Daily national Democrat., 1859-06-17
Subterfuges.

1t is really amusing to witness the shifts
and turns to which the Lecomptonites are
driven, in their efforts to bolster up their
cause.
Instead of coming out like men and defend
inc the Administration of James Buchanan,
they deliver long homilies upon the beauties
of that harmony which they say, ought GER
tainly to exist in the Democratic party.
They are somewhat like the President in
this respect He humiliated himselfs so far as
to beg of Senators that they would not vote
against his measure in regard to the admis.
sion of Kansas His followers call upon the
people to sustain the Administration. with
out bringing forward any good reason why
it should be sustained. They regret, nc
doubt, and so do we, that anything should
have taken place to divide the party which
raised Mr.. Buchanan to the Presidency. They
even go so far as to say that there is nc
ground for a material difference of opinion
between those who support, and those whc
oppose the Kansas policy of the President
Did they believe so at the time that the ques-
ton of the admission of Kansas under the
Lecompton Constitution was pending They
profess all at once to have unbounded rever-
ence for Stephen A. Douglas. How did they
regard him during the Lecompton eontrover-
sy? Finding that the Administration is de-
nounced as no other Administration has been.
they come forward with many poor suhter-
fuges-not in the way of defense of the
Administration, but for the purpose of crea-
ting discord and distrust among the popular
sovereignty party. They have started the
cry of Repubcanism when speaking of the
opposition to the Administration. They
know that they speak falsely when they
say that the Popular Sovereignty party are
coalescing with the Republicans If Repub-
licans, from policy, claim to be non inter
ventionists, does that make the Popular
Sovereignty party any the less a Demo-
cratic party, or tincture it in the least
with Republcunism Must we abandon
one hairs breadth of our possition-a po-
sition occupied by the Democratic party
before it was broken by James Buchanan
because the Republicans, to suit purpose OF
tionists?
This charge Of q coalition Of the Popular
Sovereignty and Republican parties shows to
what straits the Leeomptonites are driven.
The wonder is, that like Mackbeths "amen,
it doesn't stick in their throats Coalition
indeed
| If the Lecomptonites want to hear Repub-
lican doctrine enunciated (at least what they
once called Republican doctrne) let them
read Senator Browns onslaught on Popular
Sovereignty. Senator Brown, we suppose,
is in their eyes, good Democrat-he must
be, since he is one of the Presidents right
hand men. To him was given the honor of
leading the van of the Buchanan Democracy
in the recent celebrated debate in the United
States Senate
We wish to allude to another dodge Of the
Lecomptonites-to the stories they have set
afoat concerning Stephen A. Douglas They
say he seeks reconciliation with the Presi-
dent. Any little paragraph to that effect.
hatched up by fertile Lecompton brains, is
seized upon by them, and serves them as the
text for a sermon on the beauties of harmony
in the Democratic party. II there is any
thing in such q report, its source must un-
doubtedly be traced to the President himself.
If there are any concessions to be made, he
is the man who will make them