Daily national Democrat., 1859-12-06
The Lesson OF the Late Elections.

York, he went to work with all the energy
which he possessed to obtain the prestige of
Dickinson- Democratic victory in that State.
He wrote, he wire worked, he speechifed. 1t
was no GO The Republicans and Free Soil
Americans claim the State by an overwhelm
ing majority. 1t is pretty generally conee-
ded that they have elected the entire number
of their candidates for State Offices, have won
possession Of three fOurths Of all the county
Offices, and have an overwhelming majority
in the Legislature We are sorry for this re-
sult, not that we favor Mr.. Dickinson's aspi-
rations for the Presidency. but because we
prefer in all cases to see the Democratic tick
ct elected. Nevertheless, the fact is patent.
that Mr. Dickinson is not the man for the
nomination at Charleston. He cannot carry
his own State, and there is no guarantee that
he can carry any other Northern Stote in the
Union.
1t Itarpears further that there have been i'm
mense Republican victories in Massachusetts,,
in New Jersey, and probably in Wisconsin.
The only CLEAN in the midst of the surround
ing darkness is the success in Illinois Of the
Douglas candidate for Congress, John A. Nc
Clernand. who triumphed by large vote.
What is the lesson taught the Democracy
Ivy this huge aud ever increasing wave OF
Repubicanism rolling with such fearful pow
er over the North? simply this, that no or
| binary candidate of the Democratic party
can hope to succeed in those States in the
next great battle for the Presidency. Itmust
he a man who has showi. himself ms true to
the North as the South. No mere trucker to
one section Of the Union as against the other.
and especially no mere Northern trucker TO
the South, can win the vote of either N. Y ork
or Pennsylvania or Illinois, or Ohio, and GER
tainly not of such States as Massachusetts and
Maine and New Hampshire They must hav e
"A candidate who has stood true to the princi-
pies of the Democratic party, in the midst Of
all temptation; who has not warped the plat
form of his party either to please the South
or the North who has lent no aid to any
Administration of the Government straining
the Democratic Greed from its true object and
intent in order to give rights" TO the South
which she never possessed, and which she
would never have thought of claiming but for
the weakness of tme.serving Executive
They must have n man who has proven him
self worthy to be trusted by both sections of
Z ba ITpion ,yi hoe ab 70
render the North, bound hand and foot, to
the South, simply because a strangely per
verse Administration and an obsequious Sen.
ate interpreted the principles of the Demo-
cratic party in new and unheard of way,
and made it democratic to attempt to rob
the people of their right to express their own
views and feelings by the free will and act of
clear minority at the polls. Such man is
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS ofIllinois. At al! times,
throughout his public career, be has shown
his devotion to the Union as whole He
would no sooner sacrifice the South than the
North. lie would sacrifice neither As he
stood true to all sections in the great Clay
Compromises of 1850, SO will he continue to
stand AS he stood true to the South, when
the North howled and roared against him in
the memorable struggle of 1854 while feeber
men bowed before the blast, so did he stand
true to the North in the great struggle of
1858, in the Senate of the United States, when
the equal rights Of the North, under the guar
antees of the Kansas Nebraska Act, were
about to be invaded by deed of political
atrocity unparalleled in the history of this
Government. man like this is to be trusted
man like this commands the respect of his
fellow citizens all over the Union.
Both when he was fighting against the
North because she was wrong and when he
was fighting against the South for like rea
son, he was assailed as mere demagogue. as
a selfish aspirant for political distinction as a
man who was gov verned by the mere passing
motives of the hour When he stood up for
the Kansas n ebraska. Bill, it was claimed
that he was currying favor with the South
when he opposed the admission of Kansas in.
to the Union, that he was currying favor
with the North. But, what does the result
prove? After the heat and smoke of bat
tie; after the sky has cleared, and the men
tai visions of men are open to the perception
of things as they are-what do we observe
The grand constitutional argument of this
mighty statesman rising into the higher re-
gion Of thought and reason like tall mar
ble fabric in the sun. Laid deep in the fun
damental principles Of the government, it is
pillared domed and crowned with the un-
answerable facts of history legal, judicial
and constitutional. For each deed of his po-
litical life, he points to the warrant and au-
thority of the Constitution. Accused Of dis
regarding the Supreme Court of the Union,
he throws open the broad volume of their
decisions and names the page and chapter
which sustain him, He summons the great
names OF Marshall and a Story to his aid
Charged with opening new and untried paths
he appeals to the history of the great men
who have preceded him to disprove it IT,.
pours very flood Of light upon his path aud
the blinded owls that hawked at this eagle q,
tho sun flap their wings in terror and seek
their native darkness. A few venture 0 beat
their breasts against the solid wall of his ar
gument and fall iguominiously to the earth.
The longer this Government stands, the
clearer will appear the grand political truths
apunciate e1 bv thia broad ,o;pJaJ .toto.r..u