New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-04-20
ruR EuruRE OF POLITICS.


Adverse convictions purposes interests impe
conflicting efforts and to give efficiency to these efforts
the advocates of particular creed line of policy
are concentrated and organized as party. Hence va
rious and opposite results follow but on the who'll
the evil is outweighed by the good
The worst effects of parties are experienced whaI
they become chronic, ndurated, petried, that many
if not the great of their uphoders to regard
the ascendancy Of their party end rather than
means, and to value the measures it supports ele
ments of party success not the party as it may be made
instrumental TO the success of heathu measures How
often do we meet hde.bornd slave of party who will
readily admit that the Pacific Railroad ought TO be
promptly constructed or the Maine Law to be enacted
but who pressed say that he will support the
the other will reply Yes unless it should bring me in
to collision with my party Il cannot brave that" Thus
the party becomes of suppressng instead of
forcing the mans convictiOns-t vaults upon his back
and spurs him wlthersoever it will And thus one Of
the most important nsrmenaIities Of Freedom is per
veIted into an engine of slavery.
1t is no new conviction on our part that the period
cal dissolution and reconstruction Of parties would be
public blessing Ii, for instance, the close of Presl.
dental Election were 70 be signalized by complete
disbandment of each party 10 leave each niiydu
al free TO act henceorth his unbiased Judgment shall
dictate there would be far life aud freedom in our
current politics than now and the of good gov
eminent would gain by the change. But now We have
thousands voting for party because they Ike IT'S name,
or because their prOgeutors attached to It, with
candid searching inquiry the ends for
which it is marshaled the uses is made to sub
serve A few politicians by trade cOncoct Platform,
opda nlipittn hit
perry vague in substance and say This is the creed
of our party; and the multitude of their followers
swallow it implicitly and uuhesitatingly They do NOT
really consider public questions the party does their
thinking and they dOits voting and a Republic nomi.
nally based on universal suffrage becomes in effect
most restricted oligarchy.
Now no one who thoughtiuly considers our philosophy
Of Government believes that We can ever become a disci-
pie of the selfstyled Democracy of our time Aside
from dislike of courters and hatererS, whether of
MOnarchs MaOres, hold to efficient, pervasive,
energetic Goyernment-to Government which shall re-
press Vice and Danish Temptation aud not merely de-
nounce Outrage and punish Crime. We desire afirma-
tive creative constructive Government-hat which aims
to make blades Of grass grow where but grew
before; not that which limits its constructive function
and energies the fabrication o arms and the erection
OF gbbcts In short our Political Philosophy is proba-
bly, radically hostile to that cherished BY the
socaled Democratic party than that Of any other
American
Yetwe recognize time for war and time for peace
We loathe contention and decline to persist in it when
good end is in sight If called vote to-day for
Member of Congress- should doubtless vote for that
candidate within the possibility of election whose views
on most points harmODiZes with our own but We
should not wish him, if elected 10 make war upon and
seek 70 embarrass the new National Administration
While the question open one We opposed the
election Of Franklin Pierce TO the extent of our ability
for regarded the views of his leading opponent as
lar sOunder his public services far more eminent.
and his experience and abilities as emitting him to
decided preference but, the Election being over we
bowed to the Peoples decision and have hot desired 20
question or disturb it. Gen Pierce is obliged BY rae
vicious policy naugurated by Gen Jackson 70 treat
the Ofceholders appointed by Ta Tor AID Fillmore
enemies and expel them rom their trust bur he is
nevertheless the President of the whole American Peo
pie, entitled TO respect and Difference as such HIS
Inaugural seemed to repete with erroneous notions
in exceedingly bad taste but none of his
public official acts have seemed to require Justify the
OF warfare upon him. And as TO vot.
ing for ali Alderman, Judge, Mayor, because he is
supporter or a cOntemner Of the rule at Washing
ton we see reason and feel no impulse TO do any
thing of the sort.
We plead therefore, for a OF rest from parti-
san contenton-nOt of inertia and stupOr but of calm
inquiry and dspassonate consideration Let the next
Congress be filed, it is morally sure TO be- mainly
with friends of the Administration let there be
no obstacles TO carrying any Reforms which it shall
see fit to initiate The Freedom of the Public Lands
the Modification of the Tariff, the Pacific Railroad,
River and Harbor Improvement. the Retrenchment of
Expenditures, &c, &c-all these important subjects
will distinctly before the next Congress- and it is
hardly probable that none of them will be treated by it
as the public interest demands Let us stand ready TO
Judge calmly and award commentator wherever it
may be deserved. Meantime let us devote our time
and efforts to the Repression of the Liquor Traffic the
Reform OF Municipal Abuses, the prosecution of orr
State Works, and whatever other topics of moral or
local interest shall merit our more immediate
regard Byandby the election of another Congress as
iii due time that OF a President will claim our at
tenon and We may take that up in its order as fresh
unhackneyed topic not preudged by the great mass of
the People and find them in the right frame of mind for
its candid and patriotic consideration Who can sug.
gest more judcious course
ISMs.
HE IRIBuNE'S recent enlargement has evoked very