Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-01
Ba not Deceived.

Let no man be silly enough to suppose
that there is any identity between the pres
ent Douglas movement and the intentions ol
the Black Republican party. After this elec
ton is over, the Republicans and the Douglas
Democracy will be as wide apart as the two
poles are asander. There is nothing in com
mon between them. The Republicans ar,
helping us in this ore fight, not because they
lore us, but because they hate the Admins
trdtion; an Administration which has un
doubtedly imposed upon the Free State men
In Kansas, to an extent which no friend o.
the rights Of American citizens can justify
The Republicans naturallyIfeel indignant, and
are prepared to take the readiest means O.
revenge. And this is the whole meaning o
the present position of the Republicans. 1
any man who knows how to read, is SO stupid
as to believe that by acting with the Doug
las Democracy in this contest he is going
over to the Republicans, we pity his weak
and shallow judgment if, knowing that there
is no identity between the two parties, he is
yet afraid of voting with the Douglas De
mocracy, lest he be stigmatized unjustly as a
Republican. then we commiserate his pusil'
laninlity. OF such material are sLaveS man
uhctured.
That man is blind indeed who does not see
that great events are bursting from the wont
of time. A party is organizing in this Union
whose sole object is to centralize power il
the hands of the General Government, ant
to take away from the people that direct in
fluenee in the management of political affair
which our Constitution has guaranteed tC
them, and which the founders of our Repub
lie intended they should exercise. The Dem
ocratic party has always contended agains
this tendency to federalism, and it tool
them years upon years to forgive Mr.. Blu
chanan for his early predictions in that di
rection and TO receive him into the Democrat
ie fold. AS was prophecied by many wis,
men of our party, he has proved himself {
wolf in sleeps clothing and has Joined u
but to betray us. The Democratic party
properly SO called, stands now where it al
ways did on this ground of opposition to
great centralized Federal Power. But
considerable portion of the party is now
about to abandon it forever. The Lecomp
ton side of the House, under the lead Of grey
headed renegades, who never did love Demo
cratic principles. and would have been Torie.
had they lived in the days of the Revolu-
tion, are cutting themselves loose from the
grand foundations principle of the Democrat
ic party, the right of the people to govern
themselves, and, as consequence, the righ
TO rass upon their own forms of government
primarily, at the ballot box. These Lecomp
ton apostates, for they are no more Demo
erats than are they Republicans, desire t
establish q new and nti-Democratic doctrin
"A docttine that no true Democrat of tn
old school could possibly sanction, were
once to understand it-they desire TO estal
lish the doctrine that CONVENTIONS, and no
the PEOPLE, are sovereign; that convention
may frame forms of gov ernment, which
however odious to the people, the people still
must accept that no matter what these con
ventions may do; no matter whether the,
be bribed, as conventions have often eel
bribed, or whether they act out their owl
desires to feather their own individual nests
still the people, who have hitherto been sup
posed to be the sovereigns, must stand back
mute and motionless, and permit their right
and their liberties to be trampled under foot
This is the essence of their doctrine, and they
have openly avowed it; not, it is true, in all
its naked deformity, but with go thin guise
of Misrepresentation as scarcely to conceal
one feature of its hideous aspect. Men who
preach such a doctrine are no Democrats
They profane that great name under whicl
we, the old time jackson Democrats, have sC
often fought and so proudly conquered, Shal
we abandon our old party principles to fol
low after such cattle Shall we forgeS al
that Jefferson and jackson have taught us
Shall we disregard their precepts and injunc
tions, now hallowed by time, and speakin,
to our hearts like voices from the tomb, t,
listen to these Kissing vipers of the moderl
time, who would wind us in their Shiny EN-
brace but to sting us to the vitals? Never
never. Let us throw out from amongst II
all such falsely named Democrats. Whateve
shape they may assume, let us touch then
with the lthuriel spear of the true Demoerl
cy and transform them into their prcpe
shape and substance. Like that false serpen
whose foul presence polluted the pgimitiv,
Eden, let the curse which shall rest upor
them be as great as their transgression-let
them be made to crawl upon their bellies
and lick the dust at the feet of that grea
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