The republic., 1851-07-16
Attempted Combinations Between the Conn
promise and Higher Law Democrats.


1t is we'll known that the Democratic party,
which has, like the Latter Day Saints" taken
up their permanent abode upon the borders Of
''the Great Salt Lake." do not bear their lot
with the patriotic endurance of their exiled
examplars. The Democratic party, like the
peculiar people of far earlier period, perpetu-
ally reproach their leaders with their pro-
longed privations in the wilderness of pro-
scription. They hold in mournful remem-
brance the days when ''they sat by the Off
cal fiesh-pots and did eat bread TO the full"
To do them justice, the leaders who have
ety to reach the "'milk and honey" of that
region, which, as a just punishment for their
political sins, none of them are destined ever to
taste. So they haveconvened recently at Tam
many Hall, in New York, addressed circular
Of invitation, and expressed wish .'that every
trace of lacerated feeling that may have re-
manned among the brethren arising from ques-
tons foreign TO the objects and political rela-
tions of the society, shall be oblterated for
ever, as according with sound principle and
policy, on which the lofty energies of Demo
cratic Republcanism shall be effectively re-
vived and expanded through the Union"
Prompt to this summons, responses are received
from members of the Democratic party repre-
senting every extreme of opinion in favor and
in opposition to the Compromise. We men
tion Mr.. CAss, Mr.. JOHN VAN BuREN, Mr.
JOHN A. DIX. The first Of these gentlemen
expresses the wish that "unanimity may be re-
stored amongst brethren of the same party;"
the last recprocates ''the wish for thorough
and cordial reunion of the Democratic party.u
Whilst Mr.. JOHN VAN buren,, with practi-
cal acuteness, gives to his colleagues the les
sonsof political morality learned in the school
of Bible BUTLER and HoYT.
Here is the plan of Mr.. VAN BUREN for
healing the ''lacerated" wounds of the Demo
cratic party, and carrying the Presidential
election.
Mr.. VAN BUREN regards Wing ascendancy
as a calamity.
"The government Of the State and Of the nation
is in the hands of ancient ndversaries, brought
into power not by any merit of their own, but by
divisions. regard this condition of things as
national and State calamity, which we have been
unable to avert, but the evils of which we may
easily correct"
Mr.. VAN buren, proceeds to show how this
calamity may be corrected:
"To do SO we must first resolve to fix our atten-
ton the future, and not on the past. What an Y
particular Democrat may have done at any pre-
vious election, may be important to himself, and
may become very proper subject of inquiry when
suc md ia dat for dica hnt in
the mean time, theimportant inquiry to the Demo
cratic cause is, in what honorable way the largest
number of votes can be brought to its support at
future elections?''
Mr.. VAN BUREN answers his own questions:
by suspending, or forgetting past differences,
and cordially uniting in present contests"
Becoming more confidential, Mr.. VAN buren,
no longer generalizes, but shows the specific
deception which he proposes to practice.
"To succeed hereafter we should confine our ex-
ertions in the fret instance to the limits Of own
State Place the Democratic party Of the State In
power, and the success of the Democratic party Of
the Union will speedily and surely follow The
former is in truth the simplest if the only mode
Of effecting the latter
Mr.. VAN BUREN stands as finger board to
poihb LhS iVou " 'iStOll lOI tHe AN6W IOlh
Democracy"
''In my judgment, they can mostsurely succeed
by limiting the contest between them and their ad.
versares TO questions Of municipal and State poll
cy-postponing questions Of national policy till the
Presidential election next year"
Mr.. VAN buren, recommends the policy of
non commttalism, upon Federal questions,
WITH LARGE margin for abusing the Wings
''Conline our conventions in their resolutions to
subjects Of State policy, coupled, If you like. with
as strong denuneiations of the general Adminis-
tration at Washington as the most vehement mem
Der of the convention may desire"
Mr.. Var BUREN would preserve the harmo-
ny Of the party by pOstPoning the division Of the
spoiIs until they have been obtained-therein
smulating the wisdom Of the Russians, who