Year: 1859




United we Stand. Divided we Fall


1t seems to be pretty well concluded by all
politicians Of much forecast, that the next
President must DO either Republican or a
Democrat. There will be no Opposition can
didate upon whom the elements opposed to |
the Democracy can unite. The Southern OPP |
position party are for free code for the Ter.
ritories. And besides this there are numer-
Gus points of difference wholly irreconcilable
between them. 1t is consequently perfectly
idle to talk about the chances of any Opposi-
ton candidate being elected. 1t is only vast
ing time. The question to be considered by
the Democracy is, what candidate shall they
put forward in order to win the victory from
the hands of the Republicans. This party
was never more powerful than to-day. Its
march for the past twelve months and more
through the Free States has been a succession
of victories seldom interrupted. While the
Democracy has been distracted by the unwise
policy OF a sadly mistaken President, and torn
by internal dissensions, the legitimate fruit
of that policy, the Republicans have been
not only united, but growing in strength
from day to day. Like an army with ban
ners, they are siezing upon the outworks of
the Constitution and preparing to storm the
citadel. Already have they attacked one of
the great safeguards of the Uniou, the fugi-
tive slave law, both by Free State legisla-
ton and judicial decisions. Already have
they proclaimed that the conflict is irrepressi-
BILE and enduring, and that the two great
sections of the Union shall never live in peace
together 1t is their sworn determination to
garrison the Government with their legions !;
to change the Supreme Court into political
tribunal which shall speak the DEGREES of Re
publican conclaves, and to overthrow, by
species of judicial legislation, the most sacred
rights of large number of the sovereign
Estates of this Union.


This formidable danger is not to be lightly
met No ordinary man will stem the tide,
in the mighty contest of 1860. Neither will
divisions in the Democrotie party result in
aught but disaster and defeat 1t behooves
all good Democrats to ponder well the paths
Of their feet. AS it was gross departure
from the doctrine of popular sovereignty, by
the Administration, which first divided the
party, so it is only return to the Cincinnati
Platform that will re-unte it. Examinations
and determinations at this crisis are vain and
foolish. They are more, they are dangerous
to the party, and he who would say one
word to prevent the thorough re union of the
Democracy in this State or elsewhere, is
wanting either in wisdom or in patriotism.


Give us a united Democracy, and we shall
conquer. Give us a broad-minded, honest
statesman for President, who will stand true
to his party and his country, and we shall see
the Republicans thrown so far back during
the four years of sound Democratic Ad-
ministration, that it will be difficult for them
to recover their lost ground But, give them,
| once, possession of the Government, and
they will fix upon the country policy, the
effects of which will be felt for all time to
come. The immense patronage Of Repub-
lican Federal Executive would so strengthen
that party as to make it ten times more for
midable than now, and his gifts and his Off
ces, his contracts and his appointments would


not fall far short Of urging through such Con-
gressional legislation as would seriously dam
age the constitutional rights of q large por
tion of the Uuion. Like mercury in the sys-
tenn, the poison would be felt for long years
in the future in every department of the
body polite


Yet, in view of all these dreadful evils,
there are men who desire to keep up by con-
tinued slurs at the Democracy of men who
are as good Democrats as themselves, a wide
and .ruinous separation in the ranks of the par
ty, forgetting or not caring for the fact that
the Union of the Democracy is the Union of
the States.