Des Arc citizen., 1860-10-03
The Coalition.

1.-THE PATRIOTIC NAT OVAL UNION DEMocRAc'
 HAVE co OPERATED WITH US MOST MANFUL Ly, AND WE MUST HEREAFTER coNsIDEl | THEM AS BRETHREN"
 The reader will at once recognize tn, above as an extract from Gen. Combs let ter to Prentice. The "patriotic Nationa Union Democracy referred to are tn, Douglas men of Kentucky. Squatter Sov ereignty may consider itself honored b, such an afiliation, but every sound Demo crat will regard himself as disgraced by the association.
 The name of the party of which Gen Combs deserves to be recognized as chief can never be so changed as 10 conceal the malignancy of that party to the Democra. cy of the old State Rights school. There IS, however, no expedient, no contrvance, no unworthy artifice to which It will no, have recourse to decoy unsuspecting De- mocrats from the love of cherished duty. It succeeded, for time, so well with VOWS administered in dark lodges, that 1t is ex. ceedrngly hopeful of the alluring prospects lpresented by squatter Sovereignty. Itmay hntrap the minimizing and enlist the dis Affected, but they will both flee from il Nhen they find out the blunder they have committed, as good men flee from the de- mealizing influence of bad men.
 l We appeal to every Democrat who is a Denocral in anything but name, 10 pause befoe he takes the leap into resurreced knos- Nottingham. DougIasism is lead ing nbny the South -foldedly lhi- ther, While it is leading as large number Tn likemanner, into the vortex of Black Republcansm in the North.
 The Democratic party, with John C.. Breckinndge as it's standard bearer, occu- ples precbely the same position 1t did Tn lSO0, with MT. Jefferson at its head It adheresrigidly to fl irst principles to the Constltutiol, in the letter and spirit in which 1t vAs adopted. It can coalesce 's'ita 'ao tae4eHi 'ss4l1ieh aims the slight est violationpf any of the provisions of that lnvaluaHe boon to an infant country It abhors reslscitated Know.N Nottingham in the slave States just as much as it ab- hors rampant lee soilism in the non- slave- holding States It will not soil the hem of its garments with either.
 Is there Doeglas man in the Union, who has not Knpw Nothing or Repubi- can proclivities, who will not be shocked al the expression df Combs that he is in- debted to "the National Union Democra- cy' for making him sthe instrument of po- litical redemption" that is the resurrec- ton of buried Know -Nothingism.
 In the memorable holitical contest of '55-56, tens of thousands of well intention ed Democrats were decoyed, by the novel; ty of the thing, into the dark recesses of Know -Nolhngism. As manfully as in- dignantly did they emerge from the pesti- lential caverns which they had been indu- ced. by stealthy means, to penetrate. - When the followers of Douglas in the savehoding States discover, as they can not fail to do after reading the letter of Combs, that they are practically in alli- ance with their old arch enemy, they will loose not moment in escaping from the meshes so artfuIly prepared for them. If the letter of Gen. Coombs is correct in- dicator, the candidacy of Douglas will be as much loathed in the South as was that of Martin Van Buren in 1S4S. A united Southern Democracy, aroused to sense of common danger, will manifest its un- qualified condemnation of 1t. Nor do we believe that it will be in better favor with the true Northern Democracy. It will occasion us no astonishment, whatever, ifl it does not receive the vote of solitary elector, North or South.