The daily union., 1852-11-10
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOV. 10, 1852.
The Democratic Party and the Prospects of
the Opposition 10 n

the Opposition To AZ.
On this subject the New York Times, one OF the abes
and most jealous Of the journals which took in hand the
nomination and election OF General Scott, dsoourses as
follows;
"NKw rAKrms-it is estimated tha, certain whigs-
Webster wings they style hemsevesof Boston are about
organizing new party. The name Is not YET pitched
unon The principle sti ia nebuious state. one
only appearing concrete The presrvation OF the Union,
- Ia birter mookery of the departed states man. whose
lsbors thus pronounced incomplete, is 10 be the
.neeus and watchwoId.
The truth is no man, and especially whg. should
,ak of a new organization at present truce is wanted
Tbs country has been overwhelmed by democracy 1t
viii be time enough TO devise tangled preventives
aysns, another such deuge when the clouds gather The
victorious party is TOO bulky to live long Its weight will
3srov Il, or that DO sustained, emergencies will arise
v,inq udcious and successful attack from The opposi
ion And the opposition the administration will
h unusually active talented. and ultimately powerful 1t
yi recruit fom every quarter. Its distinctive features
will appear il advances. and the parry in power Will
moi long withstand It's assaults No TACT is more ndeliby
written In history than that party can have perma
n.nt hold OF the reins They later change
hands"
To this complexion them the opposition to the demo-
,.,;c Marty and policy has al last The opposition
reliance is that the democracy is too big that no party
can keep power long that emergencies will arise and
ba, the opposition itself merely the party OF
.ypediens without fixed principles announced policy
of lis own--will be ready take judicious and sue
cessfu" hold of such emergencies" and 80 clutch the
spois OF office. Such is tie whig programme of to-day
What intelligent and patriotic citizen does not rejoice
that such party is in the dust Does any partisan
1anzaon whose leading organs put forth such avow
ais present single eemen, which should command the
popuar trust II such declarations to be received by
the people as constituting party creed, then how can
laasto tha yvh o side If them
10 be ANYTHING better than mere gambling game Above
ALL we ask such party fit for any man, and specially
any young man. to join If whiggery be such thing as
this, then what should any OF sense be whig for
The only motive for such choice betweea the two
parties would to be desire 10 20 into opposition
to the ascertaned political sentiment OF the county, in
order TO be ready to seize the first emergency" which
may turn up!
And yet the politics OF the country for the last quarter
of century prove that this philosophy OF the whg party
is great deal older than the Times newspaper. The
election of Mr. Adams in 1924 by the House OF Represent
stiyes was very clearly emergency and all men
know what "udicious and successful hold of il the
opposition to the democracy of that day took. and TO
what swift coming result OF disaster and overthrow.
The war between the bank and government in General
Jacksons time a similar emergency" put TO smi
lar USE The financial revulsion in the administration of
Mr. Van Buren, was another emergency" and, through
the canvass for General Harrison, evenua,ed in whg
hands in the utterly condemned and exploded legislation
of ls4l and 1912 Then came General Taylor and Bu-
ena VISTA and these formed such 'emeTgency" that
conservatism threw overheard both its creed and IFS
leaders in order TO take "judicious and successful
hold OF il. His administration forthwith became quite
fruitful OF emergencies in foreign policy, in sectional
controversy, and in financial administration, which the
wings n taking hold of burned their fingers until by
natural, and perhaps inevitable, descent from bad 10
worse the and administration of General Taylor
resulted the nomination and Of General Scott
and these now, in twenty yegh States out of hryone.
have eventualed in very monsirous :" emergency"
which no, whiy in the land knows how 10 take Judi
cious and successful" hold OF
Blu, the opposition" is without its consultations,
and primary among these is the present bulk Of the demo
cratic party Jonah reioces that it is no small fish
which has swallowed him. But do not read that the
whale OF Holy Wri, too bulky to swim, or that
he failed to carry Jonah whittier be listed And
20 we think ,ha, the people, being democratic, will yet
make shift govern the country, although there
millions OF them, being majority in almost all the
States
Of party is spoken of one Of its pers, close regard
mast be had 10 the question which party II IS The bulk
Of he democracy in Mr. Monroc's time did not produce
the effect OF giving the country 10 its old anti
and Hartford Convention opponents. The bulk Of the
democracy in General Jackson's second term did not
bring in the opposition. But, the other hand the op
position, which very buhy on the day OF General
Harrison's Inauguration, needed only a short extra ses
sion" TO find itself top-heavy, and soon umbng n
a crash, which left for time little more than the
"corporal's guard in the House OF Representatives
SO, too, Taylorsm, the ath OF March, 1s49, was
quite buiky, and has fallen down with it's own
weight, in such way fully TO demonstrate that ball
is no longer among the inconvenience OF the opposition
The moral OF all this take to be- that bulk is very
dangerous thing in party which is what the New York
Tribune some 4me ago described the whg party 10 be-
"a looss aggregation OF dscordan elements !" while buH
becomes very different matter to party which stands
avowed and established creed OF policy and pnn-
opls. The very worst way to make such creed pow
eress TO put its power 10 jeopardy, s TO make il al
most universal and altogether onnipotent at The ballot
bor.
But the zeal with which the opposition is now look
ing round for out utof-theway consultations is not sur
prisng. II Of the hopelessness OF their plight
Forced by the people 10 give up power everywhere they
falk NJ hair II ia by leading whig