Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-07-14
The Dissolution OF the Old Parties
Inevitable.

The question of the dissolution Of the two
old parties is no longer d matter Of mere decla-
nation. It now begins seriously to press itself
on the attention Of the rejecting of every class
Of politicians who ere not biased by strong party
pnsiudices, or warped by some peculiar party in
terest. BY these old parties themselves, 1t is
true. the subject seems to be viewed very differ
emily. The Wings, Notwithstanding the loud
whistline of their leaders to keep their courage
TIP, and the cries of hold on! held on! uttered
with such desperate raergy by their Office
holders, who feel the loaves and fishes slipping
through their fingers, evidently every where feet
impressed with the consciousness that the hour OF
their dissolution is at baud !; while the Demo
Gratis, though readily admitting the downfall and
death of their old opponents, yet, feeling strong
In the flush Of their recent victory, and unmiDd-
full how it came, dream not of The possibility of
their own fall. But if our political philosophy
be not ct fault, they are, in admitting the de-
e%trretion Of the Wing party, acknowledging the
existence of an event on which The destruction
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reasoning be correct, the destruction of the
Wing party must Involve the destruction of the
Democratic party also. From the very nature
of things, no Two opposing parties can long ex-
ist without a distinct Issue between them. That
the issues which divided the old parties, and
gave to each all the strength and vitality they
ever possessed, are all dead and forever passed
away, 10 no longer a matter If question. All
intelligent men know, and all candid men admit
this to be so. 1t follows, then, thst all which
gave vitality and an,agonistic strength and &C.
ton TO these two pa rites has ceased 10 exist, and
that, with it, the parties, as such, must cease
also. They may, it ia true, by the foIce Of mere
party machinery, be KEEP. on their course a little
longer but their condition wifi be only that of
two rival trains OF cars, from which the engines
have been detached, int side tracks, end which.
though keeping on awhile with waning speed
by the Impetus received, must certainly and
soon come to a stand.
but VIII the dissolution Of the old parties pre-
vent there still being two great national opposing
parties IN the field? By no means, What then
will these parties be? The party OF Liberty and
the party at Slavery the party whose creed is
based on The hnnad and beautiful principles of
the Declaration Of Independence, with the lust
and truthful eSpnsitions OF the Democratic ia.
theirs, and the party whose very object. aud an
tagoDism to ours, must necessarily invest them
With the strongest tendencies of Capitalization.
and lead them to adopt. one after another, the
most obnoxious features of old Federalism. Such
a state oil things, it seems to aa, must inevitably
eupervene from the ex,gencies of the present no.
lftlcal crisis. We have already said that the old
parties must die for want of an issue between
them; but they do not lack an issue with anotb.
en- and last increasing party,-t Free Democ.
racy OF the coantry-an issue of all engrossing
interest and transcendent Importance This is
sue Is now a common one with both the old par
ties They made 1t 80 at their respective Balti-
more Conventions, arraying themselves together
on the same side, and presenting it, with the OPP
uon OF submission or death, to all who should
oppose them, and now they have no power, if
they would, to alter the position in which thew
there placed themselves. This great issue, every
oooy sees and feels, must be the next one to be
'f'ed oy the country and this issue these pa rites,
On 'heir part and chosen side of the question,
must now take up, both as a redemption Of the
common pledges they entered into at Baltimore.
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ana as an unavoidable consequence of the posi-
ton they there voluntarily assumed. This course
is Out the natural and Legitimate result of their
past suicidal action. The step is now inevita.
BILE; but at the same time, thank Heaven 1t is
q step which, ns surely as taken, DESTROYS their
ldentity--makes them one--a new party, arsayed
for the support of Slavery and all it's abhorrent
c~oncOuitants, and actually forcing upon the