Daily national Democrat., 1859-01-09
A Word to the True Democracy.

Word to the True Democracy.
The San Francisco National very ingeni-
ously tries to make it appear that the friends
of Judge Dougns in this State are acting in
direct contra vcntion of the rule which he
himself has laid down 1t quotes the following
passage from his first speech in the Illinois
campaign:
Il stand by the Democratic organization. Weld
obedience TO its usages, and support its regular
nominees
And the following passage also:
"Those who knowing they would be voted
| down inside the Democratic organizations 90 out
side and attempt to divide and destroy it. in con
cert with the Black Republican leaders, have
ceased to be Democrats"
| In anticipation Of the very natural answer,
that "the regular organization is where the
principles of the party are found the Ma
tional prefaces its comments on the above
texts with the following observations
without stopping to inquire whether this was
not in some degree dPplicdble 10 the position
yalef 6y hi0sS(if dtHe last session Of Congress- it
is our purpose to test, by the rule he lays down,
in this State.
Stephen A. Douglas would never have re-
cognized the Illinois organization as the reg
ular Democratic organization, had it not pro.
claimed Democratic principles, any more
than he recognized the accommodation of
President Buchanan about Kansas as bind
ing upon him as Democrat Where the
principles of the party are, there is the regu-
lar Democratic organization, and Judge
Douglas has acted upon that rule of conduct.
If a majority of mere men claiming to be
Democrats, violate Democratic principles,
they cease to be Democrats, and it is idle to
talk Of their having the regular organization
Regular enough it may be, but it is no DEM
ocrdtic organization-there only is the troub
lie The doctrines put forth by the Anti
Lecompton Democratic Convention at Sacra-
mcnto and lately by the Anti Lecompton
Caucus at the Capital are precisely the same
doctrines that were put forth by what Ste
phcn A. Douglas recognized as the regular
organization in Illinois. The principles enun
cated by the Lccompton State Convention
in Sacramento were the very opposite of the
principles enunciated by the Illinois organi-
zation. Consequently, if the Illinois organi |
zation was Democratic, the Lecompton or
ganization here was not. Democracy does .
not consist Of men, but of princjplcs, and if a
majority of a so called Democratic Central
Committee should happen to call together a
number of mere men, pretending to be Dem
ocrats, who would pass resolutions endorsing
the measure of United States Bank or any
other positively Anti-Democratc measure,
and minority of that Central Committee
should call together number of men who |
would pass resolutions endorsing the Cinein.-
natl Platform, the Kansas-N ebraska Bill and
Democratic principles generally, we humbly
opine that the latter would be the Democratic |
organization, and the other would not.
But, enough on that point. We have re.
peatedly told the Douglas men of this State.
who voted with the Lecomptonites on ac-
count of the ridiculous idea that they were
voting with the regular organization, that
that organization which ass ,aned the title of
regular Democratic" was opposed utterly to
the doctrine Of popular sovereignty, as ex-
pounded by Stephen A. Douglas and op-
posed to Stephen A. Douglas himself, and
that every Douglas man, as consequence,
should at once walk out of that organi-
zation, and wash his hands of it forever.
Now, the National and other leading organs
ofthe Lecompton party are continually Civ
ing us proof that our declarations were right
and that they are no friends of Douglas.
They talk about our being "the profeSsed
friends of Douglos," as though they we're his
real friends Cannot intelligent Douglas men
see through such shallow masking? When |
did these organs ever lose an opportunity,
when it was politically safe to do so, to war
against Judge Douglas position? When do
they lose an opportunity to throw out an in
situation against him as Democrat2 Now, |
we do not dispute any mans right to disa-
gree with Judge Douglas if he chooses, but
we do say that if any man believes that
Douglas is right, and that he is the true ex-
ponent of Democratic principles, and then
acts with those who are opposed both to him
and his principles, he lacks some very essen
tial requisites of a man and he can by no
possibility be entitled to the name of true
Democrat.
If the Democracy of this State are honestly .
opposed to Douglas, let them act with his
enemies; but, if they are not, let them act !
with his friends. To believe that Douglas |
embodies in his views the essence Of Demo /
cratic principles, and then to enter into an
organization Numerically opposed to him
and his views, it seems to us is the very sum.
NIT and cap-sheafof assanine folly. Either
he is right or he is wrong, and all we want
to see is fair test of his strength in the coun.
try. We don't want to see Douglas men
walking stupidity up to cast vote point
blank against their own principles, all on ac-
count of an insane idea that they are acting
with the regular organization" We be.
lieve that Douglas, and not Mr. Buchanan. is
recognized as the exponent of Democratic
principles in this State and that Douglas is
dency. But, one thing is certain, no Lecomp-
ton organization will ever send Douglas del
egates to the Democratic National Conven-
tion. The Democracy of this State must act
with the Douglas organization or see him
sacrificed, and that is the sum total of the