, 1858-07-02

they may not hereafter occupy an equivO-
cal pOsitiOusahd fer the good Of the party
generally, Chat has led as to to make the
shegestiOu1
Fellow,D Democrats In the contest
which is approaching. you are called upon
to meet . portion Of the same organized
political adversaries that sought the de-
feat Mr.. BUCHANAN, aud the enforcement
Of seetiOnal president to direct the affairs
Of the Union. Thus far in our Territorial
history, the star Of Democracy has been
kept in the ascedency, but Il will require
uueeasing vigilance and unity Of purpose if
We expect to maintain q permanent van
tage ground. The candidates Of the De
mocracy are before you. Win the party
in each county see to it that the entire
strength be brought out on the day of the
eIectiOni
What are the principles and their ten
dencies as proclaimed by the opposition 7
When treason organized itself under the
name Of the Republican party, it hung its
banner on the outer wall" and proclaimed
uncompromising warfare to the rights
guaranteed BY the Constitution TO fifteen
co-equal and sovereign members Of the
coufederaey. In every preliminary con-
vention, whether State Territorial or coun-
ty, hostility to the Constitution as il is,
and to the Union as il Is" was the uudis.
guised and revolving sentiment that perVa-
ded and marked the reasonable proceed
ings Of the national conspirators. In their
last convention, which assembled at Phila-
delphia to eonsummate the work Of traitors,
BY nominating standard-bearers to bear the
asg Of sixteen States, the feeling which
gave enthusiasm to its deliberations was
that which proclaimed their purpose to
"Tule the Union or leaue tie URion." "
When in that assembly, which at the time
was denounced by the Democracy as more
dangerously reasonable than the Hartford
Convention, it was proclaimed, with an i'm
piouS appeal to God for bis sincerity, by
one Of the chief couspirators, that "if they
failed at tie ballot bor, they lOOuld haze aeosss
to tie cartridge boz "-the infamous declara-
tion was received with loud shouts Of ap-
plause. That proclamation, and that en-
thuslastic response, went forth as the voice
Of sectionalisu, maddened BY fanaticism,
aud was the voice Of fraternal hatred pro-
nouncing against the rights Of fifteen
States Of the cOnfederacy-it was the voice
Of despOtism proclaiming the dominion Of
the majority over the minority-it was the
voice Of war, summoning the weak to base
submission, or to prepare for the horrors
Of civil strife-it was the voice Of disunon
pronouncing the downfall Of the Constitu-
tion and the end Of the Union. This de-
cIaratiOn was responded to in the pulpit
by the political clergy. The 4th day Of
July was, on more than one occasion, desc
Grated by the delivery Of orations in its ap-
planse. Our national banner, in somo Of
the States, was profaned by the erasure of
fifteen stars from its folds-alI these things
were performed in manner not to be mis-
taken, but distinctly showing the issue as
1t was to be understood And yet the
Black Republican party in this Territory,
after endorsing the proceedings and plat
form manufactured at this Philadelphia
convention, coOlly ask the people to elect
their nominees to Legislative and county
offices I It is expected of the Democracy
that they will give to seetionalism with
sring rebuke on the 18th day Of July next.
Fellow Democrats It were nnnecessa-
ry to attempt to disguise the fact, that
for the past few years there has not been
that harmony and unanimity Of action in
the ranks Of the Democracy in this Terri |
tory that should have characterized it, or
as prudence and policy should have natu-
rally dictated. The cause Of this estrange-
ment or unfriendly feeling can be very
readily traced to the scramble Of rival pO-
litical aspirants and their respective friends,
to procure for their favorite candidates the
position Of delegate to Congress. The
leVsn Of diseord, which commenced work.
iug at the time our first delegate received
his nomination. has been steadily fomenting
ever since, until bitterness has been en-
gendered which, il not soon arrested, must
ultimately lead to the defeat Of the party.
The fact is, that for the past few years,
alarge proportion OfpersOns who have taken
up a residence in the Territory, of any nOtO-
riety or pretensiOns to ability, have set their
eolters in n bee-line-directly for the eapi-