Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-09-07
EVENING STAR.
WASHINGTON CITY:
TUESDAY .............. September z, 1sss
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.

SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.
The Unsos wants to know What says the
South ~ in the matter of those recreants who,
their friends contend, are Z" at least better
Democrats than any Abolitionist. " The Union,
argues that contact with Abolitionism insures
infection, and brings forward Wimot, Sumner
and Chase, once deemed " at least better Dem
ocrats than any Abolitionist, to illustrate its
position. 1t continues
eve would ask, in all sincerity II the South
Is In earnest in conserving no longer to insist up
on soundness on all the tenets OF the national
faith, and upon entire fidelity to the organization
which devOtes itself to the support of that faith,
There are thousands Of able and noble Democrats
AZ the North, who have sacrificed themselves to
their fidelity 10 the whole national creed and who.
W the rule obtains, Of requiring them to avow
merely "a better Democracy than that Of the BIack
Nepuoiicans,' would carry their districts with
" The integrity Of the Democratic creed and
me safety of the Democratic organization is more
formidably threatened by this Douglas move
ment than IL has ever been threatened before !;
and IL Is time that those at the North, who are
ready TO risk all for the support of this creed and
tnis organization In their purity and integrity,
should know the sentiment Of the South in re-
gard to a movement withdrawing that the
squatters In the Territories may exclude slavery,
ard that Cong ess may interfere when they apply
for admission as States to control and reverse the
action which the territorial authorities may have
taken In the formation Of onstitutons-is making
bold appeal 20 the Democracy throughout the
North against the regular Democratic organize
ton as hostile to these dOgmas; taking possess
sion Of the organization wherever they can and
wherever they cannot, boiling aud making com
mon cause with the opposition. The tone Of all
the letters and information which comes to us
from that section of the Union is aptly con-
densed In the following sentence from cores
pondent:
CO Their aim is, and i'm conversation they do
not conceal il, to have Douglas delegates for
all the Northwestern States, and IL they fail to
Convention, still to their man, as the Kinder
hook philosophers and Buffalo heretics did In
ISIS They mean, IL seems, to force their dele
cations into the Charleston Convention and CON-
pei the nomination Of their candidate; or else to
retire, and put him before the people as the
Northern Democratic candidate, sound on all
questions but the Lecompton sabomination' and
the Dfed Scott decision against popular sove-
reignty' they calculate on thus defeating any
election by the people, In order that the three
mig hest candidates voted for, from which the
House Is required by the constitution to make
choice, shall be the Charleston nominee the reg
maI opPosiuon nominee, and the man who is 8 at
least better Democrat than Lincoln Holding
the balance Of power, one or the other parties in
chief, IL is expected, will be Obliged TO take M
Mr.. Douglas-the Democracy to take him as q at
least better Democrat than Seward or else the
opposition to take him as at least better Re-
publican than the slave-drivers' candidate NOM
mated at Charleston"
The Union also notices the rally of the
Democrats Of Illinois 10 the support of the
regular ticket, and denounces as false several
OF the statements of John W Forney's speech
at TaTrytown.
Tho inteiitgenoer considers the recent qua
rautine arson as illustrating &c the spirit of
1awlessness.'