Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-02-04
oTbe divisions of the Democracy
How to Heal Them.''

oThe Divisions of the Democracy
How to Heal Them,
e This it the text of the leading editorial
article in the Washington Stqtes. Of the 29.h
alt It sets out with the following truthful
declarations:
- at is obvions and undeniabln. that except
~ our 1.-THE Democraticl scattered forces he
rallied. and plan of ac.icn be agreed upon.
we cannot hope to survive the struggle before
u.s.
To the end, therefore, of union and har-
rnony among the scattered " Democracy,
the States suggests 4" the cultivation of more
tolerant and fraternal feeling than has pre-
vailed since the advent of the present Admin
istration." To have opened the great Demo
ss cratic mind to the truth and beauty of this
81 sentiment, and given force TO hisrecommrnda-
ton. the editor of the States should have re-
cited to his Democratic brethren those fresh
and impressive lines running thus
= Let dogs delight bark and bite;
For God has made them
Let bears and lions grow and fght
80 For IT'S their nature to.
But children, you should never let
Your angry passions rise,
Your little hands were never made
To tear each others eyes {"
-s Another, and the most essential condition
to the organization Reorganization is the
proper word-of the scattered ~ Democracy,
in the opinion of the States, is rigid adherence
to the Cincinnati Platform. On that point
the States says:
% The dOgmatic doctrine of the party il ex-
pounded in the Cincinnati Platform, and we
dcny authority to the President or any other
person to enlarge ts basis OF principle by
the addition OF single issue In the inter
probation of the text of our creed we claim
y. the utmost independence OF individual Judg-
ment ; otherwise the conscience of members
will be constrained by the dictatiOn of an ir-
responsible authority. The President himself
is the creature of the party; and as he can de-
duct nothing from its declaration OF doctrine
70 neither can he interpolate so much as
solitary syllable into its platform Ofprinciplc.
Upon that platform he stands on a level with
every other Democrat and is equally respon-
sible to the Representative power of the party
the National Convention"
But the Cincinnati Platform, like all other
Modern Democratic Platforms, is wholly
made up of carefully studied and intended
antiquities! 1t was puTposely made susceptible
of a double Interpretation. TO be understood
81 one may in one section of the Union, and a
totally different way in another section, and
it has continually, and is now, understood
aud Interpreted in different ways by the most
intellectual and distinguished leaders of the
Democratic party! Take the case of Mr..
Buchanan, by way of illustration. Upon his
nomination at Cincinnati, he, it will be
recollected. resolref himself into The Platform.
Bnt 10 aud behold, in carrying out 1.-The
dogmatic creed of the party" as expOunded
in the Platform, according to his understand
ing and Interpretation of the Platform, he
finds himself at issue with the Southern
Democracy, who also swear by the Platform,
upon some of the most important measures
officially recommended by him to Congress
the principles, for instance, by which the
tariff should lie regulated, and aid afforded 10y
the general Government Tor the construction
of works of internal Improvement. He
processes to be devoted to the preservation of
State rights He, no doubt, interprets the
Cincinnati Platform State rights Plat
. form. And standing on the Platform, as
State rights man, he recommends to Congress
the passage of bank bankrupt law, which
Recommendation
rights men of the South generally-therc
some exceptions-but generally as the most
anti State rights proceeding that cal be con-
ceivcd of!
With what truth rpropriety, then, can it be
sld that the Cincinnati Platform expresses the
creed of the Democratic party 1t expresses
b nothing, because 1t is VIGOROUSLY and unde
niably understood aud interpreted, and was
designedly framed with the view of being.
understood aud interpreted, in different ways.
1t does not, no Platform that the ingenuity of
man would be able 20 construct, covd express
the Modern Democratic creed. because that
party has no ereoi-no common belief that IL, up
to which they can act in common and IN uaity
upon the most Important measures Of national
g policy, such the tariff, internal improve
mants, the disposition OF the public lands,
slavery in the territories. the currency, &c.
e While the States is calling upon the Demo
Gratis to "rally their scattered forces" upon
the Cincinnati Platform, the New York Her
aid the most influential Administration paper
in the United States, repudiates the Platform
aud insists that nothing can save the party but
the Cuba "tonic." THE Cuba bill" il reit
crates, "and nothing but some such remedy ~
the Cuba bill. can care The party Of all IFS sore
AFFECTIONS" For awhile. Turkey being on the
eve Of dissolution, was called 1.-THE sick man."
Forthe same reason, Mexico has been callcd"the
sick man." Upon like good grounds, Modern
Democracy may be call "the sick man."
o Yes, sick nigh unto death. Make way for
) Doctor BENNETT and his ''tonicl" But here
comes Doctor Pryor, of the States, who has
anal zed the "tonic, " aud pronounces it deadly
poison! Clearly, 1.-THE sick man" is bound 10
die. His case is without remedy.
Pacific Railroad Hill.
The New York Herald thinks that this. a il