The Washington union., 1857-10-03
krom lhe RIchmond EnnnIrer.
is THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY THE SAFEST GUAR
DIAN OF SOUTHERN RIGHTS

from the Richmond Enquirer,
Is THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY THE SAFEST GUAR
DIAN OF SOUTHERN RIGHTS
This question which, when affirmatiyey answered
to the satisfaction of the southern people, reduces the op
ponents OF the administration and of the national democ
racy at TO the alternative of either admitting that
their political course is inmical TO the interests of the
slave State denying that which the people whose rights
they profess to vindcate implicitly believe If they ac-
cept the construction of their conduct they place
themselves in the position of selfish agators and II the
other they openly acknowledge that they are not the
true exponens of southern sentiment The question has
been answered, eoquently and emphatcay by all the
slave States and with the single dissenting voice of Mary
land TO impair the effect of their generous response
Never before did any organized opposition to the demo
cratic party meet with disastrous failure the rally
ing remnant of the Fillmore forces in the southern States
last fall The old whg party per Sc it is true was badly
beaten in its final effort under the leadership of the most
renowned military man in the nation. But the
hero of hundred battles" who has failed in the field
of politics sgnay he has succeeded in that of Mars
even he, who hardly amounted to opposition in the cleo
tion of 1882 is glorious from that defeat when
pared with Mr.. Fillmore in 1856, as is Lundy Lane in
contrast with the Black Jack fight in Kansas Why is it
that the democratic party in the South hos thus rapidly
extended its influence and multiplied its numbers while
the old whg party has passed away and the opposition
that rose upon its ruins has been crushed almost
in its inception Why is that the principles and pol
icy of the democratic party advocated earnestly by
thousands who, until the last few years. uncompro
missing enemies Of everything connected with democracy
Why it that upon issues apparently altogether
unassociated with the slavery question il Is impossible to
encounter the democratic party in the South with any
prospect of success? 1t is because the saveholdng
States have all deserted the danger with which their insttu
tons threatened and consulting their immediate
interests above the disputed questions pertaining
ctng policies which have heretofore divided them they
have determined to seek safety under that banner which
bears the impress of constitutional principles and floats
the citadel which bravely bears the brun of all the
assaults of the enemies of the South The democratic
party protects the slave States because especially
devoted to their interests but because its policy found
ed in the true and unimpared principles of govern
men And hence it is that the northern democracy are
entitled to the highest encomums upon their patriotism
They have immediate interest in the institution of
slavery but it is supported and protected in its constt
onal rights by the principles of the party to which they
belong And they uphold those principles because they
believe them to be the best for the interests of the whole
country.
That the South is safer under the guardianship of the
democracy than of any other party that has existed
in the country evidenced not only by its almost unani
proved by analysis of the principles it proclaims and
the policy pursues If this be not true why it that
all other political organizations in the North have been
merged in the black-repubcan party while the demo-
cratic party still stands distinct from it light from
darkness ...
The slavery issue in both sections absorbs every other
in national elections and it is the great question
which apportons parties. Why is it, then that we
find no whig party no knownothing party to make bat
tie in the of the South against the opponents of
slavery in the North Why is it that the national de-
mocracy alone in the field against the enemies of the
South Where is the old whig party of the southern
States To its honor be sad it is Incorporated in the
ranks against which it once waged war of extermina-
ton, as its own disappearance proves. Where is the
vannted know nothing party which to revoutionze
the nation, and redeem the republic from all the ills en-
tailed upon by the two old degenerate and morbund
organizations upon the ruins of which it had risen Like
those mysterious maades that sometimes scouge coun
tries by their poisonous presence it has disappeared
none knowing whence it came caring where how it
has gone And let ask where is the national dem
ocatic party the party of Jefferson, and Madison and
Monroe the party which originated with the beginning
of the and which has always maintained its
fidelity to the constitution and to the Union
We have anticipated the inquiry by pointing it out
the party which still retains its nationality and protects
and unimpairable principles is the party which, in
the South has swallowed up all opposition and in the
North is still bravey battling with the enemies of
institutions and Of the Union 1t is the party which de-
feated Fremont and his anatca followers in the exciting
contest of last fall the party upon which the republic
rests and to which the American people anxiousy look
for the maintenance of the government in its primitive
purity and power 1t is then strange indeed that there
should be feeble faction Of southern who are
yet satisfied with the security guaranteed to them by
the principles and policy of democracy And it is stran
ger still that administration representing and imbody
ing that national just, and impartial patriotism which
prompted the founders of the confederacy in the orma
ton of the compact between the States should fail to
mand the unequvocal commendaton of every democrat
in the slave States Those who differ from it, however
amount to only handful of actonsts, who oppose Mr.
for the very which induced the Ameri
people to elevate him to the presidency Because he
in favor of saving the Unon he ncurs tho and
abuse of the disunionsts.
LATER FROM BUENOS AYRES
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