Daily national Democrat., 1858-10-24

rB- Our Lecompton cotemporary, on FIRST
street accuses us of appealing to sectional
preiudices against the South, because We say
that there is danger of the Southern Democ-
racv becoming tdndticized Our cotempora-
ry is sadly mistaken. We simply stated
what we conceived, and do now conceive
to be, fact, and that was, that, if the sec
tional sentiments of the South continued to
increase in extent and intensity as they had
in the past few years, it would not be long
before the South would be Thoroughly tandt-
icized, and the Southern Democracy become a
mere Southern party. The conclusion of the
article, to which our cotemporary takes eX
ception, fully explains our meaning:
"The South must learn to abide By a prin-
cipic-when it is once established as the doc
trine of the Kansas Nebraska Bill has been
no matter what the political consequences
may be to itself-or it must cease to com
mand the respect of the civilized world
Now, the South, according to our view of
matters which have become historical, has
refused in one instance at least, to abide by
principle which it was mainly instrumental
in establishing, to-wit; in the case of Kansas.
1t insisted on forcing upon the people of
that Territory a constitution to which they
were opposed, notwithstanding it was under
stood all over the country to be the principle
of the Kansas ebraska Bill, that the people
of the Territories were to regulate their own
domestic institutions in their own way. In
refusing to Aide by this principle it out
ragged the true, conservative and nationally
Democratic spirit of the country-weakened
the unity of the Democratic party-gave
loose rein to all sorts of new opinions and
sentiments never before entertained in Demo
cratic ranks, and brought about a state of
things seriously threatening the total dsor
ganization Of that great party which had
stood, for many long and glorious years, the
of the Union. If that party should fail to
collect again its scattered elements, and to
present the solid front to its enemies that it
did of yore; if the broad and liberal princi-
pies which once governed it are to be sacri-
feed, and the firm ground upon which it
stood to he washed away, like a crumbling
isthmus, between the contending seas of
northern fanaticism upon the right and south
ern secessionism upon the left, acho is to be
for the destruction of this great
party? Who, but Mr.. Buchanan
and those Southern Lecompton Senators and
who urged him, if not plain
" to violate the doctrines of the Kansas |
Nebraska Bill, at least to give it {. new and |
startling and dangerous construction? We
do not wish to be understood is despairing
Of the integrity of the Democratic parity
W believe that Douglas in the North and
Henry A. Wise and Robert J. Walker in the
South, together with the Democratic leaders
whom they will gather around ten in eth
er section, will not fail in their present glo
and agitated elements of that grand Did party
upon their former basis We hope for the
best, but should all efforts prove in vain, and
the Democracy, as party organization, be
forever whelmed beneath the waves, we
know whom to thank for the catastrophe.-
We shall have to thank those men who, pre-
tending to be Democrats, betrayed in an inn
portant and critical hour, Democratic princi-
Piles.