Alexandria Gazette

The "National Democracy."

The Kansas issue, was the controlling and all-absorbing issue in the last Presidential campaign; and upon that issue, there was, we were told, no division of sentiment among the national Democracy. A Maine Democrat was a fac simile of a Virginia Democrat, and a Georgia Democrat was a fac simile of an Illinois Democrat--there was, indeed, no difference, particularly so far as the Kansas question was concerned, between Democrats in either or any section of the Union. They were all birds of the same feather, and flocked together at the polls, and would stand together in the halls of Congress, in obedience to the inevitable attraction of principles, sympathies, and objects, in common. Such was the sweet, the plausible, the never varying song, which the Democratic presses and politicians of the South poured into the ears of the Southern people, during the whole of the last Presidential canvass, and which they have continued to repeat ever since, until within the last few weeks, when its charm has been dissolved, and the people themselves awakened from their delusion.--Rich. Whig.