Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-07-22
THE DEMOCRACY OF THE NORTH.

The baltimore Republican, noticing the s'subsi-
dence Of Abolionism in the North, - as manifested
in the recent local elections of some of the States
Democracy made gain of ten thousand votes since
November, INDUCES in some sensible and eloquent
remarks If, says that paper, there are any Demo-
Gratis who have deprecated that rigid constitutional
policy which seemed, for The nomenl Of popular de-
h's0h, to strengthen the hands of fanaticisun--1if
there those who from that timidity which be-
trays like treason, disheartened the strong of faith,
and spread dismay in theranks ofnominal adherents
IF any from an Interior design of dis,ion, height
ened the pOrtents of peril to the South, firing
hpetuots spirits to acts of unforgying resentment
--all such must stand abashed, rebuked, and con-
demned before the suspicious signs of popular reac-
ton, resulting from the compact strength and def
apt front of the ever true and tried Democracy of
the North. 4. ... "a. - as -s..s. reir ,- 4
For quartero of century of anti-sayery agitation
they have been the allies and friends of the South.
If times they have been borne down by decisions
the" sober second thought has proved never wrong
ard always efficient" Hostility 10 the iastitutf5n Of
SGray has been the basis of thatcrusade which thew
have so -sternly and firmly resisted. The forms of
attack have been, from the first, hostility to slavery
in the District of Columbia, to the rendition of fugi-
Ee slaves, to the annexation of slave territory, to
the admission into the Union of slave States TO the
extension of slavery into the Terrtories-these one
and all, have been from the beginning the -sFecFv,
grounds of assault upon the Democratic party As
compared with these in so far as popular effect was
concerned, the issues of tariff bank, sub-treasury,
and internal improvements were as nothing. Indeed
interruptions partizanship attributed the policy of
theDemocrate party in these respects to an alleged
devotion tOthe institutions and interests of the slave
States, ' ~ 800 a... g.. ssal 9. arss5 p. d 81 =s.-
These facts are known to men of intelligence every
where but to northern Democrats, who have so long
fought the battles Of the South not from hope of
reward but from principlefrom loyal fealty to the
common bond and brotherhOod-they are truths
that are as household words They are attested BY
the weight of blows given and received in scores of
severe struggles with fauaticism As it has been,
SO it will be until every imaginable issue that can
be rendered by sectiOnalsm shall have been boldly
met and strongly overcome by the common sense
and sound judgment of the people
Even ct the mOment'of highest and widest pas
sion IN the past year, we abated no heart nor hope
of returning ebb in public sentiment; nor since
then have we feared that the revolution of common
sense would be backward. Thespring elections inthe
NOrhhaEe most signally established the business of
our confidence --..-.. g5-.. .....--..- oa
Even Black Republication, though leagued for
the most part with that other form of error and
wrong-know Nothingism--has been forced to Weld
before the serred front of The army of the cOnstitu
ton and the Union. Its power has been so brok-
en- IL one sovereign State as to give assurance at
another issue Of battle Of its overwhelming over
throw. cit was the North Church, in New Haven,
Connecticut that opened to the effort of provid-
ing Sharpe's rifles for Kansas, and, amid great
excitement, with Henry Ward Beecher for auctioneer
some hundred or two rifles were subscribed for:
there the bells were tolled on the passage of the
Kansas-Nebraska bill; there one of the old clergy
men Of the city expressed his readiness to put on
his epaules and march to the scene Of war and fight
1t out; and there all the Wilson's Wendell Phillipses.
Garrisons, and Burlingames wasted their oratory
for weeks and months past. But the Iaw-abiding
people have chosen to follow the steady and safe
lights Of the constitution and leave the newfangled
wreck lanterns to those who choose to follow their
dangerous glimnPr'' .....-.s.sr... - a-. ,' .s'.
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