Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-09-24
Northern Democracy.

their eyes opened 10 the true cli''A o0.eA Va @''
boosted friends, the Northern Democracy. Let
them await the issue of the State elections, and
il will be demonstrated to their satisfaction, that
so far from being able to resist successfully the
hosts of Black Republicanism and maintain its
own supremacy, Democracy will be swallowed
up in Black Republicanism, and stand before the
country confessedly impotent for good in the
great crisis to which the country has been
brought under Democratic rule. The people of
the South have been taught to believe that the
Democratic party of the North was the only
party in that section true to the rights and in
terests of the South, national and conservative
in sentiment, aud able to maintain their ground
against the Fremonters and free-soilers. We
have told the people that these things were not
so, and the elections yet to be held, as those al
ready held have done, will show that the South
will rely upon broken reed, if she expects the
Northern Democracy to achieve triumph over
the Republicans in any number of States North
of Mason & Dixon'S line. In Maine and Iowa,
where the Democratic party have had over
whelming majorities, the Republicans have swept
every thing before them in the recent elections,
and like result we may anticipate in every
other Democratic State, unless the National A
,nerican party can carry some of them for Fill
more. If the Democrats in those States had
been what they have always been represented
to be in the South, how could such result have
been brought about1 Unless thousands upon
thousands Of the National Democracy themselves
had ''vamosed the rancho" and gone over to the
Free-soil camp,how comes it that the Democracy
have been ingloriously routed in the States OF
Iowa and Maine2 If they will desert in Iowa
and Maine in such wonderful crowds, is it not
reasonable to expect that they will do the same
ching in other States, and can they be so impli-
city relied upon anywhere as the party here at
the South profess to believer And yet this is
the party which is expected to carry Mr.. Buc
hanan safety into the Presidential chair and
leave both Fillmore and Fremont "high and
dry" Verify the indications thus far promise
largely for the accomplishment of such result
The fact is, the soundness and nationality OF
Northern Democracy is now as it ever has been
an arrant humbug. The Republican party has
received, we verify believe, more recruits from
that party than from either of the others, and
| what remains of the Democratic party has now
within its fold many of the very worst tree-soil'
ers, who are striving to accomplish the same OBJ
iect with the Republicans, through other chan
nes and BY different tactics. Are not Martin
| Van Buren, and his astute son John recognized
As orthodox Democrats and honored with high
seats in the synagoguei Do they not endorse
the Cincinnati; platform, which is so elninently
satisfactory to the South, as equally satisfactory
| 20 themi And why? Because it recognize:
the doctrine of "Squatter Sovereignty" which il
their opinion is more fatal to the South than the
Wilmot Proviso, and for a like reason they sup
port Buchanan who declares himself and the
platform to be one and the same thing. Thu:
we find that the Democratic party of the North
| has been shorn Of its strength by desertion tc
the Republican ranks, until it is impotent, and
the remnant that remains admits into full COM
munion men worse than Fremont himself Gan
open enemy is better than a secret foe" A
Seward who meets the South face to face and
.vows his object, is better than Douglas who
under the guise of friendship would stab the
South in the dark.
The people of the South,we repeat, cannot re-
y upon this Democratic party to protect them
in their constitutional rights. Many have Meth
er the power nor the disposition. 1t is far bet
ter, far safer, to confde our rights and our in
terests to national man like Willard Fillmore
who will do equal and exact justice to all, than
to rely upon the greatest of all cheats-youl
Northern men with Southern principles. This
being true it is the true policy of the South in
this election to rally to the support of that party
and that candidate which can alone unite the
conservative strength Of the Nation upon high
National ground, and which with the aid Of
Southern conservative men would inevitably de-
feat the Republicans, put an end to sectional a.
citation, and under ON administration that knows
No North-No South, would restore the country
to harmony and prosperity.