Year: 1859

Ties against the Buchanan democracy. 1hey
Indignantly reject she idea They are for
maintaining their organization strictly, upon
the old basis of 1856, and for standing or
falling by their original principles. Somuch
for that element in the proposed union. The
next great and leading element counted on
was the Anti Lecompton Democracy. This
element is certainly very powerful, and, uni
ted with the Republican, would sweep the
country like whirlwind There would be
no resisting it, But, the great trouble about
the matter is, that the Anti.Lecompton De-
moeracy is Just as different from Republican
/ ism as Republicanism is from Lecomptonism.
! Though the Republicans should be willing a
/ thousand times over to enter into combina-
tion with the Anti-Lecompton Democrats to
defeat the Lecompton party in a struggle for
the Presidency, the Anti Lecompton Demo
Gratis would suffer annihiation before they
would 90 into any such combination. The
Anti Lecompton or Douglas Democracy have
braved too many dangers for the FAKE of





now They claim to stand upon that origin
al platform of the National Democ acy which
the James Buchanan Democracy have aban-
doned. They believe that they can rally
around the standard which is erected upon
that platform, all the conservative elements
of the old time Democratic party. They be
hot fhav ho Y,rin nNir NIL Of
party with them, and that where those prin-
ciples are there must the strength of the
Democratic masses be also. They will not
give up these principles, but will follow them
wherever their logical consequences may
lead" The American party is the third dis
tinctive element, but its principal strength
now.a-d days is in the South, and consequently
it could never be made to harmonic in the
slightest degree with an element-the Repub
lican-which is solely bent upon the destruc-
tion of slavery.


1t is idle, therefore, to talk of any such
combination. 1t is evident that the Demo
cratic party must be united or be Defeated
1t never can be united except upon the Doug
las platform-in other words, it has no
strength except in a strict adherence to its
original principles What we mean by the
partys being united is this,-united not so
much by the fiat of conventions as by the fat
of the masses who vote The great body of
the party must 90 with the Douglas side or
with the Buchanan side, TO ensure victory
for either. A nearly equal division between
the two will result in nothing but an over
whelming defeat. What the strength of Le-
comptonism may be in the South, it would be
hard to say, but in the North it is nothing al
all The Northern Democracy is for Doug
las, and, unless the South desire to go off at
d tangent and depend upon their own isola-
ted action in the next Presidential canvass,
they must subscribe to the Douglas doctrine,
or, at any rate. smother their objections to it
Lecomptonism will not and cannot prevail
1t is obnoxious to every ingrained sentiment,
principle and feeling of the American people,
as a mass The Southern people support it,
if they do so, upon the ground of expedien
cy, expediency for the South, and not because
it is agreeable to their innate sense of right
and Justice The plain truth then is this,
that the Democratic party of the Union must
rally upon the old popular sovereignty plat
form, or go down in the storm. Either
Douglas Democrat will be the next President
of the United States or it will be William II.
Seward Nothing but the broad doctrine of
absolute non.intervention on the part Of Con
gress with the subject of slavery, both in the
States and Territories, will ever present
successful barrier against that tide of section
al fanaticism which is now rolling onward
with threatening and angry front and the
deep mutterings of q smothered wrath The
only salvation of the Democratic party in
the campaign of 1856, was the fact that it
occupied the position of a great middle party
between the sectonalism of the North on
the one hand and the sectionalism of the
South on the other. But change that party
now into a mere sectional Southern party.
and the result is plain. The war then be-
comes a mere war of sections, and as between
two merely sectional parties, men will choose
that party which advocates their own sec
tion. The whole North nearly would go for
their own side of the house, and where
would he the sectional party of the South =?
Crushed to the earth A "Black Republi
can" President welding all the immense po-
litical power of the Government for the pur-
pose of battering down their peculiar insti
tuition" over their heads The South will as
certain be reduced to this position, as they
| insist upon the nomination Of Lecompton'
instead Of Douglas, candidate for the Presi-
dency


1t wont do to trhe with this most danger
GUS and critical condition of affairs, In this
matter Of Lecomptonism the South has gone
too far 1t is her duty to recede, and to do
it at once Sectionalism in the South is nc
better than scctionalism in the North. Con.
gress ought as well to interfere for the North
as for the South, on this question of slavery
and that party alone can be called truly
national party which cries 'handS off, ano


let the people regulate their own domestic


institutions for themselves" This is what
/ the Douglas party now does.


/ COMPLIMENTARY DINNER TO A FIREMAN
The Foreman, Assistants, and number o
the members of EN- eka Engine Company
No 2, says the Stockton Argus gave com
plimentary dinner at the Jenny Lind" on
Wednesday, to Mr.. Duncan, First Assistant