Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1855-01-04
The Morning Breaketh.

A greater mistake was never made than TO
suppose the democratic party had ceased to
be. The opposition have been led into This
conclusion too suddenly. From some tremen-
dous reverses we have experienced, they fool
ishly hug the falerine JUNCTION TO their souls
that the great party Of principle and power in
the country, the democratic party Of jefferson,
and jackson, and Pierce. has, after noble re-
suscitations from hundreds of defeats in past
days, breathed its last, and now remains a
broken-down, dispirited, poweress party. We
tell them they are mistaken. 1t is not for the
purpose of decevng you, brother democrats,
that we say this, as the opposition will con-
tend; nor for the purpose of inspiring you with
a too sanguine hope, The darkest hour for
the democracy, and i, has been one of pretty
considerable blackness, has passed another
hour Of such darkness cannot BY any possibility
ensue. We have seen the worst, and hence
forth, depend upon it, democratic stock will go
up in the market. Already the clouds of polit-
zeal error and prejudice and excitement begin
to clear away, and the morning breakeih.
Let us look a, facts, and see how we were
defeated in elections of the past year, by what,
and if we have not left manly, vigorous, IN
cooquerabe army for future victories. We
have been defeated by a combination of all par
ties and factions arrayed against us. Old-ine
wings, free-so wings, aboltionisis, free-soil
democrats, disappointed Office seekers and know
nnthings have formed this combination. All
were required to bring about defeat. of the
democracy Can this combination hold To-
geiher in future contests! We hold 1t cannot.
The political elements that make up the oppo-
siiion are dissimiar. They have no object in
common but the desire 10 batter down the
democratic party. On no one particular ques-
ton aside from this can they agree for mo-
ment. Like oil and water, one element will
be s,Ireao overtop the other-no mixing. An
unprejudiced political observer can see the
seeds of dissolution already terminating in this
ineongruous mass. They have no common po-
litical creed, no common organization, no at
tachmenis, and the road they travel together
must be short one aud harder than the Jordan
road we hear Of There will be too many
points where they will dverge and start off on
new track or a new scent. In the states
where they have been successful, few speci-
mems of legislation will convince the most in
credulous that they are not firm, compact and
harmonious.
Know nothingism and free-solism, the two
principal elements of opposition at the north
are already in quarrel "Sam'' has resolved
10 g strangle' = abolition whenever it shows
itself, and the free soilers are quoting from
Gen. Houston that d50LtiOniSts are fit only for
| the ,edlolcs, The know nothing attacks on
Seward of New York and the determination
of the New York know no,hings TO defeat his
reelection TO the Senate-the reelection of
Smith as Mayor of Boston, and the forays on
order at Washington-produc loud and deep
mutterings Then the sudden demise of anti
/ Nebraska, and the consequent destruction of
abolition thunder, the desperate attempt of the
! know Mornings, TO natlOndilLe themselves On
pro-slavery platform, and the loud notes of
warning of the n Y. Tribune and the Nation
al Era, all 60 to show that the late loving
partnership between them and abolition is to
be dissolved by mutual consent and under mu-
tual disgust. The consequence will be, that,
in a national contest, these two great elements
of the opposition will find their bands of union
parting like ropes of sand.
The know nothings, themselves, cannot
keep out Of an intestine fight Dissentions
are springing up,and beneath the surface there
is terrible commotion. Some of the ''twigs'
in this state have almost gone to ruin, so that
the state council has been obliged to issue a
dispensation to re-instates certain suspended
members. A large portion of the order in
New York is arrayed against the state coun.
Gil. So many ambitious and corrupt men are
trying to ride into power on their backs, that
the order has become the hot-bed of corruption