The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-08-23
Dissolution OF Cliques and Regencics.-
Reconstruction OF the Democracy o

Reconstruction OF the Democracy OF
Numbers.
! The papers of the different sections Of
the Democracy account variously for the
recent failure of the attempt, at the Rome
convention, to reunite the Democratic
party in the State of New York. The
Free-Soilers, in their address to the Dem
ocratic Republican electors of the State,
accuse the convention of Old Hunkers
| Styled the CAss convention) of deter
mination to PROSTATE the Democratic par
ty, and /" surrender the State to the
WHlGs, with the various objects of aveng-
ing past defeats, pecuniary advantage
here, immunity for crime, and the desper-
ate chance of political rewards from other
States" Here are charges Of corruption,
with witness! The WHIGs have been
speaking quite as i'll OF these men for the
last twenty years; and the anti-CAss
Democrats have but just fully opened their
eyes to their character. The corruption
Of many Of the old leaders of the Demo
cratic party in New York was as well
known in 1889 as it is in lS49; and yet
the men who are now making such false
cIamor about avariety of free things, were
themselves the tools and slaves of these
very leaders, till they found the organiza-
ton so thoroughly rotten and corrupt, that
it was necessary to proclaim its dissolu-
ton.
The New York Epening Post evidently
thinks quite as i'll of the Old Hunkers
as the gentlemen thought who signed
the Free-Soil address owe will not
profess" says that old Federal jour
nal, g to be disappointed at this re-
+" suit. Indeed, our readers will remem-
&C Der that we stated some two weeks ago
" the improbability of any union being eff
{" fected through the agency of such men
" as composed the majority of the Cass
q" convention. They haze no interest in
:" common with the party they represented.
=" Their struggle has been, as ave presumed
at wouh be, from the Uey commence
"ment, to continue the ascendency of the
I" Wing party, whose policy they prefer and
+" whose protection they require"
The Old Hunker party, thus denounced,
numbered among its members in the Cass
convention Mr.. ex-Secretary MARCY, Mr..
ex- Chancellor WALwoRTH, Mr.. Senator
DICKINSON, and Mr.. ex-Chief Justice
BEARDsLEY. Now, if It'll really true that
these gentlemen are solicitous for the as
tendency of the WING party, there must
be some good reason for it. This allega-
ton is distinctly made, both in the Free
Soil address and by the EUening Post.
Why is it that they desire the ascendency
of the WIG party' They have reached
time Of life when they look less to party
than heretofore, and more to their coun-
try. Their ambition has been gratifed by
distinguished honors. They can afford to
sacrifice something to the spirit of patriot
ism. We think it probable enough, as the
Free-Soilers charge, that many of the
old members of the Democratic party in
the State of New York are satisfied that
the country is doing well enough under
President TAYLOR, and that the people are
likely to obtain, under his Administration,
all that they desire. They see that the
: Free-Soilers and their Abolition allies are
seeking to distract the country on local
and sectional issue; and we have no doubt
that very many of them would come at once
into the WIG organization rather than con-
tribute to the success of an Abolition fac
ton. With the views that President
TAYLOR has always avowed-of implicit
obedience to the will of the people consti-
tutionally eXpressed-we are not only not
surprised to learn that very many of the
old Democratic party will be gratifed by
Wing ascendency, but we are astonished
that any true Democrat can enter into a
factious opposition.
But ii would seem, from the intmations
Of the EUening Post, that the CAss con-
venton was entirely controlled by the Sc
very men. we copy portion OF Its com
ments in this connexion:
, Z" We need hardly state what is apparent upon
{ =" the face Of the proceedings of the Hunker con.
q vention, that but few of its members respon
" siblc for the result of its deliberations Some hay
" dozen individuals, armed ruth influence deriUeo
: from the high positions they haze heretofore held IN
90 the public sevice, ou9dCed he Of its members
" ,rho had not The courage or the accomplishments ne
% cessary 10 defend hemseiUes." Had il been other
j " wsc and had the exact state of feeling and opin
: ion existing in the two conventions received ex.
preston, either by fair and intelligent discus
y sion in the Hunker convention Of the proposition,
: Z" of the JefTersonian Democrats, or by the com.
: &" ningiing 81 the two bodies, twice urged
sc by the latter we have no doubt that the union Of
Z" the party would have been contaminated. But
il has been otherwise ordained. II may be- that
Sc union at this time il premature. The feeling o
aiiesation and disirSt IS so Uirdent that IL may b.
> perhaps impossible 10 construct homogeneous po