Daily national Democrat., 1860-07-27
The True Spirit.

The speech of Hon. j. B. Clark, Of Missouri
Member of Congress from that State, and
delagate to the National Convention, deliv-
cred In the regular Convention at Baltimore
defines the position of every true Southern
Democrat Mr.. Clark is the member who
! introduced into the House of Representatives
| the Resolution that no man who had endorsed
the Helper Book was fit to be Speaker of
the House, and thus defeated Mr.. Sherman
(Republcan) for that Office. If he is not
sound on the Constitutional rights of the
South, no man is Now, hear what he said
nation of Judge Douglas:
at is known to this Convention that at Charles
ton as well as here have never cast vote for
Stephen A. Douglas have never had any hos
tility toward Mr.. Douglas, but have always re-
garded him-and have so announced in Congress
and elsewhere-as a great and patriotic states
man. | should feel the interests aud destinies of
my country entirely safe in his hands and under
his administration. ! hold my personal prefer
ence in allegiance to what | consider the will and
sentiment Of the State in part represent. / tOds
commissioned to the National Democratic Con-
uention, and knoW Of none but this one. l
have linked my destiny to this, and as said yes
terday, for veal or woe shall live and die in the
Democratic Party With that view in order that
we may end our labors here and give the country
repose, until they begin to shout for victory,
intend to second the motion of the gentleman
from Virginia (Mr. Hoge) to declare stephen 4,
Douglas the nominee unanimously of tits Oon-
| Uentt0n."
Such is the language of one Of the stsunch-
est supporters of the South and enc of the
truest Democrats within the limits of the
Union. When such men as he support the
Douglas banner, no fifteenth rate spouter for
the constitutional rights of the South" need
be uneasy. Verify. it makes US laugh to see
and hear men who don't know what the
constitutional rights of the South are more
than of any other section, declare that they
cant support Douglas because he is not safe
on the Constitutional rights of the South.
Their own Constitutional right to drink whis.
ky and idiotically rave against Douglas is
all that they really do understand and ap-
preciate, and that right they abuse, beyond
all measure. These men, who cannot tell
you the first rudiment of a solitary principle
now in dispute nor draw a distinction, to
save their souls, between the principles of
one party and another, affect to be vastly
concerned about "the Constitutional rights
Of the South" and undertake to pit sheir
judgment, that the South is in danger, agrinst
such far-reaching inteleets as those of Steph.
ems of Georgia, Walker of Tennessee, Rust
of Arkansas, Soule of Louisiana, Forsyth of
Alabama, and men of like calibre Men
from Connecticut, and States of similar geo.
graphical position, are very much disturbed,
lest the Constitutional rights of the South
may not be maintained Clark, of Missouri.
FlOurnoy, of Arkansas, Wright, of Georgia,
Parsons. of Alabama, Wycklffe, of Louisiana
and men of that stamp, of course, know
nothing of the constitutional rights of the
South, and unless these sacred rights are
sustained by Connecticut and Massachusetts,
the South must sink
Southern men are willing to trust the
"rights Of the South" in the hands of a ma
jority of the Democratic Party. but the
Maine Chiys and the Connecticut Fire Eaters
are of the opinion that the only salvation of
the South is in boiling organization and q
bursting up of the Democracy.
It's pity if Southern men don't know
their own interests to as perfect an extent as
they can be informed of them by Northern
Buchananites and Administration parasites