Daily national Democrat., 1858-11-04
A.pect or Political Affairs.

strand of Federalism, by the Democratic par
ty They are already abandoned by the
masses of the Democracy in the North, SO
far as refusal to make war upon Senator
Douglas and to support the English Bill can
be called an abandonment, and it is an aban-
donment in every sense of the word In all
the free States in which Buchanan is pretend
ing to make any headway, the very standard.
bearers of Lecomptonism ,ccaken before the
people and preach almost as good Douglasism
as Douglas himself The author of the
English Bill repudiates the monster of his
own creation, ana flies from it as his worst
enemy. The Lccompton candidates for Con-
gress in Ohio Indiana, Pennsylvania New
| York, Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan, are
loud in their declarations that Kansas may
come into the Union, with free or a slave
constitution, the moment she applies in prop
er form, without reference to the restrictions
of the English Bill. While even the staunch.
est supporters of the Kansas policy of the
President in the last Congress are thus fail
ing to come up to the work in the North,
what is going on in the South? Why, the
feeling for Douglas is so strong in many por
tions of the South, that the New York Her
aid, Buchanans particular friend, is abusing
the Fire eaters, (only think of it, the Fire
eaters y for being in favor of the views of
Douglas on the question of slavery in the
Territories. The St Louis Republican was
leading supporter of the Presidents Kansas
policy in Missouri. yet, now, it vehementy
and Indignantly rebukes the President and
his organ for their malignant assaults upon
the Illinois Senator. 1--WE wish there were
men about Mr.. Buchanan" says that paper,
who had the nerve and the honesty, if he
takes any interest in this election, to tell him
that the course aolich things are taking in ILL.,
"ois seems better calculated to destroy the Dem.
Ocrdtic party than anything that could be de-
vised By its opponents; that it is time that this
war upon Mr. Douglas should cease that it
should not have even the seeming counter.
nnce of the Administration" And then, ad-
dressing Mr.. Buchanan, himself, it says:
"Put an end to this
struggle, Mr. President, as you can d. and
then the Democratic party will be grand
and glorious unit, but unless MiS be done II
TiH be riren into prices"
The Georgia Constitutionalist does not
hesitate to declare that those who svmpathize
with Stephen a. Douglas, in his present po,
sition, are ga majority of the Democratic
party" The Richmond Enquirer, having the
largest circulation of any paper in Virginia,
still thunders in his defense Toombs and
Stephens, of Georgia, backed by majority
of the Democratic papers in that State, are
crying SHANE" upon Mr.. Buchanan for his
prescription of the great Democratic leader
of the North. Louisiana, through the voice
of majority of her newspapers, the true
exponents of public opinion, procams hostil-
ity to the course of the Administration
against Douglas. We have already noted
the position of Speaker Orr, of South Caro-.
lima, and the public meetings of the Democ-
racy in Tennessee and Mississippi, in favor
of upholding the great champion of popular
sovereignty, in his Illinois contest. Where
stands the Democratic press of Kentucky
On the side of Stephen A. Douglas, refusing
to regard him as anything else but recog-
nized leader of the Democracy in the North
Turn where you will, whether North or
South, and you will find that the Democratic
party is with Douglas. This State is for
stephen A. Douglas, in our humble opinion
to-day, and was, when the Democratic masses
were induced, by the raising of a false issue
at the last election, to give their seeming aid
to bolstering up the miserable Kansas policy
of the Administration. This State, we say.
is for Douglas, and the Democracy will as
surely send Douglas delegates to the next
now shines upon us. Mark our prediction
The great majority of the Democratic party
will declare for Douglas delegates The par.
ty which now sustains the President will be
short lived party 1t will expire with his
Administration. But the great National De-
mocracy, under whose banner the whole
conservative North and South will rally, will
gow and flourish, long, long after the grass
has grown green over the grave of Buchan-
an, and the pen of his biographerh has softened
the asperity Of that verdict which posteritv
would pronounce against him, by kindly de
nominating as blunder Of policy what
harsher contemporaries have stigmatized as an
audaciOus crime. with malice prepsnse, against
the Sovereignty of the American People