The New York herald., 1851-08-21

the United States Senate; when all confidence is
lost among the wings Of New Jersey, and hope has
fed from among them when the temperance wings
of Delaware refuse to listen to the voice of John
NJ Caytsn, and thereby cause the election OF a de-
mocratic United States Senator; when Massa-
chusetts elects democratic Governor, and free
soil United States Senator, and refuses to sustain
Daniel Webster, where, oh where, we ask, is the
great whig party to look for succor Will they
fall back on New York, ard entrast their political
fortunes to the slippery union of the free soil and
silver gray wings. The disjonted and dila pidatsd
condition of the demo cratic party and the present
possession of power, political and financial, may
indeed prolong the existence Of the whig party in
this state, for short period; but the fate which at
tends them in other States must even here overtake
them, as soon as the democrats become hungry
enough for office and power to unite their forces.
In the view We have taken of the political aspect
of affairs, in the foregoing remarks, we have
spoken of the two great political parties as they
have heretofore existed in the United States. But
can discover cause for the tone of exultation
which We observe in portion of the democratic
press, in consequence of the recent elections. We
are not aware that any great measure Of policy is
at present agitated proposed by IN, de nocratic
party for the action of the mex. Congress. lt Is
true that the democratic editors of the Washing
ton Uwso, ex pect to be elected, by the next Con-
gress printers to that body, and thereby to realize
some thousands of dollars. But what care the
great BODY of the people whether it shall be demo.
cratic or whig printers to Congress, who are to
make sudden fortunes build splendid houses, drive
elegant equipages, or give sumptuous dinners, and
champagne and oyster supIers to members of Con-
gress, and other frequenters of the Capitol during
the session The wings, to be sure, would be glad
to enact a more stringent protective tariff, and
establish system Of internal improvements, parti
cularly Of rivers and harbors, but being in the
minority in Congress- they will be pswerless, and
the responsibilities of legislation must rest the
democratic majority, who are not expected to ad-
vance the favorite measures of the wings. We are
at less, therefore, to conjecture what party mea-
sure can be brought forward by the democrats to
encounter the risk of the Preside nal veto and it
would not be strange, if, at the next session, We
should witness the azomay Of business Con-
gress.
But are the democrats th at they can preserve
or establish an union of the discordant materials of
their own party sufficient to secure ascendancy!
How are the free soil democrats Of the North, East,
and West, to unite, in Congress, convention, or
caucus, with the secession and States rights demo-
Gratis of the South Does not the present situation
of parties, and the progress of the age and public
opinion, point out the probability of a speedy dis
solution Of both the old parties, and the formation
of new Political combinations, based on new issues
with which old party questions have nothing to dc!
To us, this view Of the appears extremely pro-
bable, and We do not hesitate to predict that
the time is rapidly approaching when old party
lines will be ea,ed, and the Of democrat and
whig will be abandoned; and it is to be hoped
that new parties will be formed, based on important
political principles, which shall be remembered long
after the politicians of the present day have passed
of the stage and shall be forgotten.