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as editor, and who is certainly under no
present disfavor in the eyes of the President,
undertook, lately, to pave the way for har
monizing the divided elements Of the De
mocracy, by publishing an article advising
the two wings of Lecompton and anti-L
compton to drop their differences about Kan
sas and agree upon some common basis OF
action for the coming contest of 1860 This
movement on the part of the Herald has
caused it to be read out of the party by the
san Francisco National and the Mountain
Democrat, it being the fashion now a-days to
read everybody out of the LeeomPton Demo.
cratic party, who have ever dored to say
their souls were their own. The Herald
supported the Administration in its Kansas
policy and showed FULLY as much devotion to
the President as could be expected, even of a
Lecompton paper, but, because it does not
" 90 the whole hog with the National in
denouncing every Democrat as a traitor who
has differed with the President in his Kansas
policy, and because it is willing to see peace
in the ranks of the Democracy, it must be
read out of the Democratic party, not
withstanding it is full of "by-authority" ad.
vertisements and its responsible editor, John
Nugent, is a special favorite of the Presi-
! dent, himself The San Francisco National
and Mountain Democrat are for prescribing,
! forthwith and forever, the Broderickites, as
they call them. By Broderickites they mean
everybody who is friend to Douglas and
took sides, in the last election, with the anti
| Leeompton wing of the Democracy for it is
in vain to tell them that there are many men
who acted with the anti i-Lecompton Democ-
raey who are not Broderick men, They in
sist on calling every anti Lecompton Demo-
crat a Broderick man, any how, no matter
| if he had warred upon Broderick from the
first breath of his political existence down
to the present. 1t is well, therefore, to un.
derstand the terms that they use, if you wish
to get at their real position They have no
other name for antLecompton Democrats
than "Broderick men" and when they pro-
nounce everlasting enmity to "the Broder- |
ickites," you are to understand that they |
desire to excommunicate every Douglas man
in the State who is not willing to smother |
the honest sentiments of his bosom and lose
his identity and his manhood in base sub
seryiency to their particular organization of
the Democratic party. You may believe
that Douglas was right, and the President
wrong, that the one was Democratic and the
other not in the positions which they respec
lively took on the practical application of
the principle of the Kansas Nebraska bill;
you may feel. within your inmost soul, that
to sustain Mr. Buchanan in his Lecompton
notions is to endanger, if not to sacrifice, the !
vital doctrines of the Democratic party and |
to leopard the Union itself, but, in the esti-
nation of these wonderful interpreters of
Democracy, you must swallow opinions
whole which you cannot entertain, subscribe
to platform which is Numerically oppo
site to what you believe, and plant yourself
by a complete double somerset, upon ground
which you know is sanything but Democratic,
all for the sake of organization-an organi.
zation which, after all, when critically con-
sidered is entitled to be called regular" by
a very considerable license of speech, only
composed partly of authorized, and partly of
unauthorized delegates, may pass just such
resolutions as it pleases and cram them down
the throats of the misrepresented or half
represented Democratic masses, with impu-
nifty. No man must pretend to deny the
authority of such organization Should the
getters up of the halfformed abortion man.
age to organize and re-organize upon a SINH
lar basis ad infnitum, why, the party at
large, however different may be their opin.
ions, and however disgusted they may be
with the platforms laid down for them, must
submit without murmur, for the sake of
organizdtioni In the name of all that is due |
to common decency and common sense, give |
us Democratic organization, or give us none
at all-give us regular and complete organ
ization, both in the body in which 1t is shap-
ed, and in the soul which informs it, or cease
TO prate to us about organization" ]" You
Lecomptonites tell us, that Stephen A. Doug
las stood by the regular organization" of
the Democratic party in Illinois. So he did,
for it ioas a regular organization in every |
sense of the word. But did your faction
in that State stand by it Hardly. And did
YOU not Justify them in not standing by it ?
We think you did. Be that as it may, if the
organization which Douglas subscribed to in
Illinois was the regular Democratic organi
zation, how can the Lecompton organization
here be regularly Democratic, when its prin
eiples, without which an organization is
nothing more than dead carcass, are as
different from the principles avowed by the
Illinois organization, as night is from day ?
The idea is absurd. Suppose a convention,
perfectly regular in all its component parts,
(Which your Leeompton convention was not,
should pass a resolution declaring that Con-
gress had an absolute right to prohibit slave
ry in the Territories, would every Democrat
be bound to abide by the action of that con
vention, or be read out of the party as a
traitor? According to your selfcomplacent
notions of matters and things, he would. No
matter what the organization, or the pre-
tended organization, does, that is Democracy
The Lord deliver the poor soul that would
really believe in such stupendous humbug-
gerry!
Now, all we have to say in reference to