Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-09-01
Letter of Robert Tyler, Esq,
TO TuL NATION AL DEMOCRATIC AssocI'
ALTON OF PHILADELPHIA"
Isbrr, Loya ISLAND, Aug. Goth, 1850.

home, hasten to acknowledge your polite
invitation to address the Democracy on
Monday evening. l trust that your pro- !
posed demonstration may prove perfectly
successful and worthy Of the cause in which
you are so patriotically engaged Onyour
exc rtons and Oh other similar efforts III
the same general movement, we must now
depend for the maintenance OF the true
principles of the government and the pres.
ervation, most probably, of the peace OF
the country. There can be but two real
parties in Pennsylvania, the Democratic
party, of which you are part, and the
Opposition. No man who wishes to re-
main Democrat can have any difficulty
as to the position he should occupy lie
should sustain the regular organization as
uncrrngly indicated by the action OF the
last Stats Convention at Reading, and
by the moro recent proceedings OF the
Democratic State Committee, regularly
appointed by that body, in this and in
other particulars, SO freely and fully rep
resenting the Democracy OF the State.
Hostility to the regular action of the par
ty through its Legitimate organs, or any
pretence whatever, deserves the sevcrest
condemnation and the protesting Demo
crat who seriously INDUCES in such folly
or wickcdness, should be reckoncd and
treated as an enemy, On the one side
we have the Democratic party, unchanged
in its principles, and faithfully subject to
its old rules and discipline, and on the
other side, wo have the Opposition, con'
sisting of the Lincoln Abolition party, the
Dougasites, who prefer Lincoln election
to that of Breckenridge, and the small
number of old Fillmore know-Nothings,
who now call themselves friends Of Bell
and Everett. Of these, the Lincoln. Abol-
ition party are eagerly dcsirous of elccting
the Chicago candidate and of initiating
policy of negro emancipation, and for
other objects, at Washington, wi.l,ul and
corrupt violation of the Constitution OF the
United States. They propose, among
other things, to treat the Federal Supreme
Court as though it had no cxistcnco, and
to administer the Government as the
caprices of mob, stimulated by the de-
magogueism OF unscrupulous leaders, may
suggest or require. The Douglasitcs, who
prefer Lincoln to Breckenridge, seem pos
scssed with the one insane idea Of destroy
ing the Democratic party. They despair
of the election Of Judge Douglas, and are
undoubtedly for Lincoln ruLy, though
apparently for Judge Douglas in Penn
) sylvania, as they are apparently for Bell
and Everett i'll some OF the Southern
States. They openly profess their inten-
, ton to sacrifice the Democratic party, both
in the national and State organizations,
at this time, with the expectation Of shap
ing new political formation looking to
Judge Douglas future Presidential aspi.
rations. The election of any conservative
statesman would Interfere with this sp.c
ulation. The few friends Of Bell and
Everett are, l believe, honestly bent oil
Lincoln's defeat, with the hope of making
Mr.. Everett Vice President in the FIR,
instance, when he may beco ne President
by operation Of the Constitution.
This brings me to my immc diatc olicc
r in writing this letter. desire distinc 'lS
0 to warn all conservative voters lying soutl
@ of Mason and Dixon's line, against thu
t possible error into which they may fall
i'll reference to the supposed popular
e strength Of the Bell Everett movement ii
# the North 1t is best to speak plainly ol
= this point, because incalculablo mi,chic
It may be produced by misapprehcnsion il
/ regard to it, and nothing can be lo,t by
+ presenting the unvarnished truth. South
: ern conservatism should hope for the best
II but be fully prepared for the worst, an(
$ no step should be incautiously taken II
y the event Of the success Of the Abolitioni,t
II il November next, the Southern State
IS (such as may be persuaded to vote, undo
: erroneous views, the Bell Douglas coali
y tion ticket, will have gained nothing 70
It themselves, while it is but too evident til
y division thus exhibited i'll the Southcr
Is section, in the face Of tho universal Abol
ition asccndcncy in the free States, woul
Is only tend to encourage tho enemies Of til
l. Constitution and Of States Rights in thei
illegal and fanatical career. 1t appear
l. to me that reasonable prospect of til
70 defeat Of Lincoln by the election of til
Bell Everett ticket, can alone Justify an
Southern State in its abandonment of tn
DcmociaIic PdIty III tnis lIipOrtaH an
dangerous period Now, the people Of til
Southern States may form a tolerabl
If correct idea of the prospect of Bell in tn
N North, when the plain truth is that til
peculiar friends of Bell and Everett can
=. not possibly show a majority IN u Si,gI
co"a'y i"a single noa.sluvehohling Statt
y state this as an undoubtod fact, an
70 am willing to meet the verdict at tue bal
IS lot box, The Bell Douglas coalitio
tickets, in some of the Northern States
have been conceived and arranged by til
more intimate friends of Judge Douglas
) with no expectation of securing any Elcc
s. torAl votes against Lincoln, but solely wit
l. the purpose of exciting the Bell an
8. Everett men to antagonizc the Democrac
,r in the South, and thus to divide an
conquer the section which defeated hin
III at Baltimore. At the Presidential cleo
l. ton in 1856, out of two millions min
IN hundred and thirty.oue thousand vote
Ia cast by the Free States, there were give,