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organization. and fight tbs battle of 1860 sheir
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organization, and fight tbs battle Of 1860 sheir
own hook.
Now We record these suggestions in order to bring
before the country the positive strength and majesty
of the democratic party We have no belief in the
world that any formidable organization be effect
cd out of the elements which the republicans are
seeking to combine. We hold it to be impossible
for instance whatever we may think of the leaders,
to bring into union any considerable portion of the
people of the South with the dominant republicans
of the North and it is equally clear that there
no democrats whose support is worth preserving
who will join the opponents Of the democratic party
schism may exist for day in ranks, but the
passion that divides us will be succeeded by sound
judgment which will more than repair any breach
created by mere temporary disagreements. The
great heart of the nation is democratic. The intel
lect Of the nation is democratic; and there never
will be period in the history of the country when
the people, exercising 'the sober second thought,
will confer power upon the opponents of the democ
racy.
We are confident, indeed, that the democracy Of
the United States never before have been 30 strong
and irresistible as at the present moment. For
thirty years we have been struggling against the
monstrous errors of Legislation which brought Mis-
souri, into the Union. The act of 1920 was the le-
galization of political antsavery 1t brought into
being in the Congress of the nation subject which
the federal constitution had excluded from that body
which was intended, is seen, by the very nature
of government, to be local in its character and
treatment. By the legislation of this session that
hoe haa ,f l,.c H.
localized in the language of the day; and in that
ac the Ual potosr that has heretofore sustained the re-
publican, or abolition party has been forever exin-
gushed The recruiting which is going on by the
republicans is the last struggle which is to be made
against the democracy, and it will be the feebest
ever urged in opposition to the permanent demo-
cratcspirit which is destined to govern the nation
No more infectious exhalatons are to come up from
the Kansas marsh; no more controversy is to come
off in Congress about free and slave territory
"Emgant Aid Societies" may be organized but here
after they must be directed primarily and exclusive
y to the Territories and not to the Congress- of the
united States and to influence federal politics. .
We are convinced, indeed that, viewing the po-
litical affairs Of the Union as we viii, the future
contains nothing but suspicious promises of demo-
cratic triumphs and certain anti-savery defeat and
prostration. a5fa8 l Il al m
We address these considerations to the democ-
racy of the country and repeat the confident decla
ration, that the party upon the integrity of which
the maintenance Of the government depends is
stronger this day than it has ever before been We
do not disguse the fact that we have just emerged
from a damaging controversy in which it was our
misfortune to meet serious disagreements in our own
ranks, but we count, nevertheless that, having at
last indicated the great principle of congressional
non-intervention in the affairs Of the people of the
Territories--or what we much prefer to call the
principle Of selfgovernment--we have achieved a
victory the practical fruits whereof cannot fail to re-
unite our party and render it invincible in he flu
tue. This victory too, insures the prostration of
the sectional backrepublican organization leaving
them mere lifeless residuum of fanaticsm-the
political dregs and debris of once powerful organ
ization