The Feliciana Democrat., 1858-11-27

the people OF the slave States He believed
in the equality of blacks and whites he CON
temned and spat upon the highest judicial tr-
bnnal OF this country and villiiied the admins.
tratlon OF james Buchanan. lie was the cham.
plon OF that infamous party in Illinois, which,
curing the last ten years, has hooted mobbed
ana howled their impotcut rage ut Judge
douglas Whenever he has scourged the aboli.
tlonlsls Tor their hostility to southern rights.
ms lotl and ungodly set composed of all the
Heterogeneous material out of which the black
republican party is composed in the Western
States, with Lincoln al their head, sought the
triumph OF the very worst principles of the alb
oIltion party in the defeat Of Judge Douglas.
This party, more disgusting and disreputable
than that regiment which Falstaff marched
through Coventry, was met and conquered by
conservative Democrats, true to the rights of
the South-men who denied the equality of
negroes and white men, who upheld the decis-
ion Of the Supreme Court, who believed that
the abolition Of the Missouri compromise was
right, and who admitted the correctness Of all
inc cardinal doctrines OF the State-rghts party
For four long months this party Of consery-
ative Democrats, laborng under every disad-
vantage, fought the pack of Abolition wolves
who howcd in the wake of Lincoln TO the
aid OF Lincoln came tn t traitor and Mexican
sympathzer, Tom Corwin, of Ohio and host
OF Abolition orators from other States. Add
ed to this Abolition pack were Federal Office.
holders, who report says voted for Lincoln
against Douglas IA fact to he looked to by the
Senate, Shcud the names of such traitors ever
come up for confirmation. The result of that
contest was n triumph of conservatism over
Black Republcanism and as such the whole
South rcjoces ut the success of Judge Doug.
las"
And yet the Wende-Lncoln organ of this
city accuses the "wholc South" Of rejoicing
over barren and ignominious victory" in II
linoiSc. This the Infamous sheet does in the
face Of the declarations of Seward. and when
there is the greatest need for unity and combi-
nation in the ranks of that party, which has
been pointing the way to glory by the unity of
the Illinois Democracy. However we laugh
at such stupid attempts at disorganization as
are made by the Union The Democracy will
unite when the necessity for union is thorough
ly understood.
The declarations of Seward will soon make
them understand it and while we do not de.
sire to lessen the Importance OF the crisis we
'"Nl*l ialN!lIllDlll Is SJuT-
tied too much by Stewards proposition. 1t is
true, the Examiner, on looking over New
York, Pennsylvania and Ohio sees q sorry
sight; but the Examiner must remember that
the battle was not fought on the Cincinnati
platform in Pennsylvania, and only in part in
Ohio. To be successful we must all be on that
platform, The platform is victory We be-
lievc it, and with the Examiner, say:
Without the aid therefore, of a moderate.
conservative, national party, the days of the
American Union are numbered. How to per-
perate the existence Of such party has be.
come the great and most important question
Of the day. 1t is one which is engaging the
attention of many of the greatest minds of the
Republic. Experience has taught us that
and united Democratic party has
heretofore, upon more than one OCCASION res
cued the nation from dangers even greater
than those now impending. There is, indeed,
no instance of the Democratic party having
sustained defeat when its harmony was unds-
turbed and its action united Defeat is the
lcayy penalty which we always pay for divis-
onS and dlsagrccments growing out Of the
Inarrcls OF the party about questions Of TEN.
)orary eNpediencc" States