The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1858-09-22

who advocate the resi,alor lie slave trade,
inexpedieni, and contrary to the settled poll
cy Of The country"
HI, turning from the noise and strife ofthis
political Babel, with its confusion Of tongues,
we direct our attention 10 the " organs of
the party, we find them pipiag to as many
Earring and discordant tunes as there are
separate audiences whom it is their function
to please. In Illinois and in most Of the
Northern States " Douglas Democracy" has
its advocates as a more genuine article than
that we could point to nearer home, while in
South Carolina il is held by many little less
than treason TO look upon the former with
allowance. The Richmond Enquirer, we
believe, owns no inordinate attachment to
the Lecompton Constitution or the "Con-
ference bill !" but, in the vocabulary Of q the
central organ" these great measures Of State
policy are recognised as the indispensable
tests of bona fde Democrat--as much so as
the United States Bank in the time Of Jack
son, or the Subtreasury in the days of Mr..
Van Buren,, or the Texas question under Mr..
Polk, or the Kansas Nebraska bill under Mr..
Pierce. In view of such fierce dissension
among the teachers Of the faith, what wonder
that the neophyte who hears the disciples
shouting in their bewiderment "Great is
Democracy should deplore, on his own ac-
count as on theirs, the absence of some
Mahomet as prophet.
Even as We write our eye falls on the pro.
ceedings Of portion Of the Pennsylvania
Democracy, assembled in the good old coun-
ty OF Chester, and resolving as follows:
Rescued. That the present tiriF is snalequats to
defray the expenses of Government, and there
fore in favor lis revision In making such revision
hold that the duties should he adjusted 10 gre
ample protection 10 all tie industrial Interests Of our
country
In former days that would have been de-
nounced by the central organ" as nothing
better than " Federal Whiggery;" now it
passes unchallenged as very good Democracy
i for Pennsylvania, however out Of place it
would be in South Carolina or in the general
platform of the party. As our Philadelphia
contemporary, the United States Gazette,
truly remarks in commenting on this late
declaration of the Chester Democracy, if it
could be adopted into the said general plat
form, and rednced to practice By the harmo-
| NOUS National Democracy, " the partlsans
Of the mueh-denounced Opposition would
pro tGnto lose their identity and confess them.
selves fairly beaten with their own weapons
But perhaps it win be said that the
" Tariff issue is old and ellete, nsomuch
that differences of opinion may now be tole-
rated on question removed from the strife
OF party into the calm region Of political
economy. Perhaps it will be frankly ack-
noSledged that the sound maxims Of the lat
i, ter NAV now be allowed their due force upon
the minds Of thoughtful and intelligent DE.
. mocrats, who were held under obligations "a
suppress their convictions at time when tC
utter them might have I" hurt the party" and
enured to the credit of the Wings. Admit
f ting the Justice of this plea, which perhap:
Z equally applies to some other current diver
gencies from the ancient Democratic faith
we are brought to the melancholy conviction
that allegiance TO the Lecompton Constitu
, tion and implicit faith in the !" English Con
j ference BILL" as the last word and highes
!. development Of Democratic wisdom, alon,
r survive as the infallible criteria of moderr
; Democrat. When difference of opinion i
!. tolerated upon all other questions. from I'll,
) expedeney Of reYiying the slave trade to ID,
/ policy OF improving the navigation Of tn
]. Saint Clair Flats, while on the other hand i
/. is pertinaciously insisted that no true De
mocrat can either add to or subtract iron
y the words Of the aforesaid English bill, WI
are left 10 infer that the latter is employe.
! merely as a convenient symbol for the re
!. eognition Of the faithful, since none. We sup
}, pose, will impute TO it aught Of dignity o
i importance as the embodiment Of any grea
|. Democratic principle. II, then, the symb0
= fails Us as a criterion, we are left ylthO !
!. resource and that it does fail any serlOu
!. searcher for Democratic truth must be ap
parent 10 any one who has made the expert
: ment. For II cannot have escaped the no
:. tice Of any intelligent observer that even thi
j test is not held 70 be vigorously applicable
!. outside Of Illinois.
8 Under these circumstances we are sur
!, that our considerable friends Of the Richmon
!. Enquirer would notbaye uscommit ourselve
n hastily TO any particular fragment or wing :
4 the extant Democracy. II seems to Us, a
i least. tie part Of prudence to watch and wal
= until the elements shall seem a little NOR
II favorable 10 a rational and happy selection
i among the piebald and heterogeneous clai
: mants TO the name and honor,of representa-
!. the true Democracy. II would be inortify
j ing. after renouncing our old faith, TO iin
:. that We had accepted in lis stead spuriou
10 and supposititious eyangel.
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II From The Petersburg TnielIgenetr.
Is The Richmond Enquirer of Yesterday con