Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-15
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tohLttS oI lhlS region 10 speah VI 'hi9 P"PN'
as the $50 called NATIONAL DEMocRAT. We
might retort by terming them "so-catled
men, nasmuch as we can perceive no great
degree Of manhood in a set of beings, who
dare not think for themselves, and are mould.
ed in the hands Of those who happen to be
in authority. like n lot of earthenware in the
hands of Il manufacturer Of crockery, and Of
a very inferior quality at that Whatever
side Of a question the President is on. that
side are they, and when he resurrected his
old Blue Light Federal notions and applied
them to Kansas, why then they were as good
Blue Light Federalsts as he They made q
great fuss over the Kansas-Nebraska Bill
when it was passed, eulogizing its author
and damuing the Black Republicans for op-
posing it. But as soon as the President
struck at the vital principle Of that bill, re
iusing to give it shat very Interpretation
which these same Lecomptonites, as well as
the whole country, had given it, and com
nenced a war upon the very author of the
ill himself Stephen A. Douglas, then did
! tiey-these same most accommodating politi
cal waiters-turn right around and make
war, too, upon the Kansas Nebraska Bill,
and. for Il while, upon its author, until they
found it was not a safe game just yet in this
state. They never thought of questioning
the right of the people of Kansas to vote
! upon their whole Constitution, until the Pres
dent questioned it, and then, after opening
their eyes little in a sort of owlish astonisl
ment-for it did even astonish hem-thel
commenced, like good, faithful echoes, tc
question it, too. They never thought of con
lining the term, domestic institutions" a.
used in the Kansas Nebraska Bill, to mere
family matters and household affairs, until
the President undertook to do so, and then
they were ready to declare that the whole
meaning and intent of the popular sovereign
ty clause of the Kansas Nebraska Bill was
that the people should have the liberty OF
! saying whether they would have bed steads
and crockery in their houses or not. When
Gov Walker, in accordance with instructions
from the President, assured the people of
Kansas that they should have fair vote
upon the Lecompton Constitution, why, then
these same Lecompton bawlers-were loud
in their approval of the course of Mr. Walker,
ana declared vehemently that that was the
only right way of doing. AS soon as the
President, however, chose to be guilty of
treachery to Gov. Walker, aud to shift his
ground as to the submission of the Constitu-
tion to the people, why, then, these marvel
lousy elastic India Rubber statesmen thought,
at once, that it was true enough, there cas no
reason why the Constitution should be sub
mitted-Gov Walker was entirely wrong
and they were avtonishcd that man of his
sense would put forth such ideas
Now, we submit to a candid public, if these
are not a pretty set of individuals to talk
about 4" "so-called Democrats When these
" so celled Democrats are standing upon the
grand old principles of the party, standing
where the party stood in 1856, standing
where it must stand or cease to be the Dem
oeratic party, ,Chere do we find these i'm.
pugners of the faith of true and consistent
Democrats? We find them anywhere else
than on Democratic ground. We find them
drifting away from the great landmarks of
Democracy, and floating off into the Black
Sea of Federalism We acknowledge the
right Of no slch men to term this paper the
" so called NATIONAL DEMocRAT Whenever
they can become National Democrats them
selves; 1heneyer they can subscribe, as we
do, to the Cincinnati Platform, as it means
and not as they construe it; whenever they
can subscribe, as we do, to the Kansas Ne
braska Bill, and show disposition to see it
Eithfally carried out. in spite of Presidents.
ar Cabinets, or Senates, then may we accord
to them the right to sit in judgment upon the
question of the Democracy of this journal.
Of one thing we are sure, and that is, that we
shall survive all their sneers at our Democra-
cy, and that this paper will still be preach
ing Democratic principles, long after the blue
lights Of Buehananism have gone out in
darkness, and the mephitc vapors of Lecomp-
tonism have been swept into the regions of
Chaos.