The daily union., 1855-10-17
ApHEREycg TO TIRE PRINCIPLES AND UsAGE5
an THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.


As might have been expected those papers that formerly
represented the whg party and have since become denl
6ed with The newaDgled abolition and kDownothng op
position opened their batteries upon the national
wings who have supported the democratic party in conse
quence Of the fusion IL is evident that these gall
liant men have committed mortal offence and that hence
forth the party marshaled BY Mr. Seward Ia the North
win be compelled rely for its strength upon the anti
slavery and proscriptve elements alone The fact that
there are only great parties in existence in the free
States has been made unmtakable by the result in Penn
syvania and by the elections which preceded that result
the one consisting of the enemies Of the compromise
ures of 1850 including the fagvesaSe law aud the
mics Of the great principle involved in the proposition Of
admitting new States equality with the old the
other consisting Of the democratic party standing upon
the Baltimore platform and committed by that platform
in favor Of the principles Of the compromise measures Of
1885, and consequence, in favor Of The ugtveslaye
law and the equality of the States as well those now n
The Union as those which shall hereafter apply for admis
sion into the Union according the provisions Of the fed
era constitution As to the heresy restoring the Mis-
contemporaries line that has already shown itself 10 be
50 impracticabe and absurd that the New York Tribune
has formally proclaimed lis adherent abandonment
Of that issue and called the exgences
of the future upon the distinct principle last stated ia the
above proposition.
What course could the friends Of Clay and Webster
have pursued other than that which inspired their action
at The election in Pennsylvania and in other free
States The machinery Of the whig party had been psur
ed by set of leaders the hand and by set
of abolition chieains the other And this usurpaion
accompanied by the proclamation Of doctrines which
while they had the effect Of raying under the flag Of o
position TO the democratic party all the isms of the day
boldly repeed from their standard every who pre-
tended to have any affection for the of the fed
eral compact, 1t is that Mr. Seward bindy calcu!a-
ting upon the acquiecence in past days of the whg par
ty, relied confidently upon their support in the
movement inaugurated under his auspices, and those
of his now-nothing confedcrates And it is less
clear that the recent accession Of knownohngsm TO the
ranks of the abolition party in the North furnished
leaders, who in their turn believed that they would
be accepted and endorsed among the managers of the
fusion But the time has when the great truths
ciated by Clay and Webster effectively operate
upon the sincere friends of those They could
resist the consistency ana the courage of the demo-
cratic party Of the free States in supporting national prn
ciples They that party refusing all compromises with
the enemies of such principles They the who had
sve idea that they could still retain membership the dem
oeratic party, finally assuming positions the ranks of the
fusion the only way carry their purposes They
than this They nthe great State of Pennsyl
vana well the State of Maine that these
formally repudated by thedemocracy regarded alike
odiou with the old and enemies OF that organization
Besides in turning their eyes the condition of parties in
the southern States they observed in that quarter of the
I,;, ,,a
and Stephens of Georgia Dixon and James B. Clay of
Kentucky Kerr OF North Carolina as Benjamin. Ros
and Landry of louisiana as Reverdy johnson and Thos
Yates Walsh, of Maryland Senator Jones and N. H.
Allen of Tennessee and many Others who could be named
boldly repudiang the party because its northern
wing had been totally ecpsed by the dark cloud Of abo
tonsm.
But there were other aspects which presented themselves
sartngy TO the national wings of the North The know
nothing order in its great council Philadelphia flushed
with the prospect of coming triumphs by the aid the
element Of abolition, and cxutng recent sue
cesses declared that they could do without either of
the old parties and that they resolved break
them down. There was, them but other party
left; and if before in the history of tha. party
it proved true TO all the stringent requirements of
the federal constitution ready to endure all the
rihces imposed by those requirements, and ready to
resist all the enemies Of those requirements its achieve
ments during the last year may be among the
brilliant evidences Of its fearless orthodoxy Had
the national wings refused be governed by this proud
example, then, indeed would they have been unworthy OF
their While, therefore il is surprising
that Mr. Seward and his organs should for their pur
poses deem il necessary excommuncate these tried and
patriotic citizens the of the democratic party the
future is, to minds, perfectly clear
There is nothing upon which the democratic party of
the Union is firmly established than upon It's ussges
excepting only the basis of its eternal principles In the
contest Of 1856 there will be regular democratic nominees
for President and Vice President which nominees viii
stand alike upon the usages and the principles of the
ocrac party The convention select those candidates
viii be composed of delegates chosen from every congress
siona district in the Union chosen By the friends OF tie
federal constitution. On the other hand the candidate
opposed to that nominee viii be the candidate Of the -
sion, North and South if indeed, the unredecmed abo-
lionism OF the opposition in the North will not conso
whosoeyer they may be- compel the southern know-no
ings to put up candidate Of their own The paramount
issue in that conies, is distinctly indicated by the ox
cusvey sectional character OF the platform on which the
opposition 10 the democratic party has openly placed itself
That issue will doubt be definitely recognised in the
organization Of the houses Of Congress aud this or
rauzation we hnvp no dpuht will nd The tic