Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-06-10

confidence they express, 1t seems to Us
to be the idlest thing in the world to take
in new partners lust at the moment wher
they need no assistance. Granting, how.
ever, that they are moved for once by
spirit of magnanimity, We are still una.
BILE to account for their willingness tc
surrender the very name under which
they have achieved their success. But
we must not forget that up to this houl
their triumph bears a strong resem-
blance to the p~roclamations issued by
the rival chiefs who so CALAMITY fight
the battles of our n~eiggkLoring republic
they are in a minority in both branch.
es of Congress, and they were badly de,
feated at the presidential election of1S56'
Their success now is before the battle;
and in this way we do not remember
when the democracy have not been over
whelmed with the most ignominious de-
feat.
The Plan at present adopted is to Gre
ate an Opposition Party, to enlarge the
platform, so as to make it inviting to the
Americans North and South, and broad
enough to accommodate those democrats
who voted against the conference BILL
This arrangement is to be so made that
each particular section and interest shall
be able to claimspecial consideration for
its own opinions. In order to effect this
end, the anti slavery men of the North
have agreed not only to make nc "dec-
l%aration of principles" but to soften
down their expressions of hostility to
'the slave oligarchy." Hence we may
now account for the lull exhibited by
the negro press of the North, while the
work of coquetting with Humphry Mar
shall and his operate troop of South
Americans and a few northern de nocrats
is going on. Should this scheme fail,
the republicans Will fall back on their
last years organization, and fight the
battle of 1860 on their 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 ergaH-
ization can be effected out ofthe elements
which the republicans are seeking to com
bine. We hold it to be impossible, for
instance, whatever we may think of the
leaders, to bring into union any consid-
cradle portion of the people of the South
with the dominant republicans of the
North; and it is equally clear that there
are no democrats whose support is worth
preserving who will join the opponents
Of the democratic party. A schism may
exist for a day in our ranks, but the
passion that divides us will be succeeded
by a sound judgment which viii! more
repair any breach created by mere
temporary disagreements. The great
heart of the nation is democratic; and
there never will be a period in the histo-
~ of the country when the people, ex-
ercising "the sober second thought"
will confer power upon the opponents
Of the democracy.
We are confident, indeed, that the
democracy of the United States never
before have been so strong aud irresisti-
de as at the present moment. For thir-
y years we have been struggling against {
he monstrous errors of Legislation which 1
Missouri into the Union. The
ct of 1920 was the legalization of polit- {
cal ant i-slavery. It brought into be- T
ng, in the Congress of the nation, a t
which the federal constitution
ad excluded from that body, which was
attended, as is seen, by the very nature r
u government, to be local in its d
and treatment. BY the leg G
ilation of this session that subject has
cen driven out of Congress; has been !.
localized, in the language ofthe day
nd IN that act, the rital.posccr that has i,
eretofo1e sustained the republican, or a6- p
1ition party, has been forever extin- Il
The recruiting which is going .
n by the republicans is the last strug- 4.
e which is to be made against the de- CT
.ocracy, and it will be the feeblest ev- W
urged in opposition to the permanent W
emocratic spirit which is destined to =
'vern the nation. No more infectious f,
ihalations are to come up from the til
ansas marsh; no more controversy is tn
come off in Congress about free and P'
ave territory. Immigrant Aid Socie-
ss' may be organized, but hereafter es
ey must be directed primarily and ex- nj
to the Territories, and not to 81
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