Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-11-25
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him as they were a short time ago in
his praise. Although we bittcrally dc.
nounced his factious course in the SEN
ate last winter on the Kansas question,
and do not wish now to be understood
as advocating his claims for the Presi-
dency in 1850, we feel free 20 say, that
he now stands in the front ranks of
American statesmen, and his success in
the late election in Illinois gives him
the vantage ground over any other men,
Der Of the Democratic party, but how
he may use this position, this power
whether he will so deport himself as to
disarm his opponents in his own party.
and still further commend himself to the
confidence of Democrats, in the South
as we'll as the North-are questions
which time alone will solve. What
does his reelection to the Senate of the
United States forshadow, and how will
it affect the Democratic party, and its
future ability TO maintain the ascend
ency in the Administration of the Gov
ernment? There are some who think
that evil will come to the Democratic
party from his re- election; but we are
not of that number, simply because he
owes his present proud cmincnce to the
democratic party-all that he is it has
made him, and for all that he hopes to
be, he is, and must be dependent upon
that party. He can have no feeling in
common with any other party, and hence
we argue that he will place himself
firmly on the ground assumed in his
speeches during the late canvass; that
he will stand by the demcclatic party
that he vii uphold the Constitution of
/ the United States as it is-that he will
as readily vote for the admission of a
State with a Constitution recognizing
the existence of slavery, as one which
provides that slavery shall not exist
therein-that he believes in the perfect
compatibility of an union of Free and
Slave States,-that there is, and always
must be, an abiding distinction betwcen
the white race and the negro race
that there should be no interference in
the domestic affairs of any of the States
or Territories, but that the people should
be suffered to regulate these in their
own way-and that he will sustain the
de :isions cf the Supreme Court of the
United States. He has stood the test
of these principles and triumphed with
them in 1853 in Illinois and there is no
reason why he could not do SO in 1860
throughout the Union. We think the
present time a propicious one for a gen.
eral reconciliation of all members Of the
democratic party. Nothing can be
more certain than that the next Presi-
Dental election is to be fought upon the
dogmas laid down in the speech of Mr..
Seward at Rochester, New York, and it
is Just as certlin that the Democratic
party will have to beat the Black Re
publicans on those very issues. There
will be no other party: for no other par.
ty can be successfully formed where
questions involving the stability of the
Union, as these do. are to be decided.
Upon these questions there is sufficient
ground for every democrat and lover Of
the Union to meet and harmonize-to
let by-gone. be by-gones, snl a general
forgetfulness of all past differences OF
opinion upon questions no longer at is
sue in the democratic party, and there
can be no doubt of a complete and glo-
rious victory over fanaticism, Black Re-
publicanism, and every other ism, in
1860, because it would rally under the
democratic standard thousands of good
and patriotic men not directly connect
ed with the party, but who despise and
execrate the doctrines advocated by our
opponents.