New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-11-01

the locofoco dissentions and the dialogue would
appear to have been decidedly dismal one |
The Secretary's "reminiscences Of it are evil
IDENTIFY none of the gsyest; and the anticipations
however gloomy which then haunted the con-
ferees have obviously been since turned into
still sadder realities. In word, there can be
no doubt but that Mr.. Guthrie looks backward
with much discomfort and forward with despair.
And 50, then, there was an unfortunate divi-
sion % in the democracy of New York; Begging
Mr.. Secretarys pardon, it did not stop there; it
equally extended to other Free States, and es-
pecially to Massachusetts,. But there, it had
been composed; an unprincipled compromise
for the offices and alition for the public plum
der had been brought about, and the abolition
lists and the locofoco minority had divided be-
tween themselves the State and its spoils That
arrangement is still in existence; and Mr.
Guthrie knows it; but he wishes to bring about
elsewhere the same shameful bargain, and to
speak of it is not the way to make people ad-
mire it. In order that odious examples may be
initiated, it is polite not to mention them.
But the s.division" is merely an "unfortu-
nate" one: tits matter Of regret, not blame;
q misfortune, not fault. What can it be,
then? Why, plainly, no matter of principle
For, first, how should honest men fall out with
each other about principles' Honest men only
fall out with rogues about principles. If honest
men only quarrel with rogues, and not with each
other, still less can an honest party fall to
quarreling with itself; because the principles on
which party should exist are the only things on
which they can exist as honest parties when
they begin to quarrel about their principles, it
is because they have ceased to have principles
in common, and have became, in word, parties
no longer but unprincipled factions.
On the other hand, consider! How should
the democratici party quarrel, for anything
less, any thing inferior to principles, and those
principles even most important ones! So here
is the democratic party in dilemma, even &C.
cording to Mr.. Guthrie. For he asserts in the
first place that the party is unfortunately
&c divided )" and presently he goes on to avow
that it is o &c separation" which separation he
evidently fears is permanent. Now, either the
party must have separated to the abandonment
by one Of the factions of its principles, or if on
the contrary it has separated upon any princi-
| pie at all, it must abandon principle before it
can reiinite.
But what says the learned Secretary Lit
tie does it seem to signify to him what the par
| ty is separated about, and whether upon or
| without principles. All that he seems to think
| of is how to bring them together again, with
the same disregard of principles as that which
originally must have separated them. In a
word, it is evidently upon some combination
without or against any principle except that of
Cath md If fho
President, have hoped and hope to bring about
reconciliation Such a reconciliation, then,
is manifestly only hopeful SO far as they hope
that their party is utterly an unprincipied one,
and only possible SO far as it shall prove to be
really unprincipled.
Accordingly, Mr.. Guthrie says that the sepa-
rati on has come about; but that it has happened
against democratic principles and democratic
| pledges. Well, then, the democracy has vio-
| lated its principles and its pledges, not merely
| to others (which indeed would be no new thing
but to itself, which is great deal more sur
pri, ing. Nevertheless, the good Secretary
see ms to look to the possibility of its continuing
to I've the democratic party or, if not the demo
cratic, party of some Sort when it has be
travel all its principles and pledges, even dow
: to tho.se which are usually the sincerest, tn
! pledges which it has given to itself The Sec
70 rotary proceeds, however:
You are aware that to the principles Of the Baltmor
Convention and policy ntimated in the inaugurs
address the President and his constitutional adviser
stand pledged before the world They have been and ar
united upon these principles and that policy
and had reason to believe that all gentlemen who cor
sented to pit office under the Administration stoo
II pledged to the same principles and policy
ar Now, the democracy, it seems, were split
L.. D.I4. ID Il.
t. form: that is to say, in sustaining the grea
ut Clay measure of the Compromise This, on
Q. half Of them had bitterly opposed as Norther
" or as Southern Observation-Disclosures as abolition
y, lists and these as pro-slavery secessionists Nov
d. tell us. oh most learned harmonist upon wht
as possible principle could these fierce and fat
n. opposites be brought together! We defy huma
he ingenuity to conceive of any but one; and tina
at accordingly, every body knows was the so
cd bssis-that of a division of offices. And thi
dy in reality, is distinctly admitted, througho
he their controversy, both by the Secretary al
%. his Collector. Mr.. Marcy's maxim, "TO Il
it pictors, the spoils y Mr.. Calhoun's discover
IT, that they were a party to be kept togeth
70 only by the attractive force Of the public plu
an DER" were the sole principle and the entire pf
of losophy Of this great and beautiful locofo
he reconciliation, out of which has already
r. strangely sprung second and if possible, st
or more shameful quarrel. For in that original
compounded, there was, almost of necessit
SO some principle concerned because when t.
no people assert directly opposite propositions,
= can hardly be but that one of them is rigl
ir the other wrong. But the fresh falling out
% beyond the possibility of a question, about t
y "spoils" alone.
rel Dear reader All this is surely very entici
y and very instructive. Does it not make y
% wish to be a locofoco' Courage, then, a
y though it should seem little long and intrica
" let us lead you ON q little further, to-morro
o through these pretty mazes of democratic dc
trines, whose ways are, like those of wisdol
Q pleasantness, and all her paths, peace.
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