Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-03-11
The Necessity Of Union for the
Rupublic, and for the Demo-
cratic Party.

16upU1uIIC G1uAU 1VA NA4O
cratic Party.
. We fully and heartily endorse the
view of that genuine Democratic paper,
the New York Neaos, on the subject Of
the Union 1T is very clear that
without Union tho weight of our con-
federacy in the concerns of the world
be little more than that of our sister
State, Mexico, or that of the South
America States generally.
ut is the union of the States and
harmonious corporation that
us "American"-a name now
honored and respected throughout the
world. Without union We
should be atlwar with each other, mu-
tually destroying, instead of building
up each others greatness, and engaged
as Europe has been for nearly three
hundred years in fighting out the bal
of power.
awhile thus engaged it would be an
easy matter for foreign nations to take
sides with one or another party, and
thereby even to get a foothold on the
soil of our Republic. The truth is, the
Union once destroyed, our career, as a
nation would be endeed, and the great
experiment of self government pro-
nounccd a failure from the equator to
the poles.
"What the Union is to all of us as
Americans, that is the Democratic par
ty to the Union. It is the only party,
which, in prosperity and adversely, IN
peace, and war, amid the madness of
faction, and the blindness of sectional
prejudices, has honestly endeavored to
preserve the law, the Constitution and
the patriotic feelings which bind US to-
gether as one and the same people
Destroy the Democratic party. and there
will be no more national organization
on which to rest our national hopes, no
means of preventing the conflict of vio-
lent passions, no rallying point for the
patriots to prevent the dismemberment
of our invaluable confcdcracy.
but the Democratic party itself can
not be preserved without retaining the
vigor Of it's organization and discipline.
a man, in his individual capacity, may
think and act as he p~leases; but as a
member of an organization, he must be
guided by the rules and regulations, the
faith, and aspirations of the political
body to which he belongs; because the
action, consideration, power and conse-
quence of the party depend on the OBJ
s~ervancc of those rules, and because
without them, no association of men for
a common purpose can become even res
pectable, much less powerful.
ga man may be individually brave;
but what would become of an army in
which every soldier, or every company
or regiment claimed to fight son its
own hook?" Would such an army,
brave as it might be, o fall an easy
prey to its foe? The same holds of u
party. 1t will not do for this or that
man to say, 4 AIN with you generally,
but you must excuse me il in this bat
tie | fight on the side of the enemy
1t is bad enough and cowardly enough
to run while the battle is raging; but
it is foul treason to go to the opposite
ranks.
The Kansas question, which is now
agitating the two Photographed
sections of our country, Is more than
an ordinary party question; its speedy
settlement is vital to the success of toe
Administration, to the existence of the
National Democracy rs n party, aud to
the pcrpetuity Of the Union. IndeI e =
dent Of its absolute justice, its entire
lawfulness and constitutioDality, it is l
question which must be got out of the
way to preserve the public peace, and
to make room for other he'll hful iegjS-
~lation. without which the Democrat C
party, represented as it is by the Ma
tional Administration, must stand de-
fcatcd and disgraced before the country
and the world.
at will not do for 4 man to say, L
differ from the President only on this
single point; it will not do to differ on
that single point when it is the way
ofall others on which depend the honor
ana glory of our cause. We are en-
gagged in u great battle with the enemy,
and we cannot hope to conquer him IN
less We stand together. forget Il indi-
vidual differences, and aat in conformity
to discipline and the established rules
of our party.
I'VE cannot hope to form a party out
side of the National Administration,
neither can any man in or out of Con-
gross expect to drag the Administration
behind him. The Administration is
bound to crush these men to preserve
itself and the party, and every honest
Democrat will stand by the Adminstra-
ton in this great process of publication.
This party cannot have more than
one commander-in-chicf though it may
have a dozen candidates for'the presi
dency. That commander in chief is
President Buchanan, and it is fortunate
for the party and for the country that
we can look up to him, not only as the
~expounder of correct principles, but as
the experienced statesman and patriot,
whose whole energies are employed TO
maintain them in their original purity
and vigor.'
S Fred. Douglass complains bitter
" that the friends of the abolition sla-
c.u;,~ roy from, tho couSp