Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1859-10-28
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urpAy MORNING, OCTOBER rs, 1850.
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DourIa. i'm Tennessee.

We learn from the Nashville Banner that the pros
poets Of Douglas are Frightening in Tennessee. The men
who denounced Bell and Etheridgc, for voting with Dong
las on the Lecompton question, are preparing to elevate
that same Douglas to the Presidency. Seeing that he Il
the strongest man they have in the North, they are will
ling 10 swallow their denunciations of his free-soil here
sles and strike hands with him. To do this, requires
from them some unpleasant confessions, and ~deprives
them OF sl the thunder with which they have heretofore
bocn fighting the Opposition, but the prospect of the
spoils rcconcles them to the sacrifice. Hence we hear
the Memphis appeal saying;
'Tf Mr.. Douglas IL to be hurled out of the party be
cause of his views on Popular Sovereignty, then indeed
may VIC go to work and cast out "earty erfry Dc7'ocraf
aorh Of Mason and Diron's live, and many south oft
As we have said before, this is n question upon which
Democrats everywhere must agree TO disagree, otherwise
the party is sundered to atoms
AID in the same article from which the above is clip
ped. appears the following extract from another South
ern Democratic paper. the BOonville Mo- observer,
which the appeal says contains much good sense and
sound philosophy:
at will not be contcndcd, We suppose, that belief in
the ''sauatter sovereignty" principle of Judge Douglas,
places the Democrat, so believing, outof the pale of De
mocracy.
oIf so, the party iSsplit wide open, and its enemies viii
make merry with its iolies and find an easy victory amid
the internal strifes which destroy its unity.
This same paper has been engagedfor years in warning
upon the Wing and Opposition parties, because, as it has
charged, oil the unSOunlneSS OF ~ Northern wing on the
slavery question. Now it is willing to admit the unsound-
meas of its own party North, on this very question, and
councils its friends to 'agree to disagree" upon an issue
which it has heretofore regarded as the most important
before the country. 1t is willing to fratcrnize with North.
cru men protesting n doctrine "worse than wilmot Pro
yisoism.r and help to elect as President a man who stands
before the country rs the great embodiment Of this doe
trine. Surely the exigencies of the Democratic party
are great to bring its leaders and opponents TO such all
attitude before the world.
But the appeal is not alone in its friendship for the
'ltle traitor" The West Tennessee Democrat SAYS:
Notwithstanding the vituperation and cslumny, which
has been heaped upon Mr.. Douglas, despite the manner
In which his enemies have butchered up his record and
misreprcsented him, he II to-day as loyal and true a De-
mocrat as ever lived. When the unfai- battle is passed
away which is now being fought against him, after the
clouds, smoke. and confusion have been cleared up,he will
stand where Washington, Jefferson and jackson once
stood-the guardian and defender OF the rights and lib
critics Of the American p~eople-the able expounder and
champion of the primitive principles and true genius OF
American government, as laid down by the founders and
fathers of the American Republic"
This is spreading it right thick on 4 man who preach
o. doctrines {" more dangerous to the South than vii
mot Provisoism." But it is not thick enough for the edi.
tor of the West Tennessee Democrat. In another part of
the same paper he SAYS
There is quite a difference between real greatness and
the ability or disposition TO do mischief and create dis
sessions in the ranks of the Democratic party. For real
greatness and philosophic craftsmanship, pre- eminenuy,
at the head of the party stands Stephen A Douglas of
Illinois. There may be many other men in the party,
eminently more capable Of trickstering, Of creating dis
sensions and Of getting up sham popular sentiment. But
for genuine, practical ability and greatness, undoubt-
edl!, Douglas ia the man of the age"
" ptbRJjs is apRs TO .pFePeEs, the .pem0cEadc .peEy. South
because they regard that man as deserving such eulogies,
but because they believe him to be the strongest man for
the succession, and to secure the succession they are viii
-. NsE- II
at one time almost universally execrated by Southern
Democrats as a TRAITOR