Daily national Democrat., 1859-05-06

! the past.
The growth of this sentiment, within th'
last few years, has been rapid, fearfully rapid
Every effort of the more prominent South
ern Fire.eaters has seemed to be directed
towards exasperating the two great sections
of the country, each against the other
The Kansas policy of the PRESIDENT
advised and sustained by these men,
looked very much like a deliberate plan
to outrage and anger the North IL
seemed to be based upon the principle that
ifthe North chose to submit to the degrada-
tion. the South would lose nothing, but in
every respect be the gamer, while if the North
refused such submission, it would give the
disunion party new pretext in the ferment
which ensued for urging forward their dia
bolical Vaccinations against the integrity Of
the republic, The precious plan has worked
well. A large portion of the Southern peo-
pie are just silly enough to suppose that, in
refusing to agree to the admission of Kansas
under the Lecompron Constitution, the North
has shown a disposition to disregard the
rights of the South and to make fierce and
unrelenting war upon the institution Of slave.
ry. This spirit is famed continually 10y the
disunion demagogues who seem now to rule
the roost in that section, and large portion
ofthe Southern people are becoming as rabidly
fanatical as the most red-mouthed Abolition
ist in all the Northern country. This state
of things does not argue much for Southern
intelligence or Southern justice. They make
an outrageous and damnably impudent and
arrogant demand of the North, and because
the North is not contemplate enough to agree
to it, set down her refusal as tremendous
cdsus 6ell. Beautiful sense, justice and con.
sistency this is
While it was everywhere acknowledged
by consistent men that the Democratic party
alone could preserve this Union, and when
! these Southern leaders knew well that the
only principle upon which that party could
be held together in the North was the prin-
ciple of popular sovereignty and non-inter-
vention, they went deliberately to work to
violate that princip pie and to sunder the ties
which united and sustained that great party.
Knowing well that such course would dis
organize the Democratic party effectually in
the North, they insisted upon the programme
and have carried it out to the letter. The
consequences are everywhere visible. The
Democracy is divided in the North. Those
Democrats who cling to the old principles
have to contend against two foes instead of
one, and bear up as well as it may against
treason and apostacy in its own ranks.
Breaking up the Democratic party is but the
Fastening forward of the contemplated dis.
solution of the Union, and when we see the
Southern leaders alluded to, doing their best
to consummate this breaking up of the party
what else can we conclude than that they
have no love for the Democratic party anC
maintained? The case is plain. The North
= ern Democracy, with their great leader il
front, declare emphatically that they wi
o stand by the old landmarks or perish Tn
i Southern pretended Democrats answer tina
i. they will have nothing to do with popula
It sovereignty, as expounded in 1854 and $50
: and that they wW hare Congressional inter
e ventiCn with slavery. Which division o
: the party is right? Why, the Northern
most assuredy If adherence to principle i:
right, they are right beyond all question.
If these Southern leaders follow up thi
business, and the Southern masses continu,
f to be led by such flaming demagoguism, it i
easy to see that the Democratic party is de
= stroyed. This, we say, is exactly what thes
S demagogues want-they want the party dc
S stroyed, in order that they may the NOR
- readily lay their sacreligious hands upon tn
1t altar of the Union. They desire the erectio
e OF Southern Confederacy. jeff. Davis o
il some one else must be President of it, an
.e become bigger man than he could eve
otherwise hope to be, and great things ger
= orally must be done, in the way of "playin
!. fantastic tricks before high heaven" and NAL
ing asses of the common people.
Y As to the ability of sustaining a Souther
d Confederacy, after it is, established, the
wise owls, that hoot at the wisdom of IL
It Revolutionary founders of the Union, hay
II no doubts. Oh, they could sustain it easil
b enough Such tremendous statesmen couI
d bear hundred such republics as this upc
e their Atantean shoulders Their vast crei
}. tive ability could make and unmake govern
n ments at a word No fears about them
\ Now, in the face of all this stnpendor
D wisdom and exalted self-assurance, we en-
tertain the opinion that they could nc
maintain Southern Confederacy at all. |
the first place. it would be kennel of ira
u tors, and the same spirit which induced
!, disregard of all the glorious memories
revolutionary times and of the characters {
-, the founders of our republic, and whic
could lead men to eonspire against the peac
oil that country to which they owed all tina
as they were and all that they possessed. tn
o, same spirit would keep up fury and discor,
is in the new government and finally split Il,
lt the astonishing Utopian Confederacv int
st infnitesimal fragments, making fine coun
ms terpart of the Mexican and South America,
le fizzled out federative compacts So1th Ca,
OF olina for one, would seeede from the no,
er Union the very moment that the gener,
Congress refused to give her everything i
the world that she asked for, and she woul
: be sure to ask for everything possible to /
; demanded, In the next place, the new col
. fedaranv would of cnnrse nnen thn sln -