Daily national Democrat., 1859-05-07
The RepnbIicans.

The Republican party in this State are
affrnid of losing their identity, as party II
they do not have a ticket of their own to sup
port and vote for. Very well. We presume
they will follow their inelinations in this
matter, as they have perfect right to do
Here is what their organ at San Francisco
says upon the subject:
! so there was no course left for the Repub.
licaus but to have a ticket of their own, sup
port and vote for it, or surrender entirely to
the Douglas Democracy, call themselves
Douglas men and approve that most afro
cious of all measures the Nebraska bill
Very unreasonable are these anacondas, and
it is very unkind in the Republicans to OBJ
iect thus to being swallowed up very
pretty figure they would make as the tail Of
the Douglas kite But from their knowl-
edge of the erratic and perverse ways of that
kite, they fear it would finally land in a
Southern swamp, and the Republicans ar,
not inclined to get into that kind of slave
soil
The above extract is most silly one. What
We ask, has the Nebraska bill to do with the
great question now before the people? Mr..
Douglas in putting that bill through Con-
gress was opposed by the whole Republican
party on the ground of policy alone, and not
of principle. They were afraid that the oil
would open the way for the introduction oil
slavery in the Territories. and hence they
opposed it. The bill was in itself the en-
bodiment of the principle of Popular Sover'
eighty, in the truest sense of the term. Inc
rights Of the Territories as proclaimed in that
bill are the rights for which the Anti-Le-
compton Democracy are now contending
The Republican party we say, opposed the
passage of the Kansas-N ebraska bill on the
ground of policy How would their Sena
tors and Congressman have voted. supposing
a bill to have been introduced prohibiting the
introduction of slavery in the Territories ?
There can be but one opinion as to how they
would have voted. Since they have of late
found it convenient to abandon the chief po
sition they occupied in their warfare on the
slavery question. they exhibit some fear of
losing their identity, and being swallowed
up. We would ask what it is that gives
them political existence at the present time,
as party, separate from all other parties
1t may be answered, that it is their name
If that is all, they are shadow and not
substance. But that is not all, if we are to
udge by the tone of their own journals They
will not follow the lead of Stephen A. Doug
as they say, for the reason that they might
be lead into some Southern swamp, and
odged on slave soil. Here we have their
policy shadowed forth. Their great hobby
S the slavery question, ard until that hobby
S completely broken down, somebody will
ride it.
The Douglas Democracy will engage in the
coming contest upon the principles always
avowed by the Democratic party, and which
have given that party an enyiable distinction.
They will fight for those rights of the peo-
ple-those rights which the Republican par.
ty have only of late seen fit to advocate. and
which the Administration party have ignored.
They will engage in the contest without fear
nor will they beg the aid of any party