Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-09-08
Address to the Democracy and the
 People of the United States.
BY THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. National Democratic Erecutipe Committee ] Rooms, g hts Street Washinoton
 Gty, July. 1869.

BY THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
 National Democratic Erecutipe Committee
 Rooms, 2s his Street Washinqton
 City, July, 1860.
 4 10 Me Democracy and the People
 ' cf Me United States:
 FELLow-cITIzENs: The election of the next President and Vice President of the United States is at hand. Four distinc, organizations are in the field The repub lican party, making bold and open war upon the institutions of fifteen sovereign States of this Union. The Constitutional Union party, repudiating all platforms and stand. insnfMply on the catch words Constitu- tioHand the Union." Two parties, each calling itself democratic; one, however, following the fortunes of one man, MT. Douglas. and differing from the republi- cans in making insidious, instead of open, war upon the South. The other, standing infleXibly on the constitution of the country makes no concealments as to its interpre- tation of that instrument, its rallying cry being the equality of the States. We pro- pose, calmly and impartially, to survey the field, and to give the reasons why the lat
  cratic party, and how the dearest interest of the country, race, and of the human progress, are concerned in its success.
 Why is it that the democratic party is disrupted and it's wings arrayed in bitter opposition to each other? Why is it that the veterans who achieved its time -honored xiumphs no longer move with. the old ener- gy and harmony to meet the antagonists they dave so often defeated? What fire brsM has been thrown into their midst lighting up intestine fires, and consuming as with 8 devouring flame? Let the plain, unvarnished record answer.
 In 1856 the democratic party, after a most bitter contest, elected James Buchanan President, and John c. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States The new administration was inaugurated and went , into operation. Its policy was foreshadow- ed in the inaugural address. The supreme court, in case before it, the Dred Scott case, gave its decision on the question of difference in the democratic ranks-a de- esion which previously every democrat had solemnly pledged himself to abide by, as the authoritative exposition of the de. mocratic faith. That august tribunal de- clared the Missouri Compromise unconsti- tutional and void; enunciated the right of the South to take and hold their slave pro- perty in the territories; denied to the ter rtorial legislature any right to interfere with such property, and proclaimed that a territory could only settle the question of slavery at the time 1t came to form con- rot tOrx tp ifc oHp nr. inf t( Union as a sovereign State.
 This was looked upon by all sound de- mocrats as the final settlement of the ques- ton, and 1t was believed that the agitation i of slavery would be forever withdrawn from the halls of Congress. Who has kept up this agitation? Who has resisted this decision? Who has declared that: ''It matters not what way the supreme court l may hereafter decide as to the abstract question, whether slavery may or may not I go into territory under the constitution, the people have the lawful means to intro. duce or exclude it, as they please" And, \ again: |" No matter what the decision oi the supreme court may be on that question, the right of the people to make slave ter rory, or a free territory, is perfect and complete under the Nebraska bill?" Mir. Douglas thus, in his Illinois contest, set the people above the constitution, and vio- latedhis own pledges in the KansasNe- braska act.
 A Now was presented to the country the ~ sad spectacle of our once valiant champion kexerting his entire energies to overthrow he party which had so honored him; and, &,ith the flag of rebellion and instruction 4 m his hand, endeavoring to seduce the party from its principles His friends have not hesitated to affiliate with the republican party to compass his ends. In Oregon, they united with the republicans in the can xss of last year and this, and Logan, the ding republican of that State fought the | ynvass on the doctrine of squatter sover- eighty alone. In New Jersey his friends, Messrs. Adrian and Riggs, were returned to Congress by the votes of the republican party, and against the regular democratic party. So with Reynolds, Haskin and Clarke, in New York. with Hickman and Schwartz in Pennsylvania; with John G. Davis in Indiana Republicans were re- turned to Congress over democrats by the opposition, and with the collision of the friends of Mr. Douglas. Thus was Arnold defeated in Connecticut, Hughes and Ray 1 in Indiana, Taylor and Russell in New York Phillips, Leidy, Ahl, Gillis and De- wart in Pennsylvania, Hall and Burns in Ohio, and Wortendyke in New Jersey Mr. Douglas himself, all the while, has ve- hemently opposed and denounced the de- mocratc administration in the Senate; has refused to be governed by the voice of his party; has warred upon all his democratic osagues, with single exception; has voted against them, not simply on the vexed \ question of slavery, but against their nomi- nations, and has even joined the repnbli- | cans in their efforts to exclude from the Be- nate the two democratic Senators from the State of Indiana.
 soUATTER SOVEREIGNTY.
 | Owing his election in Illinois to the &c., nate, over his competitor, MT. Lincoln, to l the position maintained throughout that canvass, that no matter what was the deci- sion of the supreme court, the legislature of territory could lawfully exclude sla- very therefrom by unfriendly legislation, he resolved to engraft his heresy of squatter sovereignty, of which this was an exempli- fcatiOn, upon the creed of the democratic party; and he declared in his Dorr letter that on this condition only would he accept the nomination of the convention for the Presidency Thus one man undertook to own the platform of an entire party,
 and to place out of the pale of that party
 It's own President; all but two of its Sena-
 tors; all but some half dozen of its re-
 preSentatves in Congress; to brand as anti
 OenOcraS the platforms and the men of
 nearly every State where the party was in
 possession of the government. Is it to be
 wondered at that the South became alarmed; i;
 8Ad that 1t lost it's confidence in him who
 once was by them trusted and admired?
 tnst be remembered, too, that the
 feslstAce to Mir. Douglas nomination was
 not confined to the southern States. It
 was Widespread throughout all the States, fand predominant in Oregon, California,
 Pennsylvania and New Jersey-States
 whose votes, with an almost united South, lNpra I in thu ,1