Daily national Democrat., 1858-08-13
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first thing the Douglas men know, they Will
have undergone thorough transformation
and each one Of them wake up some fine
morning, look in the glass and find himself a
/ Black Republican This is in effect to say
to the Douglas men that they are fools, and
that they do not know what they are about
SO obtuse in intellect and in moral percep.
tions that they are ignorant Of what kind of
doctrine they are advocating, and that it is
only the Lecompton men who have any sense
and know what is national and conservative.
Well, a sufficient answer to this ia, that the
Douglas Democracy stand on the Cincinnati
Platform and the Kansas Nebraska Bill,
while the Republicans have distinctly en-.
dorsed in State Convention their old Nation.
al Platform of 1886, and declared their in
tenton to stand by it at all hazards. That
old platform emphatically asserts the right
Of Congress to prohibit the ingress of slaves
into the Territories of the United States
Now what do the Cincinnati Platform and
the Kansas Nebraska Bill set forth Why,
the very reverse of the Republican doctrine
The difference is as vast as the oceans
breadth between the two hemispheres, and
however smart a man might be in urging it
upon a Douglas man, no living being but II
human iackass would believe that there was
any identity, or the most distant approxima-
ton to an identy, between the two parties
One believes that Congress has a right TO
prohibit the ingress of slaves into the Terri
tories-the other that Congress has not
One believe that the doctrine of popular
sovereignty ought only be carried out
where it will operate in favor Of the creation
/ of Free States-thc other that it ought to be
carried out in ALL CASES, whether it operate
in favor of Free States or Slave States And
so the line of distinction runs, broad and
deep, all the way through, and there is no
one point, which involves principle, where
the two meet at all or ever can meet 1t is
true, they agree in their opposition to the
Lecompton Constitution. But, how do they
agree? Stephen A. Douglas and his party
Lecompton Constitution upon the people of
Kansas was violatiye of the spirit and intent
and letter of the Kansas Nebraska Act, which |
act embodied vital part of the Democratic
creed. VIM. II. Seward and his party op.
posed it, first, because it was slave coDsttu
ton, and fastened slavery irrevocai ly upon
Kansas, and, secondly, because, inasmuch as
the Kansas Nebraska Act had been passed,
they wanted to see it carried out. They
we're opposed to its passage, and never be
lieyed in the principle which it contained,
but thought that Democratic Administra-
tion ought to be honest enough to see that it
was fairly carried out even if it did operate
in favor of the Free States instead of the
Slave States. A Democratic Administration
$50 called was not honest enough to do it,
and so combined against itself, on that one
issue, the elements whichare now opposed to
it. No one denies that it is the earnest de
sire of the Republicans in this State, to see
the Administration side whipped out. They
have their own reasons for it, The Douglas
Democrats are no less determined to give the
Administration rebuke, and their reasons
for it are that the Administration has basely
betrayed the great trust reposed in its hands |
by the Democracy of the country has dared, |
under color of the violated name of Democ-
acy, to stab the liberties of the people, to
override State Constitutions fos III ooea or
the Indiana Senators will Testify and to tram.
pile under foot principles which are sacred to
the great Democratic h cart of the Nation
If, after this work is done, there be any con.
siderable number of Republicans, who think
they have been wrong in their views of the
Kansas Nebraska Bill, and desire to subscribe
IN toto to Democratic principles, we know
of no power under this government to hinder
them from becoming Democrats. But, one
thing is very clear the Republicans will
have to change utterly, will have to aban-
don their old platform of 1856 and undergo
transformation as thorough as that of day
from night before they can ever claim iden-
tity, or have it claimed for them with Doug
las Democrats. We opine til the Republi.
cans love their creed too well to give it up
without struggle, and that, after this truck
ling and recreant Administration has received
the downward impetus to which it is enti.
tied, they will show plainly to the world
that the difference between them and the
Douglas Democracy is as wide as the poles.
As we said before, we think it very likely
that the Republicans will help us in whip.
ping out the Le2cmpton party They are
under no obligations to lis nor we to them
They can do as they please We have no
fusion with them. We have put none Of
their candidates on our ticket, though they
have put one or two of ours on theirs. We
cannot help that If they have put them
there, it was not because they were Repub-
lieans (for they are as good Democrats as ever
breathed the breath Of lfe) but simply be-
cause they were opposed to the Lecompton
iniquity, and the Republicans prefer to see
an honest Democrat, who will not abandon
his own doctrine even it does happen to op.
crate in favor of a Free State, triumph, to
seeing faithless and recreant Democrat sue
ceed who will not adhere to the principles of
his party unless those principles operate in
every instance in favor of slavery. If we
were Republican, which, thank God, we
are not,-we would act precisely in that
way. We would ask no favors whatever
from the Douglas Democracy but we would
lust walk quietly to the polls and give the
Administration laundering kick in the re-
gion Of the wind and let her slide"
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