New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-01-25
MAINE-GOY. CROSBY.

Gov. Crosby is q gentleman, scholar, and a
Wing. His Message is unique. We are not
sure that it is not about right for the hyper
bOrean ATTITUDES wherein he bears sway and
indeedfor other ATTITUDES and localities where
the Wing is drowned out beneath the
floods of Loco-Focoism Gov. Crosby has al
ways lived in part Of his State which has
been utterly given over TO the control of the
sham Democracy these fifteen years. Dis
trict, county, city, town and village, have alike
been buried forty fathOm deep beneath the
yelling floods Of Democracy" An expe-
rience like this has not been without its in
iluence on Gov. Crosby's views Of political
affairs. What the universal Wing party were
favored with glimpse of, by their rOut in No
, yember. has been familiar and habitual spec
tacle to Gov Crosby for long and weary years
/ 10 wonder lie intimates Cui boaol TO further
effort on the part Of the political organization
Of which he has so long been member and
which in his experience has known nothing but
constant, repeated, re-repeated hopeless de-
feat. No wonder he takes occasion at the first
touch of his foot upon dry land, after fifteen
or twenty years Of bulfeting the pillows Of De-
mocracy TO no purpose, 10 intimate his dsin-
clination TO encounter those yeasty waves
more. He evidently considers that he has
stood bis watch upon the deck of the old
ship long enough, aud now that he has got re-
lieved of his position, he begs TO be excused
from further immediateservice, and to remain.
at least awhile, on shore.
We sympathiZe to some extent with these
sentiments Of Gov. Crosby There are times
when it is becoming both men and parties, after
long years Of un1agging effort in frutless pur-
suit, to come TO stand, and review, aud take an
observation Of their position, and see what the
circumstances oftheirife suggest invite or por-
| tend. If a man who has taken a field TO cult
vste, and has faithfully and lovingly labOred
and stroye through season after season to in
daee fertility, finds that all his lsbors are of no
avail, shall he cultivate il still , or shall he not
cease to waste his efforts upen sterile soil of
invincible barrenness, and seek one which
shall repay his diligence and his care
Parties Of our day divide rather upon TEN.
porary measures than upon eternal principles
There are to be sure generally underlying those
measures, some fundamental principles in
which they root, but il is the practical measure
after all, which is the main subject of contest.
And when any party is decisiyely beaten, the
contrast between that party andits triumphant
antagonists is virtually over Yet do not POI
iitical organizations Immediately die away A
thousand sfinities, recOlections, hopes dreams
and affections, unite them and they often 20 on
and enjoy sort offossilifersus existence after
the vital power that enforced their original
shape has ceased to exist. And he is bold
man who suggests disorganizatiOn Of the old
forms, and urges fusion of the discounted
with the triumphing elements. Yet in Re-
public, where our desires should be 70 see the
vital force of the hour the prevailing opinion Of
the time, bear rule, instead of the traditions,
and the predjudices and the errors Of the past,
this is the only true wisdom. II is the way in
which the men of the minorities can make
themselves most effectually felt. 1t is the
wa! to destroy the despotism of the majority
IL Is the only way in which the men of a party,
overcome upon one Issue or one question to-
Jay rise and become triumphant on another
'omorrow. Permanent parties are evils. They
shelter thousand abuses and breed ten thou.
sand eorruPtions. What is wanted to keep
public opinion in healthy state, and to secure
a fair field to Truth and the Right, is, parties
formed on the questions of the day and the
hoar. And then no one party gets the start or
the advantage Of another by jsckeyism. or "a
voritisn, or the Prssags OF success; and no
party ear1.ss he Essht Of Pssyisss ss.sa,, *