Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-10-20
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That, for which men hope. they are fond of predicting. The peculiar attitude of Judge Douglas and the difference of opinion with re- gard to him among prominent democrats has given rise to hope in the breasts of the oppo- sition that the democratic party would divide, and dividing fall. Hence, their journals are full of prophecies as to the defeat of democracy and the dissolution of parties.
 While passing we will note this thought con- corning Judge Douglas that has occurred to us. It is not that they like Douglas, but that they hate Lincoln, which makes southern men sym pathise with the former. If Douglas was op- posed by national democrat like Breese, there would be but one expression of opinion at the south. It is because Lincoln is we'll known abolitionsts, open and avowed, while Douglas holds to some sentiments favorable to the south that leads many to prefer the latter. His de- lection in trying hour has not been forgotten or forgiven.
 But to return. The democratic principle has existed in all time For years-for centuries, it has been kept down and partially lost sight of, but whenever an opportunity offered, it made itself manifest. We find it breaking forth at different ages and when temporarily defeated only slumbering to awake with more power and energy. This continent has been the theatre of its most favorable development. It has built up bur free institutions and they in return have fosterd democracy. The theory of self-govern- ment has here been tested on large scale, and the result is the demonstration not only of its capability, but of its being the form capable of producing the most happiness.
 The democratic party is the party of the peo- ple-it is the people. When fippant writers or political monomaniacs talk of the dissolution of the democratic party, they forget that such a thing is impossible among people who have enjoyed liberty and appreciated itS value. False theories, may for time gain an ascendancy; the people may, for a while be blinded by darkness or glowed with false lights, but the people, the democracy, soon see the error and return to their first principles
 "Truth crushed to earth, will rise again;
 The eternal years of God are hers"
 The democratic element in our government cannot be destroysd-it may be, for time ob- scured, but like the sum- light, it will soon pierce the clouds
 It is this principle in the keeping of the bold honest hearts of the democracy of the country, that has made the nation what it is-it is this principle that will keep us free and prosperous people. If the democratic party falls then falls the Union. If, for any length of time demo- cracy should be subdued, the hope of freedom would fall. But we have no fears The de- mocratic party has stood severer assaults than this, and maugre the predictions of its enemies, came out from each contest victor. Demo- cracy is firmly rooted tree, and not to be con- founded with the weeds and fnngi that spring up at its foot and wither at the first frost. Nor is he prophet, or wise man, who, finding a withered leaf that has been shed from its branches, points to that as evidence of the de- cay of the tree, or. who augurs therefrom that 1t is not sound at the heart