Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-10

cratic party of the Union, he would certainly
not make use of Democratic principles with
which to do it. He would rather attack
Democratic principles and seek to overthrow
them. There is one thing in breaking down
party, and another thing in endeavoring to
keep that party in the straight path of its
principles.
The fact is, that the Democratic Party,
properly so called, is now with him, and
those are the disorganizers who undertake to
lead of Democrats from their old and well.
established faith, and who have the impu-
dence to denounce those who refuse to follow
in their apo'tate steps, as no Democrats.-
Show us one solitary act ofStephen A. Doug
las, that initiates against Democratic prin
ciplc Does he not denounce the whole Re
publican creed and the whole Republican
party? Does he not endorse that worse than
poison to the Republican party, the Dred
Scott Decision? Does he not denounce the
Know Nothing party and spit upon their
doctrines? Does he not launch forth the
thunders of his eloquence against every form
and shape and element of opposition to the
Democracy, throughout the length and
breadth of the land? Where, then, is the
act or initial of an act, on his part, to show
that he is attempting to break down the Ma
tional organization ofthe Democratic party
1t cannot be found He stands, to-day, be.
fore the country, as staunch and true a Dem
ocrat Ns ever graced and honored the ranks
of that great and invincible party. If the
efforts of Stephen A. Douglas prevail, the
party will be saved from that very catastro.
phe which his Leeompton enemies pretend he
is endeavorng to bring about. 1t can never
be disorganized as long as it is true to its
own principles and well-established standard
of iaith--as long as it occupies the broad
and national ground which it occupied in
1856. But, the moment that it degenerates
into merely sectional party, and refuses
to carry into practical operation the princi.
pie Of the Kansas n ebraska Bill, erceDt in
those cases in which it will result in the ere.
alton Of Slave States, that moment it is for.
ever disorganized as National Party. If
the South shall insist on ignoring the doctrine
of popular sovereignty, as interpreted by the
Cincinnati Platform, simply because it may
occasionally, or even frequently, result in
making Free States instead of Slave, they
cannot, of course, expect the Democracy ot
the North to agree TO any such abandonment
of principle. 1t would not be in human ua-
ture to do it. 1t would be most sneakingly
vile, and cownrdly and unprncipled on the
( part of the North, even to contemplate the
possibility of doing it, The Democratic par
ty claims to be as well for the North as the
South. Abjuring all sectional feelings or pre-.
judices it POUNDS itself upon the broad doc.
trine, that majority Of the people in the
Territories shall regulute their own domestic
institutions and have slavery or not, as they
see ht 1t calls this great national priLei.
pie, having no taint Of sectonalism about il
and 1t is most truly q great national princi
pie. 1t is the chief element that gives tn,
Democracy its title to be designated great
National Party. But, what sort of a crea
National Party would it be, which woulc
have no particular principle, but shift itself
pro and con, to suit the caprices and whim.
OF one particular section of the Union .
which would be one day for popular sovreirn
ty, where it made a Slave State. and TN,
next day against it where it made a Ere,
State; or one day for Congressional interfer
ence, where it was in behalf of Slave State
and the next day against it where it was il
behalf Of Free State, and so on through
the whole course of its action? Yet such i
the Democracy to which Lecomptonisu
wishes the Democratic masses now to sub
scribe In other words, Mr.. Buchanan an,
his myrmidons have dared to warp the grea
principles of the party from their true direc
ton, III order to accommodate an unreasona
bic and arrogant demand of the South
similar demand to which has never bee,
made of the South by the Democracy of tn,
North, and to which the South, in her turn
would die before she would submit.
Stephen A. Douglas claims that what /.
right for the North is right for the soutl
also' and that the great Democratic Party o,
the Union shall not be turned from its true
course to accommodate any one section o
the American Union or any one class of the
American People 1t is a great NArroN.
Party, and SO let it be preserved.