Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-01-27
The Great Democratic Rebel.
lion.

The Great Democratic Rebel.
lion.
The breach between the Douglas and
Administration fraction of the Democracy
continues to widen. Since Mr.. Douglas
reelection to the Senate, the purposes Of
both his friends and opponents are being
more distinctly and boldly ayowed. Mr..
Iverson of Georgia, representing the Ad
ministration and of the Irregular democra-
cy," declared in his speech that he did not
consider the triumph of Mr.. Douglas in
Illinois las victory of sound Democracy.
1t was victory of the Free Soil Democra-
cy over Abolition Whiggery, and no more.
So far as as the South, and her consttu-
tional rights are concerned, it was victo-
ry over her and over them." Mr.. Iverson
than goes on to repudiate the popular
sovereignty doctrine in the strongest pos
sible terms:
I would not turn on my heel for choice
between the Wilmot Proyise and the squat
ter sovereignty doctrine and policy of the
Senator from Illinois. Indeed, sir, if was
driven to select between them, would
take the former. 1t is open, manly and
decisive; it settles the question at once by
debarring the Southern people, in terms,
from entering the territories with their
slave property; it is an open and undis-
guised denial Of right to the South, which
the South could resist or submit to, as her
sense of homer of her policy might dictate,
whilst the squatter sovereignty doctrine
and practice, as defined by its distinguish
ed advocate, is plausible, delusive, decep-
tive and fatal. No man of common sense
can suppose that, under it, the South will
ever obtain another foot of territory, or add
another slave State to this Union. Both
are political heresies, finding no authority
in the Constitution; equally violative of
the rights of the Southern people, subver-
sive of their equality in the Union, and an
insult to their honor, in my opinion, alike
demand their reprobation and resistance.
The Washington Union chimes in with
IVerson's indignant ultraism and rules
Douglas off the Presidential track, as a
Legitimate Democratic candidate; while
Senators, Jones and Siidell assailed him with
bitter personal abuse and insult.
Meanwhile Mr.. Douglas finds defiant
voice in the Chicago Times, which declares
that the national Democracy ''may triumph
at Charleston, but God help them before
the people" This may be taken as an iu-
dication of the course determined upon by
Mr.. Douglas, which will be to defeat, if
possible, the Charleston nominee, unless
that nominee should happen to be the
Senator from Illinois. Col Forney writes
from Washington in the same spirit. Af-
ter re-asserting the popular sovereignty doc
trine, as thlIsovereign panacea for the cure
of the slavery agitation, he declares war to
the knife upon those members of the par
ty who are trying to make another creed
for the party. He cautions the Democrat |
ic masses to be prepared for the wiles of
the politicians who wear the livery and
take the pay of the Federal Administra-
tion." We quote:
"Not only does this influence aspire to
control the organization; it also aspires to
dictate the creed of the Democratic party
We have seen what it has already done;
how it has usurped authority, and sacriic-
ed many of the best men in our ranks TO
its own arrogant exactions. Last summer
and autumn its creatures would listen TO
none of the adoptions of the times, but
forced upon the Democratic tickets the be-
trayers of Democratic principles, because
the Administration at Washington would
have it so. From the hour when these
betrayers have been rejected at the polls,
the sentiment in the Democratic ranks
against them has grown stronger. But
the rancor of the Administration has not
been Modified: it has grown more violent
and unforgiving. Holding in its hands
the offices of the people, and possessing
control over the people money, it has de-
berately resolved to seize the Charleston
Convention, and in that body to defeat any
man who can be elected; because any
such man must stand forth the unrelenting
adversary of the new scheme of a slave
,ode in the Territories, or of Congressional
Intervention for the protection of slavery in
The Territories.
Jefferson Davis has already declared that
We must come to this theory. The Wash
ngton Union almost daily advocates it, {
md now Mr.. Iverson repeats his adhesion
o it in angry eloquence. Shall the adj I
lerents of the present degraded dynasty t
20 permitted TO continue their devast- S
ng course-be permitted to make d
nomination at Charleston, and lay down Q
platform which shall be neither more nor c
ess than a budget of falsehood or deceitl G
No such movement will ever be tolerated. b
The day has gone by for any more of these f
nmeaning platitudes. The Democrats who
ought against the Administration last year,
nd who will continue this war, occupy a a
Ugh moral position which they will not S
They are men, and high ri
minded men--men who have been season. "
4 10 prescription, and who laugh at the b
lreats and intrigues of an Administration o
hich they created. Such is the spirit now cl
REVEALING among our gallant friends, and il
am glad to send the good word far and d
'ids. q