Daily national Democrat., 1858-12-15

nothing and cares nothing about them, and repu-
date Broderick who gave them life and who can
alone perpetuate their existence-if, indeed, be
can do it.-Orgda Of the LecomptoH Boilers.
And this is the kind of soup that is ladled
out to the readers of the Express
The Express may admire Mr.. Broderick as
much as it likes-there are many other ad
mirers OF him in this State-but we object
to that papers maguihing him TO the extent
that it does. 1t puts him far beyond anything
that has ever been claimed for him, hitherto,
| by his most ardent followers, for no one but
the Express ever thought of declaring that
Mr. Broderick actually gare life to the entire
sentiment of this State which is favorable to
Popular Sovereignty Intelligent men have
supposed that it was Judge Douglas of Illi-
nois, who gaze life, if anybody ever did give
life, to that irresistible principle which,
all over the Union, is awakening the public
mind and stirring it to degree almost un-
paralleled in the history of the country. In.
telligent men have supposed that if Mr..
Broderick had gone the full length of Lecomp-
tonism with Dr. swim, still the mighty states,
man of Illinois would have vindicated his
Kansas Nebraska Bill, and defied the power
of President and an obsequious Senate to
trample under foot the most sacred of all the
political doctrines that ever found lodgment
in the bosoms of free people The Express
knows little of the Independent spirit of the
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poses that Mr.. Broderick or any other public
man of this State could have suppressed by
taking an opposite ground, that noble burst
of enthusiasm which greeted the grand and
proud position of the Illinois Senator when
he stood up in the Senate of the United States
and declared, in the very teeth of frownng
President and scowling Cabinet and the
menacing cohorts at their back, that they
might ride over his PROSTATE body, but they
never should violate, with his consent, the
great principle which theH as we'll as he, had
pledged themselves to support. Had this
position, and the daring eloquence with
which it was maintained, not aroused some
portion of the Democratic masses of this
State to an enthusiastic admiration of the
man who had thus nobly met the crisis from
which feebler and less courageous spirits
shrunk, then, indeed, should we have sup
posed that the masses who compose this COM
monwealth Of the Pacific had left their man.
hood behind them in the States from which
they came.
We say here, as we have said before, that
the Douglas party of this State is composed
of men who are both favorable and unfavor-
able to Mr.. Broderick But this fact makes
no earthly difference with the harmony of
the party, inasmuch as Mr. Broderick asks
nothing-and will not, if he ever does again,
for a number of years-at the hands of the
people of this State. The shouts of his friends |
or the barking of his enemies, be they ours
or hounds, can do him neither good nor
harm. 1t is his own course in the exalted |
station which he occupies that is to "inake
or mar" him. If he does well for his party |
and for the State, he will receive the plaudits |
of his constituents. But the issue before the |
country now, is not Brodcrickism or anti |
Broderickism, but whether the great leading
principle Of the Democratic party, of which
stephen A. Douglas is the acknowledged ex-
ponent, is to prevail or to he tramped under
foot Were the issue simply Broderickism or
anti Broderickism, it would be confined to
the limits of this State whereas every man.
with three cents worth of brains, knows that
the issue is as wide and ll-pervading as the
Union itself
But, why do we waste words in answer to
a sheet which gives token that it is AFRAID to
address itself to the consideration of princi
Piles, and eternally seeks shelter under the
pitiful subterfuge of fictitious issues that have
no more to do with the questions at stake
than the price of putty in the Sandwich
Islands with the balance of power in Europe?
"a journal which seems to entertain the
notion that there is no such thing as an indie.
pendent Democrat, or free man who does
his own thinking, but that everybody is a
slave of some leading politician, poor eur,
properly tagged and eolared. with label
on his neck indicating to which master he
belongs, Gwin, Weller, or Broderick, or who
ever else it may be2 We tell the Express,
(for it does not seem to be aware of it, that
there is such thing as party clinging to
principle, for the sake of principle, and not
to men for the sake of men. The Democratic
party-when we say Democratic party. we
mean that party which has had the manhood
to stand by the Cincinnati Platform, not
withstanding the President abandoned it
the Democratic party is this day for Douglas,
because he stood true to Democratic princi-
ples at a time when they were threatened by
the arbitrator of all traitors in the Demo
cratic camp, as he had stood true to them be-
fore when they were menaced by enemies
from without These are the men who fol.
low their principles and uphold those who
maintain them in their party. But, as readily
as they rallied around the Illinois champion,
when he drew his sword for Popular Sover-
eighty, and threw away the scabbard, thus
readily would they abandon him, too, if he
ever departed from the straight line of Dem
ocratic principles.
Such is the position and stamina of the
true Democracy of this Union, and of the
Douglas Democracy of this State.
TOBACCO CHEWING IN THE SANTA CLARA
ScHooLs-The County School Superintend-
ent of Santa Clara county, in his report for