Daily national Democrat., 1860-03-18
GaFoled QueatlouS.


Friday morning AS followsS
LET she Express aud those whom jt represents
harm ths thing that the Douglas Dem eracy
viii take their own time for traterniEnS with
them for lowering their standard 10 the Eener-
al flag Of the Uuted Democracy"
Bat it forgets to annex thereto the re-
marks directly Allowing. to-wit;
"They will do that when the Democracy IS uni
ted, and that will be when the Charleston Com
vention has settled the divisions Of the party and
presented us with u Democratic candidate for our
suifmges."
Which, you see. makes quite difference.
The whole context from which the above
sire to be judged by the entire paragraph
and not part:
Therefore, the friends OF Mr.. Douglas
have no concessions to make. no pardon to
beg. no favors to ask. They were anxious to
see she Democratic party united upon the
approach of Presidential contest, partly be-
cause the Kansas issue had been decided in
favor of Douglas. or at least Douglas had
been enabled triumphantly to maintain his
position in the Democratic party whence the
Buchanan forces had attempted to rend him
out, and partly because they were anxious to
conjoin their strength with that of the Doug
las element inside the Administration organ
izltion in order TO do him some good in the
Charleston Convention. But the enemies of
Douglas were opposed to this union, for fear
that they would lose something, perhaps
their heads-and so. with their tests and their
discipline and their committeeships and their
title trickeries Of tactics, they have b1rred
out some thirty or forty thousand good and
true Democrats, who are for Douglas. They
have even carried their petty exclusiyeness
SO far rs to make i test in this little canvass
for city offices which forbade the Douglas
men from any participation in the primary
elections. Having done this for no other
reason than that they feared that certain
cliques might not have everything their own
way, and get all the Offices they now, through
their organ the Express. come wheeding
around the Douglas Democrats, and say,
Now is your time to get back into the
Democratic party" AS though they had
ever been out of the Democratic party and
as though, if they had. they v Nould be get
ting into it, 10y knuckling to lot Of brazen
faced Boilers who openly belong to an ac
knowledged Bogus County organization |,
Let the Express and those whom it repre-
sents learn this thing. that the Douglas
Democracy will take their own time for fra
ternizing with them or for lowering their
standard to the general flag of the United
Democracy. They will do that that when the
Democracy is united, and that will he ichen
the Charleston Convention has settled the d.
oisions Of the party and presented as NTH
Democratic candidate for our safrages. No
danger that, for the sake of giving yonr kind
all the offices in this city, we are going to be
insulted in the first place 10y your impudent
and insolent tests, and then lamb like walk
up and vote your ticket, No, sirs, you need
not look for any such thing You have men
to deal with. and you will learn it ere you
get through with u.s.
We claim that any sensible man who will
read the above cannot fail to see that, so far
from being opposed to a "united Democracy,
we are in favor of it. But we do not consid-
er that the Court House Clique is the Uni
ted Democracy" by most damnably long
shot We think the Charleston Conv ention
has deal more authority than they; and,
furthermore, we think that, after that Con-
vention has made it's nomination for the
Presidency, the members of this Court House,
Express Office, Spols Hunting. Time-serving.
Buchanan worshipping Clique will be found
belly np. Yes sir, belly upi