Daily national Democrat., 1860-07-12
A Vain Hone.

The Republican party are laying the fiat
tering unctioH to their souls that the Democ-
racy will be so greatly divided in the Presi-
Dental contest at hand, that an easy victory
will be given to the Republican candidate.
They fondly hope to hear that the Baltimore
Convention has broken up without nomi-
na.ion. But, if nomination has been made,
they ardently expect that large portion of
the Democratic party will withdraw from
the ranks of the organization and throw
away their votes. Their irmest expectation,
however, is, that Douglas will be nominated,
and that, then, the Southern Democracy will
at once retire from the party, and support
Southern candidate.
Well, as to this latter idea, We too, are
firmly convinced that, should Douglas be
nominated, there will be a boiling movement
against him in the South, but it will amount
to very small affair. 1t will be led bv
Yancey, of Alabama, and Yancey has been
trying for the last ten or fifteen years to lead
off a sufficient portion of the Southern De-
mocracy to break up the Democratic party.
But, he has, in every effort, most signally
failed And he will fail again. The temper
o. the South is for the fair and right thing,
no more Well does the Southern mind
comprehend that Douglas was right upon
the Kansas question. 1t would have been to
the interest Of the South to have Kansas ad-
mitted, under the Lecompton Constitution,
but the masses Of the people know well that
the policy of the President was not fair or
a Democratic one, and they are not going to
fly into rage because man, always true to
Democratic principle and to the interests of
the whole Union, may have been nominated,
even if he did not strain point in favor Of
the South. as the President did, on the Kan
sas question.
Douglas has the confidence of the Southern
people, They know that they can rely on
him. For their constitutional rights as they
stand now interpreted by the Supreme Court
of the nation or as they shall hereafter stand
interpreted 10y the same tribunal, they are
satisfied that he will contend. For his views
upon an abstract question, not yet decided,
they cannot blame him, because it is but the
exercise of the common right of the humblest
as well as the greatest in the land. He is
entitled to his own opinions upon an unde-
cided point, and so is every man in the land
Rut he will surrender, as every good citizen
must, those opinions to final decision of the
highest tribunal under our government,
especially constituted for the settlement of
such questions
Again, how can it be expected that the
South can be led off from the support of
Douglas, on account of his opinions upon
Kansas when the ablest minds of the coun-
try which supported him in that memorable
contest with the President, were from the
South
How can the South be led away from him
on account of his views in favor of non
intervention, when those same views are
sustained by many of the foremost statesmen,
orators, editors and leaders of the Southern
States? ? Many persons, wholly ignorant of
politics. talk of Donglas as simply Northern
Democrat, having party in the North, but
none in the South. 1t is a stupendous error.
He has al'cays had very powerful party in
the South, and it is led by men who have
never known defeat
Verify, the Republicans need not hope or
dream of success, if Douglas is the nominee
of even a majority, let alone two>thirds, of
! the Baltimore National Convention. His
| election is certain. The Southern States
would prefer him thousand times over to a
Republican, even if he Douglas) were as
obnoxious to the South as the Republicans
represent him to be, and they are not going
to cast their votes in any manner which will |
even remotely tend to the election Of Re
publican President.