Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-10-20
Number 3.
The True Union Party.

me Dell and Everett party is urged up- on the country as par excellence the Union 1 party. That 1t numbers in its ranks many honest advocates of a conservative, patri- l otlc policy, it were unfair to deny. Ac- cepting the cry, ''dhe Union, the Constitu- ! tion, and the faithful execution of the laws,s in the light of their own integrity. tbev recognise in the movement harbinrer of national peace, and in its candidates men for whose election they are bound to labor
 But the pleasing notion vanishes before notable facts. Whatever some designed, the so-called Union party turns out to be < resurrection of know nottingham under new name. Its candidate, Mir. Bell, so far from constituting in his person pledge of wlse and national administration, himself serves to suggest reign of sectionalism. \ AS a slave-owner, certainly, Mir. Bell may be supposed to be decidedly on the, side, of the South Butit has happened that through out his career he has uniformly given aid and comfort to the anti-slaveiy .agitators; that but for him, and such as he, black-re- publicanism had been weaker than it is; and , that if his views be applied professionally, or blythe executive, thestruggle between the North and South will be more terrible than it has ever been. Nr Belts record is oa ossurdnce of imc,sdsed di6scalty, not of peoce. His election, instead of saving the Union, would give an impetus to disunon second
 only to, that which would result from Lin- coln's victory; for Mr. Bell is hostile to tho
 rights of the South. Acquit him of inten-
 tional hostility if you please: we are not
 required. for the present purpose, to ana .lv1a ot, I 1T sists apom Me hmitatiom of negro seruitude a'than its present 5ounddries, that he woald
 apply He Wilnaot oroviso to aU territories,
 and that on these points he is prepared to
 carry out black republican principles
 The national democratic party establishes
 its claim to be considered the true Union party by reference to the principles em-
 bodied in itsplatform.C It does not ask the confidence of the country, in an exigency
 of more than ordinary magnitude, on the faith simply of its candidates reputation; though,aif character were only to be relied upon, Messrs. Breckinridge and Lane might
 safely challenge comparison with all com- petitors. It points, rather, to an explicit
 declaration of principles as the only basis | upon which the Union of the States can be | permanently maintained. It insists upon the equality of the States as well in refer ence to territorial rights as to the rights of | property. It extinguishes as unconstitu-
 tional the attempt to vest in the North Q monopoly of the benefits accruing from the progressof settlement and the development of trade. And it provides for such limi- of congressional authority that the | general government can never be more than
 the instrument, of the sovereign States that created it, instead of the despotic master which the federal construction would mako it to be. Judged by these principles, the party now rallying around the standard of Breckinridge and Lane may bid defiance to all imputations upon their fidelity to the Union. They say, as any who has studied southern sentiment will say, that the suc- cess oi sectionaism must be followed bv the severance of the Union; and they seek to avert the catastrophe by the application of just views in the administration of na- tional affairs. The Union and the national democracy are inseparable. The defeat of
 one will be the destruction of the other
 The true Union party is that cfswhich Mr.
 Breckinridge is now1 !o ieaoe,i.s55 i.s55 Campaign
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