Democratic banner., 1846-09-14
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER IA

We perceive from an examination OF our
exchanges, that the Missourien has been
resurrected; and that it is hereafter to be
issued regularly once a week under the
control of its former editor John Howard
Tice. We had hoped that the Uni0n form
ed by the two opposing factions Of the St.
Louis democracy was made ingood faith,
and that it would exert a s%alutary inHu-
ence upon the democracy of the whole
State. But how vain was the hope! 1t
seems that nothing good can result from
the action of the DoulG be leaders Of the
st. Louis democracy. Scarcely was the
contract made, and the mis- called Union eff
fected, ere the green-eyed monster whisper
ed in the ears of the jealous, that the spoils
we're in danger, when suddenly their Union
was turned into GiscOrd. 4 panic seizes
each faction from the mere suspicion that
the other wishes to enjoy a share of the e.
monuments Of Office. What presumption
that the other should dare to interfere with
their own peculiar property which they had
set apart as sacred to their use. This
will never do. Their own peculiar rights
cannot be sacrafced. Such union cannot
last, it must be dissolved. Let each fac
ton raise its W paper, to puff into impor-,
lance its w wouH be great men. The
leaders Of the Hard faction must have their
torgan to hazon their merits and services to
the State, and surely the leaders of the
other faction must have theirs lest the good
people of Missouri should forget their
greatness. Let each paper huzza for its
own favorites, and let there be a general
scramble for Office. Then there will be-
concession and harmony, and a most beau
t~ifuluniOn for principle. But CT what a.
vail is principle where the interest of a
demasogue is concerned? What cares he
for the interest Of his party, or the advance
mcnt of principle, if he can but ride into
Office? Read the history of the St. Louis
democracy, and you will read a history re-
plete with the struggles of this and of that
faction for selE-aggrandizement. We are
tired of their eternal talk about hard and
soft and their ~factious scramble for office.
AS We said before, we rejoicced at the pros
psct Of a union of the st. Louis hards and
'soits, believing that it was formed in good
faith, and that it would prove ofIasting ben
eft to the party. But as the two papers are
again in the land of the living, we wish.
though almost without hope, that they may
forget their former aninosities, and endeav-
or &c rival each other in the support of the
great and cardinal principle of the demo
cratic party. Bat if deaf to the calls Of
principle, they should again endeavor 70
stir the embers Of strife and faction; we
= hope that the democratic press throughout
the State and the Union, may frown upon
them, and administer to them that rebukeI
which their past conduct has SO richly met-
tied.
From the last accounts, we perceive that
the two belligerant parties are still ,under
arms in Hancock. A tremendous war of
words has been carried on for some weeks,
though but little WJ0d has been spilled. 1t
10 said that the party of antics, about a
thousand strong, has proceeded to within $
miles of Nauvoo, t~hreatning destruction to
the city and Temple. They have several
pieces Of ordnance with which they expect
to demoltsh the city IF they should meet
with any opposition. But as they have
been so long in marching a distance of on
. ly' some ten or fifteen miles, we presume it
WILDE a week or 10 days before they will
have marched the other 5 to Nauyoo :
Then we may possibly hear of a fight iftheir
"eourage does not ooze out at their fingers
ends" before they got there.
20 The town is said to. be defended by some
Dor 6 hundred who are determined to resist
them even to the last extremity. The cit
liens Of Nauvoo charge upon. the party of
antics all sorts of d~epredations and o~utrac-i
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