New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-04-30

Democrat to Higher Law Wing IAs preference
was not without its parallel the other side And Gen
Scott was defeated last Fall by Wings who heartily up
proved the Platform on which he was nominated At
Baltimore with his approval OF it, yet who crushed
him because they feared that Seward Wings would not
be repealed from his councils and excluded from Office at
his hands We simply state fact, which existed indie
pendeny of and prior to our statement OF 1t In affirming
the dissolution of the late Wing party
The North american Rerien-a work whcrewith We
seldom have the felicity of agreeing-has the following
remarks bearing this bec In citing the testlmo-
nv of this champion of Conservatism to the general fact
We protest against being held responsible for all the pro-
cesses through which its conclusion is attained Ii says:
What has happened once may happen again IL Is tune
for the old appeaions and the old parties themselves to
die ont when the between tem IN respect 10 p
cpes and measures has virtually ceased and the oppos
ton is only kept alive As means OF p9nc intrigue ana
an avenue for the attainment of Office IL Is little remark
ab that the old party lines beginning to fade out at the
same time both in England and this country and great
Inconvenience experienced IN DOM from the attempt
10 continue the vitality of the old organisms after their
natural life has departed
I'm this counry also it would be:dIicult to point
any cause dssenson between the wings and Democrats
that one Marty has now got all the offices, and the
other has recently forfeited them ana ms cause the Oody
f the people who neither hold office nor wish for IT. may
be- supposed to regard with profound Indifference There
are indeed questions enough which ercely debated
i'm Congress and the newspapers but tey are not ques
tor in respect Ia which Wings separated from Demo
cras In relation a Protective Iarl, National Bank
the management of the Public Lands the Improvement of
Rivers and Harbors, State Rights Slavery and all other
notorious topics of agitation and dispute, politicians
array themselves opposite sides without the shght-
ost reference 10 their connection with the
other of the great parties which for the last twenty
Years conendcd with each other for the OF
The Presdency and all the other offices under the National
Government Though these two parties had other objects
in view when they first instituted, they have long
since lost sight Of them and now continue To exist app
onta nI al A no
Government patronage We do not mean that they are
conscious Of this alteration Of purpose Most of those who
quietly allow Themselves to be counted as higs and
Democrats though they never do duty IN that capacity
except on voting day and not always then have vague
apprehtson founded the recollection of old contests
VIII and measures were really at stake that the
Government would be safely placed i'll the hands
d their party than in those OF their opponents Per
haps this confidence has been little sh sken
BY the of events during the last two or three pot
cal campaigns. good deal of discomfort has existed
among the rank and file As to the conduct and manage
their selfappoined commanders the seekers
Those who have nothing to do but to vote nave Oeunto be
worried by the ncessant solicitations of their leaders not
to omit the performance of this very patriotic duty IN
which about much liberty of choice is left to them as Is
given ia the convict who permitted t. say whether he
will be shot hanged In spite of all this solicitation and
drumming in spite Of repeated assurances that to throw
away ones vote" by casting it for the man whom one real
" prefers is crime little short OF treason It frequently
happens that nearly half OF the population DO not vote AT
a and many of the others tempted TO excaim, with
honest Mercutic, \ plague on both the houses
The present moment seems favorable one therefore,
Tor calling attention the fact that these party names OF
Wing and Democrat mean nothing and point TO
nothing that they only the memorials of past conflict
that the antagonsm which they indicate with difficulty
maintained by the strenuous efforts Of aew who alone have
any interest in keeping it alive and that this Fictitious
hostility this seeming warfare is injurious to the best IN
terests and preudcal to the good of the republic
Ii all to the purpose to say these two parties are
allowed die out others will arise and take their
places Parties cannot be formed unless some great
principle is at stake men will not rally
around q new standard if it be not erected for a
more creditable motive than division OF the spoils,
though their attachment to il may continue long after
the motto which it bears has become meaningless
phrase Ii but Presidential election could pass
without contest in SCH this indecent scramble for Of
flee could not be renewed for period of eight years and
might not be repeated for much longer time. lie who
was elected with the OF the whole people
would have patsans to reward and no opponents to
punish He would be relieved from the humiliation of hav
ing of his appointments 10 office dictated by party
considraomsby the necessity of serving the interests Of
a faction, instead of consulting the welfare of the State.
Legislators would longer be forced by the imperative
bchCS Of their party leaders to vote for measures which
at heart they The people might have the salts
faction OF selecting, in while, their candidates
for Office and thus, pcrchance of eectng those who had
dcscryc well of the Republic instead of being compelled
choose those only who pointed out IN them as the
most or0neblc candidates for party purposes