New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-06-14

earnestness and pertinacity to Wing politics
and Wing leaders. But We are not their slave
and never feel bound to approve anything
because it is done BY . Wing Legislature
or Governor OF President and on the other
hand we are no believers in indiscriminate
condemnation, OF faint praise for a good thing
done or said by one of our opponents. Such
course would not agroo either with our
taste, or our idea of the best way of serving
our political principles.
But it is remarkable-and it Is an encour-
aging omen in public ahairs,-that the old
parties are exceeding shy Of the new cues
tons which come up to divide the country.
They are afraid of them, and prefer to have
them decided outside Of their ranks
Neither Wings nor Opposition have ldenti-
fed themselves with Land Reform, for In
stance prominent men IN both parties have
done it, but the parties themselves have not
and will not For the moment at least, com
pact and thorough going parties exist only
with reference to few questions Of long
standing. The new parties, if such :hore
arc to be, are not formed yet, and we do
not see the signs Of their speedy formation
What chance is there Of the Northern
party, of which we have heard and spo-
ken in times past ! We do not per-
ceivo any the questions of protection and
of the powers Of the Federal Governmen
underly and must control the sympathles
that might otherwise bring together large
fractions of the Wings and Opposition. But
at anv rate there can be only two great,
permanently controlling parties IN the coun-
try; and he who attempts TO set up new
one willSdo well to renounce the hope Of
ever seeing it in a commanding position.
If he make the attempt on personal or tenn
porary. questions, his effort will be short
lived if he seek to base his new organlZa-
ton on new and true ideas, he will find his
IDEAS much more successful than his organ
ization. A party is thing of slow and in
some sort Of spontaneous growth, as well as
of tardy dissolution.
Because man belongs to a partyit does
not follow that he should be encased within
its limits and speak only by its shlbboleth.
A politician may be a reformer; certain ends
can best be gained through the action Of his
party; certain other ends he pursues apart,
or with another class Of associates. And we
think that the reformers who would conhne all
men to their peculiar mode of action, are
quito as much out of the way as the polltl-
cal party which would exclude all It's adhe-
rents who at the same time are anything
more. For the fact is that Society and Nan
are improved and elevated by means inf
nitely various and diverse, and it Is not wise
to be intolerant toward our friends on points
where we chance to differ.
Our correspondent concludes his letter
with an inquiry about the coming Preslden-
tial election, and profession Of his readl-
ness to vote for either JOHN P. Halls of
New Hampshire or ISAAC ?. WALKER of
Wisconsin, in case they are nominated. We
answer that if he be convinced that to vote
for either of these gentlemen is on the whole,
the lkeliest way to establish the principles
and line of policy which he would have pre-
vail in the country, he would be right to do
! so Rut If does not follow that because man
has declared himself in favor of this or that
reform. that he is the best man for Presi-
dent. or that his doctrines, taking the whole
of them together, are the best to be applied
in the administration of the Government.
The questions complicated and many-sided,
and cannot wisely be solved except on look
ing at every one of its aspects and bearings.