New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-07-13
THE DEMOCRACY IN DANGER.

The dissolution Of the Union, threats to bring it
about, and terror, partly assumed and partly reat
at the alleged danger of it, have for more than
twenty years psst been very Ia gely employed IN
the drama of our American politics. The Demo
cratic leaders, who have succeeded so long in
ruling the country by these threats and terr,rs,
are now applying the same means in domestic
way to the management Of the Democratic party.
Those Southern politicians who have carried so
msny points by threatening, if not allowed to have
their own way, TO dissolve the Union, now turn
rould and thresten, in the like contingency, to
dissolve the Democratic party; while those North
ern politicians who have figured so long IN
the character of preservers of the union Of the
States recommend themselves anew to public con-
fideDce and Federal Office by raising the cry that
the Democracy is in danger, and stepping forward
in the character of its guardians and pteseryers.
The same use which, in the National contest,
was made in the bugbear way of Garrnon,
the Anti Slavery societies and petitions to Con-
press for the abolition of Slavery in the District
of Columbia, ard, at later period, OF the Wlmot
PrOyiso, is made in the present party contest, OF
Nj, d, uelas and the doctrine of Squatter Sow
ereignty Ii is no longer Garrison's black h,g Of
Abolitonism, but Douglass pirate flag of Squatier
Sovereignty with its infamous symbols which waves
before the eyes and drives sleep from the couches
of Southern politicians. The positive and mpbatc
abuIation of that heresy made still more virulent
and malignant. as they say, by Mr. Douglass latest
explanations of it, is demanded Of the approaching
Charleston Convention as absolutely essential ~
the repose of the Southern States and 10 any con-
tinued union between Northern and Southern
Democrats.
Ii used to be fayorte maneuver OF the Demo
crsts in past times, to charge upon all the Wing
leaders, ard upon the mass of the Wing party, s
want of fidelity to the Constitutional rights Of the
South, and secret sympathy With, st least fear
! of and subseIvience TO, Garrison and the AbOl-
tiopists. That charge by which, when leyeled
sgsinst others, Mr. Buchanan, Mr.. Cass. Me-. Tcu-
cey, Mr. Dickinson, and other less distinguished
Northern Democrats, once 60 largely profted as a
means of extopg themselves, by wsy Of contrast,
into special friends of the South-that same charge
or one equivalent 10 it. they now find leveed
assipst themselves. Mr.. Senator Brown in a
speech al Jackson, Mississippi, openly declares bis
opinion that upon the great question of protection
IN the Territories TO Southern property-thst is TO
property in slayes-the distinguished Democrats
! above enumerated, and in fact the whole Northern
Democracy, small Spartan bsnd excepted are
unreliable. The Charleston Mercury, in review
OF recent occurrences, and OF the existing state
things finds strong reason 10 concur in this opin.
ion SO far from coming out boldly at the recen
elections in favor of Congressional protection to
sis in tba T.,
Democratic friends of the Administration quailed
before an adverse public sentiment. They quib.
bed, they sPolOgized they even Wed with the Doug
lssites in protesting fidelity to popular rights in the
Teniioiies-riehts in diametrical opposition to the
property privilege claimed by the saveholders The
only possible excuse for such sort Of skukug would