Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-04-10

" upon a conflict between United North and Y nj
ted south, to secure Kilkenny fght 10 which The IN
ion shall slide and their ung Southern OonieoerAoy
rise upon she ruins This is the De nOcrac party OF To-
day We do not say that all who have acted or no" act
with this party have 50 acted or do act under
standing its purposes or approaching the inevitable re-
suits Of its policy. Thousands cling to it. blinded oy par
~ prejudice and unconscious Of the fate to which they
are being hurried.
But as remarked at the outset, the. people are
awakened They VIII not fell to see in the coming con-
test that the destiny of our Institutions is involved
that the triumph Of either ofths sectional parties wi" DC
disastrous TO the country-and that the only nope tue
only rock Of salvaOn-s in the success OF the party
which declares for cessation of the sectional conflict
for the Union the Constitution and the Enforcement oil
the Laws"
The s'Mercuryn on the National Democracy
The Charleston Mercury, the leading Democratic or
gan Of South Carolina says that the Richmond papers
have reapsed into Prcsideut-makng, and that Hunter
and Wise, and Wise aud Hunter FIJI the columns OF the
Enquirer aud Erau'iRsr. In reply to an article IN the
Examiner, it proceeds to show that "the. Democratic
party, National party has just creed at all ana
that Ion not single practical question no" before
the country is it united" Witness how clearly dem
Onstrstes its propositions
J. On the fundamental creed of the Virginia and Ken
tucky Resolutions TO which the Examiner alludes-Stale
Sovereignty and the right Of secession toHo0'dg as
the Democratic party united Why at this moment the
whole Douglas wing, aud many Others, North ana Sou'
TOO deny 1t. Mr.. Hickman from Pennsylvania, atey
asserted n the House Of Representatives and challenged
contradiction that the whole Democratic party oil the
North denied tins right aud would resist 1t by force
Cd tlr hs Tariff he know that OOLn IN Icnl-
syyaua and New Jersey and throughout the Mduie aho
Northern States the Democratic party are almost unanl
m0u>lv I'm favor OF Protective Tariffs.
s. On Internal improvements by appropriations from
the Federal Treasury the Northwestern Democrats JON
with the Northern Democrats IN voting such appropra'
tons Look 40 the IN the Senate lately taken on the
appropriations for the S. Clair Flats
The Homestead bills the Democratic party united
n resisting tlats Tue Northern and Western Democrats
voted almost 10 a man. with the Black Republicans for
tie bin which has lately passed the House
s. Well are they any better united in resisting "the
enemies of Southern property Did not Northern De-
mscrlrs 0n with the Wings m repeating the zlst kuit;
Did tbev not i'm an the Northern Legislatures, support
the Wilmot Proy.sO Did they not JOIN IN the magnit
cent s4udl- of California? Did they not lately aid il
ectng Kansas from the Union on account Of her Slave
Constitutions And are not ninety out of every hundred
now i'm the North IN favor OF Douglas SQuaIter SOve
reictythe most brazen base, and rascaly device ever
invented TO cheat the South OF her rights in Ter
\ rt0rcs, So far from going against "tne enemies OF
Southern property and being Their consistent aud un
Welding enemy the Democrats OF the Free States, as
marty aud vith some noble exceptions have joined in all
these agrees ions OF the North upon the South and now
with scarcely shade of difference, are as hostile 10 the
RIGHTS Of the South as the Black Republicans. On all tie
point. we have enumerated Southern Democrats %
losed TO the Northern Democrats. They are supporters
of State Rights aud the Virginia and Kentucky Resoli
lions. against Protective Tariffs; internal Improvements
5v the Federal Government, the Homestead bill; the re-
peal Of the 2lst Rules the Wimot Proyiso; aud Squat
ter Sovereignty. How them consistently with truth, Cal
70 be saii that the Democratic party has au established
creed " and fuse no weapons but its principles. We
DENY that t has any creed any "esabsed princi
/ pies Of policy; and we challenge the proof