Year: 1859

Separate Organizations


Speaking of the Importance of union to
the Democratic Party, and alluding partieu-
larly to the two separate Democratic organi-
cations of this State, we remarked the other
day;


.'There is no necessity for any such separate
organizations, there Is no sense IN any such sepa-
rateness of action, and the sooner all difficulties
are healed the better"


Quoting the above, our sprightly little CO
temporary, the Sacramento Post, observes as
follows:


"If no necessity exists n0,o for any such sepa-
rate organizations will not the editor of the Ma
TIoNAL DEMOCRAT show us 10herein, during the
last three months, that necessity has been re
movedp


To this we answer that, in the sense IN
which we use it, the necessity never did eX-
ist. 1t was the persistent persecution oil Ste
phen A. Douglas by the Administration and
the evident determination of that portion O.
the Democracy which met in Convention in
1883 in the Rev. Mr.. Benton's Church, to
sustain, justify and uphold the Administra-
ton in that persecution, that drove so many
Douglas men in California into a separate or
ganization. Had Douglas been treated with
the respect which was his due and the Admin
istration left to stand upon its own bottom,
without any covert stab at Douglas through
the medium of certain carefully worded res
olutions the meaning of which were well un
derstood by those who had admired and
praised the manly course of the Illinois Sen
ator upon the question of the admission of
Kansas, no separate Douglas organization
would have existed But when the deter
mination was evident to keep the party uni
ted for the purpose of ultimately reading
Stephen A. Douglas out of it, it then became
the duty of AntiLecompton Democrats to
resist the movement and to defy the effort
by bold and resolute opposition. They did
so, and it cannot be denied that they drove
the Administration into the avowed acknowl
edgement from every stump in the State that
Judge Douglas was sound and true Demo-
crat 1t cannot be denied that they were
afraid to denounce either him or his princi-
piles, and they now declare that he occupies
the position of full and complete membership
in the Democratic party.


AS TO the Douglas men assuming this hos
tile position, and daring to establish sepa-
rate organization, we humbly conceive that
the Administration press is absolutely estop-
ped from any animadversions upon the sub
ject, since with almost one voice the Admin
istration papers, from the Washington Union
down, sustained the boiling An!i Douglas
men Of Illinois in their separation from the
regular Democratic organization Of that
State.


Our feelings on this matter of separate or
ganizations are these:


We consider it absolutely necessary to the
success of the Democratic party in the COM
ing Presidential contest, that it should be re.
united in Illinois where the Administration
bolted and in California where the Douglas
men are accused of boiling. 1t should be
reunited in Pennsylvania, where it has been
well proven that it cannot succeed without it.
1t has been already reunited in New York,
and all good Democrats rejoice at it. 1t |
seems to us that no good Democrat could
possibly throw an obstacle in the way to u
full and perfect reunion throughout the ex-
tent of the Confederacy


But SO far as we may be supposed to rep
resent the Douglas party of this State we
wish it distinctly understood that we go into
such reunion of the party, if we go at all, on
no begging conditions If the State Central
Committee of the two wings of the Democ-
'acy or the leaders of the party generally,
AN agree upon test at the primary elections
which will admit all Democrats upon the
anne broad platform of full and perfect
quality in the organizations, we are in favor
# it. If not, not.


Neither our lives, our fortunes our fame
Tor our sacred honor depend upon the Ad-
party receiving us, as they call
t, Unto the fold" We humbly opine that
We can be Democrats, without saying to
hem so much as "By your leave, sirs."