The Evening Argus

The Democratic Party.
From the Ohio Statesman.

Some of the abolition papers are endeavoring to create the belief that there is a split in the democratic party in Ohio—not that they believe it, but because they want it to be believed. Other papers of that class are wiser, and warn their readers not to be beguiled by any such nonsense. It is true that a few men—a very few—the leaders of which have oftener been out of the democratic party than in it, are talking of organizing what they are pleased to call "The State Sovereignty Democracy." The democracy of Andrew Jackson is not good enough for them. The democracy of the two million of voters who voted for McClellan for president is not good enough for them. Nothing is good enough for them that is not dictated by them. The opinions of other men are entitled to no consideration; the talents of all men are contemptible, their learning mere chaff, and their services deserving no manner of approbation. Had these men stood where Moses did before the burning bush, instead of receiving the ten commandments from Jehovah, they would have sought to impose at least ten upon Him. This is the same little knot of notoriety seekers who tried to get up a third candidate for the presidency last fall, and signally failed. While another little squad, calling themselves the war democracy, were resolving in New York city to support the reelection of Lincoln, the Ohio squad, co-laborers for the same end, were plotting to bring out a "Simon Pure Democrat" against McClellan. And now, having done all they could to defeat the democratic candidate for the presidency, they have the effrontery to say to two hundred thousand democratic voters of Ohio: "Follow our cab or we will blow you to the Devil." And what is it they ask the democratic party to subscribe to, or suffer annihilation? Why, democrats, you are required to declare that Jackson was no democrat, because he denied the right of a state to secede, and that Mr. Wm. M. Corry is the indisputable head of your party, because he says that a state has that right. It is true that no such plank was ever found in a democratic platform, and that the southern states have quit talking about the right of secession, but why should not we allow Mr. Corry to have a new plank for us and to clothe us in the cast-off garments of the south?

Secondly—You are required to proclaim from the house tops that negro slavery is inevitable, desirable and right. Here again it is true that such a plank has never been in our platform, and that the south, whatever may be its opinion as to the right, policy or humanity of negro slavery, seems to have made up its mind that negro freedom is inevitable. But this does not deter Mr. Corry. Many great men at the south taught secession and slavery and failed. But what Mr. Corry teaches cannot fail—in his opinion.

But enough of this—and our only excuse for writing this much, is that we are not likely to ever recur to the subject again. This pretended organization of another party is a mere sham. It has not even the merit of originality, notwithstanding the great geniuses who are making a fuss about it. Thirty odd years ago, when General Jackson was president, the same thing, upon pretty much the same secession plank, was tried in Ohio. It came to nothing then, and this poor imitation will come to nothing now. The whole country knows that the democracy are a state right party—not secessionists, but state rights men in the truest and best sense of the term. And the whole country knows, also, that if the schemes of the consolidationists, who are striving to concentrate all power in the hands of the general government, and to reduce the states to the condition of mere provinces, shall be successfully resisted, it is to be by the determined opposition of the democratic party. And, whoever sets himself to work to sow discord in that party, and to weaken its influence, is, simply, whatever sentiments he may profess, a tool in the hands of the consolidationists, and working for their success.