The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-09-12

Doctrines or the Democracy.
The National Int4lligenesr in reply to
serious letter Of inquiry from ayoung friend
a. TO what doctrines were held BY the Dem
ocratic party, gives the following candid nm
swer. In opr State the party being under
the lead Of Dean and Claggett TO certain
| extent, are making additions to TINS pro-
| gramme of doctrines
| "Of the doctrines espoused by the Demo.
cratic party we End it, if possible, even mere
| difficult TO conveyto our correspondent any
| ;ntelligbIe idea, SO numerous are the sects
wbieh seyerally claim to be the sole legiti-
m Ate exponents of Democratic orthodoxy
In many of our Southern Democratic con-
temporaries we read OF Southern Rights
Democ as contradistinguished from
National Democrats; Of Administration
Democrats in opposition to douglas Dem
ocrats . Of Democrats who favor the lead
ing measures of Mr.. Buchanan, and OF Dem
ocrats who denounce them as the Offspring
OF worse than .Hamiltonian Federalism
At the North we have Democrats OF every
variety of shade, created by the greater or
less degree in which their complexion is COL
ored by what is called sLecomptonism,' in
the late political parlance Of the day. Dem
ocrats who favored the admission OF Kansas
into the Union under the Lecompton Consti
tuition are sternly ct variance with Demo
crafts who repudiated that instrument as
fraud upon popular rights. Democrats who
voted for the English conference bill' find
it difficult to harmonic with those who look
npon that stemporxpg expedient' with pos
tive dsrespect. Time and patience will fail
US il we should undertake to tell OF Demo-
Gratis who are in favor of free trade and d.
rect taxation; Democrats who in Louisiana
are in favor of both these desiderata, but
nevertheless think sugar entitled TO some
protection; Democrats in Pennsylvania who
are willing to make large concessions on 9TH
or points IL only the duty on iron be kept
sufficiently specific; Democrats in Kentucky
who think that Mr.. Clay's american system
was q gerry mistaken theory Of political econ
omy, but who hold that tax on imported
| hemp is highly expedient and constitutional /;
Democrats in New England immoderate in
| their demands because modest in their num-
bers) who think that 'the textile fabrics
should be treated with some consideration
by those who patronize sugar in Louisiana,
iron in Pennsylvania, and hemp in Kentucky,
but who still are willing to sacrifice large
per centage for the sake of harmony
And then, too, we have Democrats who fa-
vor internal improvements, and Democrats
who denounce them as unconstitutional ;
Democrats who think the public lands should
be disposed of as speedily as possible by q
general homestead bill, and Democrats who
pronounce this policy unwise and mot to put
too fine point on it) 'demagogical and agra
rian; Democrats who espouse MIR. Olay'f
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denounce the scheme as rank political her
esy; Democrats who believe in the gospel
Of fllibustersm, and Democrat who sustain
the neutrality laws Democrats who advo-
cate the revival Of the slave trade, and Dem
ocrats who vote it to be sunwise, nexpedi.
emit, aud contrary to the settled policy of the
country
At present our Democratic friends in al
parts of the country seem to be PARTICULAR
exercised by certain divisions growing on
of what is called the new dogma'-being th'
definition Of the duty enjoined by the Consti
tuition of the United States on the Nationa
Legislature in the matter of the protection
which slave property is entitled to claim il
the common Territories OF the Union. al
this is question which has been raised be
tween different wings of the Democra,i
party, in consequence Of their differing in
terpretations of the Kansas Nebraska bill
and the Cincinnati platform, it might b
deemed impsrtnentfo for us to express any opin
! ion upon documents that seem to beso recon
dite and obscure even in the hands of thei
authors. And as the controversy on this sub
ject is purely family quarrel among tn
harmonious Democracy we may draw from
J certain homely proverbs prudent moral il
, warning against any attempts on our part t
reconcile the parties to these conflicting in
corporations of the family dialect. 1t is
question with which VIC have no other con
Germ than that which attaches to the functio
of the political historian, called to record 10
the benefit Of curious inqnirers, like our Ken
lucky friend, the nice refnements OF lit
gious temper brought to the discussion O
supersensuous distractions. For this reason
! and for the bohoof Of those who cannot b
: expected to feel lively interest in politca
! questions which have no practical signif
canoe, we shall perhaps undertake, at u flu
ture day, to place more prominently befor
. our readers the history ind purport of tn
e new Dogma which is at present perplexiD
the minds OF the Democracy"
Pig Race ut Newport.