Daily national Democrat., 1859-10-09

r douglas are different from thosc euIerthlneuoN
the party, meaning, Of course, the Lecomp
ton party Further on, in the same article
in which the above quotation occurs, tn
Express says:
But, says the DEMocRAT, "The Express is N
Douglas paper in any sense Of the word" w
admit II.
1t admits that it is no Douglas paper O
course, then, it must be opposed to Dougla,
Douglas is not its candidate for the Presiden
ey. 1t prefers not to have him nominate
at the Charleston Convention. 1t canno
have the face to say that it does rot think
proper for public journal to express pre-
ferenees Of such character, for it has al
ready avowed itself in favor of the election
of Gov. Weller for United States Senator
and thus set an example in direct confiic
, with the rule it would lay down In ad-
vance Of the action of its party it declares
preference among the aspirants for the Sen
atoral office. Seven hundred and forty-fve
Democratic papers in the Union have done
the same thing in favor of Douglas for the
Presidency. The Express pretends to say
that this is not Democratic. Is it any less
Democratic than its own conduct with regard
to the coming Senatorial question.
Perhaps that Gwin.W eller sheet imagines,
in its innocence, that preferences may be ex-
pressed with reference to United States Sen
ators but not with reference to the Presiden.
ey A little acquaintance with the political
history of the country would soon disabuse
it of that idea. Nothing has been more COM
mon, and apers thus expressing their pre-
ferences have not forfeited in any respect
their claims to the character of the very
strictest partisan journals.
The time has come for public journals,
claiming TO be Democratic, to state what
their preferences are. and the Express, in say
ing that it is not for Douglas, is at least frank,
if nothing more. We say that we are for
Douglas, first, last and all the time Those
"certein questions" upon which the Express
slys that Douglas differs with "the party"
meaning the Lecompton party. involve the
very principles which lie at the basis of the
Democratic organization. The Lecompton
party, in differing from him on those ques-
tions, is at war with Democratic principles.
What are the views of Douglas to which
Gwin and the Express otject2 Why, his
views in favor of non-intervention by Con-
gress with the domestic affairs of Terrific.
ry, and his belief that majority of the peo-
pie, in the States as well as the Territories,
should rule. If these views and this belief
are not the very essence of Democracy, we
have to study jefferson and jackson anew.
We say that the time has come for the ex-
preston ola preference for oragainst Douglas.
The issue can no longer be smothered. The
next Presidential campaign is at hand. Del.
egates have already been elected to the
Charleston Convention on that issue, and are
either for or against Douglas The present
period is peculiar one, and personal pre-
ferences must necessarily be expressed A
great difference has arisen between men who
have hitherto called themselves Democrat.
and those old line Democrats who still re
main true to their principles and stand by
Douglas. The issue was made when james
Buchanan undertook to force the Democrat,
party to abandon the doctrine of Popular
Sovereignty and substitute Congressional in
tervention in its stead. Douglas then be-
came the great expounder of the Old Line
Democratic principles, and in sustaining him
for the Presidency we dot not make u m,re
personal fight of it, but we sustain that faith
for which the Democracy has always hereto.
fore contended, and which will be considered
! ignored or trodden under foot, if Douglas,
its great present defender, is permitted to
fall before his enemies.
The Express says it is not for Douglas, and
makes an excuse that it is for no one in par
ticular but the nominee of the Charleston
Convention, whoever he may be. If it were
truly Democratic paper, it would be for
Douglas, in preference to all other men, for
the Presidency-because he has staked his all
upon the maintenance of Democratic princi-
| pies. When the President turned traitor
the brave Douglas stood still true. When
those who were elected as Democrats, Sena-
ators and Representatives backened theil
souls with the same base treachery, he still
tsood true and saved in that perilous hour, tn,
faith and creed of the Democratic party l
its salvation is not TO be temporary but last
ing Douglas must be nominated for th,
Presidency His defeat, under the peculiar
circumstances Of the case, at this particular
juncture of our political history, is nothing
more nor less than the disorganization of the
Democratic party and the establishment of a
new party as different from the former as
day from night. The man who stood up for
the integrity Of Democratic principles, as
against Presidents and Cabinets and Senators,
is the man who should be openly and deter
minedly sustained.
The Express prefers some man who is hos.
tile to Douglas and thereby shows that it's
Democracy is the most flimsy and bare faced
hypocrisy
From the under tone Of the Lecompton
press in this State, we feel that prodgious
effort will be made to send delegates to the
Charleston Convention hostile to Douglas
This effort should be met now, at the thresh.
old, by every Douglas paper in the State,
whether in or out of the organization whose
central committee is presided over by ]. p.
lloge, of San Francisco A bold and open
preference should be expressed for Douglas
and the frinds of that great statesman and
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