Worcester daily spy., 1859-06-25
Mr., DOUGLAS AND HIS PARTY.

Mr. DOUGLAS AND HIS PARTY.
The letter of Hon. s. A. Douglas, which we
have printed, has very important meaning;
and this meaning is to be sought, not so much
in what it says, as in the probable reasons for
its appearance. 1t signifies that the attempt to
secure reconciliation between him and the
Southern leaders of the party has failed. For
months the negotiation has been pursued at
Washington, and with no result, save that on
his side it terminates in more formidable de-
claration of war than ever. He was not ex-
actly the man to get down upon his knees and
beg pardon, and he could not afford to yield
his position entirely. And so the negotiation
has failed and the war must go on. With such
a recusant as Mr.. Douglas, on one side, and
such men as now rule the party, on the other
side, it could not well be otherwise.
Mr.. Douglas has never before spoken so
plainly on the issue between him and the
southern wing of the party. He says that he
will not accept the nomination of the party,
and implies that he will no longer act with it,
if it shall interpolate into its creed any "such
new issues as the revival of the African slave
trade, or a Congressional slave code for the
territories, or the doctrine that the Constitu-
tion of the United States either establishes or
prohibits slavery in the territories beyond the
power of the people legally to control it as
other property" If the last clause in this
specification means anything, it disallows and
reprobates those political uses of the bred
Scott decision for which the slave power in
tended it. He has not before said anything
like this, although an ambiguous sentence in
one of his speeches delivered at Freeport, ILL.,,
during his canvass for reelection to the SEN
ate, seemed to look in the same direction.
The war thus announced will wreck the
Democratic party. Compromise is impossible;
and a leader like Douglas, bold enough to en-
ter the lists in this STYLE and able to match
any of his antagonists in nerve and audacity,
will make impossible democratic national
party with such platform as the slavery fan
atics demand. AS they will accept no other,
there must be an explosion and a hopeless
wreck. But it is time to have that old organ
ization laid in ruins which years ago had out
lived its usefulness. Let it be destroyed
bury its remains out of sight ; and write on its
tombstone :-"Died of too much Slavery Fam
aticism." When it is gone there viii be more
room for new combinations and slavery will
forever thereafter find it impossible to con-
struct for itself another such political agency.
In all the free states and some of the slave
states, the Democrats are likely to have live
ly canvass for delegates to the Charleston Con-
vention and when that Convention assemblies
with all the mad antagonisms, furious heats,
and wild aims that now trouble the party,
will it not be quiet and serene like Quaker
Meeting.
Douglas accepts a war which he cannot
avoid. He does it boldly because cowardice,
under such circumstances, is always borne
down and trampled under fnc.s as it deserves
20 he In the Southern wing Nf the party it
has been decreed 1rrevocSls- tl.rrU NV
be tolerated. He cannot appease those men.
Their habit Of ruling the party and officiating
at dictators, takes away the reason that might
annul the decree against him. They say he
must be kicked out of the Charleston Conven-
ton; and no man among them appears to deem
it possible for him to become strong enough to
kick them out; for, are they not the owners
and drivers of the party? And shall any
slave under them beat his master and organize
successful rebellion Besides, they have
doomed this particular slave to be branded,
beaten, and sold to labor in the rice swamps.
The following, from the Charleston Mercury
of the 10th inst, shows their purpose in regard
to Mr.. Douglas -
GAS for an alliance with Douglas, we will
here state that the Mercury will sustain or
countenance him under no circumstances
whatever. He is traitor to the Democratic
party, and traitor to those principles which
secure the South. He is dangerous and de-
signing. Away with him Let him be ana
hema nlarandthG' say we. Nor shall the Mer-
curry sustain any platform put forth by any par
ty whatever, which platform or party shall
maintain or endorse, directly or indirectly, by
aftiliation or omissions, the fatal positions and
fraudulent policy assumed by Douglas with re-
gard to our territorial rights. We repudiate
the whole scheme by which it is sought to tie
our hands and encircle us, as with the folds of
snake to crush out or smother the vital pow
er of our civilization. Finally the Mercury
snail sustain no man, OF whatever party,
clique, creed, or section, who shall stand upon
the platform of Douglass principles-though
he should be nominated by twenty Democratic
Conventions. For the party which would per-
init that creed is an enemy of the South, and
we will war with it to the knife. For our
selves, and we can safely say for South Caro-
lima, we will neither countenance, sustain, nor
submit to any such party, platform, principles,
or politicians
And many other less prominent organs of
the party, all through the South, speak of him
in the same way. When the party adopts a
pro-slavery policy SO atrocious and shocking,
that Stephen A. Douglas himself cannot give
it support, its day of judgment must be at
hand. 1t has reached that awful condition of
insanity which -forebodns immediate dissolu-
ton.
THE PILOT ON THE TRACT SOCIETY
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