The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1853-08-11
wings sympathizing with Democrats.


The whig party is ever ready to resort
TO every agency that might avail their
party any kind of success, and as the
Washington Union says: 1t is true in po-
litics as in war, that the hour of victory is
not unfrequently the hour of danger
Profting by the lessons of experience, it
may not be altogether useless to address a
word of caution to our democratic friends
Some of the late whig leaders have been
amusing themselves in discussing the ques-
tion whether there is really living whig
party in the country. flour democratic
scntinels arc wise, they will notbe deluded
into an abandonment of their watchfulness
by this ingenious device. 1t would be
much easier to show that there is no whig
party surviving the late disastrous over
throw ofits organization than to show that
the members of this organization have de-
termined to abandon their opposition to
democratic measures and principles. As
wings, their doom is fixed, and they know
it, and it now becomes matter of policy
to drop a name which they have made
odious, and to reappcar in due time under
some other appellation more favorable to
successful organization. We can hard
ly conceive of a greater danger to the dem
ocratic party than the prevalence Of the
idea that their enemies have disbanded
their forces and ceased their opposition
They may, as matter Of policy, ground
their arms for season and seem to give
up the contest, but it will turn out to be a
mele truce, during which they will be Sc
cretly but actively beating up for new re-
cults, and preparing their organization for
arencwal of hostilities.
1t is question which democrats may
proftably study, whether the present con-
dition of our party is not such as to inspire
. our enemies with hopes of important re-
cruits from our ranks. However much of
animation and energy may bt infused into
our presidential contests by the patronage
which is to be dispensed by the successful
party, it has ever been true, and always
will be SO, and is especially SO now, that
the patronage becomes a real source of
weakness toany President. Disappointed
applicants for Office are too apt to indulge
in expressions of dissatisfaction, which in
,isplre their opponents with hopes, and in
duce them to resort to the necessary ap-
pliances for securing recruits from that
quarter. We fear that this source of dan
geris materially increased at present, on
account tofthe apparently disorganized and
disbanded state of our opponents, as well
as on account of peculiar features in, our
own party which favor jealousics and dis
affections. Disappointed applicants can
find a most sympathizing friend in every
whig they meet; and as the whig party
seems to be dead this kind sympathy has
all the appearance of genuine disinteres-
tedness. Unsuccessful democrats are thus
unconsciously led on to an indulgence Of
their disappointed feelings, not suspecting
that they arein dangerof becoming aliena-
ted from their party. 1t would be well il
every democrat whose expectation of office
has been disappointed would summon uE
his philosophy and his devotion to princi
pie, and when he is met by these insidious
appeals to bis disappointment that he
would resist the efforts of his kind, sympa-
thizing whig friends by calling to his mind
the instructive lesson taught in the line:
'Timco Danaos ct dona fcrentes.'