The republic., 1851-12-18
Dsrnocratic Harmony.


Democratic Harmony.
We perceive, with natural pain, that the
friends of Mr.. BUCHANAN and General CAss are
not on the best possible terms in Pennsylvania,
and whilst they are at daggers' drawing, Mr..
VAN BUREN and his friends are running away
with the substances and essences of the party
organization for General BUTLER. The Pitts
burg Post, moreover, is giving SLY hit or two
at Judge DOUGLAS, ,~whom it thinks cannot
show the services to the country and the De-
mocratc party that will place him on footing
with Mr.. BUCHANAN. All these gentlemen may
as we'll stand aside. MARTIN VAN BUREN
and +. p. BLAIR, with the aid of the Globe
and the Euening Post, have captured the DEM
ocRATIc party, and are bound to have every
thing their own way. Albany has at length
fairly outwitted Richmond. The author of the
''Shockoe resolutions" and the elite of the
Sweat-house Democracy, are under the ban.
The organ of the VAN BURENs in the city of
New York, that old Federal viper, the Euer-
ing Post" Gas Mr.. RIroHIE used to style it,)
has denounced General BAYLY as seceder
and we expect the cry will be raised forthwith,
as in old Jackson times, of ''shoot the desert
ers.''
While on this subject, we do not know that
We can do more towards the restoration Of har-
mony in the Democratic ranks than by repub-
fishing the article which follows from the Co
lumbus ga organ of the Democratic Seces-'
sion party proper, edited by Mr. FoRsYTH:
DOINGS AT WASHINGTON.
The Charleston Mercury has a correspondent at
headquarters dotting down some of the unwritton
history of the times, and we shouldn't wonder If
he makes some curious disclosures during the ses-
sion. Speaking Of the "inharmonious caucus" Of
the Democracy, he writes:
"The Democracy (or what by courtesy still bears
that nancy has the upper hand in the two Houses;
and Democrats--"good Union Democrats"
sprung up suddenly and as plentifully nush-
rooms. Until Saturday night last the caucus
loomsd up most largely, and the great contest was
10 secure its most sweet voice-for its nomination
was to be the fiat of fate. Plotting politicians who
wanted the soft seats in the House, whose future
prospects depended the reorganization of the
great Democratic party, wireworkers and log
rollers, with untirng assiduity to prepare plat
form that would take in all the Democracy,
North and South, and reconstruct out Of the dis
oordant materials national party, to control the
Presidency and the spoils thereof.
"But disappointment, con fusion, and defeat have
crowned their efforts, and their own engine has re-
ooiled upon them. and the caucus has widened in
stead of narrowing the yawning breach
''On Saturday night last caucus was held, and
all the Democratic members that could be drum
med up brought into line, and seated nmcably to-
gether-a collection more curious and unique than
any assembled in the same space since the days of
Noah.
"There sat, cheek by jowl, Hunkers and Barn
burners, Southern Rights men and Freesoilers,
Union Democrats and some that might be con-
sdered as neither, but every thing by turns and
nothing long. Mr. Bayly, of Virginia, was there,
and SO was Mr.. Rantoul, OF Massachusetts. Pres
ton King, of New York, sat smiling to see himself
on the same platform as quondam Nashville Con.
tioniss. and Cleveland assumed his place among
the National Democracy, as though frecsoil tcnets
were tests of orthodoxy. The caucus was regular
iy organized--Mr. Robinson OF Illinois, in the
chair, and Mr. Stanton, of Kentucky, secretary.
very small sprinkiing Of genuine southern men
present. The Georgia Constitutional Union men
outside.
''The ostensblc object of the call was to make
nominations for officers of the House; but, previous
TO entering upon this business, some Of tho South
srn Union Democrats thought they would lay
down PLATFORM. mr. FOLK, OF Iennessee, VINO
was deputed to this duty therefore presented rcso
lutions, the first of which that the Compro-
mise measures were TO be acquiesced in. MIR. r.
w. Johnson, of Arkansas, who happened to be
present, Immediately proposed tho Georgia plat
form resolutions an amendment, and Mr..
Stanton, Of Tennessee, substitute, to the effect
that the whole subject should be left for the action
of the Baltimore Convention. Thrice SKINNED,
sky blue as these resolutions were, they were oil
laid on the table Upon which Mr.. Polk, General
Bayly, MIR. Jones, OF Tennessee, and sundry other
gentlemen of the Southern Union stripe, vamosed
and scoeded from the caucus; while M, ssrs. Ran
toul, King, and the Freesoil company, triumph
antly remained, and aided and abet.cd the regular
Democratic nominations
Loss OF SHIP VIRGINIA. Tho ship Virginia, of
and for New York, from Leghorn with cargo of
marble, became water-loggcd and helpless, and her