Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1851-07-17

The following is portion Of the address late
!, put forth by the Democratic State Central
n,mn;ttee Of Massachusetts, understood to be
kom the pen of the Hon. Caleb Gushing.
Mr Cushing has marked some of The grada-
.nns Inc country has already passed through to-
1873 dissolution, and they are so well put,
!. ralpahly true, and so suggestive, that we cam
~ merely because they bear the name of Dem
sss,s;r refuse to avail ourselves Of them, and en-
I..vor 10 impress upon our readers the grave and
S;ss,ortant lessons they teach, and the admon-
lions they furnish.
XII has come to pass" he observes. 'stha.. in
n. course. and as the effect Of the agitation of
G;s question, we have witnessed the following
.t.res in the progress Of the disintegration and
.rgsnic dissolution of the Union, namely:
n. A severance Of most Of the churches Of
~ limited States into two distinct and hostile re-
Isicus natonalties, in place OF that, their Prev,
"a unity of religious organization, which had
Constituted one Of the strongest moral bonds of
M nolitical nationality Of the Union.
rs The gradual separation of the educational
,...ntions Of the country, and especially the to-
II - martial cessation Of the previous practice,
:, she mart Of the young men OF the South. of
pursuing the higher branches of education at the
North.
North struggling continually to acquire facilities
- attack, and the South to obtain vantage-ground
q defence.
4 a The growth of spirit of elimination and
examination North heated by exaggeration
u theory ana opinicn--the South BY sense of
s.r;J arising from their numerical inferiority in
Eone-ess and in both sections of the Union per-
snr,I ambition making the emotion of the dav an
instrument of power, and innamins and cmbitter-
M the popular passions to promote its own in
teFe,ted object, dsregardful Of the general good.
.t5. Following upon this, more or less personal
arrangement and reciprocal hard feeling, indica-
led al The North by the vituperative language OF
dehate newspapers. public meetings. and even
o66cal bodies. towards the citizens of the South,
md manifested at the South in the introduction
or manufactures and shipping of their own in
Mace Of ours, in the encouragement of colleges
for education at home, and in abstinence from
accustomed acts of social intercourse at the
North.
"a. The disorganizaticn Of those great parties
which have served hitherto to impart to political
action generality Of concert and nationality of
,coue. Neither between the North and the
south. nor at the North or the South. does that
concert now cordially exist. Acts of Congress
,re passed by combination of Democrats and
Whirs against combination Of Wings and Dem
ocrafs In some Of the States Of the South the
distinction Of Wing and Democrat has ceased to
apnear in public affairs. In the North. each of
the old parties is itself subdiyded, aud both are
held in check by third party-the Free Sellers
(which is in organization hostile to both. In
some States the Wings reproach the Democrats
for cooperating with Free Sellers while the
Wings themselves, in the same or in other States.
have coalesced with Free Sellers or others, and
thus endeavored to hold the dominion Of the
State. This partial disintegration of parties is
the more important inasmuch as the Constitution
provides no means of concert in electoral action,
which has been secured under it only by national
convention, or something of that nature and the
tendency Of this party anarchy, therefore, is to
produce political anarchy. In fact. such is al
ready the Reorganization of parties. that, with
out combination Of some sort, in many of the
Sates it would be impossible to accomplish the
annual continuation and renewal Of government
which the State constitutions require.''
HE who denies that there is danger to the
Union in all this,' adds Mr. Gushing, .'must be
inperfectly acquainted with the facts, or so
psjudiced by feeling or position as to suppose
that one-half of the States of the Union will sub
nit passivelv to unlimited aggression and inces-
SAINT attack from the other States.
The exigency calls upon US deliberately to in
spect and measure the danger, and calmly to de-
eide what is the duty Of good citizen in this
emergency.
We concur most heartily in every sentiment
here uttered, and have pleasure in finding our
selves-mere party names aside-once more with
the writer, as we formerly were, when he proud
" bore the designation Of Wig.