Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-04-13

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ganiEed in City, State, aud Nation. Slavery
has done and is doing the work and although
resolves and enactments have been passed in
every possible shape, and on every possible oc-
casion, to crush out agitation, the People will
agitate, will act, will defy parties, will spurn
platforms Slavery killed the glorious Old
Whg Party, and is doing the same work just
as certainly, and just as effeotualy for the long
dominant Democratic The attempt of party
leaders to make Democracy a unit in favor Of
the extension Of Slavery within and without the
States alone is sufficient to discover the party,
end will do it. The Northern working masses
may be "mudsills, but only Of Freedoms Tenn
pie.
There are other potent elements Of disorgan-
ization in the Democratic party. On no i'm.
portant question is Democracy longer a unit
Radical differences everywhere exist. Internal
disagreements have been multiplying and gain
ing strength for years, and since the accession
of Mr.. Buchanan the dissensions have broken
out into irreconcilable ieuds. The Missouri
Democrat with truth says, that on the Pacific
Railroad, the Free Homestead, the Improve
ment of River and Harbor Navigation, the
Democrats are divided by sectional line, the
South being against these projects as one man,
as it is against every project calculated to de-
velop the West On the questions Of a Protec.
tive Tariff, of Popular Sovereignty in the Ter
ritories, the Acquisition of Cuba we find the
slme want of harmony. The rebellion Of Doug
las demonstrates how deeply the Northern wing
Of the party ehershes Popular Scyereignty.-
The ostracism of that remarkable man by the
Southern Senators, demonstrates how hateful
to the Southern wing of the party is any SOW
ereignty but that of slavery. Diseord reigns
throughout. The Northern wing is divided
from the Southern wing, in the House Of Rep
resentatives, in the Senate, in the Cabinet, and
in the Country What could he expected when
the President himself, who had been a federal
ist, followed the example of others, and recalci.
trated The one relic of the old creed which
the party had preserved was a free trade policy
This he formally repudiated in his message re
commencing an increase of import duties
When the salt shall lose its SAVIOR wherewith
shall it be salted When the President himself
aud leading Senators prove recreant to the es-
tablished creed, and poliute the ancient shrines,
what barrier can resist the food of apostacy
and Generalization Nor, in the dark cloud
which overhangs the party, can any eye discern
the seven-hued sign Of future prosperity. On
the contrary, portents of more dire disasters are
visible. The gloom is pregnant with the fires
of fiercer wrath. To rend the sectional con.
stituents of the party far asunder, and pour
bridgeless food of bitter feeling between, will
be the chief consequence, as 1t is perhaps the
chief design of the new aggression projected by
the South--the establishment Of slavery in the
Territories by acts Of Congress. The Northern
and Southern wings have joined issue on this
Senators Mason, Davis, TOombs and other rep
resentatves OF the slave interest laid it down
as their utimatum in the closing hours of the
session. Douglas, speaking for the Northern
wing refused to accept it, point blank He
even had the boldness to assert a counterulti-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS by Congress with
slavery in the Territories, This he has since
reiterated in his Connecticut letter, declaring it
the only platform Un which the National De
mocracy can stand Thus we see that the an
tagonism between the Republican party and the
slavery extensionists is not more marked than
the antagonism between the Douglas and Mason
Democracy. What this bodies ioF the Charles |
ton convention IS easily OWNED. Indeed, the |
sls',5et dtnee; 1toGRAs RhdfhfT rtBah YsDSSan
ers be accommodated. In view of these facts
the Charleston Mercury says, "the Demooratic
party has no party cohesion, and is no marty AT
all" Elsewhere, in the same article. if re-
Marks "the Democratic party of the North, like
fostering corpse, is falling to pieces" The
hgure is strong, but true
Let us now ascertain what commentary tbs
recent elections, and the popular movements
IN progress, furnish on the judgments pro.
nounced above. Reasoning, when verified bv
acts is doubly convincing. {
thirty Northern Representatives vofad c,r
he LecomPton bill. The Congressional elec. /
lans IN the North minnesota excepted) have l
III taken place; and of the thirty Lecompton v
men only six have been re -eIected-tbree in 1
the city OF New York, two in Penusylvanie I
md one in Indiana. Minnesota not having /
een admitted until the Lecompton question '
vas decided, her representatives are not obnor. b
Ius I 70 the Dah out, nevertheless, it is certain
bat her next delegation will be Republican =
)nly six sound members ofthe National Dem. 4
cratic party from all the Northern States !.
he Denatonalized Democratic Party ,vorlJ Il
e the correct nomenelatureJ 4
simultaneously with the triumph of the Free u
Democracy in ST. Louis, on MONDAY last ca,no p
le tidlngs of Republican victories from Hort b.
'rd, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit. Cbicaro
prngheld and other cities; and since then H., q
'ws has come that Michigan and Rhode Island D
well as Connecticut, have heaped monntoir1 th
maJoritles on the pFostrate National Deuoc a
cy. The great popular revolution provoked nc
slavery aggression, has left but two memhers fa
that party on their legs outside of New YorL
ID Philadelphia, and in these cities the eloctior
Slckles Cochrane, McClay and Florence ,vos Cf
rrled by Government employees, plunder con. m,
'cts, and illegal voting. The deluge has over
wed the North, and hardly wreck of tbe lei
ce omnlpotent National Democracy is 10 he IN
en- amidst the breakers ba,
The uprising has also extended to the South 90,
ie Opposition in Virginia according TO ali ac- -
lnts, has fair promise of success. Kentpc[y Du
u tennessee are also the theaters of en- 25(
'etlc opposition movements, The Whig mem mil
$ OF ihe Louisiana Legislature have sum. the
ned Their party IN that State "to march once y
re to battle and victory" The contapion nav
extended even to Alabama and it is certain tou
North Carolina and Maryland will re. the
hG IN decisive tones 10 the rallyinp crv oos
South 'iouPnout st.
nat does this movement import but that stea
reneectIng mind of the South is sick and cisi
Wy oi National Democracy; that the fate of
party Is sealed beyond redemption, and that c
IIesluentlai election in 1860 will consum. from
G a great deliverance. iIou
natl
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