Daily national Democrat., 1861-08-25
The old Test and the New--.'rhe Goose
and the Eagle.

not prove his soundness on the Goose to
the sHtisiaction of the very highest chivalry
This soundness had to be of that intense or
der that tolerated no inquiry into the justice
Of "the Goose's" demands, but yielded ore-
dience to every hiss 1t might give. The
main Object of the guardians of this won
derful Goose has ever been to make tests SO
strong that the number of cheerful endorses
might be small, and the fat places In the Cow
ernnent be thus retained by themselves The
Goose has been paraded il National Demo-
cratic Conventions by its keepers, and the
man who stammrred, when asked TO salute it
as the national iird was speedily put out of
political existence. Active impudence and
unlirlng hypoeri4y succeeded in creating the
erroneous impression among the great body
of the Democratic party. that this Goose.
which was laying such golden eggs for its
.ustolinns, and which was welding power
in the Government that made aspiring men
humble themselves at its slightest cackle,
was being persecuted and abused. A false
sympathy was created for the GoOse. and it
eurplanted the Engle in the minds of many
who thought the latter strong enough to take
care OF itself while the former needed The
most dilligent care to enable il to live and
have its own. Thousands who never saw
the Goose. and hundreds Of thousands who
had no interest in -irgr one OF lis dir'irst
feathers were in aims il it, right to have
supreme control Of public hffrs was once
ques,i"ntd. If one was sound on the
Goose" he u ighi entertain such notions rs
he pleased with regard to the Eagle. S"
! Ion : as the praises of the Goose were loudly
sung, It n altered not neither the Engle was
I raised or damned. To leave our metaphor,
Democrats who desired 10 do justice equal
and exact, to all, ond who fought against the
prescription Of men entertaining pro-savery
feelings, funEd very soon that a mere regard
for the rights of the South would not euie
the class of men who are now pitting th
Goose against the Engle. (See Stephens's
Atlanta speeeh) The touch stone Of political
lrust- -wrrlhincss-the passport. without
which no man could hope to enter the polti-
cal gates of which High ChivalTy held the
key y--wns unhesitating compliance with the
demands made for (not by) slavery, through
the medium of Yancey. Rhett, Davis, Wig
| fall, Benjamin and their small but compact
and well drilled band of followers, and n
Willingness to permit the Union its,lf to
| crumbe 10 pieces whenever it should | e
found no longer useful as an auxiliary to King
Cotton's power At an evil moment, how
ey er, demand was mnde on behalf of The
Goose. which the Democracy Of the nation
felt to be an insult. 1t was not gIanted-
Then that grand old party so long power
in the land, was rent asundtr Those who
had become completely the thralls of the
Goose, which they at first only designed to
protect against unjust assaults. went away
from the Democratic party; while those who
etiiI o~npd the ew~y Of tho EaelD ram"n4d
The party was defeated, and the subjects of
King Cotton have declared war against the
Nation. So there is now new test and it is
soundness on the Eagle" The Union must
be preserved at all hazards. This is now the
war cry. Aboli,ionism is no longer po
tent word to ruin aud crush out all who will
not accede to the mad and insane demands
made for a single local interest, whether
right or wrorg. "Disunionism is now the
word which will utterly annihilate the man
to whom it can be justly applied,
From this time, the question will be: chow
|
September it can he shown that man voted
fo. Constable. put before the people 10y the
organization which supports John r. McCon-
nell, the charge will adhere to him fer years,
if not for life; and will scowl him out of
party conventions TO make room for some
one who, when the Goose fought the Eagle,
(and the latter sick, too, from being long
Gagged up hy James Buchanan took side with
the true National bird.
Whoever i ar,led little by this plain
talk le, him answer these questions which
we venture to say have occurred to but fe "
Since California was admitted as State
September 9th, 1852 has it not been con-
sidered graver offence to speak disrespect-
fully Of the institution of slavery than OF the
National Union? II.s not the uitrrance OF
II single word against the most unreasonable
demands o! ultra southern politicians been
defined to lie Abolitioniem? Have not the
present chivalry party freely expressed the
! opinion for years that the Union Mould so"n
toe dissolved? Did such Infamous sentiments
ever damage their prospects in a political
campaign? Was not Bruderici Bhlck r. =
puii,c,n, aud Bolts IA conservative Demo
crHt 2 (Gud save lhe mark J 1t is truth
that ought to c told, that for eleven years
! in Ca ituIuia--n non-slat ebulding State
the self-nlpoinled guardians of negro slavery
have succeeded il setting up their idol, above
he Union and the Constitution, in the popu-
lar heart. They have bloted ont from the
Constitution the definition of trenson, and
now in their law dictionary, that crime only
embraces oil, nces ag Iinst slavery while levy
ing war against the United States is, as they
tell us, cnly carrying into operation the
States Rightss doctrine of the resolutions of
'9S. the main foundation of the National
d, ilocratic creed. But the people have seen
enough Of the result of such teachings. They
never realized, through the past years, that
the Union really was in danger. They ap
pntded whenever the goose cackled, never
l.. IL. l.. Al. I.