The Daily Union

REGULAR NOMINATIONS.

The unanimity of the democratic members of the House of Representatives in placing in nomination, according to the usages of the democratic party, their regular candidates for all the offices of the House, is in accordance with the known and settled policy of the democratic party, and will be hailed with pleasure in every State of the Union. At this moment the democracy of the United States cling to regular nominations as secondary to their imperishable principles alone. All their late victories against know-nothingism and abolitionism have been achieved by their steady adherence to regular nominations, and in the universal resolution to be successful in 1856 they have nobly sunk all personal feuds and sectional prejudices. The election of the indomitable Wise, of Virginia, was one of the most signal victories of regular nominations. The triumph of John Anthony Winston, of Alabama, was also a tribute to regular nominations. Wickliffe, of Louisiana, Pease, of Texas, Johnson, of Tennessee, and many other heroes of the late elections, were carried through by the boldness and fidelity of the disinterested democracy to regular nominations. And if we turn our eyes to the northern States, we shall find that wherever the democrats have displayed most zeal and enthusiasm it has been in support of the candidates placed in nomination by the majority in the respective State, county, or district conventions. There is not, with two or three exceptions, in either house of Congress, a democrat who is not indebted to a regular nomination for his seat. The spirit which now animates the democracy of the Union is the spirit which demands full obedience on the part of the representative to the decision of his constituents, and especially to the example which placed him in the seat which he holds. The democrats of the House have anticipated the wishes of the democrats of the country; and where is the democrat who witnessed the harmony and the constancy of the noble democratic column in the House, during yesterday's ballotings, who did not feel proud of his great party. We are gratified to be able to add that the same spirit of fidelity to democratic usage was manifested in the caucus of democratic senators held on yesterday.

It should be remembered that the New York Evening Post has commenced the warfare upon conventions preparatory to the presidential canvass, when one of the hopes of the opponents of democracy will be to throw the election into the House of Representatives. When abolitionism thus unmasks its designs, it would be inexcusable in democratic members of Congress to do otherwise than display the spirit which now animates both houses.