Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-09-11


didate for Governor in a minority of T,45l
votes whereas, noO the Republican candidate
is II, GA votes ahead Of both the other candi-
dates
But Hamlin was "a lorg-tried leader of the
Democratic party" says the Union. So he
was, and for that very reason admirably quail.
fled tolead the Republican party, which is com
posed IN the main of the late Democratic
party. FourJDths Of the present Republican
party were Democrats. The leader, Fremont,
was Democrat Banks was Democrat, Blair
was Democrat and Hamlin was Democrat,
and he is still unchanged, except simply in
name
| So of the crank and file ]" of this party
the foreign population, who have rushed into
it, had always voted with the Democratic party,
and the Free-soil nGtiUe Democratic voters have
also gone into, and now compose with the
foreigners) the mass Of the Republican party
Why, then, is it strange 1--WE do not SO regard
it, that Buchanan has lost nearly all his party
strength in the NorthS The foreign element
and FTee-SoiL element hitherto composing
more than half the Democratic strength in the
North, have simply taken their true positions
they are where they belong-they always
have been, and always will be, opposed to the
rights of the South, and have only waited for
an opportunity to take this position with fair
prospect of success.
The Washington Union closes its deceptious
article of yesterday in the following strain
II l.. -. :. III }.
| or speculation until the smoke of the battle has
cleared away and fair view of the field has been
obtained. A day or two must necessarily elapse
before full and reliable returns reach this city,
| and, in the mean time, we are sanguine enough to
continue in the belief that the star which was once
one of the brightest in the Democratic constella-
ton of States will in November next shine with
renewed and increased lustre"
The last branch of this last extract illustrates
one point as to the true position of the Free
soil Democracy. Maine was once, one of the
brightest in the Democratic constellation of
States!" 1t was once, and lately, too, one of
the strongest Democratic States. It's Democ-
racy has not changed, but it is now developed.
It's Democracy neoer aoas anything else since
the day it became a State, than it is no,o, but
it was not thoroughly developed before Free
soil Democracy and sham Republicanism are
the political Siamese twins"
If the Republican party IN name had existed
in 1852, when the Washington Union invited
"the Free-soil Democratic leaders of the
North" to come mp to the support of Pierce,
assuring them that he would know no differ
ence between them and the rest of the Demo
I'D he &c IL,
too would have been invited to the feast T" in
the same card and would have walked in and
taken their share of the spoils Indeed, they
were the same men, under different soubri-
quet Hamlin is now denounced by the Wash
ington Union! What is the difference, in
principle'or in political purpose, between Ham
lin and John Van Buren,? Will the Union
answer? Not the slightest The Democratic
party Of the North is absorbed by the Republi-
cans.
Here and there, at the North, tide-waiter,
a custom-house appraiser, or postmaster, who
is paid for it, calls himself Democrat, and
denounces Republicanism Ard even those
who still cling to the name of Democrat there,
for the sake of the wages they receive, "laugh
to scorn the idea, that they would ever con-
sent to the admission of another slave State
into the Union! The friends of Buchanan, in
the whole North, go for the Nebraska Bill, it
is true, but they take especial care to give it
the Cambrelepg Buren-Douglass con-
struction, to wit Nebraska Kansas and no
more slave States !"
The DAVIS Of this Markham shan, Damocracv
are numbered--it has fooled the South for
years, and has fattened on the spoils-its clo-
ven foot is now exhibited under its new dress,
"Republicanism Ut has no power save in
the Republican ranks another year will
witness the entire extinction of the name of
Democrat throughout New. England.
New parties will be placed in antagonism
throughout the whole country, in the year
1857, and old ones will pass away. The pres
ent National American party will spread over
the whole land, presenting its principles and
policy to the consideration of all--its antago-
mist will be the Anti-American or Foreign
party, which will absorb the foreign voters and
the ultraists of either end of the Union, and
the names Democrat, Republican, and Whig
will become obsolete. 1t is not for us to say
which of these two parties will triumph-but
this we have right to say, zoe have enlisted
for the war;" and we shall do battle for the
American party, against all antagonists, in
the hope and confidence of its final and endu
ring triumph.
Sham Democratic Lies.