The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1852-04-21

TIE ADMISsTRATIos-THE PARTY
m Amsse.n whis RssEs far APsa hss sa
sd~ssble snirs< under iAss kssd. hsu sh'<h &c
make tbs following eniIacis:
The success OF the administration
has put the Democratic party literally
kors du combat. II has stripped them
Of nearly every thing but the spell that
lies in cid associations and q common
name. They find no government abb
ses they are able to fall upon. no set OF
eounter-principles they dare rally upon.
As vet there is no one upon The fieid oil
action bat their leaders, and they, DE-
yided into all kinds ot squads. under
all sorts Of flags. are preparing. not for
great popular contest. but for 4 dirty
scramble after the spoiIs Of Office.
They themselves do not attempt to hide
their forIorn condition. Says Bucha-
nan, one of their oldest and foremost
ehiefs: elf I rightly read" the signs Of
the times, /" there has seldom ben
period when the Democratic patty Of
the country was in greater danger Of
suffering defeat than at the present mo-
ment.r And this cry ofalarm has been
echoed by the Union. the Democratic
Reritr. and other organs Of the party.
II is true that many Democrats have
been raised to high Office within the
last two years; but in very few in
stances has il been done by mere party
strength. Most Of the elections have
been controlled by either the Compro-
mise measures Of the last Congress. or
by local questions. In most Of the
Southern States. party issues were
waived. and party distinctions dropped.
The Compromise was the great subject
Of controversy; aud if either party is
specially entitled to the glory Of. its
triumph. it's the Wing, for from Wing
ranks came the great mass Of its sup
lporters. In the principal Northern
States, the Democratic candidates sue
ceeded. so far as they did succeed, by
extraneous aid. In New York, the
Canal Enlargement and Anti,rent ques.
tions, and other merely local matters.
decided the last State contest. In Penn
sylvania, the position Of Governor John
son towards the Compromise secured
for his opponent thousands of votes,
which otherwise he could not have OBJ
tanned. In Ohio, the popular opposi-
tion to the Fugitive Slave Law was art.
fully turned by Senator Chase and his
Free-soil compeers, so as to bring about
the success Of the Democratic Free-soil
nominees. In fact, in these latter DAYS,
one hardly knows where to find or how
to recognize a regular old-fashioned
Democratic victory. t
Modern Locofocoism isa creature Of
adventure. and, like a soldier Of fortune,
prospcrs best in confusion. 1t follows
no uniform path, for it has no settled
aim. Sclf-interest inspires it, circum-
stances govern it, and artiIice is its
main helper. II does not plant itself
fast by any firmly set. well.detined,
anti-Whig principle, and stake its for
tunes upon maintaining it. Its only
faith is in majorities, aud its chief con-
Germ is to gain those majurities any
how. and to carry them along any viii.
Their. Like most other powers of mis-
chief, it has an i'll gotten spell, better
than itself, with which to conjure; that
spell is the word Democracy. Like
most other powers Of mischief, it has,
too. the faculty of transformation, and
can take hundred Protean shapes,
with which to make itself seemly in
every latitude and meridian. Its fresh
est, and, just now, most common form,
is that Of fast young man, just out of
Jericho, bristling all over with fight,
and painting to hew his way to the re-
left Of all sorts ofoppresscd nationa!i-
ties. Through its iiege trumpeter, the
Democratic Review, it proclaims its
mission to the world in such ilourishes
as these; We must transfer the field
Of war to the soil ofEurope, and change
the issue from contest whether mon
archs shall beard US here, to a contest
whether they and their impious prac.
tees shall for an hour longer be tolerat.
there" " The Democratic party must
go forward to great work-the yindi.
cation befnre the world of the principles
out of which the Declaration of Amer:.
can Independence was made; those
principles by which the nation has
steadily moved onward, till its majestic
momentum, responding over the ocean,
has shaken European dynasty to its
centre and now, beneath all the irpn
tyranny and barbed tortures of that
trembling coward, European Imperial
ism. still inspires the European repub
lie to desperate and not Ruthless eff.
tort = Verify. Young America is
abroad, and with vengeance. i
.
The Wing party is the really con-
sersative party Of the country. Ii in
diligently prefers the tried to the un.
tried, the certain to the uncertain. the
safe to the hazardous, the substantial to
the visionary. While ardently sym.
pathizing with every thing that can be-