Daily national Democrat., 1858-12-05
1he lesson Of tl1e late Elections.

the supporters of that policy, instead of be
ing the head and front and bone and muscle
of the Democracy, are reduced to the condi-
tion of mere faction, little miserable
remnant that barely hangs on to the extreme
outskirts of the party. In Illinois, this lit
tie faction polled t,co thousand only out Of
two hundred aud forty thousand votes that
were polled in the State. In Pennsylvania
the only portion of the Democracy that sue
ceeded was that which totally repudiated
the Administrators Kansas policy. On any
other platform but that of Lecomptonism the
State of New York would undoubtedly have
gone for the Democracy. but the Democratic
candidate for Governor stumped the State on
the principle that Mr.. Buchanan was right in
everything that he had done, and the conse-
quence was that the $4,000 Democratic ma
jority Of last year went against him, and he
was defeated by the overwhelming amount
of twenty or thirty thousand votes. In
Massachusetts,, where the Democracy, though
in the minority, has heretofore maintained a
representation in the StateLegislature at least,
the party was forced by the Administration
to bear the load of Lecomptonism on its
back, and the result is that it has been al
most totally annihilated, scarcely a vestige of
it left. In New Jersey those Democrats have
triumphed, who have bravely fought the bat
leupon the pure principles of the Democracy
and refused to endorse the Kansas policy OF
the President. The greatest feature of the
triumph in New Jersey is the reelection of
Mr.. Adrian, the stalwart anti-Lecompton
Dongles Democratic Representative in Con-
gress.
But it is unnecessary to particularize. The
Lecompton side of the Democracy have been
thoroughly ripped out They can no longer die
tate, but must supplicate or at least acquiesce
The vast majority of the party is against
them, and they must acquiesce or 60 out of
the party. We have no disposition to exult
over them at all, but we are simply stating
what they themselves must know is the fact.
They undertook to establish the doctrine in
this free and enlightened Government, that
the will of the President must be sustained.
right or wrong, and undertook to make it
appear that it was the duty of the Democrat
ic party to follow the lead of the President.
whom they had elected, to any extreme that
he might choose to go, simply because they
had elected him, no matter how widely and
shamelessly he might depart from what the
party themselves recognized as their princi-
Piles. The whole Democracy of the North
tor the Lecompton faction is hardly worth
mentioning, it is so insignificant in numbers)
have arisen, in the majesty of their might.
and trampled the odious doctrine of resnr-
rected Blue Light Federalism under their
feet. Even the South, for whom, almost un-
asked by them this great Leeompton wrong
of the Administration was committed, has
refused to recognize, as part Of the Demo.
cratic faith, the principle attempted to be
laid down 10y the Administration, that thai
man as no Democrat who refuses to sustain
the President in has every measure. The
South, in open defiance of this Federal doe.
trine, have proclaimed their undated conf
denee in the sound Democracy of STEPHEN A.
DOUGLAS, and loudly rejoice over his unpar-
alleled triumph in Illinois
We have said that the staunchest support
ers of the Administration in its Kansas pol.
cy, have been Mortified at the startling as
sumption of the President that leading Demo
Gratis must be read out of the party for
daring to differ with him in regard to ques-
tions of public policy. We happen to have
before us, now, a copy of the "Irish News"
OF date October 30th, one of the leading Jour
nails of the United States, published in New
York. This paper is not only an organ of
the Democratic party generally, but of the
Irish portion of that party in particular. The
Irish, 1T is well known, have been noted for
theirl adherence to Democratic princinles.
and their almost uniform loyalty to Demo-
cratic Administrations had the effect in the
late elections to rally them very generally to
the support of James Buchanan in his Le.
compton policy. Without stopping to inquire
the 0hys and whergores, they voted on the
Administration side, upon the general prin.
ciple that what claimed to be a Democratic
Administration ought to be sustained. But
even as loyal a class of men as these are be
coming disgusted with theunheard of lenctbs
to which the present Administration has at
tempted to go and to carry the Democratic
party with it. The Irish News" as the ex-
ponent Of this awakening sentiment, notwith
standing it has all along been a recognized
organ of the Administration, and filled with
by Authority" advertisements, holds the
following language. We copy from its issue
of October 30th:
Dissatisfaction pervades the Democratic ranks
the honest Democratic ranks-at the manner in
which the leaders of the party have ignored the
rights OF popular soyereignty-at the wav in
whlch individual independence was sought to
be clOven down by the Federal sword and there
by the axe laid to the root of our Republican in
sttutons.
When this Lecompton squabble came nm in
Congress we sustained the Administration be-
evlng thai it would be in position to abate that
dangerous nuisance" Bleeding Kansas" But as
tue government party mas thought MT to make
war upon those who felt it their duty to differ
from them on that question, and to use Custom
House and other Federal influences to crush them
out, we must protest against such dlctation. The
head of this Republic is not the master, but the
servant Of the people The Democracy bf the
United States will have no old man of the sea
clinging to its neck and pointing its course with
rod Of steel, like the driver of the elephant
The elephant is docile but is strong, he is patient
but intelligent. He sometimes casts down the
rider and makes him feel the weight of his heavy