Daily national Democrat., 1861-01-23
Tha Difficulty.

courage and dignity, and with trnthiulness
of devotion that never swerved from its OBJ
ject; having urged the masses of the old
time Democracy to stand by the action Of the
National Convention and to support its NOM
inee, because, if they did not, Republican
President would be elected-they now find
themselves compelled, by their conscience
and their sense Of right, to declare that the
mere election of Republican President is
no Just cause for secession of any of the
Southern States. This declaration is un.
doubtedly correct, but it subjects those Dem
ocrAtic journals which utter it, to much mis-.
representation at least if not msapprehen-
sion. 1t is the mean resort of those who on.
pose them to make it appear that they are
hostile naturally and of former proclyity,
hostile to the South, simply because it is the
South. whereas many of the editors of those
same journals have been born and reared in
the South, and love the land that gave them
birth and nurture with an ardor which the
mind of a mere partisan could never 0ppre-
sion and its clearest proof in their desire to
save it from the woe and misery which
would fall upon it inevitably, in the event of
dissolution. The truest interest of the
South is within the Union, and therefore do
these Southern men oppose secession. They
also oppose it, upon principle, because they
believe that a remedy of the evils complain
ed of is better within the Union than with
out it, and that the Federal Government
must, under the Constitution, maintain its
authority. Because it happens to be Re
publican Administration, which is to be sup
ported (snce a Democratic Administration
refuses to execute its own authority certain
of the Democratic masses are made to believe
that it is sympathy with the Republican par
ty which causes the journals We speak of to
advocate coercive measures against the seces
sionists. Oh, that there could come a time
in this world, when ON honest man in the
field of politics could be understood for what
he is and not for what he seems to be, as
seen through the mists of misrepresentation
and detraction
One would suppose, now, to hear certain
men talk, that to be Democrat was to be a
secessionist Formerly it was the pride and
glory of Democrat, that he loved the Union,
believed in its preservation, and was ready
70 fight for its continuance. But, now, it
would seem that to declare oneself against
treason and rebellion, or in other words,
against secession and disunion, is equivalent
to saying that you are Republican, and
that you have no sympathes whatever with
the people or the institutions of the South
You are fippantly reminded that you are ST.
ding in a war of the North against the South
that you ure for q Crusade" against South
erD institutions that you are going to help
the Black Republicans to ride over the
Southern States, rough-shod, and to rule
them, in their capacity of Northern men,
with the strong right hand of power! that
you are doing all this, because you don't love
the South, but hate her In the name of all
common sense, then, is there no such thing
ism itself beceme sectionalzed, and is there
one kind of patriotism in one section and
another in another? Is the term so oppo-
sitely defined, that patriotism in the North
means devotion to the North, and patriotism
in the South devotion to the South Men of
narrow and sectional ideas would be asham-
ed of what they were, if they could grow i'll
to the measurement Of broad, clear and
conservative intellect. They would see
that it is to the interest of both of the great
sections of the country to remain together
The one is q producing and the other man
ufacturing region, and each is thoroughly
dependent upon the other. The more so be-
cause they are directly contiguous and must
forever remain geographically and naturally
eonjoined, however divided politically
There is a continual demand in the North for
the products of the South, and continual
demand in the South for the products of the
North. The raw material is furnished by
the one and the finished fabric by the other.
There is no commercial necessity for disso-
luton, and no other necessity, if proper
spirit of Cancellation prevail
The conduct of South Carolina in endeav-
oring, as she has done, to shut off all COM
promise and concession, and to drag the con-
servatiye Southern States along with her in
her mad career of revolution, has been most
damnable and the judgment of the W world
will SO pronounce it,
How MUCH LEAD IT TAKES TO KILL Sol
DIER.-One hundred years ago, Marshal Sake
said that to kill q soldier, it requires his
weight in lead. This result, which appears
strange, was fully confirmed at the battle of
Solferiho.
From the most reliable information that
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