Daily national Democrat., 1858-12-15
DouVIas for President.


EDITOR DEMocRAr:-In placing at the
head Of your columns the name of that dis
tinguished National Democrat, Judge Doue-
LAS, you have responded to the wishes OF
national men, without respect to party. But
you have more especially struck responsive
chord in the hearts of those Kansas N ebraska
Democrats who have stood by the great
DOUGLAS from the moment when his doctrine
of popular sovereignty was promulgated, to
the present hour. The spontaneous similari-
ity of sentiment which has developed
itself with regard to the succession of the
Little Giant" to the Presidency, is also graf
flying to all who desire to see great nation
governed by straightforward principles rath-
er than by temporizing expediency. The
present position of the Democratic party
may be partially compared to that of the de-
funct but respectable Whig party, which
found itself suddenly opposed in its wishes
by one who it had a right to expect would
cause Its principles to be carried out. 1t is
true that Mr. Tyler had not been so fairly
committed on the National Bank question as
Mr.. Buchanan har Ibeen to the Democratic
doctrine of popular sovereignty, and was,
therefore, more excusable for his actions
towards his party. Inasmuch, however, as
he had been elected by party known to be
welded to certain prsnciples, it had a right
to expect him to support them. If an entire
party regarded Tyler's detection as sufficient
cause for violent and prompt denunciation,
when the case admitted of great palliation,
how much more promptly should a rebuke
be administered to one who voluntarily merg-
ed himself in the party platform, and. before
he had got fairly warm in his seat proceed
ed deliberately to violate it Mr.. Puchanan's
pledge to the party constitution was so re
markably explicit and humble that it sug-
gested to his opponents the soubriquet of
James Platform Buchanan. He then felt it
necessary, as his popularity was very ques-
support upon the welldefined principles of
the party; but as soon as those principles
had subserved his purpose he vainly imagin-
ed himself equal to the task of crushing not
only distinguished party leader, but the
party itself His vanity, however, should
not have blinded him to the example of Mr..
Tyler, who had failed to crush a party of
far less prestige than that which attaches to
the solid phalanx of the true Democracy.
Surely the principles which were sound for
The Candidate should have been sound for
the President, especially when it was mat
ter of profound regret" to him that the Le-
compton Constitution had not been submit
ted to vote of the people who were to live
under it If the whole matter had passed, |
in an irregular manner, beyond his power
or the power of Congress to correct the evil
the Presidents profound regrets" might
have had the semblance of sincerity; but as
it was yet in his power to refer it back to the
source of all power-the people themselves
his actions gave the lie to his language
# he regretted" that the villainous Lecomp-
on Constitution had not been submitted to a
popular vote, why did he recommend Con-
yress to adopt it, and descend from his high
'ffice to bribe, cajole and beg members and
Senators to vote for it Could not His Great
less at least have confided the matter to the
action of Congress2 To what
Dut overweening vanity can we attribute the
lttempt to make the party stultify itself by
walowing its own principles? Truly the
)erfidy of James Buchanan has no parallel
n American politics and but one in Ameri
,an history. 1t is amazing to see how power
the Uriah Heep of humbleness
INTO mass of insufferable arrogance. But
perhaps the party should not have elevated
to leadership one who believed in Federal |
notions and low wages" 1t is true that Mr..
Buchanan's probation was long, and we are
thus doubly warned for the future, that no
possible probation will fit a renegade from |
one party to carry out the principles of ar
other. Indeed it is doubtful if there e any
so well fitted to carry out great principle |
as those who originated it. The doctrines
of Luther, Calvin and Wesley would have
the disciples of Jesus Christ himself showed
their weakness ON more than one occasion.
Judge DOUGLAS, of all men, best understands
the only living principle for which the Dem
oeratic party is worth preserving all other
mere issues of policy having long since be-
come obsolete. In him is centered honor,
genius, integrity and the very essence of De
me cracy and to him alone can we look for
truly Democratic administration of the gov
ernment. Well may Senator Dixon regard
his great deeds as part of the "moral treas
ures of the nation" and well have you done,
Mr. Editor, in placing at the head of your
columns the name of one who can conduct
the affairs of a great nation with skill as
great as that which enables him to sound the
depths of the popular heart, and an energy
as untiring as that which has enabled him to
crush out Abolitionized Buchanan:sm.
A Coon NEBRASKA MAN.
MYSTERIOUS DIscovERY.-Under this cap