The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-01-29
LET US TAKE CARE OF OUR ALLIES.


The Richmond (Va.) Examiner, a Demo
cratic paprr. icgs kncn,rs sfsr 9Srnf EYyfarizs.r
itself by opposing the policy Of the present Nd
ministration, in its recognition of the "Softs,"
in contradistinction to the " Hards," of New
York, now that its neighbor, the Enquirer,
appears to be committed to ultra measures,
has tackled ship, and is standing on different
course. 1t is " national, eminently national, -
hates sectionalism, hates it intensely-aud
thinks the Northern Democracy ought not to
be called upon TO sacrifice itself to extreme
r measures. OF course, it cannot be expected
that two leading organs in the same place
should play exactly the same tune.
From the Richmond lva) Examiner
LET Us TAKE CARE OF OUR NORTHERN AL
LiES-WE NEED THEM.
Two things follow, OF necessity, viz: lst, that
all ultra Southern measures and dogmas not
embraced in the platform of National Democ.
racy, and inconsistent with the essential con-
servatism of the Democratic party a ma
iional organization, must be frowned upon by
the party at the South; and, %, that in onr
advocacy ofthe conservative national measures
and principles which do belong to the scheme
OF National Democracy, We must not forget, in
choosing our modes and terms of doing so, that
our party pervades the whole North, and EN-.
braces a considerable fraction of the Northern
people, who may be over;hrown by our own
giddiness and folly.
Of the class of measures essentially in con.
fict with those embraced in the Democratic
schedule, the insane proposition to revive the
African slave trade, which has been preached
by notoriety seekers and madcap Missionaries at
Al i IL
nothing, and ell the South with gibbering idiots,
voracious consumers, and brute imbecles-and
the other proposition, long ago tried and found
wanting in practicability and wisdom, to aban.
don the policy of Federal imposts on foreign
trade, and To resort TO excise devastating the
land with swarms of petty Federal Office holders,
as numerous and pestiferous as the frogs or
the locusIs or the lice of Egypt-these prop
ositions, and such rs these. we hold it to be
the duty of the National Democracy of the
South not only to condemn, oppose, and 10
scout, but to treat as at war with the whole
schedule Of Democratic measures, and really, If
not Intentionally, as inimical to the National
Democratic party as Know Nothingism or
Abolitionism itself.
Need we show the urgent necessity for OBJ
serving these counsels, beyond the obvious pro-
priety which they carry in their simple enunci-
alton? Pray, how and by whose agency did
it happen that the principles and measures OF
the National Democracy were supported In
every locality of the North, supported success
fully in many cities and districts. supported
effectively and triumphantly in New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Illinois? 1t was
by National Democrats engaged in no HOLIDAY
work. 1t was a dress parade, sham battle,
we had at the South. We are pulled up with
valor, and inflated with superintendent courage,
at our easy victory-and our giddy holyday SOL
diery naturally feel, that after facile triumph
they can carry any absurdity and ultraism at
the next encounter.
Holyday giddy Democrats of the South may
think 1t an easy matter to invent absurd propo
sitions, and to use them as ladders TO climb to
,he pinnacles of notoriety; but the party which
boasts a national policy, creed, and vitality
and which has a devoted army of selfsacrifciDg
soldiery at the Notwithstanding, in the throa,
of danger, under the eye of vigilant, mslig
nant, and unrelenting enemy-is bound to con
salt the safety of its heroes, before diverting
itself with the antics of its clownsl
To maintain our power, we must preserve
the Democratic organization. To preserve the
Democratic organization, we must save ouI
Northern Democratic allies. To save oul
Northern Democratic allies, we must not cal
upon them to undertake or countenance ex
IRENE measures on the subject of Slave
nv. Give them q chance to recover them
selves, and regain power in the free States the,