Daily national Democrat., 1858-11-10
The 1fndness OF James Rnchannn.


inclined to believe that, when we receive
fuller accounts, it will appear that MAORI
ty Of the Douglas Democratic nominees fol
Congress have been elected by close strug
gle in Pennsylvania. We give up Ohio, In
diana and Iowa, and shall, therefore, be
agreeably disappointed if it turns out that
a goodly number of Douglas Democrats have
/ been elected in those States.
But, putting the best face upon the mat
ter that is possible, we cannot but be forcibly
impressed with the one aggrayating reality
that the Republican party has gained vast
amount of strength in the North generally,
since the election of Mr.. Buchanan to the
Presidency of the United States His de
plorable Kansas policy has so divided the
( Northern Democracy as to render them com
paratively weak before their enemies Uni
ted, it was as much as they could do to stem
the tide of sectional feeling in those States.
Divided, the propect is indeed dark, if not
hopeless Lecomptonisn, weak as it is in the
North, is yet sufficiently strong to lead off
from the regular Douglas Democracy Just
enough force, in the majority of cases, to en-
sure Republican triumph. To aggravate
the divisions, the President has been person
ally interfering with the nominating conven-
tions of the Democracy, and insisting upon
an endorsement of his outrageous and de.
speable Lecompton policy determined to be
indorsed if it cost every thing that was dear
in the future to the Democratic party. Where
the regular organization of the party was
in the hands of the Douglas Democracy, and
an easy victory to be won by allowing the
regular organization to 90 on its course, and
nominate its Douglas candidates, who were
the choice of the majority of the Democra-
cy, he has insisted upon a separate bolting
organization of his own, and upon running
Lecompton candidates against the regular
nominees of the party. The result has been
that his own petty personal malice has been
gratiied at the expense of the harmony, the
glory and the honor of that party which
gave him his present'exalted position. All
that leading Southern Democrats could do
to turn him from his mad course have been
of no avail. Bent upon the destruction of
the Douglas Democracy, though it involved
the 'chole party in a mass of ruins, lie has
apparently labored, first, to arouse to its ut-
most intensity all that is willful, and stub
born, and fanatical, and dangerous in the
North, and, next to so weaken the Democra
/ cy as to cause them to stand like a rotten
pine in the presence of the hurricane He
has aroused the storm and then given into
the hands Of his friends a stra0 with which
to fight it, If he had said to the Democracy
of the North-as such men as Stephens and
TooEhbs and Green in the Slave States desr-
ed him to do-"Felow Democrats, we have
differed about Kansas, but have no war to
make against you for it if You do not like
my policy, in reference to that Territory.
you need not indorse it; go on in your con
test against the sectional spirit of the Repub
lican party-be united and cor quer," he
would have shown himself worthy of his po
sition and been entitled to the respect of the
great National party Of which he aspired to
be the leader
Such a course would have been magnan-
imous, generous, manly, and most mastery
stroke of policy as political leader; but it
was ADORE the moral capacity of such a man
as Mr.. Buchanan. The old mans path had
been crossed, when he wanted it smooth and
unobstructed; Democrats, younger than he
and occupying less exalted positions than lie
(for was he not Chief Magistrate of the Ma
tion p had dared to tell him that he was
wrong, at time when his own conscience
told him the same thing and when he needed
to be comforted, reassured and sustained. in.
stead of being met Uis cis and faced down
with the unwelcome truth! 1t was more
than the old man could bear. 1t was an Of
fense too deep to be forgiven and he was de-
termined to hunt down such plain spoken
friends as the very bitterest of enemies He
has hunted them down, but, in doing so, he
has outraged the Democracy, both North and
South, and given such an impulse to the Re
publican party as to make all good men trem-
ble lest the power of this Government should
fall into the hands of Northern scctionalists
and extremists at the very next election for
the Presidency. Yet, nothing will stop him
IN his insane and destructive career. Though
he sees the tide of sectionalism swelling at
every step that he takes, and the great con
seryatiye bulwark of Democracy undergoing
steady undermining process, and weaken
ing at every tempestuous billow that strikes
against its lately solid front, he knows no
such feeling as that of consideration for the
future, and still takes advantage of his posi-
tion to stir up the conflicting elements that
rage and madden around him. If such
man does not deserve the maledictiOns OF his
party, we know not what would entitle him
to that particular species of regard.
The PoLCY OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON
The intelligent London correspondent of
New York Commercial Advertiser writhe
in a recent letter: es
The real policy Of the Government of
France for the present, and the policy she is
evidently disposed to follow, is that of EN-.
ploying all her force in maintaining the pres
ent divisions of the map of Europe. Louis
Napoleon could not sustain himself in at
tempting to make conquests and conQuests
would be Of no use to him Except as giving
ecidt to his army if he made them. You
may rest assured that the only object of the
present immense naval preparations is to
bring France up TO the standard of the most
powerful nation. She believes that she ought
at least to occupy II rank equal to that OF