Daily national Democrat., 1859-01-06


Some OF the Democratic papers are also consider
ing the means 10y which this cndmay be attained
Now all this is an implied assertion ON the on,
side, and tacit admission on the other, tina
there are di>sensonS existing i'm the party, tha
need be healed. Aftera careful survey Of the DO
hucll field, we have not been able to discover on
. single element of dScurd in the Democratic par
iF. In fact, We find the party, for the first tint
ln seven years, IN a state OF most perfect harmo
ny. Standing upon the Cincinnati platform snC
the platform erected at Sacramento last August-
/ boih resting upon the Constitution as upon the
/ rock ut ages with their principles clearly and
succ"ctly dehned-actuatcd by a single purpose
. with an immense majority over all opposing
/ parties, cilques and cotCrIus the Democracy stand
/ apcrlyct uut. Under these circumstances, 1t Is
supgrer1gatory TO talk about restoring harmo
ny.'-Etprtss.
The allusiou to the boilers is a rather
unfortunate one for the Express, inasmuch a.
it is the organ Of the Boitcrs in this county.
But, LEFT that pass The Express will not ac.
knowledge that there are any dissensions in
the Democratic party We suppose, then,
it does not consider any man a Democrat
who is not a Lecomptonite; otherwise, it
would havethe hardihood to say that there
were no dissension5 in the Democratic party.
Now We might say as well, on the other
hand that the Lccomptoutea are not Demo
Gratis, only the Douglas men are such, and,
they being united, there are consequently no
disscn.ions in the Democratic party. We
might say so with much more truth than the
Express asserts the reverse of the proposition,
because if Democratic principles are any.
where at all they are certainly with the
Douglas organization. But, speaking of the
Democratic party as the party which eleya-
ted James Buchanan to the Presidency, and
became divided on the Kansas issue to such
an extent as to make the Administration
quake to its knee,ioints, and to acknowledge
itself whipped, in effect, in Congress and
whipped, actually, out Of it in almost every
instance where the issue was made at ALT
looks to us as though there were some pretty
serious discussions in the Democratic party,
and that this astonishing harmony, OF which
the Express speaks, were rather an imagna-
ry affair than arcality.
But it is possible the Express has sole al
lusion to the Democratic party of this State
Very well. the same issue that had Stephen
A. Douglas on the one side in Illinois, and
James Buchanan and his Administration on
the other, and in which James Buchanan,
Lieb Il Co. got tremendously "used up
was the issue here also That is to say, that
our Douglas Democratic State Convention.
Cor Brodcrck State Convention, as the Le-
compton Gwinites love to call it,) enunciated
the same principles tuat were enunciated by
the Democratic State Convention in Illinois.
If there was any disscnsion in the Democrat
ic party in Illinois then there was dissenson
here. But, if the Douglas organization in
Illinois was alone Democratic, and the Le-
compton opposition no Democrats, then there
was no dissenson there and no dissenson
here, because the Douglas Democracy was
the De'docracy, and the Lecomptonites mere
outsiders.
But. if the Express means to say that the
Leeompton party, only, are the Democracy
in this state, and they are perfectly united
We must beg leave to dispute the proposition
What sort Of harmony exists between itself
for instance, as the organ of the Wellerites
Qor such it is generally considered) and the
san Francisco National, the presumed organ
of the Gwintcs? Are they not swapping
and suaring at each other continually? Do
they not quarrel over the Almaden Mine
case and over this very question of harmon.
izing what the Express says is already har-
mouzed? The harmonious feeling now ex
isting between the Wellerites and the Gwin- |
ties, Lathamites, and so on, in Sacramento
must be intense. After the most desperate of
fighting for the Speakership, Weller has been,
if We are rightly informed, perfectly hoored
He is on lis back ana the Gwinites, La
thamit. and Washingtonans are glad they
have got him there The fight, we are told,
by one who ought to know, was a bitter one
the bittercst almost on record in the history .
of political eaucuses in this State. There
was so much harmony, that it is even said
that the Weller faction Of the Lecomptonites
l'''' 4Ni''"'' IN. NJ tlN 'hlN d LlNlloU) Hdl |
a notion of not going into caucus at all for
the nomination Of n Speaker We know
not how true this may be, but certain it is
they were beaten out of their boots; their
candidate, Moore, is laid on the shelf, and .
Stratton, the candidate of the Gwiutes, La |
thamites and Washingtonans ct id omnc genus,
is triumphantly elected Speaker Of the Tenth
General Assembly of California This is the
first victory against John B. Weller in his
own camp, and it will not be the last Har.
mony! Well, if you call the present state of
feeling between the friends of Weller and
those who opposed him harno"H we wish
you joy OF your harmony.
TAHTL-This member of the Society Is
lands Las been glorified in both song and his
tory Byron described its women as nut.crown
beauties of uncommon native grace and love
illness of disposition, and founded his descrip
ton on what he had read in sober narrative
More modern observation has also agreed in
ascriJing very considerable degree of beau
ty to those dusky island daughters Inter
marriage between them and the whites is