The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-09-07

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southern decision, and we should like to have a
general expression mot SUPPRESSION of southern opn-
ion upon the subject
The integrity Of the democratic creed and the safe
ty of the democratic organization is formidably
threatened by this Douglas movement than it has
been threatened before and il is time that those
at the North who ready to risk all for the sup
port Of this creed and this organization in their purity
and integrity should know the sentiment of the South
in regard TO movement which-declaring that the
squatters in the Territories may exclude slavery and
that Congress may interfere when they apply for
admission States to control and reverse the action
which the territorial authorities may have taken in the
formation of constitutions--is making bold appeal
TO the democracy throughout the North against the
regular democratic organization as hostile to these
dogmas taking possession of the organization where
ever they can, and wherever they cannot boiling
and making common cause with the opposition. The
tone of all the letters and information which comes
to us from that section of the Union is aptly con
densed in the following sentence from correspond
emit:
lheir aim is, and in conversation they do not con
cea it, to have Douglas delegates for all the north
western States and if they fail to be recognised by
to control the Charleston Convention still to run their
man. as the Undertook philosophers and Buffalo here
tics did in l84S.' They mean seems to force their
delegations into the Charleston Convention and compel
and put him before the people as the northern dem
ocratic candidate sound all questions but the Lee
compton denomination aud the bred Scott "decision
against popular sovereignty" They calculate thus
defeating any election by the people, in order that
the three highest candidates voted for, from which
the House is required by the constitution to make
choice, shall be the Charleston nominee the regular
opposition nominee and the man who is ''at least
better democrat than Lincoln Holding the bal
ance of power, one the other parties in chief, it
is expected will be obliged to take up Mr. Douglas -
the democracy to take him "at least better dem
ocrat than Seward" or else the opposition to take
him at least better republican than the slave
drivers candidate nominated at Charleston.
The tactics they practising in every local can
yass in the North typifes the tactics which they
intend for the grand national arena in 1860 Such
is the movement inaugurated against the integrity
of the democratic creed and organization. 1t is
pidn n;tl IL III is not cruSHcu by INC party IL VIII
crush the party for the moment it is understood at
the North that the democracy, especially the south
ern democracy, will allow a latitude of opinion on
the slavery question and tolerate whole sessions
voting with the abolitionists in Congressman
moment will the democracy of the entire North be
al liberty to agree together that they will have no
opinions on the slavery question, and to proceed
upon the theory of the Bufalo-platformists that
slavery is not one of the questions belonging to the
democratic creed, upon which orthodoxy is required
of the candidate.
1t is plain, from the foregoing, that the speedest
and most effectual mode the southern extremists
| adopt for breaking down the national democracy,
and thereby breaking up the Union is to persuade the
democratic organization Of the South to agree to
allow latitude Of opinion and of action national
questions to the democracy at the North. If they
bring the South to this indulgence, there will
then be no national democracy, no Union party.
From extreme southern men we could expect such
a course, towards this movement of Judge Douglass
friends, as some of them have adopted But to the
true of national sentiments at the South we are
sure it is plain that the party must throttle this
northern detection thoroughly organized and ex-
tensivey ramiiied, or that it will throttle the ma
tional democracy.