The semi-weekly mountain Democrat., 1860-12-05
shall We UniteI

State Central Committees. Then let both OF
those bodies meet at the same time and place
and let them see whether fusion is desirable
and practicable Red Bluff Beacon.
The Beacon is isaltogethcr mistaken with
regard to their being a breach in the
Democratic party. There is none. a
faction deserted from it, renounced its
principles, aided and encouraged an apos-
tate to defeat it, and assisted, indirectly
they had not the manlincSs to do it
openly-to elect a Black Republican Pres
id,nt Frightened at their own act, too
cowardly to meet the responsibility, they
now hypocritically and piteously appeal
to the Democratic party to pardon their
treason and receive them again into full
fellowship, so that they may again be
placed in position to more etfectually rem
der service to their Black Republican al
lies. They must first atone for the past
and prove their sincerity by working in
the ranks, before any propositions they
may make will be listened to or regarded.
They knew-for We will not do them the
injustice to intimate that they were hope.
lessly stolid-that there were, in truth,
but too parties in the licld-the Demo-
cratic and the Black Republican. They
knew that by following and voting for
Douglas they jcopardizel the success Of
the Democratic party. They knew that
it was impossible to elect him. They
knew that by his inconsistent and treach.
crous course, by his unwarrantablc abuse
of Southern Democrats, by his frequent
and incxcuSable interviews with Black
Republican leaders, by his voting with
them in opposition to the Democratic
! Senators on test questions, by his AFRO
gance in procaiming himself an "uncon-
! quered- rebel" by his deadly animosity
towards the President, his Cabinet and
other Democratic champions, by his false
Interpretation of the Cincinnati Platform,
| he had rendered himself obnoxious to the
Democratic States They knew that he
had it in his power to harmonize the
Democratic party, fnot insure its success,
by Withdrawing from contest in which
he had not the ghost Of chance Of being
elected. They knew, in the language Of
a lifelong and uncompromising old Dem
ocratc statesman, that 1.-The existence
and integrity of the grand old Democratic
party were staked against the political
ambition of one man, backed by unyield-
ing partiSanS. The crisis had come, and
Mr.. Douglas had the power to make him
self the patriot Of the age. One short dis.
patch, 'hGrmoni=e, the country is worth
more than T. and a wild shout would
have gone up from that Convention worth
more to the patriot heart than thousand
years of Presidential rule. But MIR.
Douglas was not great when he should
have been great. Take my Pl0tt0rm and
take ne or sacrifice the Democratic purity
rule or ruin was the motto. They
knew that the Democratic States, with
unanimity unparalleled, had repudatcd
his "Squatter Sovereignty" humbug.-
Yet, knowing all this, they persisted in
keeping him in the field and in denoun-
cling, shalnclessly dcnouncing, true, tried
and veteran Democrats, who had never
wavered in their attachment to the Prin-
cipl.s Of the Democratic party, and who
could not consistently or honestly support
a man who had proved recreant to those
principles and riJiculcd them.
And now, after having done all the
harm they could to the Democratic party
after having basely detained its champi.
ons and misrepresentcd its platform and
defeated its standard-bcarcrs and stigma.
tiSed its adherents as disuniouiStS-altcr
having repudiated its creed and denied
its authority and denounced its organiza.
tion-thesc unprinciplcd renegadeS, wish
to be admitted into the Democratic ranks
and be permitted to participate in its de-
liberations upon terms Of equality! Their
impudence is equal to their treason, and
that was matchless, to say nothing Of its
atrocity and infamy. In listening to a
proposition for a fusion with r negades
the Democracy would bring lishonor on
themselves, reproach on their party, ard
danger to the country!
The editor of the Beacon is inexcusa-
bly, stupid if he sincerely believes that
"evcry issue which caused the division
is dead and gone" There is a vital issue
still prominent and paramount, that admits
Of no compromise. That issue, enuncia-
ted in the Breckenridge PLATFORM" the
equality Of the Statcs"-must become the
settled policy of the Federal Government,
before every section Of our country can
become thoroughly tranquilized. Upon
it all parties can patriotically harmonic.
1t is fair, reasonable and just. 1t gives
advantage to none The fre-eater Of
the South and the fanatic of the North
can find nothing Objectionable in it. The
Breckenridge Democrats contcnded for it
at the last election, and will continue to
contend for it until it shall be adopted.
They are fighting for principle, they care