candidates on the Soft ticket in That
State were Van Buren, men in Island were proud
of it then and prouder of it every day since.
should startle the people Of the South from the
fatal repose into which they have been lued by
the assurances of their political organs. Day
after day, until the oft repeated story seems TO
have convinced those who repeat it, do we have
fran Democratic journals, the declaration that
the Northern Democracy are sound on the sla-
very question true and just to the South
We have never doubted that here and there might
be found man, who, rising above the prejudices
that surrounded him. kept his eye fixed upon
the constitution, and sought faithfully to enforce
the duties Of the Union and ,he rights of the
States-but scattered and unsupported, they
lack the power 10 control the agencies of Legs
lation or the movements of parties. The hodest
and greatest of them all, Mr.. Dickinson. is al
most utterly powerless. With no patronage to
dispense, with the frown Of the administration
resting upon him, and unsustained even by that
South III whose DeNhu Bs sucfiuttu niuistls ht
stands alene, helpless and impotent. The Iniiu-
ences which sway Northern Democracy are anti
slavery. Unless that sagacous leader, John
Van Buren, is mistaken, the mon who are proud
of having supported the Buffalo nominee IN rs,
will be elected by fifty thousand votes. But we
have another evidence of the abolition leaning OF
those who lead the Democratic party in the great
State of New York. II is furnished by an odlto-
rial article in the Albany Atlas. ThatJourna is
the organ of the administration at the capital of
New York-t is the recipient of the immense
patronage of the Federal Government it is the
active supporter and defender of Ex-Gov. SEY-
MouR, and the warm advocate of FRANKLIN
PIERCE. Its sentiments possess peculiar sgnf-
icanoe for the South, especially IN view OF the
fact that the Democrats of nearly all the South
ern States, have adopted resolutions asserting
that the National Democracy is the only party
at the North with which the South can consist
entity unite. Now let US see what these
National Democrats think of slavery and slave
holders We give the article entire,t ablidg
ment would only emasculate its vgor:
From the Albany Atlas
SLAVERY AND FREEDoM-TnE Position OF
DEMOCRATS. To many persons in our commu-
nifty it is an occasion for surprise that whilst the
citizens of the Southern States are so thoroughly
united in defense Of slavery, and SO keepy alve
to whatever measures may promise its extension,
there should be much dscordance amongst
Northern men us to the action by which this mp
probrium to our age and nation should be limited
in its progress. This wonderment will be some
what abated by tho reflection TINT TO the slave
holding portion of the Confederaoy the SUBJECTS
one which involves not only personal comforts and
social ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, but also vast pecuniary
interests, as well as TO those who stand in the
immediate relationship of masters and mistresses
as to all the classes Of society dependent upon the
producing interests for the gains by which they
subsist. Whilst therefore slavery is in this res
pect personal, absorbing, active principle, stim-
ulating its adherents by the sleepless vigilance
which great pecunary interests ever supcrinduce,
the people of the free States have no such impe.
rative and ever-operative motive to drive them in
TO a concentration of action in reference to this
subject With us, after all. the matter is in
no small degree theoretic, and though the prin-
ciple be important, and the consequences result
ing therefrom Of great moment to individuals and
and society it docs not appeal to us with the same
stimulating urgency which pertains To mon
etary interests in which we have an ndyid
ual concern. There are none of US who fear
subsection to the lash Of the task master; and
though we feel for the wrongs inflicted upon
humanity, and would fain limit them to regions
already cursed with African servtude, we do
not feel the evil near ms to cause us TO lay a.
side all differences of opinion upon other topics
and address ourselves to the extinction of this
great wrong. regardless of other consequences.
Not that the people of the North differ material
ly in their estimation of the"peouer institutions"
or the measures necessary to resist its encroaeh-
ments, but they seem not as yet to have regarded
the danger as sufficiently imminent or moment
to obliterate their esteem or the political as
sociations with which they have hitherto been
connected or the men with whom they have hith-
erto acted in reference to other measures of
government. That the subject is daily
becoming of more absorbing interest, is
too painfully obvious; nevertheless it will re-
qure some new act of faulty on the part of the
Government-some fresh outrages by the vota-
res OF the lash, before the North can be banded
together in that strong and universal sympathy
which actuates all the movements of the slave OIL
igarchy.
But in the expression of this opinion we have
no intention Of calling in question the honesty
or sincerity of any Democrat, who may deem that
an exigency has already arisen calling for the
sacrifice of lifelong political relations. We be-
lere that the principles Of freedom and Democra-
. cy are, and Of right ought to be identical-that
in so far as the latter falls short of a FIJI and
complete idenfi fcafon NTH and advocacy of the
great doctrine Of human rights, it fails short of
its true mission-that i its principles have been
departed from and its glory traed in the dust by
incompetent or designing men, the remedy con
sists not in an entire negation of all other inter
ests.and an abandonment of tho Democratic par
ty, but in calling it back to duty by appeal to
the honest masses, by revolution in its action.
and the dismissal of those who have betrayed it's
true interests. We beiiere that the popular heart
cfhe democratic party Of the North beats more
soundiy and in unison wifh this great principle,
than any other political organization;and though