Litchfield enquirer., 1859-05-05
PRESENT AND PROSPECTIVE CON- 'DITITION OF THE NATIONAL DE- MOCRACY, -5sA

hA1oG4>1 AND nOoI LS l1N T. CON-
 'D1TITION OF THE NATIONAL DE.
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 Radical differences of opinion in a party betokens it's dissolution Reorganization is the necessary consequence of discordant ideas and sentiments. For years the National De mocracy have been disturbed by internal dis agreements and it tasked the resources of their astutest politicians to prevent open in- surrection. Since the accession of Mir. Bu- chanan, the dissensions have broken out into violent irreconcilable feuds. Individual in- subordination, and the promscuous jar of an- tagonistIc cliques, fragments and sections, are now among it's chronic vices. The secret of leadership is unknown to the leaders and n- difference or independence is approaching the old conquerng qualities of disobedience and discipline with the masses. When unity of principle and purpose ceases, Babel and the confusion of tongues succeeds. The jalgon of National Democracy has every variety of di- alcct known to the political vocabulary. Up on no question. great or small, are they unit, it we except the question of slavery without the States. On the Pacific Rail-road, the Free Homestead, the improvement of River and Harbor navigation, they are divided by a sectional line, the south being against these projects as one man, as it is against every pro- ject calculated to develop the West. On the questions of Protective Tariff, of Popular Sovereignty in the Territories, the acquisition of Cuba, we find the same want of harmony. The rebellion of Douglas demonstrates how deeply the Northern wing of the party cher ishes Popular Sovereignty. The ostracism of that remarkable man by the Southern Sena- tors, demonstrates how hateful to the South ern wing of the party is any sovereignty but that of slavery. Discord reigns throughout. The Northert wing is divided from the South ern wing, in the House of Representatives, in the Senate, in the Cabinet, and in the Coun- try. What could be expected when the Pres idcnt himself, who had been federaIist, fol- lowed the example of others, and recalcitra- ted The one relic of the old creed which the party had preserved was free trade pol icy. This he formally repudated in his mes- sage recommending an increase of import du- ties. When the salt shall lose its savor where with shall it be salted? When the President himself and leading Senators prove recreant to the established creed, and pollutc the an cent shrines, what barrier can resist the food ot apostacy and demoralization Nor, in the dark cloud which overhangs the party, can any eye discern the seven-lucd sign of future prosperity. On the contrary, portents of more dire disasters are visible. The gloom is preg- nant with the fires of a fercer wrath. To rend tine sectional constituents of the party far asunder, and pour bridgeless flood of bitter feeling between, will be the chief conse- quence, as it is perhaps thechief design of the new aggression projected by the South-The establishment of slavery in the Territories by acts of Congress. The Northern and Soutll- ern wings have joined issue on this. Sena- tors Mason, Davis, Toombs and other repre- scntativcs of the slave interest laid it down as their ultirnatum in the closing hours of the session. Douglas, speaking for the Northern wing, refused to accept it, point blank. He even had the boldness to assert counter-ulti- matum-nonintervention by Congress with slavery in the Territories. This he has since reiterated in his Connecticut letter, declaring it the only platform on which the National Democracy can stand. Thus we see that the antogonism between the Republican party and the slavery extensionists is not more marked than the antagonism between the Douglas and Mason Democracy What this bodes for the Charleston Convention is easily divined. h. deed, the doubt is entertained whether that convention will ever meet but if it should the principle of popular sovereignty will be re- pudlated, and as consequences, Douglas and his Northern followers accommodated. In view of these facts, the Charleston Mercury says, the Democratic party has no party cohesion, and is no party at al" Elsewhere, in the same article, it remarks, "the Demo- cratic party of the North, like fostering corpse. is falling to pieces" The figure is strong, but true.
 Let us now ascertain what commentary the recent elections. and the popular movements in progress, furnish on the judgments pro. nounced above. Reasoning, when verified by facts, is doubly convincing.
 Thirty Northern Represtntatives voted for the Lecompton bill. The Congressional elections in the North Minnesota cxceptcd) have all taken place ;,and of the thirty Lecompton men, only six have been re-elected-three in the city of New York, two iu Pennsylvania and one in Indiana. Minnesota not having been admitted until the Lecompton; question was decided, her representatives are not obnoxious to the ban but nevertheless, it is certain that her next delegation will be Republican. On y six sound members of the National Demo cratic party from all the Northern States
 The Denationalized Democratic party would
 be the correct nomenclature.
 | Simultaneously with the triumph of the
 Free Democracy in St. Louis, on Monday last.
 came the tidings of Republican victories from
 Cincinnati, Cleveland. Detroit Chicago. Springfield, and other cities; and since then
 the news has come that Michigan and Rhode
 Island, as we'll as Connecticut, have heaped
 mountains of majorities on the prostrate Na.
 tional Democracy. The great popular reyo Elntion. provoked by slavery aggression, has
 left but two members of that party on theil legs outside of New York and Philadelphia and in these cities the election of Sickles
 Cochrane, McClsy and Florence was carried by Government employees, plumber contracts