The Van Buren press., 1859-11-04

| ment. The writer of the observations !"
also intimates that even despotism would
grant to its citizen the right thatMr. Douglas
refuses him, when the truth is nothing
less than despotic power could enforce the
policy in which the supposed right is in
volved, advocated by the writer. A des-
potic government may protect the property
OF its citizens, but OF some of those citi-
zens wished to bring into the country a GER
tain breed of cattle which it was known
would spread pestilential disease among
the cattle Of the land, would the govern
ment protect that kind of property there :?
1t would be property. but it carried with it
quality which the people deemed very in
furious to their welfare aud hsppiness. 1t
Is SO with slave property in the particular
case in controversy. The slave is property
but the people in that particular instance,
look upo1 1t as kind of property that car
| rles with it q moral pestilence they be-
tieve il to . degree Of fanaticism, SO the
nqEtA Al admit. What kind Of govern
ment will you have that can compel peo-
Iple with such notions or sentiments to I'D
NIT among them either the cattle ox the
slave property? Mr.. Douglas is charged
with starting new doctrine in the demo-
cratic party; every politician knows that
this is false. The writer of the obser-
vations" and the set with, him, gave it the
notoriety it has |; there is nothing else new
about it. When Mr.. Douglas reiterated it
IN some Of his Illinois speeches against
lAncoln, some of the administration men
pretended to make great howl over it as
something new. Why did they not howl
when Buc hanan and others said it before
him ? Why did they not pass over Mr..
Douglas statement with the same silence
at least-that they did when Buchanan
gave it such hearty endorsementin his let
ter OF acceptance Douglas merely said
over again what hundreds and thousands
SAID IN the last Presidential election and
now, because these fellows think proper hy-
pocrltically to combat this doctrine, they
charge Douglas with striving to raise a
split In the party, If they don't want the
split why do they combat it 4? The best
men in the south affirm that it is only
war OF words" If that is all, and it is
all so far as the south is concerned, why
did these fellows raise the war? Do they
expect that there is an American statesman
that Is worthy of the name, that would
submit to such fraudulent imposition I?
They quarrel with Douglas because he does
not submit to 1t like spaniel the thing
Is very base-a foul blot upon the Democ-
racy.
Democratic principles as laid down in
the Cincinnati Platform upon which Mr..
Buchanan was elected and which Douglas
defends, gives to the South all that is prac-
ticable for the south to obtain. A true
statesman never struggles for the establish
ment OF principle that cannot be had, or
If recognised is Of no valuable use lWhen
he sees these difficulties stand in his way
he kes it as a good evidence that it should
not have an existerce-that it is not adap-
ted to the nature of things. Therefore /
so for the success of the Democratic party
to secure for the south all that can be Sc
cured. If the Democracy at the north
could few years since consent tc see their
pecuniary sectional interests go
by the board for the sake of the democracy,
southern men sacrifice new theoreti- !
cal opinion for the sake of the same cause ?
October 49, 1859 NJ.