The Nevada journal., 1859-08-05
4 moru 70 Douglass Democrats

fore been good Democrats. Old line
Wings, Know-Nothings, and others OF
our former enemies appear now to ap-
preciate the true interests of the country,
and are the main reliance of the regular
democracy in the present contest; while
those who have been born and bred
democrats have deserted us,-sinning
against light and knowledge. To this
latter class we wish earnestly to say
a few words.
Your objection to the democratic party
is that it has abandoned the doctrine of
popular sovereignty" You say ;hat
this doctrine was laid down by the Cin>
cinnati platform, but that Mr.. Buchanan
repuliated it in his management of Kan
sas affairs and that our party now hold
to the converse doctrine of Intervention
and slave code. Now, although this
assertion is true, it shows that you have
never understood the true theory Of
Democratic policy; and we are chagrin-
ed at being forced to explain it to you in
open, broad language. Delicate hints
which should be sufficient for acute un-
derstandings, appear to be no longer of
any avail. But as our paper is seldom
read except by Democrats it is to be
hoped that this article will not be seen
10y any of our hereditary foes.
Democrats always profess, of course,
to believe in the intelligence of the
masses this is necessary in order to get
their support; bu: our leaders we'll know
that the great majority of the people are
ignorant and stupid, and in order to rule
them properly and well we must deceive
them, as children are cheated with sugar
coated medicine. The sole object of the
Nebraska bill was to extend slavery
into free territory. This is apparent at
glance. A lot of old fogies had estab-
lished the Missouri Compromise line, and
what use, or sense, was there in abolish
inc that line unless we intended to push
slavery past it? But the Nebraska bill
was 'got up" in hurry, and in 1896
there was not time to prepare the minds
of the people for the reception of our real
intentions. five had done so our party
would have been beaten in the contest
of that year; our glorious Union would
have been shivered to atoms its wreck
would be now floating around in little
pieces on the great ocean of time; and
the aforesaid ocean would still be
crimson for many leagues with the red
blood of brothers shed by fraternal hands
in the sanguinary death-struggle. But
all this was prevented by using the
phrase popular sovereignty as de-
coy; and as soon as it served its purpo-
ses, of course, we threw it away, as we
intended from the first. We knew that
fthere should be any difficulty in getting
rid of it, the U. S. Supreme Court would
come to our assistance. Everything
has happened as we desired and intend
ed and now it would be most provoking
if we should be defeated atthe eleventh
hour-not by our natural enemies-but
because you Doug las democrats, are to"
thick -headed, or stubborn to understand
or fall in with the drift of our designs.
We entreat you then by every consId-
Grafton of policy, by every rule of Dem
9cratic action adopted in the past, to
abandon the rustic idea that anything
like permanent principle was intended
by "squatter sovereignty" to dissolve
at once your factious and foolish oppo-
sltion, and to come back into the rcgu-
lar democratic family. If you do not.
we tell you that this Government, with
its immense patronage. will soon be in
the hands of the Black Republicans, or
some other set of outsiders and are you
the kind of men to subsist on "principles
without power"
JOHN CURREY.-Mr. Currey, The
Anti -Lecompton candidate for Cover
nor, was in town during the early part