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New Hampshire Correspondence.
CoNCoRp. N. IT.. April 90 1855

New Hampshire correspondence.
CONCORD, N. H., April 20, 1869.
Ed. Times In my last, reference was
made to the defeats and successes-or to the
unaccountable Ito the oppositionl vitality of
the democratic party. Ithas been prodigy
Of power in its day Of success. Its contests
have been "battles of giants" 1t has SO
impressed the stamp of its policy, that the
history of the "Grcat Republic" can not be
truly understood unless we call in aid the
party glossary. Why is this? Why have
all other organizations melted away and the
dews of history sweetened by their purify
ing influence the air tainted by their re-
mains! Its old leaders long since have
mingled with the dead. It has pure and
gifted leaders still, but self-constituted
board ofpolitical brokers, "bulls and bears"
have assumed to GUST them from their legiti-
mate positions. These tricksters are well
pcrsonified in the description of Fouche,
the quondam French head of police. "To
him intrigue was necessary of life. He
intrigued at all times, in all places, in all
ways and with all persons. Nothing ever
came to light but he was found to have had
hand in it. He made it his sole business
to look out for something that he might be
meddling with"
The secret Of the success Of the Demo-
cratic party has been that the masses felt
that its principles were for, the common
So. - IN, -..a that tl,ose -ssharpies'' and
'jackalls" would be trodden under foot by
it. It can only retain position by preserv-
ing this moral power by which it attained
it. BY this it has withstood what no other
party ever did. Like the tabled giant of
Ariosto it has run, after its limbs and even
its head were Topped off, and gone on with
the fight with renewed energy ); but it must
be remembered that like that giant its pow
er depends upon single hair, and that is
the principle Of our magma carta-"the pco-
pie must rule" Will the Charleston Con-
vention heed this If not, the "Kalends Of
November" will admonish its managers of
their error by the Handwriting on the
wall" These slater day saints who de-
nounce Stephen A. Douglas for his devotion
to Popular Sovereignty" forget that they
declared him right, when on Feb. Is, 1854,
in his letter to Col. Burton Of this place. he
said of the Nebraska Bill:
"The bill therefore, does not introduce
slavery, does not revive it, does not establish
it, does not contain any clause designed to
produce that result, or phich By any possible
construction can haue that legal effect
"Non-intervention by Congress with slavery
in the States and Territories is expressly de-
clared to be. the principle upon which the
bill is constructed" ''The great funda-
mental principle of self.government which
authorizes the people to regulate their own
domestic concerns, is declared in this bill to
be the rule of action in the formation of
Territorial governments"
This language is clear and explicit. It
was before Congress when the bill passed
1t was solemn exposition of the views of
the author Of the BILL What Democrat
north or south objected then to this semi
official construction of the bill9 It annihi-
lates the, "slave code' doctrine of Davis,
Brown & Go. Who can deny the consis-
tency of Douglas on this doctrine? Butler
of S. c., expressly declared that he would
never vote to establish slavery on soil
where it did not exist Davis & CO., would
1.s S-,.,~s..~ssl.:... i...,1 1.< l,cd
in our day. We live in a day Of Solo
mons! aaa Is. .-
The Sickles trial, thank God, is over. If
one half that is said upon what is called
good authority, is true of the respondent,
he is one Of the last men that should have
complained Of Key. A friendly pen in
Harper has admitted that for number of
years he led a ''fast life" If these things
are so and he is not one of those who with
out feeling yet sneer at all who feel" ret
respect of a life in-spent, must have awak-
ened in him, in the felon's dock, some of
those thoughts so eloquently depicted by the
poet:
''Sullenly fercs-a mixture dire,
Like thunder clouds Of gloom and FIRE,
In which the PERKS eye could read,
Dark tales OF many a ruthless deed.
The ruined maid-the shrine profAned,''
Oaths broken, and the threshold stained TT
with blood Of guests, there written all,
Black - the damning drops that fall
From the denouncing angels pen,
Ere mercy weeps them out again"
.'And how felt he, the wretched man, r. sslerI =
Reclining there-while memory ran
Ger many year Of guilt and STRIFE
Flew DER the dark flood of his life;
Nor found one sunny resting place, s.t
Nor brought him back one branch Of grace"
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