Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1858-08-31

Democracy, North and South.

folAkQ SO0tooru fl&uts euo inectos.s- AAo"
> far their performances have answered to their
promises is . sabject # Historical investigation.
Whether shs claim has been well Supported or not,
this mocA q least 10 oertain-that they have sue
eesded in sheir design Of acquiring supremacy in
the South, and that every Southern State, except
Maryland, now acknowledges willing allegiance
TO the party.
But this policy. while d has undoubtedly
strengthened The party at the South. has had pre-
ciscly the reverse effect at the North As South
ern States. like Kentucky and North Carolina.
have wheeled into the Democratic columns, North
ern States, such - Maine, New Hampshire and
Michigan, which had previously never failed in
their allegiance have broke loose from their Dem
ocrasic moosings and drifted into the current
of Black Republcanism. Democracy has gained
at the South, but has lost far more in the North
Tho ambitious politicians Of tbi. party are dis
covering At last what the inevitable result will be
Of such policy. They soc that the political
power of the country is not only in the North now,
but will became more and more concentrated there
with each succeeding year. Those of them who
are intriguing for the Presdency-and their name
is legion-haye discovered that it will destroy all
their hopes Of preferment to arouse the slnmbcring
Northern giant, and provoke him to resistance
Accordingly there has been marked change in
their policy. The most yoracious 6re-eaters have
suddenly become the mildcst Of yegetarans Pro
fessed disunonists Of a few years since are now
chanting the glorics and beauties Of the Union
with extraordinary fervor. The tremendous and
unexpected vote for Fremont in 1856 has opened |
the eyes of these ambitious pyrophagists. The
r 4. l. A.. a.t,,
cd to the North, by way Of commencing them
selves to Southern favor, has been attuned down
to q strain as gentle and soothing that made by
1.-THE sweet South. breathing upon n bank of vio-
let's" So true it is that professional politicians
are never at fault, in accommodating thcmselvesto
the exigencies Of the occasion.
But this mode Of procedure has had a retroac
tive effect Some of the Southern journalists, who |
have been educated to believe that there |
such thing as justice even to be expected at tho
hands Of the Northern majority, profess them
selves unable to understand the sudden drift, IN IA
vor Of the Usion which agitates the Southern
Democratic waters. OF these the Mobile Register,
the organ Of the Alabama Democracy. is one of
the most conspicuous. 1t sees danger t" tho
Democratic party" in the ''msohevous teachings
and unprincroh designs of false prophets mud
ambitious conspirators within the party, who ARE
doing their best to debauch aud demoraisr it,
1t says moreover that reckless asplrant, for tho
Presidency are endoavoring to lead or force tho
party from its position as the defender Of the CON
stitutiona rights Of the South against the aggres-
sivc designs of the North, to the end that their
personal ambition may I've subscrced by its prostl-
tuition" 1t even calls the names of those whom |
it accuses of icing the lenders in this moSen, mt
Messrs. Douglas of Illinois, and Wise Of Virginia
their object iring according To this Democratic
authority, ITO compel the Democrats party to lib
eralise its platform, 10 render II more accGta-
Die TO Northera scniimcaf-to enlarge the Demo-
cratic organization, by forcing it to place itself
upon platform less farordhe 10 Southern opinion
and Southern rights Aan t's present coo'piorion."
TO present the views of this able Democratic
journll still more fully, We quote tho remainder
Of this pregnant and significant paragraph;
Convinced by the results of the last Prcsden
tial election that the Democratic party in it- pres
ent organization must be overwhelmed IN the con-
hiet uf 1860. when it will meet the Black kcpub-
licans single-hnnded. they determined that 1t
should compete for Northern suffrage by No1MerH
izing itscif And designing, of course, themselves
to be the benchcaries of this movement which
they planned they initiated and made themselves
the leaders of it. by taking gpnnd against the ad-
mission Of Kansas when she presented herself to
Congress with u slave constitution. They Land the
first foundation Of the new platform which they
resolved to erect for the future residence Of the
Democratic party most nuspiclously in the defeat
Of the absolute admission Of Kansas which they
succeeded in accomplishing. The Leoompton Con-
sttution being etfectnally re- ected, they have
proceeded to further strengthen this platform by
declaring in favor Of breaking down the Confer
ence Compromise aud admitting Kansas nj once M
free State
1t does eeen little suspicious, indeed that
cry possible means for preventing the admission
of Kansas as Slave State, should have thus been
employed. The three eoncurrng circumstances
Of opposing her admission at frst-of opposing
the English Bill under which there was bare
possibility at least Of Kansas choosing to be
Slave State-and Of advocating her admission us
aFree State that the she has rejected the
English Propositions to lead to the
clusion irresistbly thar it the determination
from the first that Kansas should never come into
the Union with Constitution tolerating slavery.
The Mobile Register attributes this policy to de-
sire not to provoke the North-not to drive off the
Northern Democracy from the ranks Of the party.
The Mobile Register being Democratic paper,
and being competent to speak in behalf of its own
party. we shall not gainsay the assertion If true,
however, it convicts those who have advised this
policy of deliberate attempt to concliae the
North by refusing to the South what she had an
unmistakeable right to demand 1t convcts them,
in the language Of the Register, Of attempt "to
Eberalise the platform SO as to render il more ac-