Daily national Democrat., 1858-11-12
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The pemocrntic Party.


r,trop DEMocRAT:-When Mr.. buchanan
came into power, every man in the United
States, who had any leaning to National SEN
4iments, acknowledged that the Government
.,os in safe hands How is it now? On the
ono hand, the Kansas N ebraska Democrats
cav that Mr.. Buchanan has deserted a great
Democratic prjnciple, by recommending the
.1mission of Kansas under the Lecompton
,nock-constitution while, on the other, those
who compelled him, in his weak moments, to
,rrsue that wicked and anu-democratc
course now desert him, because he has prom
sod that hereafter he will insist upon the sub
OMISSION. TO the people of the territories of the
constitutions under which they are to be ad-
,,ittad into the Union. The Lecomptonites
.o, that Mr.. Buchanan has deserted a great
democratic principle by presuming to insist
unon Mr.. Douglas construction Of the Kansas
Nebraska Act hereafter. (When does the old
gentleman expect to have another chance !?
It will be asked-Who, then, supports Mr.
Buchanan? Why those who have received
occ,,niary reward for so doing The holder:
'of Federal office, and the recipients of favor:
large and small, in the shape of contracts
from half price "by authority, spread eagle
advertisements, up to furnishing supplies to
the Utah army. Outside of these "cleveI
gentlemen" Mr. Buchanan has no political
friends in the country. He is a living monu-
ment of the folly of an American President,
who abandoned well-established principles,
the Justice of which he acknowledged at the
time, to crafty miserable faction who have
been laboring for dissolution Of the Union,
from the beginning
SO mortified have individuals of the Le-
compton party become with their position,
that they disclaim any allegiance whatever
to Mr. Buchanan. They say that his support
of Abram Lincoln in Illinois (through the
Washington Union, and in the persons of the
traitor, Charles Lieb, and his whipped ours,
occupying Federal offices in Illinois,) is dis
graceful, and fully offsets all the services he
rendered them by advocating Lecompton-
They say that his proposition to ochip im and
support the Douglas construction of the Ne
braska Act hereafter, is plain admission, 10y
him, that what they consider great right, is
by him considered great ,Crong and luxu
ry not to be INDUCED in with reference to
any Territory but Kansas. So poor old Mr..
Buchanan has no friends left, except those
whom he pays to stay with him, and when
the pay stops, he will be solitary and alone,
the head and tail of that party which seeks to
abandon acknowledged right for acknowl
edged wrong, under the vain plea of policy.
The Illinois election contest, the prospects
of the English ''finality," the Freeport speech
of Senator Douglas, ard other causes, have
split the Leeomptcn party into atoms This
reminds me that one of the fragments has an
Which fragment does that consistent insttu-
ton represent Which side does the Express
take with regard to Buchanan's popular SOW
ereignty pledge (which side concerning
the exclusive provision contained in the sur
viving section of the English Bill and final
ly, which side with regard to the next great
Southern question, of more Congressional
protection for Slavery in the Territories
Would the Express favor the people with a
little more explicitness concerning pure De-
mocracyl in praise Of which it always uses
such general terms? If the Express has opin-
ions OF its own, aud is an Independent eX-
pounder of true democracy not bound to
wait for instructions either from Cornelius
Wendell of the Washington Union, or George
Washington (not the Father of his Country,)
of the San Francisco National, let the People
be instructed. The Yankee fire-eaters want
more intensity, more enthusiasm. The
Southern tire-eaters want more argument Cor
they think they have right on their side).
As the Express has no editors naTle at the
head of its columns and is therefore an anon
ymous publication, there can be 10 impropri-
ETY. in my addressing the Express directly.
That We may know, then, which fragment Of
the Administration party is represented by
the able and influential organ alluded to, l
will respectfully PROFOUND to the gentleman
who does the leaders three simple questions.
If they are answered, we shall know whether
the Express still admires our venerable Pres
ident or not; if they are not answered, why
no matter. Silence will show that the Presi-
denis party here is humbled and subdued to
such degree that its organ does not longer
undertake to define its Democracy Here
are the questions, which feel sure every in
telligent man would like to see answered:
lst-Ought Kansas to be admitted at the
next session of Congress, if her People ap-
ply with less than ninety-three thousand
four hundred and twenty population - -
2d--Has Mr.. Buchanan any right (1eeping
IN view his constitutional oath of ofice,) to
iulhi his pledge, made to the American Peo-
pie, that he will, in all cases hereafter, insist
upon the submission, to the popular vote of
tne Feops of the Territories of the Constitu-
t'ons under which they are to be admitted
into the Union?
"u-iS the right of property in slaves IN
"'e territories, sufficiently protected by ex-
iS''ng laws, and out of all danger of lawful
Interference?
A"e l"S1 question is asked in order that the
Express may give another blast ON Judge
Douglas Freeport Speech.
these queries can be answered plainly,
we shall have learned the positions of one of
'"e iaghents into which James Buchanan