The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-10-07

candidate for Gubernatorial honors. he still
thinks as he did last winter, but the question
on which he differed with Mr.. Buchanan has
passed he never left the Party; he is in it
now-its leading man. In other States, we see
the so-called Democrats declaring against the
policy of the English bill, but warmly approx
ing of the Administration-qui ignoring the
feud between the two distinguished leaders, for
the sake of annihilating the Republicans.
"Cast your eyes," says John W. Forney,
in late manifesto, "over the wide expanse of
the country, and observe the change which has
taken place in short time Let Us begin at
Maryland, and there We shall find that, at q
Democratic Convention lately held in the city
of Baltimore, resolutions in favor of the Kansas
policy of the Administration were tabled by a
decided vote. From tie same State was pub
isbed the eloquent letter of the Hon. Reverdy
johnson Whose powerful speech in Philadel
phia in 1856 win long be remembered) against
the odious test of the Administration and the
insane prescription of Judge Douglas.
"In Virginia, Governor Wise, the represent
alive man of the State, whose brilliant and I'M
equelled career against religious prescription
will be remembered as long as the name of the
emerged the victor from his contests with fac
tions-this remarkable man stands in the fore
front of the scene, bravely deneuncing the Kan.
sas policy of the Administration in all the
phases, and especially that portion of it which
seeks to force upon Democracy a dishonoring
and repulsiye test. The old organ of Thomas
Richie, the Richmond Enquirer, which daily
earns new laurels by It's intrepid resistance TO
secession in all Its horrid guses, stands forward
now, as of old, in defence of Jeffersonian prin-
ciples, and responds to the appeals of the true
Democracy of the North. Even in South Car
dina we find Mr.. Speaker Orr lifting his voice,
if not against the Kansas blunder of the AID
ministration, at least in favor of Judge Doug
las. In Georgia, the leading active men of the
Democratic community, Messrs. Toombs and
Stephens, backed by the larger number of the
Democratic papers, have clearly and unequiv.
oeally signifed their hostility to the proscrip-
tive policy of the Administration. In Louisiana
a much more striking state of pubic opinion is
apparent. The public press of New Orleans,
sustained by a majority of the newspapers of the
State, repudiate the rank intolerance of the AID.
ministration, and retaliate the maledictions of
the Washington Union. In Mississippi and
Tennessee, the manifestations are numerous in
the Fame direction-not the least of which is
the speech of Hon. 81. S. Foote, well known as
one of the most stalwart advocates of the COM
promise measures of 1850, who at Bolivar,
Miss, took up the gauntlet for Douglas before
an intelligent audience, and advocated almost
the entire theory of the anti.Lecompton De-
mocrscy of the North. But, perhaps, the two
most striking instances are those of Kentucky
and Missouri. In the first, the Democratic
press deGantly array themselves upon the side
of Douglas in his struggle in Illinois while in
the second both the Senatorsi in Congress Zone of
whom it will be remembered, Mr.. j. s. Green,
led the debate in advocacy of the Lecompton
and the English bills in the United States SEN
ate, and with unsurpassed ability and power
eoutended against Judge Douglass and all the
Representatives in Congress, with all the
national papers to support them, have not only
proclaimed their earnest sympathy with the
great leader of Illinois, but have in terms de-
nounced the vituperstive and scandalous course
of the Washington Union"
And is it from men, Boosting of their alliance
with the most determined Slavery Propaganda
of the South, from Democracy that finds
favor with Messrs. Toombs, Stephens, Orr, and
Green, that the Republicans count upon aid and
comfort
Heaven deliver them from such follyI Let
them proclaim their own principles, adhere to
their own organization, sustain their own can
didates, and not be guilty of the criminal weak
ness of giving political strength to men who in
1860 may prove their worst adversaries.