Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-10-06

WARRINGTON NEWS AND 0OsShrs
The ALLKaxp NECESSITY OF THE NOMINATION.
OF DousLAs-The Nashville Union, claimed ny
the pro- Douglas journals not long since as quasi
of their idol, treats the Idea that the
Democracy must perforce select Douglas Tor tnelf
Presidential candidate II deserves To DC treated
when driven to accept such an alternative, the
Democracy will not only be ANONYMOUSLY de-
ssated but will richly deserve defeat, as they will
than have abandoned all preteuce Of the guardian
sbip of the prncipl of Jefferson and Jackson for
devotion to the fortunes Of some aspiring dema-
gogse other. The following is the article from
the Nashville Union referred TO above:
We have seen an argument urged in certain
Democratic papers that Douglas nomination is
necessary to the success of the party in 1860. We
are by no means prepared to admit the truth of
this assumption. W. do not believe that the sue
cess Of the Democratic party depends on any one
man. Its destinies are in the keeping Of the
American people, In whose hearts its great prin-
ciples Will live when the proudest Of those who
now uphold or seek to subvert them shall have
passed away and been forgotten. Those pfinci-
pies have survived the opposition Of men create,
than Stephen A. Douglas. They have withstood
the assaults of open enemies and the treachery OF
pretended friends, and they have still strength
enough to stand, even though Mr.. Douglas should
+ 1t is indeed humiliating acknowledgment that
the Democratic party are no longer capable OF de-
Tending the cause Of popular rights Which have
been committed to their custody, except under
the leadership Of one man-that they are such alb
ject slaves as to refuse to vindicate their prnci-
pies, except at the bidding of a selfconstituted
ruler; that great PARTY il compelled to bow down
at his footstool. and crave his assistance to save
them from defeat.
We do not believe It, We repel the imputation
upon the integrity Of the Democratic masses, as
alike dishonorable and undeserved. We deny
that they have become the minions Of one mans
power and that he alone holds the fortunes Of the
party and its principles in his grasp. When have
the Democracy acknowledged their fealty to Mr.
Douglas higher than their allegiance to the Prin-
eiples of their party, When have they proclaim
ed this supremacy over them and surrendered the
guardianship Of their rights into his keeping ,
How is IL that his voice has become more poten-
tai than the voice Of the people, that his will can
control the suffrages Of American freemen,
Now, In the name Of all the gods at once, upon
what meat doth this, our Caesar. feed, that he is
grown so great!' Are there not other Democratic
statesmen his equals in ability entitled to the graf
itude of the party! Upon what pedestal Of pop
ularity has this Colossus been reared, that these
men should be compelled TO ''wdlk under his
huge legs, and peep about to find themselves dis.
honorable graves?a Has he SO endeared himself
to the Democracy by his perfidity TO their prin-
C pies! Do his superior claims rest upon his de-
sertion Of his party on great question involving
the equality Of the States and his refusal to vote
for the admission Of a slave State into this Mon
IL so, VIM. H. Seward, John Bell and Arson Bur-
lingame have claims scarcely inferior To Mr.. Doug
las has ne established his right TO rule the party
by proclaiming himself in the Senate the u un-
conquered rebel' against its time honored prin-
ciples and usages; does his merit consist in his
maintaining the right Of a few abolition emissa-
ries to exclude the citizens of fifteen States of th
Confederacy from all participation in the common
territory of the nation! IL this any of these
things be the secret Of his alleged power then let
it be known that hostility to the South is a merit;
that rebellion against the party is merit and that
he who shall hereafter most fearlessy assail its
principles, and substitute the most odiOus here
sizes in their place, has the strongest title to its
confidence and respect.
We have said that we did not believe that Mr..
Doug las nomination was necessary to the success
Of the party. IL II were we should prefer de-
feat, under our old banners. TO a victory ach eyed
ing would so surely bring disaster upon the party
as an abandonment Of its princ Piles, and the adop-
ton OF Mr.. Douglass heresies in their stead.
w henever the Democracy cease to vindicate the
constitutional hts of all the States either against
the higher-law doctrines Of VIM. III. Seward or
the squatter-sovereignty doctrines OF Stephen A
Douglas. it will fall as il ought to fall under tile
contempt and condemnation Of the people. No
mans power is so great as the power of truth and
Justice; and il were bad policy, if nothing more
to give up these bulwarks of strength to the
aid or support of any political leader We cannot
eoncede the force Of any Argument that assumes
the necessity OF nominating for the Presidency a
politician who has been so steadily pursuing his
own selfish ends that he has lost ght of the good
Of his country and the integrity Of his Constitu-
ton. We cannot believe that the Democratic
party be brought to debase itself at the feet of
an avowed rebel to its principles by any such APP
peals to It's cupidity or any such attempts 70 in
timidate 1t.