Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-08-22
SOUTHERN VIEWS.
From the Charleston Mercury, JuIy 20.
THE NATIONAL DEMOCRACY.


THE NATIONAL DEMOCRACY.
In strictness to the genuine and original princi-
Piles of the Democratic party, founded upon state
rights and strict construction OF the Constitution,
we yield to none, and boast to be Democrats among
Democrats. These constitute the cardinal doc
trines of Democracy proper And, in following
them out, Democracy teaches us that the present
condition oil springs from consolidation-the con-
tralization of all the powers OF Government in the
hands of the majority at Washington, and the con-
sequent absorption Of the reserved rights OF the
States and minorites of the people cOnfed-
Grated together in this UnoD--not for purposes of
agraran communism of interests. rights and insti-
tutous under the control of au impotent maj ority,
but for certain mutual benefits the protection OF
common interests, with the right to govern them
selves, and to regulate their affairs each
State and people may see fit. Our Democracy fur
ther teaches US, that, being the minority section,
the South is to be the sufferer under this consolid
alton of power in the hands OF the Northern major
| ity; and that the Union and the General Govern
ment to be used for the wrecking and final sub
version of the South, under the combination of the
stronger section. In this crisis of affairs, then.
we fnG our Democracy most developed where it il
most needed in preserving and securing the rights
Interests, and Institutions, OF the Southern States
agaist the encroachmens of the North, and against
the dangers that menace her through tbe General
Government of the Union in their hands. The car
dinal feature of our Democracy is now Southern
rights. The salvation and established security of
the south is the aim and end of our politics--ouy
Democracy.
But there are at the South Democrats, so called,
of another stripe. There certain politicians
who appear Deither to comprehend State rights nor
the present perils that beset State rights of the
South. There are some who regard the South rs
altogether secondary in importance to the Union,
and look with more horror at the prospect Of its
dissolution than at the threatened subversion OF the
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who cannot discern the signs of the times, and see
not the dangers to their section-those who, dimly
perceving these, yet see with morbid distinctness
and greater horror the evils of dsunion-and those
who neither care nor see aught beside their inter-
est in the present success of the party to which
they belong. The aim of all such democrats, by
whichever of these views influenced is of course
utterly at variance with our own With them the
paramount object of patriotic desire is the preserv-
alton of the Union and the success of the national
Union Demo cracy. For this they ready to
rifce the South-if expedienoy requires it. AT
this juncture, it is thought expedient to appease
the North about Kansas. The National Demo-
cratic administration have thought proper, through
Governor Walker, to purchase temporary truce
with the Black Republican party, by taking every
step in their power to make Kansas a Northern
anti.slave State 1t is thought expedient for the
accomplishing of this great party move, to incur
the risk of driving off tie Southern Rights men,
bers of the party, trusting that the present ndg-
nation at tne treacnery may vent l,SeH anu Ole
out in the South having only served to strengthen
them in the North and that the South, ultimately
caioled and browbeat, will again be dragged along
in 1860 willing and enthusiastic victim in praise
of the great and powerful National Democracy
who have again saved the Union--albeit at the ex-
pense of the power and safety of the poor South.
This is the policy and the programme. The
danger to lis complete success arises only from the
Southern Rights Democrats of the South, who
possibly although tits by no means credited, may
not tamey acquiesce in this base betrayal of the
Southern cause whether induced by party expedi-
ency, or even the preservation Of Union purchas-
ed at such price-and might organize great
Southern party and run candidate of their own
in 1860. The National Democracy, therefore natur-
ally look upon the Southern Rights Democracy
as the enemy at present most to be feared. Ac
lcordingly,we find the leading organs of the Nation
al Democracy chiefly engaged in attempts to dis
parage Southern Rights men and presses through
out the South-to ridicule their views, heap oblo-
guy upon them for their earnest efforts in behalf Of
the South, aud to denounce them as 'ultras," Tex
Itremists," and 'seccessionists," and thus drive
them, by bullying them on the one hand, and coax
ing them on the other from the positions they
have taken against the dctation and treachery of
Walker. 1t is even intimated that Governor
WISE of Virginia, is to be turned loose upon the
denonncers of Walker and this National Democrat
ic treachery. 1t is thought that his ready and
powerful pen, in cooperation with the efforts of
party men South. will readily turn the tide, and
all will be well for the Union and the national par
ty for 1860.
We desire, in view of this effort to cali especial
attention of our cotemporaries throughout the
South to the bold attempt of the Richmond Enqui-
rer to play this game against the Southern Rights
men of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi and to
bluff them off by CHASING them with the by-gone
secessionsts as 'ultras" and Extremists" and by
placing them in the category with Greeley and the
most fanatical and absurd of Abolitionists, equal.
ly inimical to the National Democracy and its de-
signs.
! We would at the same time, suggest to the peo
pie and convention men of South Carolina the i'm
propriety of attaching the State to party like this
ready to betray the South sor brief and tempora-
ry advantage.