Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-01-20

Democracy are aeaia .saisfAg Tie cry That there
muss b union II the South for the purpose Of
resisting asset;osal party Of the North. They are
seaia npsasiag H. old song. that the rights Of the
South are IN danger. and that no other party,
saving aad excepting the Democracy. is capable
Of dsf,ndins and protecting those rights from tho
inrsaA of Aboli6onism.
= WStsaisvs h 10 moro from the force Of habit
thaa sasshiag eiss, the. the Democracy resort to
this old Plea They surely do not mean to Say
that yAs rights Of the South are any more secure
now-or any less Ia danger-than they were twen-
!. " ysan ago. Though the Democracy have been
! in undisturbed possession of the Government tor
thirty years Excepting the Presidency for brief
period| and though the South has been losing
ground, comparatively, all the time. that party
still has the assurance to claim that it is the only
ono capable Of protecting Southern institutions.
2 Foresesing that the Democracy WILL in the next
Presidential canvass, repeat the old story about
their peculiar "soundness" in respect Of Southern
rights, osr able contemporary of the Nashville Pat
riot pruceeds To block their game at once by show
ing up the holowness and insncerity Of their pro-
fession. AMI the deep wrong that has been infi'c-
ed upon the South by the continual agitation OF
the slavery question for party purposes. We cor
daily endorse the language OF our contemporary, as
follows:
What, thea, have the pcopio of the South gain
ed in respect Of their territorial rights, by canfd-
ing in. and cooperating with, the Democratic par.
" Of the North. Nothing. What have they
gained in respect of their territorial righlsly put
ting the Democratic party in power throughout
the Southi Nothing. The people of the South
have gained nothing at all; but their own imncdi-
ate leaders who nsled and deceived them in re-
gard to the opinions and intentions Of their Nor
thorn brethren, and the potency f tho Democrat
10 organisation to guard, and protect, and enforce
Southern rights-thesc leaders have gained. by
the deception. power. and place, AID honors. and
emolmments!
The South, too, has become nearly unit in par
ty politics. Democratic unit. That result will
no doubt be claimed by the Democratic leaders
and organs Of the South as aport Of the utmost
inn portance. and Of the greatest advantage in po-
itical point Of view. But this union of the South
has been followed as the slightest sagacty might !
have foressen. by union Of the North! If the
Democrats Of the South have succeeded in uniting
The sestA BY dint of slavery agitation. they have
also succeeded in uniting the North against them.
We say they. the Democratic leaders of the South:
for, to them, to the course they have pursued. to
their continued agitation Of the subject Of slave
~ for unworthy. unpatriotic, disreputablo par
ty purposes. is the origin. rise. growth and pre-
sent gigantic dimensions Of tho Republican party
owing.
Mr. Hale, If Our memory serves us stated in the /
Senate that he was indebted to President Pierce |
for his return to that body--meanng that it was
the rs-openng Of slavery agitation, under Presi- 4
dent Piercs's auspices, that enabled him to come \
back to tho Senate.
Mr.. Seward, in his Rochester speech, boosted /,
that whereas, but short time ago, there but
troe Of his set in the Senate and six in the House
Of Representatives., there were twenty Of
them in the Senate. and hundred in the House.
Thus, out Of the hotbed Of slavery agitation pre-
pared and cultivated by Southern democratic poll
ticians for the most selfish party purposes. did
there spring up in q night, as it were, full grown.
this gigantic plant Of Republican ism-its roots
quickly extending them selves deep deep down in
the Northern soil, and ia branches spreading over
the whole Northern land.
Not only did the Southern democratic leaders,
BY their wicked agitation of the slavery question,
force into existence and build up the Republican
party; but they, or the most of them far from
desiring to see that orsaui Iation broken up and
would be very tar from pursuing any course of
policy. the tendency Of which would be to break
it up. They want to retain their power ut the
South, and they want tho Republican party to
scare the honest people OF the South with, and To
brighten them into remaining united under their 4
lead; and If need be they will present new and
further slavery issues for the express purpose Of
keeping up agitation and thereby keeping the
Republican party tose,her-thus playing into the
hands Of Mr.. Seward, and other ultra leaders Of
his party.
But what will the people Of the South say to so
wicked . course Of policy? Can they See nothing
to Be deplored in the near prospect the imminent
danger of the North and the South being divided
into two sectional parties? Have they any thing
10 gain BY il? Havn't they-havn't all true pa
triots. all lovers of the Union. South or North
hasn't the whole country, except the Southern
and Northern dsunionists, every thing to lose by
it,
We have said that i, might have been foreseen,
that union Of parties at the South by means of
slavery agitation would be followed by an antag-
onistic union Of the North, 1t was foreseen and
predicted long ago-sighteen years ago--by a dis
onguished Statesman Of our own John Bell, on.
iya very few years after the agitation had been
commenced at the South, by Democratic politi-
clans. In . letter written by Mr. Bell in 1910,
to the Hon. Geo. z. 0lmer. and published at the
time, Mr.. Bell aid:
s.What nnSht n lie the tncasnre Of ;na;nn..;..