The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-09-04

only one sacrifice. The gulf is yawning;
and if the senior editor will only consent,
Curtius-like, to take plunge into the
abyss, we think il would close over him and
bridge the chasm which divides the Demo
cracy.
We are persuaded that nothing will
ever reconcile the house of Albany to the
Democratic party, until the last vestige of
power passes from the hands of the RlT-
cHIEs, DENBYs, STEvENsoNs, OsBoRNEs,
and the elite of the distinguished Demo-
Gratis who live in the annals of the Rich
mond Sweat-house. As long as the house
of Richmond furnishes an organ grinder
for the Democratic party-as long as one
of the assassins OF that sweet little fellow,
MIR. VAN buren,, manufactures principles
and doctrines for Locofocodom-there will
be no peace between Albany and Rich
mond. These people hate each other too
bitterly When they abuse the WIGS,
and call them by all manner of bad names,
they mean nothing by it; but when they
call each other knaves and fools, they be-
lieve in it, and are really in earnest. But
we are wandering from our purpose, which
was to give passage on this subject from
Mr.. VAN BUREN'S speech.
81 had occasion to say elsewhere that the national
Democratic party of the Union dissolved-not
| 1.fa tod in
which it existed ] said they had succeeded in
some of the States in electing nearly their entire
delegation to Congress. | said that, while the
solutions stood unrepealed in the southern States,
declaring that under no political necessity would
| they support a man in the Union who was not a
thorough pro-slavery man, there could be no ma
tiona Democratic party, unless at once
prepared 10 stand on the same platform, and make
that test of Democracy. [Applausel ! had the
highest authority for this remark did not pre-
tend to dissolve the party, but stated merely an
humble fact [Laughter.l TWAS dissolved by the
South long ago. What constitutes national par
ty? One with single broad national organization;
with members of it in the southern States who will
| vote the regular Democratic ticket, no matter
| what becomes of slavery. There is no such party,
for they have resolved at the South to support no
man unless he agrees in opinion with them, and
in opposition to the notorious convictions, as
i conceded by the committee of the other conven-
ton, of the entire North on this subject had be-
fore me, also, the fact that Democrat in Oregon,
in Vermont, in Pennsylvania, would be rejected
as an abolitionist in Alabama, if, indeed, he did
suffer serious personal injury if he went there
| They would regard him kind of heather.
| How then, can talk of national party? We
had also the declaration of what was by some, con-
sidercd the Democratic organ, at the seat OF the
| Federal Government-the Washington Union
that this right-tha il was not necessary TO have
a national creed-that their friends in the various
States could conne their differences To those States
themselves, and that the Democrats of no State had
a right to complain of the action of those of an
other We to have thirty little platforms, then,
one in each State. And was ! to blame, a boy like
me, [laughtcr,l if took my slate to go home,
| when the old schoolmarm told were dis
missed? Increased laughter Our situation now
is entirely different. Nobody pretends that we can
stand upon the southern patform-and nobody
pretcnds that there Is any necessity for our making
any national platform. You can stand, if you
| choose with the North-with Wisconsin, Vermont
Ohio, New Hampshire Pennsylvania, and Maine
| With any of those States you can stand-or you
can do what is better, and much more To the homo
of the Democracy of this State-you can stanC
alonc!" [Applausel