Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-02
WEDNESDAY Sept. |. o'clock. P. NJ.


At this present writing. it is, Of course,
impossible to say how the election in This
city is gning. Although the streets are in
motion, aud citizens pressing to the polls. yet
the voters are not 10y any means noisy III
their demonstrations Of enthusiasm nor COM
munieative with respect to the complexion
OF their political opinions. Silently, one 10y
one like the fall of snowhakes, are those
ballots i posted which ar to speak ere long
10 thunder tones the voice Of American
free nen. No man can now say what that
voice will be, but we are as confident as any
m IN cdn be of what remains in the future,
that. if the question before the people has
been thoroughly understood and appreciated,
the Anti-Denoeratic Kansas policy of the Ad
ministr.tio has been signally rebuked, both
in this city and county, to-day. True, falls,
issues have been raised, and the true princi
pie to he vindicAted covered up, 10y artfu
and designing men, and it may lie that the
people have not clearly enough seen how
great principle it is which is at stake. II
they have voted themselves slaves-if they
have unwittingly favored party, newly
risen in this government. which seeks to en-
graft the germs ofmonarchy upon our insti-
tutions, there will come day. we shall yet
hope and believe. when tn will awake
from the fatal delusion and ri ght the wrong
which they inflicted upon themselves. A
great people who have in their hands that
mighty lever Of power. the ballot.box, are
without excise and deserve heir fate if the
claims of political slavery are fastened upon
them; for it is their business to be informed
of the dangers which surround their steps,
and to be alive to the evils which beset theii
path.
AS for this present contest, which closes
to-day, it is but the beginning Of that greater
battle which is to be fought in 1860. That
faction of the Democratic Party, which has
departed from the Kansas n ebraska Bill anu
from the Cincinnati Platform, will never
more be with us. They have cut loose FROM
us forever, and hereafter they will organize
US of II new party in this government, hav-
in5 for its object the revival of those ola
Federal notions and tenets which are baseu
upon the assumption that the people are in
Capaciatel for self government, and that po
iueal po Ner should be us far removed from
them as possible But the great Democratic
DartV DroDer will remain, whera II Ia t;rtnl,
founded Vi on tile doctrine of popular sover
eighty, an inpelled in its onward course b\
those principles which are Immortality inter
wuvea with the great name aud character
aud deeds of stephen A. Douglas.
Whether We have won this fight, there
fore, or not. the broad fed is still before III
in which the contending hosts of the tru,
Democracy and the New LIGnr Federalist
OF the L.co.npton school are to be morshal.
ed. Ia that gre 1t battle field, we shall hav,
thousand advantages to one that we now
possess; for then the people will have huC
time to inform themselves more thorough,
with regard to the true issues involved. LIE
conptonism will then have taken its true DO
sition, Republicanism its position also, anc
there will be no deAd-weights for the Doug
las Democracy to carry. The fugs of mis-
representation Will have cleared away, and
the great doctrine of popular soverei gnty, for
which We have been contending, will loom
up mountain-like and vast. impregnable as
adLmant and serene as truth.