The Party Of The Union

In the polltidal content now goitiü; on for the Presic'ency and thé oÜbfitóqtiont control of the government, the Democratie parly stands forlh as pre-einÍDénU ly the Party of the Union. It hns puygéd téölfof fire-eaters, sloughed off the diücontented seccders and disuniou iste, and 's now tlie conslilution sustaining, Union preserving party. It recogniz;s the oonstitutioü aa the organio law; the States as individual membora of a confederacy, and entitled to equal privileges ; and tho Territorios not as c-olonics, but as cnpable oí self-governineut, lirnitod only in their powers by tho constitulion itsulf, and not by the will of Congress, wbich may bo one thing to-day and another to-raorrow. This party knnws no North, no South, no ' irrepressible conflict" aeparating, driving asunder, and tending to split tho nation into a dozen sectional fragments. lts platform is common grouud, and on it may stand each aud every Siato and Territory, all owing allegiancc to the general government, and each rogulating its own domestic institutions in its own wajr, only taking caro not to conflict with the general provis ions or restrictions of the common constitulion. Such is the Democratie party TUK PaüTY OF TUE U.NIOX. Opposcd to this party aro two sectional )arties, a Northern and a Southern party, having differentand antagoiiistic eods ra view, but uniting on the common doctrine that Congress is orauipotent over the Territorios. Tho Republiean party sweurs by tho power of Congres?, and proclamas thatit has the right, and that it is its duty to cxclude slavery from the Territories; the Southèrn party is equally a Congressional pariy, out protesta mat vjongress eai and must protect slavery in the Territo ries. Thëy bnitó in defining the powers of Congress, and divido only in declaring the U8e-to be made of those powera. Again, they imite in hatrod of and opposition to the Domoeratic party and its principie?; and.opposite as are their views, prefer oach the success of the olher to tKo triutnph of the Democratie party and the cleetion of its enndidates. Much as the fire-eaters of the South have blustered, and stormud, and threatened that no Kepublican should ever be inaugnrated President of the United States, thoy are to day conniving to elect Lixcolv. As an indirect way of doing it they have nominated Biikckinkidoe, and will endeavor to get votes enough lor hini in the North, through the aid and authority of the national adniinistration owned body and eoul by them, to give every Northern State to Lincols and dofeat Doiolas. We say this is the object of the nomtöatión of Breckinuidqe. for no man of cornmon gense, and especially no man of the shrewduess supposed to be posaessed by Southern poliüciuns, harbors the idea that BitECKiNiuDUEcan carry a singlo Northern State ; and without tiiirtv-two Northern electoral votes he cannot be elected by the pie : and lus election by the House is by no tneans to becouoted on. On tlie other hand, tho Republicana almost unanimouely avow that they prefur the election of Breckinridgí to that of Douolas, and tho succcss of the Southern fire-eaters to the triumph oí the Domocracy. They prefor this result oí the canvass becanse tho success of the Southern movement and ticket would be the establishment of the doctrine of Congressional control, and let who will be President they expect to have tho control of Congress, and in the Senuto and House be able to wage wago the " irrepressiblo conflict," even to a dismcmbermunt of the Union cannot their ends be accomplished without. This, then, is tho coinmon ground of the Kepublicans and Southern seceders, tho right. of Congres to logislate upon slavery in the Territorios, and the "irrepressiblo conflict" betwoen tho free States and the slave States, which must make all freo or all slave, or soparato them into two or more confederados. Botwecn these two conllicting yetharmonizin partios, stands the Democratie party - the Party oï tuf Union. lts candidatos are planted upon tho eternal principie of self-governmont, and pledged to allow each State find Territory to regúlate theii own internal affairs as provided for by tlio C0D8titutipp, Theso candidatos are Stepiibm A. Dougi.as and Heksciirl V. Johnson, and if you deny tbe ''irroprc8sible conflict" bctween the States, deny tho omnipotence of Congress and the central goverümeoï, and bolieve in the rihtof the Stulesaml TerritorieB ! to self-government, yon wil! give them yoi.r votes.