Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1857-12-02
Democratic Doubts.

The Trumbull Democrat of last weeI
is sorely exercised concerning the posi-
ton which the Republican Party will
take in the future. and very kindly
throws out some suggestions for which,
We have no doubt the Party will be very
thankful. That paper also has doubt,
concerning Mr.. Giddings' present posi-.
,tion, and that which he will occupy in
the future. 1t has bestowed consider
able attention upon that gentleman Of
late, the most marked instance of which
was the giving some ten columns in one
issue TO q letter addressed TO him BY Mr.
'Graeter of this place, the like of which
we venture 10 say. has not appeared ia
any public print in this 18th century.
Our neighbor will do his own party q
greater service than any of its great men
have been able to do, as yet, if he will
state any position which it can take in the
future. which will promise success. He
will find full exercise for his political
genius if he devotes his entire powers 10
that end, and willhave nosurplus intellect
to waste upon the position of the Repub
licans. The game will not be so as
Ii has been in the past, and some new
move upon the political chess board will
be necessary TO maintain the Democratic
party in its present supremacy.
After the elections of 1854, it was
plain to all who needed the signs of the
political heavens, Especially so to the
Democratic leaders. that unless some
new element Of strength could be added
to their party, that the days of its as
~cendancy were numbered. Then it was
that the project of establishing slavery
in Kansas. was conceived by Douglas,
adopted by the Democratic party north,
boldly advocated, and firmly maintained.
By this all opposition to the administr.-
ton at the south. was broken to atoms.
By it, Buchanan was elected, and a new
four years lease of power given to The
most corrupt set of Office holders that
ever disgracee q government of the
United States.
The issue was boldly and openly
made at the south, and the slave states
we're a unit in the presidential contest.
At the north the issue was lodged.
plumply denied by nearly every paper
and orator in the free states. the TIum-
bull Democrat among the number.
Ii, as the Democratic press gravely
informs US, tie Kansas QUESTION is set
tied. and the slavery issue also ended.
then are the days of the Democratic
party numbered. Upon nc other issue
can they carry again every southern
State, and the north is hopelessly lost TO
them. What will they make the next
issue? Will they risk the next canvass
upon The question of the annrI.tion of
Cuba? Upon That they cannot carry a
single free slate. and in the slave stales
where the American Party is still strong,
1t will see to it that priest ridden Cuba
with its half a million of Catholic. is not
brought into this Union.
Will they r~e-estabI..h the African
Save trade? Again they would lose
every free Stale, and all of the slave
breeding slave States.
Will they take the Central American
question, openly sustain Walker and his
hllibusters and 60 in for anne1ing all the
country between Texas and the Istmus
of Panama, and between the Gulf of
Mexico. and the Pacific Ocean.
The; e are riddles which will require all
the skill of our friend of the TrumbulI
Democrat TO solve, without troubling his
head about the position of HE R-publi-
can party.