Daily national Democrat., 1860-10-19
Their Duty and their Interest.

coutehulHS ldctloHs OF our NallOnal OOulcu-
Grafton is destroyed There is no disputing
this proposition. A strictly sectional party
in the South and a strictly sectional party in
the North are arrayed each against the other,
in contest in the result Of which victory on
one side or the other must inevitably pro-
duce civil war and bloodshed. At present,
there is great party at the North, standing
true to the Constitution and the rights Of the
South as well as of the Notwithstanding be
tween these ultra and sectional parties and
eudelyoring to roll back, like a rockbound
isthmus, the oceans Of fanaticism upon either
hand If this great party succeeds, the Union
will be saved if it fails all hope of peace is
gone. This party is depending now upon
the aid and comfort of the conservative
masses of the South. wa those masses rally
and come to the rescue is the question which
is asked with beating hearts and throbbing
pulses by hundreds of thousands of the
Uuion-loying men of the North. Sprely, the
answer must be, YES. 1t cannot be that the
nsidious influences of suoh black hearted
have so far gained upon the Southern mind
as to rendor it deaf to the voice of patriotism
aad duty. For years have the Northern De-
mocracy been contending against the mad
waves of Abolitionism in all its shapes and
forms. Hundreds of the noblest and the best
the true and stalwart upholders of the Con-
stitutional rights of the South, have gone down
before the tide and been whelmed beneath
the flood Are all these sacrifices for prinei-
pie to be counted as nought by the South :?
Forbid it that noble generosity and that
sterling gratitude which have ever character
| lied the chivalrous sons of warm hearted
Democrat, now lying in the slumber of po
litieal death may be read all through the po-
litcal grayeyards of the North, lie ttH in
defense Of Southern rights. In that same
long war with fanaticism are the Northern
Democracy still fighting. They are contend
ing for the self-same principles, in the defense
of which so many of their brayest and their
best have fallen. All they ask is that they
may not be called upon to change the motto
upon their banners or to rally around any
new standard. They are willing to fight the
same old fight, and to die, if need be, upon
the field of conflict. But they do not con-
cede that it is the right of their Southern
friends and allies to dictate to them any new
mode of warfare, or to burden them with a
contest for any new issues Already have
they had enough to contend with, and hardly
enough already have their victories been
won
Will the South come up to their support or
not For our part we believe they will. 1t
is their interest to do it, let alone the base
ingratitude of refusal
That it is to the interest of the South to
support the leader of the Northern Democra
cy, and of the true Democracy in this Union,
is well shown in the following brief extract
from letter of Hon. Miles Taylor Repre-
sentative from the Second Congressional Dis
| trict of Louisiana, with which we conclude
this article. Says he;
81 have given the most careful attention to
the present position of parties, and have
reflected deeply and anXiOusy upon what the
rapidly approaching future is to bring us,
and | tell you now, with all frankness, that |
see no well founded hope for the preservation
of the existing Union with honor to ourselves,
but in the candidacy of Stephen A. Douglas
for the Presidency This may seem strange
to you, but it is nevertheless true. Mr.
Douglas entertains various opinions which
are condemned throughout the South some
Of them in which | can never, under any
circumstances, concur; and yet | believe he
is the man, of all others, that the Interests of
the South and the whole nation row require
should be the candidate for the Presidency.
My reasons for this belief are these:
"The division in sentiment between the
North and South has widened from day to
day, until the people of the two sections
seem to constitute two hostile nations. The
unfriendly action of many of the Northern
States with respect to the South, through
their Legislatures, their Executives, and their
Judiciary, has been of such a character for
years, that, if it had been INDUCED in by one
Independent member of the great family of
nations towards neighboring State, it would
have afforded a Just ground for war --merci-
less, devastating, destructive war. If this
seeming hostility between the Northern and
Southern States Is, in point of fact, real, it is
hardly necessary to say that they can no
longer remain members of the same Confede
ration The election in the Northern States
during the present year will necessarily be
decisive as to this fact, for the question upon
it is now, for the first time, distinctly before |
the people, and it must be determined by
them. If the principles maintained by the
great national Democratic party are viudica
ted 10y the result of those elections, all is
well. But if, unhappily, on the other hand,
our Northern brethren are overwhelmed in
the conflict, we of the South, in my Judgment,
must pronounce the Union at an end, and en-
gage at once in the construction of a new
government for the protection and advance
ment of the interests of our own people.
"The mere election of Democratic Presi-
dent however, will not be sufficient to pre-
serve the Union. The Union cannot continue
unless there is a complete revolution in North
ern politics Not only must the electoral
votes to secure the election of our candidate
TO the Presidency be carried, but in my view
the Union will be, and ought to be, broken
up, unless the Northern people, through
majority of their Representative in the Ma
tional Congress, and through the action of
their State governments, in their various de-
partments-eXecutive legislative and judi
cial-giye unmistakable evidences of a set
tied disposition to regard the rights of the
south and OF her people, and a fixed deter
mlnatlon to put down and punish all attempts,
within their own limits, or by their own peo
pie, to violate those rights or to hinder or
obstruct in any way their exercise or enjoy
ment
"Such result as this | speak of can be Sc
cured only in one way by placing at the