Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-07-30
The Assaults of the Adninistra
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OF all tnoSe great principles upon WHICH
the National Democracy SO cordial.
united to call into existence, and yet i
has been most v~illainously assailed, es
pecially at the South and charged will
every species of deception, and ever.
grade of wrong to Southern interest
and the Southern people; and this, too
in the very face of the fact that NJ sin
gle measure in its domestic or foreign
policy has tended in the slightest de.
gree to infringe the constitutional rights
and privileges of any section, or failed
to receive the most cordial concurrence
of the four eminent and distinguished
Southern Statesmen who compose a ma
jority of Mr.. Buchanan's Cabinet advi-
sers, and no one of whom can justly be
charged with ~disloyalty to the interests
of their section of the Union. We have
noticed the assaults from time to time,
and have felt called upon to condemn
them as the vaporings of mad-caps and
fools; and every day has more clearly
demonstrated that their authors, though
protesting attachment to Democratic
principles, were not in true feeling with
the National Democracy, but harbored
Interior designs which make them far
more to be feared than open enemies.
They claimed fcalty to the Constitution,
but it was a fictitious claim. Their sole
purpose was to foment discord and an
archy, and though protesting Democra-
cy they led off the dance with abolition
ism, in the vilest assaults upon the ad-
ministration from the outset, with a
view to cripple it's energies and destroy
its influence, in carrying out those mca-
surcs of domestic policy upon which the
prosperity and unity of the whole u
try so Intimately depends. But tho OBJ
ject of those assaults is understood and
their power to injuro is utterly destroy
ed; while the National Democracy South
and North are ~ralIying with increasing
confidence in support of the patriotic
and truly national purposes the Admin
istration is known to entertain. The
Richmond Enquirer, thus refers to these
assaults upon Mr.. buchanan:
"The recent ~unprovokcd and most
unjust assaults upon the administration,
are we'll calculated to disturb, if not to
destroy the harmony and usefulness of
the National Democratic party, at the
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Union and our future welfarcs as a nation
depend upon the success of hat party in
carrying out its leading measures. To
a united Democratic party, the patriot
ic and conservative of our land have
looked as their only protection from the
wilA~ferocious license of the BLACK Re-
p%ublicans, and fanaticsim of the expir-
ing Know Nothing party. Between the
constitutional rights of the South and
the hordcs of Freesoilers and Adolf
t~ionists of the Free States, the only Sc
cure barrier is thatgreat National Dem
ocratic party. whose strength and whose
power alone saved the country from the
horrors Of disumton, by clecting the pure
and patriotic statesman, Buchanan, over
the unprincipled ad~venturor, Fremont.
"Beforc the country has been allowed
to enjoy the full measure of prosperity
which the great triumph promises, be-
fore the policy of the administration
has been fully developed, a factious OPP
position to the Administration threatens
to put us at the mercy of the most infa-
mous and piratical party that ever men
aced the rights of the South.
.,t"We do not propose at this time to
fully examine the motives which prompt
ed this most unfortunate opposition to
the Administration. Doubtless there
are excitable but very worthy men who,
without taking the trouble to think for
themselves, have been led astray by the
representations Of the writer's and speak
ers of that school of impracttcaJIe po-
fttcidns in South Carolina and Aississip-
pi, qrhose disunion uie,rs hare nerer been
acceptable rith the Virginia Democracy.
Nor do we deny that a few honest and
well-meaning editors and politicians
have also, without due reflection, in
dulgcd in abuse of the Administration
and the National Democracy, without
examining the merits of the Kansas
difficulty.
"We ask the patriotic and honest
extremists Of the Southern States to look
at the irresistible result Of their factions
course. Not only are they seeking to
divide the South, where a large major
ity Of the people arc heart and soul with
the administration, but their conduct is
applaudcd by those with whom they
have no sympathy or natural utilization
whatever.
"Whilst their gratuitous abuse of an
Administration, in whose integrity,
wisdom and faithfulncss to the Consti-
ninc-tenths of the people Of the
South place implicit confidence, must
ALLEVIATE them from the National De-
mocracy, if necessary associate them
with the remnants of those bands of ma
tural and implacable enemies of the
Democratic party scattered over the
and the South. Whilst their
course is witnessed by the National De-
more in sorrow than in anger,
the enemies ofthc Democratic party, and
the enemies of slavery, take no pains to
their delight"
"This is what the Black Republicans
above all things, and this mis-
is what every patriot and friend