Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-04-29

PARTIES AND THE FUTURE.-It is cheering to
see with what growing activity and resolution, our
friends IN every part Of the country are organizing
ana extending their operations. Nowhere is there
a sign OF encouragement. Averywhere there is
hope. AT every election, there is gain to the Free
Democracy. In various sections of several of the
western States they have advanced so rapidly
since the presidential election to be in the
ascendant. From various sections of the West,
we get reports of town after town carried by the
Free Democrats against the combined Hunkers.
Why should it not be soS There is no longer
any issue between the old netional parties, save
that about the spoils. Both hail from Baltimore,
where they stullfed themselves on the same plat
form, and solemnly professed the same creed, be-
ginning and ending with the "Compromise mea-
sures, including the fugitive slave law" As real
and vigorous antagonism is indispensable to the
continuance OF parties, it is plain that OF these
old parties must now disappear, and that the In
dependent Democracy, which does not hail from
baltimore, has future before it. 1t has the vital
ty and vgor of great principles, which are as
70 triumph as the dawn 20 be followed by sunrise.
steadily and surely that triumph approaches, while
those who seek it are neither faint nor weary
II is generally confessed that the Wing natio-
nal party is "undone," and not be again ralli.
ed And why should itraly again? tits no lon
ger atlssue with the other Baltmo re platform par
ty. Its powers of antagonism to that party and
Its old political traditions not give it move
ment enough for such opposition to the present
administration, as would prepare for another Pre-
sldentlal campaign. If it were otherwise we do
not thhk It's wlsest and best friends would be very
anxious to see it again try its hand at administer
ing the government, very soon. Now and then
wing volunteers to make fun for the public, by
counting the votes given for Scott at the late cleo
ton, and talking with comic gravity of the undi-
mlnlsheq strength and power the national Wing
party. Fun is wholesome
Parties will be so re- cast as to have a meaning
beyond hunger for spoils and beyond the me-
chanical operation of following old traditions
which have no relation to the present condition of
puohc questions. One party composed ofdiscord-
ant elements can not remain unit when its old
rival disappears. The principle of elective afini-
~ Will triumph. All those, whose views and ten
denotes are truly democratic, will approach each
other The movement of public affairs will draw
them together. Those whose convictions are on
the side OF the Free Democracy being released
from party drill, will follow their convictions The
gains of the Free Democracy in AL the recent
elections,an the gigor Of its movementin all parts
OF the country, are unmistakable signs of the
tunes. he American people are neither hunkers
nor fossils
Where are all those Union Meeting pa
trlots, whose voices so very loud in the land
some two years ago? They sit silent in corners
and byways, musing on the vanity of conquering
ones preludlces. Let all interested in their remark
able tate, invite them to consider that part of the
Baltimore platform which orders a suppression of
"agltation" and prescription of all persons in
the least tinctured with anti-slavery sentiments
1t was a brave ORDER indeed and how glad it
made all those Hnukers. But who undertakes TO
execute that order? Notthe new administration.
which appoints these "unhealthy'' men to office,
and does not venture to make the issue which the
Baltimore creed proposes There is gain to the
right, Hunkerlsm can not reign as despot.-
Everything foretells the ''good time coming
The principles of the Free Democracy must adj
vance in the public mind so long as the American
people are not utterly dead to reason and Justice.
They present the modest democratic creed heard
o., in our day. They are pre- eminently American
The country needs them. No other party has
political creed so loyal to the Constitution; or so
true to the freedom and prosperity of the whole
people, North and South. Then let us accept4be
animating signs ofthe times and, without narrow
ness OF spirit, but with large and comprehensive
views of our position and its duties, keep every
agency in action and be entirely confident of the
future. commonwealth.