Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-11-18
MONTPELIER
The National Democratic Party.

important, it appears to US, is the question OF It's
probable or necessary effect on the Democratic
party. Every body seems to have enough to
say of the effect of the election on the defeated,
but nobody has aught to remark of lis effect on
the triumphant party. Why is this Is there
no food for reflection here? Has that party pa-
ced itself beyond the pale of danger?
Many mans heaven, which was g built on
spite," has proved the very He'll he was mentally
reserving for his enemies. Many victory has
been achieved by means which involved the GER
tain destruction of the victofs. The election,
say all, has destroyed the Wing party are they
sure it has not destroyed the Democratic party
also?
How was the result question effected? The
merest glance over the different movements Of
tne campssn is sufficient to furnish n; .iaa
sWer to the question. In tie nGst place, tlpe
SHAREHOLDERS, who know no North, no East, no
West, and who only know and care Tor the
South, had determined in view Of the supposed
peril Of their institution to go, at this election
without distinction of party, and, as tar as might
be, en- niaSse for the candidate who should be
found the most reliably subservient to their Pc
culiar interests. Accordingly they dictated to
their Northern minions platform, which, after
sort Of gujl-trap preamb that was intended to
mean nothing, except to deceive, stated with all
the certainty of legal contract, their require
ments of the North, viz the strctest malnten-
ance of the slave law, the national protection OF
slavery and the immediate senclng OF all DIS
cussion on the subject On this they placed
their previously asccrtaned willing instrument
Frank Pierce, of the Gag-Atherton School In
New Hampshire, and, as well they might, went
home, for once, fully satisfied. fortnight at
forwards, the Wing Convention assembled and
the Hunkor, alias Webster, alias Federal portion
of the party at the North having seen how sat
isfactory to the Shareholders had been the Pierce
platform, meekly solicited their Southern breth-
rem to make one for them, Just like it. Thls
as we all know, was accordingly done, and the
Webster portion were about mounting it, when
the other and more numerous portion Of the par
ty, who, at first, doubtless, had entertained the
hope of saving some remnant of Northern prln-
ciples, but who now, seeing the advantage about
to be gained by their rival faction promptly re-
linquished it, made desperate push, and with
q Fuss and Feathers "enoughin display, as they
supposed, to everawe the whole world, thrust
aside tho Webserites, mounted The platform
and loudly proclaimed it their own
and that Of their candidate. The consequence
was natural one. The Websterites, becoming
ipcensed by being thus tricked out of their ia
vcrite candidate, and having wished from the
first that they could have been the authors OF the
original Pierce platform, Of which theirs was
but an imitation, flocked off almost in a body to
its support, leaving Scott standing deserted and
alone on platform which was not only now
stamped by the disgrace of defeat, but utterly
dsgraceful of itself, and twice stolen at that
No wonder, then, the Wing party is looked
upon as dead. Everything with all its brains
out must be dead, and the Wings, unless there
be some law exempting them from the fate of all
other living things are, of COURSE iarevocably
SO; nor need they undergo much change to
see corruption.
But while the Wing party are thus overthrow
and " become Kissing and a scorn," how much
better off is the Democratic party, except in the
spoils of office and pride of triumph? They
come into power on platform more abborrent-.
more utterly inconsistent with all the old stand
ard principles Of Democracy than any thing ever
commended for by Hamilton or Adams, and have
thereby sanctioned, and directly invited Cen
tralsm for their coming administration such as
free America has never seen. They have, more
over, by the very accession of this Webster fac.
tion by which they gained their boosted triumph,
swept out and taken into their bosom almost the
entire element of Federalism which before leaV-
ened the Wing party, and made it so assailable
by the Democracy. And in doing this they have
also yielded to the aggressive South every prlnci-
pie, and every advantage for strengthening her
S"h "OhOllOut lbotibuUANHi uhH "CdNCHlHS OuiSJ
which she could ask or DESIRE while, at the same
time, they, by their own bond, have bIindly and
disgracefuy estopped themselves from all future
complaint or opposition whatever of oppression
or insult may hereafter be heoped upon them !?
And will it not be heaped upon them, with dis
position in the South so unappeaseablc, and in
no In N ns c0 inv Lo ,,,tb bo,
been so aggressive without the sanction of any
Northern party, and in the face of the measula-
BILE opposition of them all, what will che de- now ?
Where will be the limits of her Slavery annex
alton? Will she stop short OF an overmastering
supremacy in our National Councils, or before
she sees the free States in helpless, hopeless,
degraded and tamey subservient minority p
Never, without revolution Of pahies-never
till the party which has so bndy and SO falsely
given her such power and advantage, shall share
the recent late of their no less false opponents.
And such fate that now Wanting party will
most assuredy experience. Their present tri.
umph has not been obtained in manner to
make It permanent one. They have triumphed
through the weakness and corruption of the
Wing administration, and the undivided aid of
the Slave Power, and not on their own strength.
And above all, they have swallowed the old
monster Federalism, head, horns and all. This
they can neither digest nor disgorge, and death
will be the inevitable consequence The thou
sands and tens of thousands of the democratic
masses who never meant to sanction the Balti-
more platform, and who voted for Pierce relnc.
family and only as a choice of evils, when thew
see, in the first political fruits that will appear.
what they have sanctioned and done, will be the
first to rise up against the new Federal, Slave
party they have Hnwittingly helped to establish ;
and, in focks, they will desert it with oathing
and disgust for that Free and what they will see