The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1860-09-04
Convention, he stands pledged not to support or

Convention, he stands pledged not to support or
vote for Mr. Douglas. e>-.
CONSTITUTIONAL UNION PARTY.
! But in our survey of the field we must not neg
lect the Constitutional Union party. 1t is an old
party under new guise. In 1856 they had a
secret organization protected by tests and oaths.
Then they waged war upon our foreign citizens and
upon certain religious creed. The same lead
ers now come forward repudiating piatforms-an-
nounce themselves as the only Union party, and ask
for votes without any declaration of their principles
Their platform is the 'Constitution and the Un-
ion." The Republicans assert they are for the
Constitution and the Union, yet their platform
gives an Interpretation to the Constitution which
will destroy that Constitution and break up this
Union. For which we have high authority-Mr
! Fillmore, the candidate for the Presidency, in
| 1856, of the very men who constitute the Const-
tutional Union party of the present day. The
Douglas Democrats avow they are for the Consti
tuition and the Union; yet their platform, inter
preted by their standard bearer Mr. Douglas,
tramples under foot the decision of the Supreme
Court, procaims niger law, and permits the first
squatters in a Territory to exclude the people of
fifteen sovereign States therefrom; reducing them
to vassalage, and doing little less injury to the
Constitution of the country than the platform of
| the Republicans.
The true Democratic party stands on the Con-
stitution and Union, and their Interpretation re-
cognizes the perfect equality of the States and
maintains involate the genius of the events, necess
ties, and history which brought into one confed-
eracy so many independent sovereignties. Which
Of these three interpretations is the Interpretation
of the Constitutional Union party? Or will they
scorn each and all, and fall back upon their re-
pudiated and odious platform of 1856? We feel
that intelligent people will demand at the
bands of men asking their favor a frank avowa Of
their princpl We feel that they will recognize
true Union party the organization which
and proclaims the just doctrine of the equality Of
the States.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
We have heard the warnings of Mr. Fillmore
against this party The public mind has become
alarmed. The mischievious effect of its doctrines
has been shown in the John Brown raid, and the
recent burnines and pillages in Northern Texas
Bold, INSCRIPTIONS and vindctve leaders are at
its head. They have adopted the once scorned
dogma of Garrison, that slavery is a covenant with
hell and an agreement with death. Sumner pro-
claims the barbarsm of slavery. Burlingame the
necessity Of ani-slavery Bible and t-slave-
ry God. Seward and Lincoln the irrepressible
conflict. They with fanatcism rapidly getting
intense as that of Peter the Hermit, are tanning
the flames of sectional strife soon to break out in
intestine war. They arc practically leading cru
SADIE against the South. Thanks to the mercies Of
the Almighty, brotherly love, the memories of
glorious history, the common sacrifices of our
fathers, the unparalleled progress to empire and
renown Of our people, have not lost their influence.
Honest and true men all through the North have
determined to crush out the monster of Northern
dsunion and fanaticsm. A paralysis has come
over the energies of the meters of servilc war
The common sense of the people revolts at the
contamination of their foul designs. Good men
and true are rallying from the mountains and the
plains, from city and country, from the farm, the
shop, and the busy of trade, to preserve and
perpeluate the glorious heritage bequeathed to us
by our fathers. ..-.....-s
DOUGLAS AND REPUBLICANISM.
Blu: where is Mr. Douglas in this struggle of good
men and true, for the perpetuaton of the faith Of
these fathers? He is allied with the Constitutional
Union party of the South, and quasi allied with the
Republican party at the North. He, like Seward,
has proclaimed the higher law At Springfield
he declared that the citizen of Territory "DoEs
NOT DERIVE POWER FROM CONGRESS, FOR HE HAS
ALREADY DERIVED 1T FROM GOD ALMIGHTY"
One of his principal supporters, Mr. I'll. l.. Sey-
mour, in his recent speech at Rochester, New
York, said: "Atter all that has been said on this
subject, there as higher low. Its fiat as given
an the roice Of the peopte. Popular sovereignty
as tie oppression of that L,,c" Mr. Hickman, the
Mr. Douglas, now upbraids him for his tmidity
and treachery, has manfully cast off the mask, and
is now avowed leader in the Republican ranks.
His fugeman, Forney, openly .vocates coali-
ton with the Black Repub cans to defeat our
candidates. We see presses, aad leaders, and ora
tors pulling down the Dous las and raising the
Republican flag. We say to the Democrats of the
olden time and to the young Democrats of the
present day, beware of the insidious advances
of the enemy. Beware of the fatal step towards
Repu6licanism and towards disunion Rally to
the old flag Rally on the tried leaders. Be not
sloughed off into the Abolition camp with Hck-
man and others. We implore you to weigh these
facts, and We belle you will be satisfied of the
tendency of the Douglas organization towards Re
publicansm. Indeed the entire organization will
melt and is melting away, The frcesoilism Of it is
now being absorbed in the Republican ranks, and
the true Democrats, of whom there are large num-
bers, are falling back into line with the old COM
rades, with whom they have achieved the triumphs
of the Democracy.
BRECKENRIDGE AND DOUGLAS.
Consider the spectacle presented to us by the
Democratic and Douglas candidates for the Presi-
dency Mr. Breckenridge has retired to his quiet
home in Kentucky, there calmly and with dignity
to await the verdict of the people. Mr. Douglas is
traversing the country, especially in the north and
east, dosing out the panacea of "squatter sove-
reignty' remedy for all our ills, appealing to
the higher law and endeavoring, with the mag
c of his words and his presence, to eajole the peo
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