The Empire County argus., 1854-12-30
=, ,COlOma: Saturday, Dec. 80, 1854.
PARTY ORGANIZATION.


of the public mind. New political organizations
are being formed, scme of them of secret and
others, of an open character Old party distinctions
have been disturbed by the agency of new issues,
and hitherto untried associations. The excitement
of the hour frequently induces men to act without
due consideration of consequences this leads us to
brief consideration of political organization.
When new issues are suddenly spru,g upon peo-
pie, and the minds of many outraged by the
arbitrary exercise of power Or disgusted with the
ambition of demagogues, they not unfrequently
rush into associations based upon the single prin-
cple which they suppose is about to be destroyed,
without considering the want of harmony between
themselves and their new associates on all other
questions. We have nothing to say against the
formation of new political organizations per Sc -
The time may frequently occur in republican
government, and in the progress of the world
when course of this kind may be the only re-
sort remaining for the uncorrupted people to re-
ieve themselves from maladministration of pub
lie affairs.
Any new organization should be laid deep in the
existing order of things and comprehend every
condition and looking to the contingencies which
the future may bring FORTH well as providing for
present emergencies rendering extraordinary action
necessary
We hold therefore. that an organization based
upon single principle cannot be permanent 1t
may be ushered into existence with parade, and en-
brace in its ranks eloquence and wealth, and for n
ho Oft Will Rut
viding only for single want it does not contain the
germ of permancncy. The object aimed at beiug
accomplished the organization dies or wears itself
out by its own action. The necessities of a people
are manifold and the least frequently as imperious
in its demands as the one upon which the organ-
zation rests. Furthermore, principles as well as
measures are essential to the vitality of politi-
cal associations The former are for all time,
and may embrace in their scope every want and
every emergency in political affairs, the latter
for to day, and with their completion the vitality
they afford is lost, and an organization based on
measures only, become extinct with their settle.
ment.
Another condition essential to permanency, is the
strict fidelity of party to its principles, and I'M
yielding opposition to the Interpolation of new
tests to favor the advancement of unscrupulous as
pirants. When the principles ofa party tram
pied on by political leaders who have sufficient in
fuence to force their associates into measures re-
pugnant to their of justice then the legiti-
mate ends of the party no longer subserved its
efficacy for the time destroyed. and its permanerce
resting solely the question whether it retains in
itself virtue enough to restore the principles viola
ted and to reject the leadership of the asprants
who for selfish purposes have attempted to adulter
ate the party creed.
A party then, based upon single idea, without
harmony among its members many other SUBJ
jecs, contains the elements of dscord and self de-
struction. Contrarety of opinion existing without
direction under the guidance of acknowledged prin-
eiples, soon produce conflicting measures foment-
ing dissension which in the end is destructive of
the object sought to be advanced in the primary
organization