The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-08-07
THE UNITY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY


The action of the late democratic convention in
Ohio gives the most gratifying assurance that the
nationality and integrity of the party cannot be easily
disturbed. Whatever differences may have arisen
among our friends in Ohio during the tendency of
the Kansas question in the late session of Congress-
all dissensions are at end. There is not only
a universal concurrence in the settlement OF that
disturbing issue by the English bill, but with cordi
atty unanimity, and enthusiasm the democratic
masses of Ohio have rallied to the standard of their
party determined to give to the patriotic admins
tration of Mr.. Buchanan support worthy alike
of them and the President of their choice.
The information which comes to US from all sec
tions Of the country indicates the state Of feel
ing. This is as it should be. Surely no Presi
dent called npon, in the first year of
his administration, to encounter many and such
embarrassing queshons--and we have the
rent Judgment of the entire democracy of the land
for saying that these issues have been met aud
managed with an ability and patriotism which chal-
lenges the admiration of his friends, and has almost
silenced tho clamor of his enemies.
single dark spot rests upon the horizon. The
factious course of Judge Douglas in perssng in his
wariare--not only upon the administration, but upon
the great body of the democratic party of tho Union
alone breaks the universal harmony that would other
wise pervade the party.
The action of the Ohio democracy offers stern
rebuke to the objectionable course of Judge Doug
las and his maddened followers If he had followed
the line of policy which his friends had been in
duced to believe he had marked out for himself on
his return to lnoisif, acquiescing in the action of
his party he had buried his personal anmosites and
been content to forego his unjust antpathies to the
administraton--if in word, he had done as the
Ohio democracy have done, he would to-day have
than the one he now unfortunately occupies. He
has madly rushed upon his own ruin, and seeks in
his fall to bring down the democracy of Illinois with
him into one common grave. If MIR. Douglas has
heretofore believed that he could distract the har-
mony Of the democratic party and seriously affect its
unity and integrity he may well read in the proceed
ings OF the Ohio convention conclusive evidence of
the falsity of his hopes. The organization Of the
democratic party was not the work of day, nor is
any man. however able and eloquent equal to tho task
of destroying it, thas in times past withstood the
saults OF enemies as powerful and the detection OF
friends as deeply trusted, as Judge Douglas 1t yet
lives in all its strength, power, and purity, and will
continue to live though in the future as in tho past,
it's ranks may be occasionally thinned, whilst its
ganizaton is purified by the descrtion of unworthy
recipients Of is favor and confidence. In the States
where elections come off this fall the democracy are
organizing with energy and enthusiasm for the CON
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defeat Of the apostate Blair in the first State hes
come with crushing power upon the waning hopes
of black republication whilst the increased demo-
cratic majorities in Kentucky utterly extingushes
Crittenden and the peoples party speculation, in
which he was recognised az the principal stock
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