The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1846-04-07
THE GALAXY.
MIDDLEBURY. VT.
Tuesday, Aprils7. 1916,
PARTY AGAINST TIE COUNTRY.

PARTY AGAINST THE COUNTRY.
No intelligent man who has observed the
course of the Locofoco party for years past
has doubted that the preservation Of power
and not the public welfare has been TOO often
paramount to every other object. But never
has this mortifying truth been so openly and
shamelessly avowed as since the late split in
the Democratic ranks in the halls OF Con-
gress on the Oregon question.
Who would have supposed it possible in
the purer days Of the Republic that the de-
crees of conclave of political iniriguers,
possessing no legal authority from The people,
and coming together to consult for private
ends, should be openly proclaimed as binding
upon the legislative action of Members Of
Congress. And yet Messrs. flanagan and
Douglass have avowed that the pro6igae
bargain which was made by the Baltimore
Convention, for the remuneration of Texas
and occupation Of The whole of Oregon, and
The destruction of the Tariff, should form the
creed Of the Democratic Members of Con-
sress. These they declared the standard of
Orthodoxy IN the Democratic Church, and
should any one deny the faith it is well undei-
stood he must be broken under the inquisto-
rial wheel ofparty discipline.
If such detestable proceedings are to con-
troll the deslinies of the Nation, there can be
no further use of Constitutional Congress
unless to register the edicis of clique ofpo-
ltical loafers who once in four years might be
assembled at fillmore. Even the President
himself is menaced by the power behind The
throne. Having proved momenlariIy refrac
tory in carrying out the DEGREES of King eau
Gus never TO surrender an inch Of Oregon
though war, rapine, and slaughter through
earth and ocean should be the result he has
already been denounced by the vassals offac
ton as an Infamous man, and if he PERSISTS IN
pacific measures, he is TO be sunk so low
that, to use the impious language of Hanne-
gan, "the hard Of resurrection cannot find
him." And what is worst OF all, he now seems
to cover to the brutal and bIood-thirsty pur-
poses of these Western war-hawks.
Who ever before dreampt that such rank
corruption could be eugendered in this free
country. Allegiance to party has become
the rule Of public duty. Political partizans
have the hordihood to rise in Congress and
declare that the resolutions Of self cons,itu-
ted convention of Office seekers and Office
holders, VIGOROUSLY drown togeiherby the
adhesive power of public plumber, should be
implicitly obeyed by Constitutional Con-
gress assembled TO deliberate and decide for
the whole Nation.
And yet this sort Of political vilainy has
often been practiced upon the people Of the
Union by the dominant party. All the mis-
fortunes of the Nation since the advent of
Gen. Jackson iuts the government, have !
sprung from sacrificing the country to party. |
But cheated and hoodwinked as the people !
have hitherto been, when loco leaders openly |
avow themselves. bound TO iegis!a,e for par
ty purposes, and TO carry out party DEGREES,
will they submit longer to see the interests
aud honor Of the country thus basely betrayed !