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being practically an, essentially the Cincinnati platform
construed by the representatives of the party who were
ntrsted with the duty of carrying II into practical ef
feet Being thus clearly party test established and
recognised such by the representatives of the party Ia
the administration and In Congress- personal honor and
party fidelity required that every democratic senator and
representative should support it " he believed II const
tuonal and not violatve of his oath Of Office II such
authority cannot set up practical Iarty tests in tho
form Of measures, should like To know what power
do it, Conventions rightly adopt principles and con-
struct platforms but it must be left to the administration
and Congress to them and give them practical
shape in the form OF measures to carry principles into
effect AS judges consruc and apply constitutions and
laws Presidents and Congresses must construe and APP
ply the theories and platforms of national party eonvcn-
tons.
Just see the dilemma the democratic party would be
placed IN II II that Senator Douglas right
the Kansas question If he right then the ad-
minstraon and the democratic party that sustained it
wrong. If he right then the blacl-rcpubfcan
party with whom he acted, right also, According
to Mr.. Douglas he, Seward Hale, Wilson, Crttenden,
Gddings and their black republican ahcrents, are now
the only true exponents and champions of popular
reignty; while Mr.. Buchanan and his cabinet and the
supporters OF the administration have proved false to
that vital democratic principle According him, Mas
saohuses and the States at sent TO tho Hart
ford convention carry the true banner OF popular
sovereignty And II he right on the Kansas qucs-
o and ought to be returned to the Senate for that
reason, so then all the republican senators and repre-
scntatvcs who acted and voted with him right, and
ought be returned to Congress for the
10 be CONSISTENT, every man VINO goes ior lr o"Si"s
return the Senate because he was right in hs opposi
ton to the administration the Kansas question, must
also go for the recollection of every black pubcan
tor and representative who thought acted and voted
with Mr.. Douglas on that question.
sorry to say that fatal sentiment prevails to
extent in the democratic party the necessary ten
dency of which is to destroy its unity and undermine its
strength aude to the concession that trusted demo
cratic representatives may oppose the leading party
of democratic administration, Senator Doug
las has DONE and still be good democrats and deserve
the continued confidence and support Of the party This
is fatal party heresy and it cannot be tolerated with
out inviting detection, disorganzaon, and certain de-
feat Under cur general government with a firm and
faithful democratic administration like Mr.. Buchanans
at its head there be but parties in Congress and
the countryTHE ADMINISTRATION PARTY aud
THE PARTY THAT OPPOSE 1T. Call it by what name you
will put it any platform you may make and yet this
OPPOSITION PARTY Is and must be- the DEMOCRATIC
PARTY, and be treated such, whether headed by
Seward or Douglas. NORTHWEST.