Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-04-08
.l.he single Point.

Inc FennSylVanlan very aPtly re-
Jmarks that the men whose whole ener.
!, gies are now bent on destroying the
DEMONSTRATION of James Buchanan, and
1.-The Democratic party, are constantly
urging that they only differ on a "single
point" from the policy of the President,
and that therefore they ought not to be
considered as traitors, and read out OF
the party.
This plea is either put in with a de-
gree of stolidity showing their utter in
capacity as leaders, or it betokens a NAL
ice or hypocrisy justly deserving the
contempt of every honest man.
Men may differ individually as much
as they please on a given question or a
given measure, and no one will on that
account attempt to rule them out of the
church. But when the men differing
from a majority of the party to which
they profess to belong endeavor to effect
a seperate organization-when they set
up for themselves, hoist the standard
of rebellion and beat up for recruits in
opposition to measure on which the
party has agreed to stand or fall, then,
assuredly, these men have no right to
charge those from whom they have thus
separated, aud for whose destruction
they are now combined, with giving
harsh and unkind treatment.
The minority has no right to prefer
such charges against the majority; the
conspirators against the integrity of the
party cannot cloak their crime by at
tempting to criminate those against
whom they are SHINING; neither can
they ascribe to the force of circumstan-
ces what is the result of premeditated
treachery.
1t is not an honest difference about
a single point, when those who differ
attempt to revenge themselves upon the
majority by going over to the enemy
of democratic rule and democratic prin-
ciples. With whom is Stephen A. Doug
las now acting but with the Black Re-
publicans? Who derives aid and com
fort from his present course? Who
supports the measures he is now press
ing to the destruction of the party to
which he is indebted for his present ell
ovation? hat difference is there in
the Senate of the United States between
him andGov. Seward? What difference
is there between the papers supporting
his rebellion and those of the most ap-
proved abolition, or black republican
stamp? None, except that the rengades
! show more zeal in damning their form
or friends han their opponents.
And what right has Mr.. Douglas and
his friends to complain aboutthe crowns
of power the removal of their friends
from office, and the like? Self-preser-
walton demands that the President, as
the head of the Democratic party, should
remove those who propose to destroy 1t.
There is no more good cause for Doug
lasite to be retained in Office than for a
Sewardite or a follower of Wade and
Sumner. These men are all now coop
Grating to destroy the Democratic par
ty, and they know it. 1t is not Lecomp-
ton or Topeka, which is the cry, it is
democracy or black rcpublicanism.
It is the ~veriest trash to say that the
party is indebted to this or that man,
or that the President should consider
the claims of individuals higher than
his obligations to the country. The
baseness of such a doctrine shows the
miserable stuff the men are made OF
who do not blush to utter it. Mr.. Blu
chanan rlcdged his oath to the Consti-
tuition, not to the promotion of individ-
uals, be their ambition great or small.
There are measures which are not
cardinal-which refer to mere policy,
on which a difference of opinion, mod
estly and dispassionately expressed, may
be overlooked or justified. But when
the fate of party depends upon the
vindication of a principle upon which
it has staked its integrity and existence,
then all violent and INSCRIPTIONS OPP
position to it, and every combination
with the opponents ofthc party becomes
treason, from which no causistry how
ever subtle, and no crocodile tears of.
hypocrisy can possibly save it.
sea- 1t appears that the ladies have
already accumulated S75, 900, which
they anticipate will soon be swellcd to
500, 900, for the Mount Vernon fund.
The Richmond Dispatch asks:
"Now couldn't Mr.. Washington, rep
resentative of the man who gave his
living soul to his country without a
dollar of reward, consent to take $780,
900, for the sepulchre? Everybody
knows that Mount Vernon is only val
liable as the tomb of Washington; every
body knows that it was once offered for
c100 0O0 Wby insist upon dOuhln2-