New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-09-02
TnE DEMOCRACY AND THE PREsG-
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probably be toseh from the South. AT the close Of
Mr.. Buchansn's administration, the North viii
have held tbst Office nearly eleven years IN success
sion. The Southern Democracy oemsLd the can
oidate. dozen prominent ttatesmeI from that
,ect;on are already in the field. The claims Of 70
Northern aspirant are seconded by any considers-
be portion Of the South. Moreover, the contest
betw cen Free dom and Slavery has reached such a
stage thst the Negro Propaganda will lot dare to
trust it's cause in the bands Of any Northern states
rlan for the coming four years. 1t AIMS at utiver'
ssl dominion IN all the Territories ano States of the
Union through the Intervention Of Congress and
the Federal Judiciary. 1t hss set its coyetOus eye
upon foreign territory. 1t longs for annexation,
for expansion, il the direction Of the tropics. 1t
csmOrs for The legtzation Of the African trade, In
order to supply the human chattels which It's pres
ent greed and future necessities demand. 1t has
Joined in death erapple with the free spirit Of the
country and the age. Like the eanester who has
staked his fortune upon single throw of the ole,
it will Win all or lose all in this struggle. In such
crisis it dare Lot trust any Northern man with it
de.tiny. More especially II will not choose in our
Judgment, to COMM. its fate to the keeping Of
Stephen a. Douglas.
PreemiDent among Northern Democratic aspir-
ants for the Presidency stands Mr.. Dsuglas. The
South will designate the nominee at Charleston
II the slsveboldiog delegate cannot agree upon a
son Of the South they will place The standard for
the next campaign IL such Northern hands his they
NAV choose. Viii the Illinois Senator be that
mani We think not and TOR the following reasons:
The Southern Democracy, though representing
I. section Of the Uniln that has always bad but
minority of votes in Congress and the Electoral
College, have ruled the country four fiftos of the
time since the accession Of Jefferson, and have al
ways controlled the party throughout this long Pc
rod The cause OF their power and their success
springs from the facts t,at they never aban toned
swellsettled purpose; tsey never forgave al apps
tate in their own rsrks they never conferred high
position upon Northern ally unless assured Of his
fidelity; they never trusted second time either
son Of Their own, or an adopted beir from tue
North who hsd once faltered, or proved fsthless
in their service i'll trying hour Their hnai TIL
umphs, after severe struggles 10 the admission of
Missouri and the annexation of Texas; in the rePu-
the Missouri Compromise; in the expulsion OF
Rives aud Benton from the pale of the p.rty and
In the overthrow Of Van Buren, a0d Wright, are
palpable illustrations of our position.
Now. Mr. Douglas is obnoxious to the Slavery
Propagandists on all these grounds. He processes
to be hostile to schemes Of sggrandizement, upon
which they have Get their hearts. He certainly
deserted their service and turned his weapons upOn
them in moet critical crisis II they can forget
this, and not only forgive the traitor but reward
the treason BY committing to bis keeping their am-
bilious schemes, then either they have abandoned
those projects as impracticabe, or have succumbed
TO the impossibilty Of further maintaining the
policy of never trusting deser from their cause
In the one case, they give over the struggle 10 adj
vance of the fght in the other, they yield up the
tactics by which alone they lave so long ruled their
party and the country Nor does it retrieve their
position even if Mr. Douglas should repudIate It's
protested principles, ard pledge himself anew to
their cause. They are rewsrding and trusting
traitor who may again, in a critical eXigency, de-
cert and destroy them. In either event, therefore,
if the Slavery Extensionists consent to place him
in nomination at Charleston, it lie confession OF
weakness OF which their opponents will take san-
mary advantage rendering even seeming triumph
under him virtual defeat, to be ultimately followed
by fral overthrow.
But the dominant element At the South is vehe-
mently against the nomination Of Douglas. The
fire eating presses and leaders are intensely hostile
to HIM. Davis, Sldel, Bro an, Toombs and the
men of that school, openly reppdiate him. Az IN
aueu;ial journal Of tennessee says the Southern
democracy will not support Mr. Douglas, for,
in the teeth of the Constitution ard of the bred
Scott decision, be insists that the representatives
" of the squatters who happen - settle GIst upon
/" the common territory may, by unfriendy legisls-
"tioa. do what the organic law forbids, and ex-
"cude US with our property" And the ultra
Southern pres universally utters the same senti-
meut. Though 3 majority Of the Convention at
Charleston may give him their votes, he cannot
overcome the memorable two-thirds rule. Nay,
even if so large s proportion Of the delegates
favored bis pretensions, tho opposition OF reso-
lutte minority, whose hostility must be sppeased. or
the vote of entire States put to hazard. would FIX
the ultimate choice of the body upon some less OBJ
jectionsble man. Unfortunately for Mr.. Douglas,
be is out Of favor with both factions Of the South
ern Democracy. by natural instincts and aftn'ies
he belongs to the fre-eaters. Like them, be lie
radical, RASH and revolutionary. His Old friends
and admirers were Davis, Brown SOule, Toombs,
Quitmap, and tie patrons Of William Walker
David Il. Atchison, and other hlfbusters and pops
gandists. His Anh-Leeompton contest. and rs
Popular Sovereignty doctrines, have converted tts