Daily national Democrat., 1859-04-14
How They Stand.


,-;,,o, but exceedingly non committal arti-
,Io remarks on the subject off Congressional
slave Code for the Territories, as follows;
.Ivs therefore, maintain that any one who
soeks or demands the Incorporation Of an express
SION of opinion, either atlirmativey or negative
iy. into the democratic platform, upon this barren
and senselesS issue, may be set down, intention
a ~ or otherwise, as an enemy of the democratic
party"
The object, then, of the Lecompton party
in this State is to dodge the question in their
coming State Convention. They are very ex-
pert dodgers and no doubt they will dodge
as well this issue as any other, always claim
ing. provided they gain the victory, that the
battle has been fought upon the precise issue
that they have lodged The Southern Le-
compton Senators have laid out the pro-
gramme foC the battle of 1860. This pro
gramme will be insisted upon in the ranks Of
Lecomptonism throughout the Southern
States In the free States, II WiH be ignored
to n very great extent, the tacit understand
ing being that it is nevertheless the real issue
on this question Now, for the Republican
programme. Falsely and maliciously have
the Douglas party been accused of a leaning
to the principles of the Republican party.
No man has been more pertinaciousy mis-
represented. more villainously slandered.
more Systematically abused by the Republi-
can party than has Stephen a. Douglas and
that is sufficient evidence of the falsity of the
assumption that there is any atiliation be-
tween the Douglas and Republican parties.
The Republicans voted with the Douglas
stitution, because the Lecompton party wish
ed TO force a slave Constitution on the people
of Kansas when they (the people, were for
free soil, while the Douglas party were for
allowing the people to exercise their own
choice and to have slavery or not, just as
they liked.
The estimation in which Douglas is held by
the Republican party in this State may be
very well known by the following from the
organ of the Republican party in this State
the San Francisco Times. That paper says
"But these same men persons (Rcpublicans)
with whom the editor had met in his travels
through the State of California "shrewd men they
were, too, and well informed, had no confidence IN
| Douglas"
The Republicans have no confidence in
Douglas How then can he be fast friend
of the Republican party?
The Times continues:
"They (the Republicans) had long regarded
him as u demagngue Of the most dangerous and
uuscrupuuus order; II Professional politician,
W tn no convictions of duty man of expedients
and tricks, ever ready Ia pander to the worst pas
siuns ot the human heart; an Inconsistent schem-
/ err prepared to repudate to-day what he advuca-
ted yesterday; an udlrser and approver of slave
ry and ready Ia favor ITS unlimited extension,
Paving no regard for the abstract aud direct right
but ready {" sacrifice any principle, 10 resort to
any subterfuge, abandon any position, and advu-
cafe any national crime wrong, provided it
would Civ, him an evanescent power and tran |
sient popularity. They had regarded him long as |
the file leader, the field marshal, the bell wether
Of Northern duughfces HIS boldness in defend
ing Northern subServency aud baseness, while II
had made him the flvorite of Southern prop igan-
dists, had contributed more perhaps than the in
fiuence of any other man in the country towards
keeping the Government Of the nation in the
hands Of the Southern oligarchy. In u word, pre-
vious to his abandonment of the Administration,
he was of all men throughout the North the most
obnoxious to those who loved freedom and hated
slavery. and who conteuied that the government
should be administered for the common and equal
benefit Of all, and not exclusively for those who
owned property in human flesh. Such had they
for years regarded Stephen A. Douglas, and so re-
gHrdng him. they did not believe that his course
on the LecomptUn Constitution had been dictated
by anything more noble than a selfish desire to
be reelected to the United States Senate"
Such is the estimation in which the g eat
champion Of Popular Sovereignty is held 10y
the Republican party And yet, the politi-
cal trcksters of Lecomptonism will undertake
to say that Douglas is pih the Republican,
party The malicious slanderersl they know
that it is false.
But let us follow this abuse of Douglas a
little further. "He," says the Times "has
wor derful powers as a debater or speaker,
bm his associations haze not been of an eleva-
ted character He had no wish to associate
with men of the pure taste, refined manners
and classic education of Se'oard, Sumner or
Winthrop Hence he sought the society of
the graduates of the plantation, and among
them be found those with whom he could
The italics, in the above, are ours. The |
Times concludes by avowing determined
hostility to the straight Douglas Democratic
ticket
We trust, after this, there viii be no blat
ant idiot, proclaiming that the Republican
and Douglas platforms are identical.