Daily national Democrat., 1860-07-28
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that it was never in favor of that kind Of non
Intervention proclaimed by the National
Democratic Convention which nominated
Douglas 1t can't see how the Red Bluff
Beacon and other Democratic papers can put
themselves into so "pitiable a condition" as to
sustain the non-interv vention platform. Well,
We suppose the Red Bluff Beacon and other
papers, hostile to Douglass views on Terrific
rial Sovereignty, reason as the Express
reasoned, no longer ago than last April, when
it said:
The Democrat says we are opposed to
Popular Sovereignty the Kansas Bill and the
Cincinnati Platform, are in favor of Davis
Slaye Code Resolutions. This whole matter
we propose to submit to the National Con-
vention. The Democrat shall not decide that
question forus When the Contention passes
upon It, tie decision shall be final, If it is
against us, rc WiH hare to submit"
Now, the Express cannot crawl out of this
solemnly made pledge, for the platform was
adopted at Charleston, and the Davis Slave
Code Resolutions, or similar ones, rejected
when the entire and undisputediy regular
Convention was assembled.
Instead of being opposed unalterably to
Non.Intervcntion, the Express not only
promised to yield up its own opinions to
the action Of the National Convention, but
pledged itself to support Douglas. if he should
| l,o al 81 - 1op0uoro uftora1
on the 2lst of April last
1--WE, like others, have our preference, but we
not Of those who are ready to bolt aud 60 over
TO the enemy should our fvorite fail to receive the
nomination. We are for the Democratic party,
and not for any particular man when by adhering
10 him we endanger the party. Like Mr.. Doug
las, we believe that the only hope for the country
is in the Democratic party. We support men, not
I on personal grounds, but as exponents of princi-
pies. We are, therefore, prepared to raise at our
masthead the nominee of the Charleston Conven-
ton whetRer he be Dickinson, Douglas, BrectiH-
| ridge, Lancer any Otber DsRs0crdt, and give him
our hearty support against the enemies of the
Constitution and the Union"
The Express calls the Beacon to account
because that paper, disagreeing with Doug
las on the abstract and undecided question of
Territorial Sovereignty, yet sustans him as
the nominee of the Democratic party, when
it, (the Express) itself emphatically declared
that it would do the same thing, as witness
the suboined extract from one of its editori
ais of the 3Oth of April last:
at is true that we disagree with Mr.. Douglas in
| his popular sovereignty notions, as you term it,
and would prefer to support some other man
whose opinions conceded with our own on that
point but not wthstandng we disagree with him
on that one question, he is far preferable to any
Republican. There is no Inconsistency in our po-
siton whatever. We are Democrat and intend
to support the Democratic candidates, eGeH if 'ce
do disagree with item on some points,"
Now here is expressed determination to
support Douglas on the same grounds precise
ly that the Beacon and other papers support
him-a determination and solemn pledge to
support him, notwithstanding the Express
might not agree with him in every particu
lar, in regard to Territorial Sovereignty.
The Express is now rampant for the Sece-
ders from the National Convention, and
abuses late Administration papers because
they do not also go along with the Seeeders,
or, as 10 Lane says, "stand by" them These
Administration papers that sustain Douglas
no doubt look upon the Seceders in the same
t light that the Express did, before it turned
tail on the regular organization and went foi
Breckinridge and Lane. No paper in the
country denounced the Seceders more en-
phatically than the Express did, as we shall
suddenly prove. On the 10th of May last, it
said
ave cannot for the life of US see what good is
to result to the party or the South by this seces-
sion movement on the part of the delegates from
some Of those States 1t is gratifying to know,
however, that this movement was confined to very
few of those States only. The steps taken by them
may result in the election of a Republican Presi-
dent if persisted in, but we cannot believe that
they will allow themselves, through the impru-
dence of their delegates, to assist in defeating the
regular nominees of the party. Tile 00nreatlon
that Is TO meet at BaltiDe0re is the regular Demo-
cratic C0RoeatiOR."
The inextricable difficulty in which the
Express is involved in the above extracts, is
this
In the first place it agreed to abide by the
platform put forth at Charleston. A platform
was there put forth in full Convention. After
the adoption of this platform certain dele
gates seeded, and the Express condemned III,
Seccders.
Standing in such n predicnment as this, i
assumes to talk about "the pitiable condition
of other papers!
, A PTIABLE CoNDIroN.-The Express i