The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-11-04
TIE NORTHERN DEMOCRACY

has ceased to terrify anybody north of Mason
and Dixonis line.
TIE NORTHERN DEMOCRACY
We commend to the careful perusal of our
ieaders The article published in our columns to-
day, from the Washington Union, headed, Z" Are
We 70 Have a Northern and Southern Democ-
racy? Are We TO Oppose the Republicans,
and Support Their Polcy?" Coming forth, az
it does, on the eve Of the elections in Pennsyl-
vania, ONO and Indiana, it's significance can.
not be misunderstood. Ii is intended to rebuke
the treachery 10 the principles of the Demo
cratic parry which the most faithful, during the
canvass, have disclosed. At the last session OF
Congress-, the Northern wing of The Democratic
party divided in twain, and one half deserted
the Northumberland their brethren OF
the Southland went over to the Black Repub.
hcans on the Kansas issue The other half-be
ing mere fraction of the North, represented by
some twenty-four or thirty members of the
House OF Representatives, and a half dozen in
the Senste-were supposed to be sound. They
were bepraised In the South as the gold puri
fed-mariyrs ready for The stske-apgels in
their holiness dauntlessness, and purity, clothed
in the white garments Of the Democratic faith.
They go back to the people armed with truth,
the whole power OF the Administration, and the
great interests Of he Union, to support them.
Alas They did not even make fight They
went down On their knees at the first shout Of
Aboiiticnism, and crawled, and prayed for par
don and mercy, with abundant promises of fu-
ture atonement. They forthwith, as one man,
from Maine to Kansas, gave up the Kansas
Conference Act, and pledged themselves to vote
for its violation on the first motion of the Abo-
htionists in Congress. They then, in Pennsyl
vanis and other Northern States, sought to out
vie the Abolitionists themselves in their eager
professions of a boundless fidelity to the inter
ests Of tie people Of the North, by increasing
the tariff duties for their benefit. How apt is
the question Of the Washington Union-"Ar
We TO Oppose the Republicans, and Support
Their Policy
In whit respect did the Anti-Lecompton Dem
ocrats, last winter, in Congress, differ from the
Black Republicans? They moved together In
the same policy. And in what respect will the
Lecompton Democrats, merit winter, differ from
them? They are pledged to belle their faith in
the Conference Act, by admitting Kansas into
the Union contrary to its provisions, and to aid
them in ihe sectional plumber of the South by
an additional protective tariff. 1t is in antici-
patton of such circumstances, we presume, thai
the Union asks that other question, Are We
to Have a Northern and Southern Democracy ~
We answer, mol The thing is impossible II
the Washington Union means by Democracy,
dparfy-the thing is impossible. party is
the associate ion and union of men upon certain
principles of government, for their enforcement.
If these principles do not exist, or are not en-
forced, party is destroyed. 1t becomes q fac.
ton, whose object is merely power and place
As party, the Democratic party will be di6
solved so soon as, at the ne xt session of Con
gress, the pledges of the last remnant of the
party in the North, which has heretofore been
true, shall be carried out in coalescence with the
Black Republican party, by overthrowing the
Conference Act and increasing the protec,iv,
features Of the tariff. The South will ther
stand alone -" faithful amongst the faith
less" one-abandoned-b yed-the las
refuge OF these great principles of justice and
liberty, which once blszed before this mighty
party oriflamm me, and covered it as witt
halo of glory. Alone-with as grand an $50
lation, and as august destiny, as ever lay re
splendent and glorious before great and free
people Charleston Mercury. -
The Mercury again says:
at ~ due TO truth to say that, in the future
poicytto be pursued with respect to Kansas
and cur Territories, and the tariff. there WA,
no dill renee between the regular Democrat,
who supported the Administration, aud ,b,
boiling Democrats who opposed it. The LIE
compton and anti Lecompton Democrats botl
took the ground that the Kansas Conferenc,
act should be violated, and that Kansas shout,
be admitted into the Union with or without tn
population required by that act, whenever sh
applies to be admitted. Both took the groun,
that the tariff should be modified to give in
creased bounties to the Northern manufacturer
30 lar as the principles and faith of the Demo
cratic party WAS concerned, there was no d
terence between the two parties. The Blac
kepubhcan, true to his policy of land and tar
plnnder, insisted enforcing it. The Demo
Gratis, OF every stripe aud color, closed hard
with them, and joined in the sectional foray I
save their overthrow and loss of power in IN
State The Adminstre.inn-the South-th
principles OF the Democratic ary-were thu
most shamefnlly abandoned and BETRAYED. The
are, nevertheless, defeated And why are the
defeated? As to the immediate future, ther
wac no difference between the Lecompto
Democrats and the Black Republicans. The
were defeated on account OF the past. TIL
Lecompton Democrats had dared to vote Il
the admission of Kansas as slave State in,
the Union. 1t is true the vote was totally \
efficient TO make Kansas slave State. 4
the time it was given, the Legislature of Il
Territory was In the possession of the Blas
Republicans, and two Black Republican Sen
tors would have been added to the Senate by Il
admission of Kansas into the Union A,
still more, the returns had shown that the In
jority in the Territory were decidedly Bla
Republican, thus rendering the vote a me
test of right, without any impeachment TO
Northern Anti-Slavery ascendency in the Ter
tory. For merely. therefore, voting for the 9
stract right Of q slave State entering the Unic
which did not become Law, and which "
followed Immediately after by a Law which
practically given the North the Territory 4
Lecompton Democrats have been repudist
and overthrown. Now, we beg leave TO ask,
what possible way could the people of the MOI
more clearly manifest their determination th
no more slave States shall be added to {
Union?"
NORTHERN SENTIMENT
Though having little sympathy with that els
of ALAN iats Who aueur III frnnn auaru 600,