The North Carolinian

THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY
THE PARTY FOR THE SOUTH.

The resolutions passed by the late democratic State convention of Pennsylvania, and the patriotic sentiments avowed by Governor Dinsmore, of New Hampshire, in his inaugural message, declare the true position of the national democratic party at the North. To the character of this position we invite the profound attention of the Southern people, with a fixed confidence that they will recognise in it the truth of what we assert, without hesitation, that the South can look to the national democratic party alone for the preservation of her rights. The sentiments of the Pennsylvania resolutions and of Governor Dinsmore's message are the sentiments of the democratic party of the North. With these sentiments inscribed upon its banner, it is now marshalling its hosts to battle against the disorganizing principles that have taken possession of the heart of the whig party of the North, and wedded it to factious and sectional views. Indeed, although we reiterate and lay stress upon them, at this time, these sentiments contain in them nothing new to the creed of the democratic party. They have always, in times past, shaped the course and controlled the action of the national democracy. That they will do so for the future, this new avowal of them, in the very teeth of rampant northern fanaticism, is proof too strong to admit of doubt in an honest mind. By pursuing a course less determined and patriotic, the northern democrats might easily conciliate a large portion of those who now so bitterly oppose them in unholy alliance with northern whiggery; but as a party, they have ever scorned, and, we have every reason to believe, ever will scorn, thus to palter with the safety and the best interests of our common country. With northern abolitionists they have no fellowship. They have made no concessions to them; they have none to make. On the contrary, as the conflict deepens they present, if possible, a more determined front to that combination of northern abolitionism and northern whiggery which is daily struggling to break up this confederacy, or to degrade the southern portion of it. At a time when the crafty policy of the whig party has enveloped the position of its southern wing in doubt, and left us little, if anything, to hope from its course at the North, the democratic party is speaking out in thunder tones, and declaring the unalterable principles upon which it will henceforth do battle in the cause of the constitution and the Union. Men of the South! can such a generous and fearless challenge for your confidence and support be passed by unheeded and unanswered? Can you vote for whig men and whig measures at the South, while the allies of such men at the North are foes to you, and while the democratic party, both North and South, is alone true to those principles which are essential to the preservation of your rights? It cannot be that you can longer hesitate in the choice which you must make between your friends and your enemies. If you are sincere in seeking the twofold object—the preservation of the Union and the rights of the South in it—you cannot hesitate to link your destinies with those of the national democratic party. We believe this with a sincerity which knows nothing of party feeling. We believe it because the evidence of our senses leave no loophole upon which to hang a doubt. But if you would endanger the cause of the South, then you have but to discard the party and enlist under the banner of its enemies.