Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-06-18
AmericanIs,n the Aliy of slavery.

The Southern anti American press and orators
in spite of the strongest proof to tho contrary.
persist in charging that tho American party is
freeso Units procsities. Tho Chicago ID ,m1.
crat thinks differently. II snys.
We have never been able 10 comprehend how any
! true opponant of slave extension could be Know
Nothing and especially since the nomination Of Fill
more and Donelson.
As between FILLMORE and Donelson aud the Doug
las ticket, every consistent Democratic Ant-sebi as-
ka man would have to prefer the latter. Il appears
| thai Donelson wanted To make a slave state OF Cali
! fornia
That will do pretty well. Mr.. Fillmore Is "A
better man for the South thnn Douglas. and
| Douglas Is better man for The North. The Dem
ocrat takes the view Of the old Democratic Re
view. that there elements mt work in that
pnrty, That will strike the feifers from the limbs
of tho slave and inauguraie in vast brother
hood all OF the different races Of tho earl.
is what the Democrat thinks Of tho true Demo-
craoy. us understood in the West:
There is nothing like the true Demoeracy--the de-
moeraey of jefferson, Madison and Jackson that OPP
poses all sumptuary lnws, all persecution Of men for
their birth place their religion, and all extension
OF that scourge Of the age, human slavery
Notwithstanding such positive proof to the
contrary as this. Mr.. Douglas and the lesser or
gans of the party are shouting all over the coun-
Try that Democracy is the same North and South.
. East and West. 1ire Ia bagateHe,
In declining to renominaie President Pierce
and substituting for him gentleman who has
been absent from the country during nearly the
whole of his administration, the democratic lead
ers have played their old game of lodging res
possibility. Since the overwhelming judgment
pronounced against the democratic administra-
ton of Martin Van Buren,, they have never per-
mitted jury of the country to pass upon their
management of public affairs and this, notwth-
standing one of their objections to the Wing
party in 1910, was the alleged advocacy by the
latter of the one-term principle. second can-
didature was urged then almost as strenuously
Ms any other of the ever varying principles Of
Democracy. But the disastrous defeat of tho
Little Mniician taught them new lessen. They
then suddenly discovered TINT it was difficult
thing to cheat the people twice with the same
man. They dropped Mr.. Tyler without the
slightest ceremony. They very cheerfnlly per-
miitod MIR. Polk to retire. They could not be
induced to enter Gen. Cass for another trial,
niter his defeat in 'I5. And now they give tho .
coup de mort to Gen. Pierce with all the coolness
and nonchaance of veteran exccu,ioners. The
popular intelligence can hardly be deceived by
this manmnvre. The country will understand
that a change of candidates by the Democracy
does not imply an Improvement of their party or
their policy. The rejected oostaway Of this cleo
ton was the hero aud deity Of tho last. And SO
it runs, backward and forward. The foremost
man Mt Cincinnati in l556 will most likely be- the
hindmost man Mt Charleston in 1860. BY that
time either his own party will have con lemncd
him they will be convinced that the country
hasand So he will be given his nsnc dimtts in
to final obaourity But in spite of this cunning
policy Of the party in power we have confidence
that the people, in the coming election, will re-
member the sins and fales of the Pierce admin
istration. and will hold the democratic party and
their candidates responsible for them.