Daily national Democrat., 1858-10-10
Renfls Him Out.

Democratic party" Douglas stands precise
ly where he did in 1854, 1856, and in every
important period since that time He stands
precisely where he did in the last campaign
in this State, when the Express pretended t
be his friend, and called upon Douglas mel
to stand by the Administration party, be
cause the Administration party had no wa,
to make upon Mr.. Douglas. We did oul
utmost to impress upon the minds Of Douglas
men, in this county, that the Exl ress, a
well as the whole Lecompton tribe, wer'
trying to deceive them-that they were nc
friends of Douglas, and that, ms soon as the
campaign was over, they would come out
at the first convenient opportunity, in Their
true colors, and denounce that great leader
Of the Kansas n ebraska Democracy. Many
Douglas men, we are sorry to say, in this
county, would not listen to the warning
which we gave them, and were silly enough
to believe that the Administration party
were really friendly to Mr., Douglas. SO
they marched up to the polls, like good easy
going victims of overweening credulity, az
they were, and voted point blank against
their principles They see now where they
are. The Leeompton organs come out and
openly denounce their side of the question and
the great leader whose name they are proud
to bear. They have no further occasion to
court the favors of Douglas men-in the
S,ate at large Douglas men have helped, by
their stupid credulity, the Lecompton party
TO win the victory, and now they have the
extreme pleasure of hearing the great cham
pon of popular sovereignty villi6ed, de-
bounced and "read out" of the Democratic
party Like children who have once stuck
heir hands in the fire, they will probably
know better next time, but, meanwhile, they
must most feelingly congratulate themselves
upon their remarkably enviable condition.
The Express has been little longer doing
it than we anticipated, from the by author
ity' and spread eagle Buchanan advertise
ments in its columns, it would but it has at
last made the turn and executed the somer-
set in a style so neat and so complete" that
you can hardly tell ho0 it has done the thing
at all. Suffice it to say it has done it. The
mask is thrown Off 1t declares that Douglas
has abandoned the Democratic party for
eUer." That means that the Lecomptonites
will never more have anything to do with
Douglas Abandoning the Democratic
party" now days, is staying with it, No
man is a Democrat, according TO the new.
tangled Lecompton notion, unless he will
admit that the Democracy is sort of peri
patetic party that travels around with the
President-sits down with him when he sits
walks with him when he walks-rides
with him when he rides-sleeps with him
when he sleeps-swears with him when he
swears-prays with him when he prays, (f
he ever does pray,) and knocks platforms into
splinters whenever he chooses to indulge in
that species of recreation. It's no Democ-
racy at all, unless it can accommodate itself
to all possible moods and phases of the Presi-
Dental mind Polonius-like, it must stand
ready to say, when the President remarks
that yonder cloud is shaped like a camel
' By the mass, and It's like camel, indeed !"
Or, when he says, "no, methinks it is like
weasel be ready to reply, instantly, 1T is
backed like weasel" Happy is the man
who is read out of that kind of u Democratic |
party
The excuse that the Express has hit upon
for coming out against Douglas, is his speech
at Freeport, which means what we have
already interpreted it, and what a cores
pondent, in another column, also interprets
it, to wit, that, although the Constitution IF
the United States recognizes slaves as pro.
perty, yet it does not compel Territorial
Legislature to pass laws for its protection
The Federal Courts may protect an owner in
his right to his slave, but the passing of any
police regulations on the subject belongs to
the Legislature, and in the absence of any
such regulations, the owner is protected only
by the Constitutional recognition of his right,
which points ont no particular pay by which
he may enforce that peculiar kind of right
But, the fact is that Douglas has not even
said as much as has been imputed to him
His remarks were made, in an excited man
ner, to promiscuous and heated assemblage
made in an unstudied and hurried man.
ner, and very likely misapprehended. or will
fully misstated by the reporter, and, although
perfectly satisfactory to his friends who
know, from all his past history, as we'll as
from the general character of the language
used, what he did mean, yet liable to be
misconstrued by superficial examiner or
Intentionally distorted by interested parties
No friend of Douglas need be at all uneasy
about his position. He said, in that Free
port speech, that he stood, then, where he
stood in 1854, 1855, and 1856, when the
whole Democratic party approved his course
and the Republicans denounced him as they
do now in Illinois, Be assured, he is on the
same ground that he occupied in his great
struggle on the Kansas issue in the Senate of
the United States--the same ground occupied
by Walker, and Wise, and Stanton, and a
host Of Southern Democrats, and there he
will remain, side by side with the time-honor-
ed standard of the Democratic party.
RDPUBLICANs' NoTIoN OF DoUGLAs.-It is
strange that the Leeomptonites and Republi-
cans should so fully agree, at the present