Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1858-12-08
Candor.

The merit of frsnkneSs mus lie con
ceded TO the s .uthern Democratic Press
The editors of Buchanan papers in III,
Northern States. universally, either wi
fully fslsify the truth whenever they
pref nd to give their readers sny infor-
nation respecting the present stale aud
future prospects of Tie Buchsnan parry,
or they are guilty of equal deception by
failing TO tell the truth and The whole
truth. We confess hat when The can
dor of Northern and Southern Democrats
IL contrasted, We are ashsm'G Of our
peighbors. A man mightread their pa
pers from his childhood unil he had
grown grey. and he would never fad in
their columns a single candid admission
of the actual state of their party sich as
the following from The Mobile Reyitsr,.
one of the most influential Democratic
papers in the South. Speaking Of M.
Douglas. the Register ssys:
With Illinois in his hands, with the
prestige which his success so far in ev
cry part of his plan has given him. and
with the advantage of a large popularity
with the North Western Democracy. Mr..
Douglas is in a position to fer the d m
ocratic party the alternative Of a prola
Ole success in the next Presidential elec-
ton, if they viii accept The modif. d pat
form he has prepared FOR them, and Him
as their candidate, or of certain defeat
snd permanent destruction a. a parry it
they do not. There is 'ujn to item as a
national party IN either harn Of the dIem
mo, zoe 6ettVs. bot Msre is kmor0l "a
ton as wen as disoster in onc.
If The Democratic party accepts his
terms and ihus foIfeiIs its character as
the protector and friend to the South it
will aSsuredly be repudiated, as it SHOULD
be, BY The Southern pepIl :. ga will sick
forever into an infamous grave. lis re-
fusal 10 accept his overture. and thus
20 absDdcn the cause of the South, vii
inevitably d~enstionslize the p rty. lis
Northern ally is altogether lost I o il, *
rept in the event that IT shall go North
ward with fresh sacrifices of Southern
rights and interests. Ii it shall. not d.
this, then it is reduced TO the limits Of
the South, and consigned 10 a sectional
minority, which INNS, no longer lock to
the possession Of the ie ieral government
rs les dependence for The safety uf the
principles and the defence of the rights
which il maintains.
Such being the present condition and
prospects of the Democratic party. as in
dieated by the results of the recent cleo
tons, and as connected with the fortunes
Of Mr. Douglns, is thsre any reason for
Bouthern Democrats 10 be grstiied al
the issue of the contest in I;iinoi.? As
ooe, We would prefer that the Democrat
&c party should be defeated in the next
Presidential election rathyrihani should
win success by the smallest possible
further conces, ion 10 The anti slavery
sentiment of the Moth. We therefore
preferdefeat to the adoption of Mr.. Doug
las as the Democratic candidate Cor the
Presidency, because tina involves con
cession. Rather than this, we saw, let
the D. moerotie party become ia is organ
fiction, as il noU is in its essential c'm-
position, q Soufhern sectional p5riy, and
let Us stand on our constitutional rights.
and rely on our own moral 'n1 material
resources. for the protection of those
IN the Union if We cau-out ct l.
II we musl.