Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1849-09-17
From the Baltimore American.
TIE DISSOLVED DENOCRA CN

80 I"P
The Provis1 wedge has undoubtedly split the late
Cass party, aud 81 roughly, aud with SO many splinters
aud ugly twists, that there is no probability Of its being
united together again. The disruption is beyond the viz
tues Of glue, nor is there any emulllent that can 81 soften
the ruptnred paris as to enable them 10 grow together a
gain. Even The cohesive power, designated by a South
en statesman a. the essential bond Of unity to that patty
fails to hold the mass together any longer, aud is potent
only IN the fragments.
The dissolution Of the party was announced by Mr..
JONI VAN buren, some time since and in his re-
cent speech 10 his Barnburning friends in Convention,
repeats the announcement of the fact and dwells upon it
thus
81 had occasion 10 say elsewhere that the national De-
mocratic party Of The Union was dssolvcd-noi that it
was defeated OF annihila,ed in the States in which II texts
fed. said. that, while the resolutions 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 pfnslavery man. there could be no
national Democratic party, unless we Were at once pre-
pared To stand on The "a ne platform aud make that a test
of Democracy: ApplauSrs. ! had the highest author
ity 10 this remark. did not pretend 10 dissolve the
party. but stated merely an humble fact. Laugh
ter
II was dissolved by the South long ago. What consti.
,utcs a national parly2 One with n singlo broad national
organization; with members of it in tho Southern State
who will vote the regular Democratic ticket, no matter
what becomes Of slavcry.' There Is no sucl, party, fol
they have resolved at tho Slu'h 10 support NJ man I'M
lcss he agrees in opinion with them. and in opposition
To the notorious convictions, as conceded by the com
mltlee OF the other conventions, OF the entire North OF
this subject. had hooIe me, also, the fact that a Dem
ocrat in Oregon. in Vermont OF in Pennsylvania, woul,
he rejected as an sbollpionlst in Alabama. il, indeed, h,
did net suffer serious personal injury II he went there
They would regard him as n kind OF heather. How
then. can we talk ola national party2 We had ais,
the declaration of what was, by some, considered Thu
Democratic organ. at the seat Of the Federal Government
the Washington Union that this was .ight-tha
it was not neces 'ary To have a national creed-that thei
friends in the various States could confne their differences
10 those States themselves. and that the Democrats of III
; State had a right TO complain of Tho action of those o
another. We are To have thirty little platforms, then
one in each State. And was to blame, a boy like me
laughter, i'll took my slate to 90 home. when the ot
schoolmaSter told us we were dismissed Increase
!, laughter. Our situation now Is entirely different. 10
body pre,ends that we can sand upon the southern plat
form-and nobody prctends that there is any pecessil,
for OFT making any national platform. You can stand
if You choose with the North-wilh Wisconsin, Yer
mont, Ohio, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Maine
y With any Of your States you can stand on you can d
what is better, and much more to the honor of the DE
mucracy Of this Sta,e-yuu can stand alonei" An
plause.
The fact of the dissolution being admitted. ano,he
" fac, seems to be overlooked by this speaker, viz. that hi
own project Of re-orsaniz,ting anational party upon tn
sectional basis he has assumed, is as repugnant TO al
ideas Of nationality, and t, The spirit of the Constitution
as the establishment of thirty platforms would be, eacI
State De hning its own democracy.
| The truth is, that nnlhing but a real les, has been want
ing for years 10 prove the sham OF that sort Of Dcmocra-
| cy, which has, by a coalition of factions interests, ST
r long kept IN a most incongruous union the restrictive dog
mas of Southern aristocracy and the va aud random
radicalism Of the North. The test has come. and
with it has come a %disrupiive force which scatters an,
disperses The mutually repugnaui elements, now that
greater force does not control aud subject their true afin
5 tiles.