Daily national Democrat., 1858-12-18

gSs- With true, conservative Popular
Sovereignty nominee for the Presidency in
1860 the Democratic party is bound to sue
ceed. The extreme ground which the great
head and front of the Republican organiza
ton, Mr.. Seward, has assumed on the vexed
question of slavery, must inevitably shut out
from that organization the entire voting
masses of the North who have the least par
ticle of conservatism in their natures. "Nc
more slave States" and can eternal war
against the institution of slavery" are the
principles, if we may dignity them by that
name, upon which the Republican party un,
der the lead of Seward are to make their
next great fight for supremacy in this GOV.
ernment Popular Sovereignty, in its most
restricted Interpretation, is wholly repudi-
ated by Mr. Seward. He does not believe in
it in any shape that it may take. lie believes
that Congress has the right to regulate the
whole subject of slavery in the Territories
and absolutely to prohibit it on every inch
of ground where it does not now exist The
! decision of the Supreme Court of the United
States he Gets at naught, and avows himself
i'll favor of establishing a judiciary which
shall pronounce a different decision. The
fugitive slave law, according to his view, is
without due constitutional authority, and
ought to be repealed. Notwithstanding ii is
the only condition upon which the Union of
the already existing States can be preserved,
it must, at all hazards, be repealed, or rem,
dered nugatory by the elevation of Freeso
Judges to the Supreme Bench of the United
States. This is all disunion doctrine. Upon
the terms which Mr.. Seward proposes, the
South cannot and ought not to remain in the
Union. The entirety of the Free States, at
least, will never go to any such length in
their political notions. A very large portion
cf the North are willing to abide by the
Democratic doctrine of Popular Sovereis nty
in the Territories. They look upon it is as
perfectly fair and proper that a majority of
the people in the Territories should rule
upon this subject, and where a majority are
in favor of slavery, that the State thus con.
stituted should be admitted They have con.
tidence that that portion of the Democracy,
which stood true to this principle in the
Kansas question, will remain true to it here.
after, for they saw them ready to sacrifice
everything for its maintenance With a Pop.
nlar Sovereignty candidate, therefore, every
conservative and patriotic element of the
North would rally around the Democratic
standard. But with the nomination of Le-
compton James Buchanan Mud-Sill Ham,
nond candidate for that position, the north
ern masses would have no more confidence in
.he loudest protestations of determination
% adhere to Popular Sovereignty than they
would in the declaration that Judas was now
'eposing snugly and comfortably in Abra
lam's bosom The hand that has once been
made acquainted with the fire generally |
hrinks from a second contact. t
The duty and policy of the Democratic
arsy, therefore, are plainly to nominate
tephen A. Douglas at the Charleston Dem t
cratic National Conventions be has proven
imself true to the doctrine which he may
re said almost to have originated, and there
ould therefore be no doubt attaching to his {
eiteration of the doctrine