Daily national Democrat., 1861-06-23
The San Francisco Times Appeals TO
Douglas MN TO join the kanhs of his

LutInsCSs
We il,ink it was Macauley who said, in
substance, hat " Parties survive long after
the Issues that called them into eXis ence are
-etllrd and dead" And nowhere il this lru-
i-m pilpahly verified rs in our state at The
present time. The party called the Dongl"r
Democracy was founded upon the doctrine Of
The Application oi popular sovereignty to The
Territories oi the United States; lhi- was the
only thing in which it differed from the Re-
puhican- in all other things. rs II Home
stead Bill and a Pncihc Railroad, there was
- perfect uhhumily OF interest and ideas. III"
! last Congress settled this question hy org M
| zinp all the Iii herto uuOrganiZrd Territories,
aud we may well admit it-prhcIlealIy
adopting the princi pie of popular sovereignty
! in their organization. aud the Republican
! party have tnctly "cquiescrd III tins decision.
With the adoption Of their iavoriie idea J
| thh Republicans. the Dougl ~ M II would, for
| the want of AN issue ine> i;ahly and neces- =
rily have merged themselves at oucr into the
Republican, organization, Were it not Tor de-
o. ion tu the traditions and the nam" Of The
grand old party which once carried i vic o
riuu- banners forth to the cry of Democracy.
nnd desire in advance the personal fortunes
of the great leader they had learned !" love
80 well The noble and pntriniic conduc "t
Douglas in recognizing these fact ana raj y =
ins his friends t. the support of Mr. Lnroln 5
Administration. when The Union was il d IL
ger; while il hrought Douglas Democrats III
closer connection mud atfliaiion Ni'h he Re
| puhlicauS betw cen whom aud themselves
! there is now really no difference; ai the -aTie
ilnp il ende Ired their lpuder still more to hi
| frllo0 ers and rtrrmined them "n taking no
III where his footsteps did not leads. r
Times.
Thcye is no shame left in party man who
conresses that his PARTY has abandoned its
! gives the eomelsault Ms reason why the
party which was right in the first instance
should dlsband. The Republican party was
not one whit behind the secessionsts in Its
denunciati"ns of The policy of Popular Sove
reignty IN the Territories, or in peroecuting
the Great Defender Of that policy.
If the Times is so eager to embrace the
dogma so persistenly advocated by our
party, let it advocate the disbandment of it,
own Chicago Platform p'rty. When the
Times said that the followers of Doug las
were more determined than ever " on taking
no path where his footsteps did not lead" +
should have quoted The following from the
last public counsel given hy that grent man.
In his letter of May TO- 1861, 10 the Chair
man of the Democratic State Central Com
mitlee, of Illinois, he said. in alluson to
Lincoln and his Cabinet: :" My previous re
lntions t" them remain unchanged" And he
also said in the same letter:
Nor have l any apprehension that the firm
and unanimous support which the Democra-
tic leaders and masses are now giving TO the
Constitution and Union will he deemed evil
drnce of intidrIity to Democratic principles.
ar want If loyalty to the organic tion and
creed of the democratic party.
Who believes that, had Mr. Douglas lived,
the systematic abuse Of him which has al
ways been the stock in trade of the Republi
can organs. would have been less bitter in
the coming canvass than it has been in times
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