Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-12-05
Tho Daniels Coming to Judgment.


Tho Daniels Coming to Judgment.
The mass Of Democratic members &
Congress now in Washington, appear t.
be vastly amused at the political charac
ter of some of the newspaper men of thu
day who are assuming gravely to pro
nounce what the last Baltimore National
Democratic Convention meant, when they
adopted their now celebrated resolutions
on the slavery question. Now, it strikes
rs that they meant by them. most espe.
eially. to catch as large haul of the
votes of all factions of their then rather
heterogeneous party. This is the great
prime object sought in drawing up such
resolutions. That is, both parties prac-
tice custom of so shaping their plat.
form, as that it can be as easily defended
or swallowed by Southern Rights men as
by Northern Free Sellers willing to leave
the slavery question alone hereafter; and
quite as easily by those who hold that
they "saved the Union," as by any
others. While we are positively sure that
such an object was sought, we can have
no idea that they also meant lin framing
the particular resolution in question: to
put the future of the great Democratic
party and its principles in the keeping
of such consistent Democrats as Mr.
Bennett, of the New York Herald, Mr.
Burr, of the New York National Demo-
crat, and our excellent and amiable
neighbor, Mr.. Tucker, of the Washington
Sentinel, who, by the manner in which
they are respectively expounding these
celebrated resolutions. seem to have elect
ed themselves to be tn. especial guardians
of the interests of the Democracy for all
time to come, despite their Taglorism in
1848.
The way in which these eminent gen.
tlemen are discharging this onerous duty
conveys, in itself, an assurance to men of
common sense, that the shrewd ones who
usually represent the Democracy in Ma
tional Convention, could not have meant
to elect them to the positions which they
seem to have assumed. Thus, they are
evidently doing their best to coax the
party"-their charge-to disband-break
up-and 60 to the ID. in the very short
est possible time. They are so ardently
devoted to the compromises, as to prefer
really to sacrifice of their party, rather
than compromise, it seems. They, in
fact, labor like moles to secure the sure
and solid triumph of the Wing party, as
something much more desirable for the
Democratic party, than its (the latter's)
union on the basis of a common and Wig
Orous defence of what have heretofore
been considered Democratic principles,
and an acquiescence in the Compromise
measures, one and all, as settlement
which it would be neither wise nor pat.
riotic to disturb.
This is the gist of the present position
of the New York Hards, who are hardly
yet done rejoicing over what they call their
victory at home. However, as far as we
can perceive. with hardly single excep-
ton, the Democratic members of Con-
gress mot from New York are very much
inclined TO write down the result of the
New York election as being, after all,
only substantial and sweeping victory
for the talented and interchangeable Mr..
Seward and his friends. They conceive
the integrity of their party to be some
thing worth contending for even now,
and are not willing that it shall die else.
where, as it ha, SO recently died in New
York. They deem that the Very
Hards are simply rejoicing because they
1.-THE New York Democratic party have
committed suicide: boasting of and shout.
ing over the fact that, tomorrow, they are
to die of the wound inflicted by their
own hand.
That sort of sport may be fine fun to
gentlemen prepared VIGOROUSLY to be
dead against real old fashioned Jeffer. |
son-Jackson-DemOcratic administration
or party. But it surely does not suit the
tastes OF about ninety-five in every one
hundred Democratic members of the new
congress Or there is no drawing res.
Suaele conclusions from the emnbaS;s
with which they set their faces ,os;ps,
the advice of these newborn and ovor
Jealous guardians of their party's future
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.
The IntfiiIOenref inaurpro 20, A.