New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-08-03
q For Summary Of Foreign News by
the Columbia, and an Association Article
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o. For The Ideal, and The Reign OF
Terror, Continued see Last Page.


Terror, (continued,) see Last Page.
The Party of Principle and the Party
without Principles.
For the last ten years it has been standing
parrot-song of the party which combines PROBES
sions of ultra Democracy with most loyal sup
port Of Executive dcsposra ia all its phases, and
of gag.laws to suppress the Right Of Petition, TO
vaun. itself the sole party possessing any defined
and positive principles, aad to represent U.s. its
antagonists, as governed by no common principles
whatever, or none ,ha. we dare avow, but sway
ing to every local prejudice, to every caprice of
the passing hour. Now, this latter assertion has
some color of truth at its basis, or rather it has
had. The Wing party called into being by
common feeling Of hostility to certain great, over
shadowing practical abuses in our Government
and its animating sentiment, its bond of union,
has been resistance TO those abuses. Such were
its professed and such itsreal bases Of agreement
and common action. Its origin was not in any
speculative views Of the rights Of Man and the
nature Of Government, but in res;stonoo m,alaa-
ninistra.ion, to practical abuses, and to the enor
NOUS aistension of Executive Power and Patron
.ge through the fundamentally Of the Veto and
tho doctrine of the Spoils.' These truths ex-
pressed in its very name.
But while such has been the avewed and well
understood fact on one side, what has been the
actual state of things the other There flaunts
the nsme Of Democracy, indeed; but what does 1t
oxpress2 In what psssible sense, not palpably at
war with common sense, are Calhoun, Pickens 81
Co. Democrats if the Autocrat Nicholas is not
- fol ne
is intent on absishing personal servtude through
out his dominions, while Messrs. Calhoun, Nc
Dufie &c. boldly declare and resoutely insist that
eternal slavery is the necessary and proper condi-
ton Of large portion of the human race. To
call these men and their supple and dcspised In
struments, the Athertons, Floyds and Bownes from
the North, Democrats, and afhx contrary desig-
nation to the determined opponents of their Gag
Laws, is to insult the reason of mankind. And
ne unprecedented observer of passing events can
fail to discern and acknowledge that while thore
are individuals of democratic and others OF aristo-
cratic sentiments and feelings in each party and
in all parties among as, yet Democracy does not
fern, and for years has not formed, the real line
of demarcation between them, and that the sys !
tsmatic assertion of the contrary is but trick of
the designing to deceive the ignorant and unwary
But the fact to which we desired to call atten-
ton is this-that the progress of events through |
the LAST ten years has been such to induce far
greater uniformity of sentiment among the Wings |
on the various questions really at issue before the
country, while it has developed radical differences
among our opponents. Now we have never sup |
posed or imagined that there could be entire uni |
formity Of sentiment in the ranks of either host
that the cotton-planter of Georgia, the squater of
Missouri, the wheat-grower of the Centre and the
Manufacturer of New-England, though belonging !
to the same party would think exactly alike on |
al questions of Political Economy and National
Policy which may arise-much less on all specu-
lative questions. But can be ignorant of
the fact that on the two main questions at
issue before the Country the Wings are united, al
most to q man. Nearly every voice among them
is raised to affirm the policy and duty of PRoTEc
TON TO HoxE INDUSTRY and of providing UNI
yoRn NATIONAL CURRENCY. The few exceptions
yet presented are every day becoming fewer and
still fewer. On the other knnd, where are oar OPP
ponents-the Wanted party of principles7 In
this City, the devotees Of that utter nenresistance
to grasping Foreign policy SO grossly misnamed
Free Trade; so in the Cotton States; but not so
in Vermont, in Pennsylvania, or in Massachusetts
There they are for Protection, and abuse the
Wings for not throwing every thing else overheard
to secure it. So in Connecticut, as Gov. Clevc-
laad's Message testi6es; so in Troy, where they
assert that Nobody is opposed to incidenta1 Pro
lection. And thus they oscillate-or rather,
cillsse-between Protection and Free Trade
Hard Money and irredsemablc State Banks
from Maine to Arkansas, changing hues with the
cemeleon and consistent but in inconsistency.
But we aeed not 60 abroad for evidence
Every shade Of opinion on this great question,
from almost right to wholly wrong, finds disciples
and propagators in the Leco-F oco ranks of our
OWE State and so other questions-Internal
Improvement, for example. While the Wings oc-
cspy one well defined position On this, we see Lo-
co-Focoism hostile to all father prosecution of
Staia Works by Loans in half the State; in favor
Of the speedy Enlargement in the Canal Counties;
of the Champlain Railroad in the North and the
Erie in the South, and every where governed by
the narrewest views of local advantage. No
party ever presented so strange diversity of per
verseaess on any great question. Yet these are
the gentlemen who habitually accuse the Why's
ofa lack of common purposes, and VAIN, their
own superiority the party of consistency and of
principle!
Ey We understand that DIR. David Nj. Reese
Of this city has been appointed Professor of the
Institutes of Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence