The Washington union., 1857-10-02
From The North Carolina Standard.

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the North Carolina Standard
THE INTEGRITY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
The democratic party of North Carolina has attained
its present strong and proud position after years of anxiety
and toll 1t lost its control in State affairs in 1886, and
did completely regain it till 1850. Ii is true, in
Is42 ii had the assembly but, owing 70 several causes,
the benefits resulting therefrom neither very great
nor enduring From that period up to ls4S it strug
gled in decided and apparently hopeless minority yet
it labored on through the gloom which enveloped it, APP
peang the people against the party in power, and
urging them return the old paths of jackson, and
Macon and jefferson Ia 1850 ii successful, carry
ing the State by nearly three thousand majority and
this majority has been increased at least fold The
State is now democratic in all its departments and
will remain SO as long the party is true to its prin
cpes and shows itself worthy of the peoples confidence
1t required some to be democrat from ls40 to
1850 The leaders of the old whig party in possession Of
the State government, and sustained they We're by
the various corporations presumed upon their power and
treated the democrats generally with disdain and
gance They carried this nsnoc for with truth
call it nothing else-eyen into social life and the inn
preston was sedulousIy sought to be produced that it
was not respectable" to be democrat This
pecay the in Raleigh the seat of the State govern
naent and the centre of the old whig clique which had
long monopolzed for itself and parceled out among its
dependents the emoluens and the hono of the State
Others may but forget these things. They
remind us of the sinister influences the combinations
OF wealth and power, and the arrogance and selfish
ness which then controlled the State but they remind
us of the patience and perseverance Of the democracy
its inieatigable abors and the boldness and devo-
ton to popular rights by which, at last through its
srumentality these federal influences and these combi
nations against the people mastered and put down
Now that the victory has been achieved and the ship of
State put upon the right tack TO these old
times with unpleasant emotions, and certainly with
no desire for vengeance upon the yanqushed- But in
looking back we think mostly, and pleasantly Of
the .,d guard who In all the charges during the
decade referred and meet of them with
out warming towards him to an old and valued
friend
But we have digressed Two of the issues which
threatened somewhat time embarrass the demo-
cratic party of the to wit distribution and the
white basshave been thoroughly tried and finally set
the former by the repeated condemnation of the
people the polls and the latter by the ultimate adop
ton and incorporation into the State constitution OF the
ee-surage principle There is vitality in either of
these issues now.
There is danger however ON the question of internal
improvements but this danger will disappear provided
the democrats generally of the State prove their
platform this subject adopted in 1854 and readoped
in 1856. with 50 much unanimty. We cannot permit
ourselves doubt for moment their fidelity to their
own recorded pledges.
So far as federal politics are concerned we can see no
ground for apprehension We all of one mind as to
President Buchanan We all confde in him and support
him We are satisfied with him and his cabinet however
some OF us may differ the conduct of the governor
Of Kansas But those who condemn the latter still re-
pose confidence in the President is it at all probable
tst anything viii hereafter in this connexon cal
culated to lead withdrawal Of that confidence We
all and feel that the only hope Of the countrythe
only guarantee for the preservation of the costt
ton and the Unions to be found in the national demo-
cratic party Here then stand and as long as there
is ray of hope here viii all stand together No dis
cord can be produced in ranks by questions growing
out Of federal politics
But the democratic party strong and is constantly
growing Its very strength may produce weakness 1t
may neglect s organization and thus encourage divisions
and discor and the aspirations the ambitions the sell
fshnes of its leading may obstruct and cloud its
principles and ultimately break it down This posi-
be Let the of the party look to it, and look
it often Power is always stealing from the many to
the few The people in all free governments like this,
should be the masters and those who are called leaders
should be servants opponents have no hope but
in producing divisions in ranks. Divide and con
quer is their motto Let u.s. repeat guard against
this Let the most rigid organization be insisted upon
and maintained The path OF the democratic party from
the days OF jefferson until now gtrewn with the wrecks
of apostates and traitors 1t is because it party
which subordinate 10 principles; and long it
does this it win be invincible.