Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-04-19
TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1859.
The D,.organIza,lon OF the Demoera-

"a The ascendency of the Democratic party is
seriously threatened, not only in Pennsylvania
and New York. but in the Federal Govern
ment, in all its departments, by prevailing
dissensons.
In more than half the Congressional Dis
tricts 10 the South, where vacancies are to be
supplied for the next Congress issues have
arisen full of peril to Democratic success
RIchDiond Enquirer. ..-
Coming from central organ in State
whose allegiance to the Democracy has never
wavered, the above confession is highly
significant. Discussions prevail in the States
and in ihe Federal Government, in all its
departments. Issues have arisen full Of peril
to Democratic success, in more than half the
Congressional Districts in the South. where
vacancies are to be supplied. In this state
of affairs, what can the Democratic party
hope to achieve in the present struggles?
Their claim to nationality" is measurably
exploded. The ostracism of Judge Douglas
and his friends from the pale of the party
fold, has reduced the party to an impotent
faction in the free states. In all important
electors since that time, the Democracy
9 have met with continued and uniform defeat.
The prospect of carrying a single free state
in the next Presidential election, under the
existing order of things, is the merest shadow.
We venture that there il not now rejecting,
A., Intelligent Democrat in all the Southern
States who believes, or even cherishes a hope
that such will be the fact. If the charge
made in 1856, that the American party had
no strength or effective existence outside of
the Southern States. was OF any sort of signifi-
canoe, the Democratic party of lS59-6O are
brought even to worse condition. They
have attained this humiliating position, when
they had possession of the Government. and
while they were in the ascendent in all the
Southern States except one.
ed. 1t is thus under the most fav orable auspices
TO its success, that the Democratic party has
not only become Southern faction, but pre-
sents the spectacle of divisions and dissen-
sions in a majority of the Congressional dis
trictz in the South. 1t is easy to account,
however, for its downfall. For several years
il has been held together alone by the CO
hesive power of public plumber :" without
any other bond of union in any great polit-
cal principle. 1t has had a set of principles
for all ATTITUDES and for all localities. Their
national platforms have been so framed as to
be susceptible of double construction, with
eyes looking to the North and to the South.
OF course this system of double-dealing could
not last always. II has now become so uni
verss1lly known and felt, that the people who
have been duped and humbugged by it are
rising with anathemas upon their lips, to put
an end to it.
The Enquirer counsels hdrmony-it implores
the party 10 lay aside its pickering and its
strife, and to come back to the ancient hug of
concord and fraternity. But the call will not
be needed. They have carried their expert
ment too far, In undoing what has been
done, the party goes to wreck And whether
they attempt to retrace their steps or not, it
is all the same. We firmly believe that the
American people are too wise and too pat
riotc to trust the party which has led them
into such labriynths of danger now beset
MS; aud that they will hail its overthrow
everywhere with joyous accamations.