Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-04-04
From the Baltimore Patriot.


Overthrow of Party Dynasty In Virginia.
Seldom in the history of Virginia has there been
contest more exciting, or one upon which graver
consequences are depending than that now pend
ing between the American Order and the Democ-
racy The Democratic rulers are possessed with
an indignation almost unutterable at the boldness
with which the people declare that they will no
longer inrust the control of their interests TO the
aeltconstituted caucus which has for such length
Of time disposed of every office.
There are many gentlemen Of the Old Dominion
who have grown gray and notified under the infu-
ence Of good wine and good dinners, who have
held seats in every Democratic caucus, made
speeches at every meeting, auded the adninistra-
ton of Van Buren, with the same trope that they
now apply to Pierce, complacently considered that
they had property in the government OF Virginia
as well established as any acre of their baronim
estates. All these worldly advantages have been
held upon the sole and simple tenure of adopting
popular name and subscribing to a guni-elastc
creed, which, possessing capacity for expansion
of which Day aud Goodyear never dreamed, covers,
under one capacious canvass the naughty and he
reditary nobeman of the Roanoke or the Edisto
with the paupers Of Turin or Cobentz which har-
monies in the same service the disunionist with
the friend of consolidation, works the hre-eater
and the free-soil + In the same span and combines
happily the freebooter with the advocate of unver-
cal peace The invaluable advantages Of this creed
may be easily secured by the peppercorn consd-
GRAFTON of an annual vote for the nominees of the
cucus.
These Democratic dogcs feel tho land sliding
ON under them, and are duly indignant at the
popular surge which threatens to overwhelm them.
There has been nothing like the revolution now
prevailing Virginia sine, the House of l'urgcsses
overthrow those colonial dguitarics who lived upon
the labor Of the people, AMI ex cmpted themselves
from taxation. Never since the hereditary trans
mission of estates according TO the law OF primo
geniture was abolished, nor since established
order Of religious opinion was supported by the
taxes OF u people who, In great part, neither be-
lleved in il doctrines nor relied upon its ministry,
has any established order resisted with mora DIES.
p.ration The popular purpose OF dispossesang them
Of exclusive privileges than the golden order of
D .moctucy in Virginia has striyen against the
American organization. The reason is obvious.
Tho American Order comes with commission TO
overthrow and oblterate all privileged orders, and
TO restore rule ofrepublican equality.
The golden order Of the Democracy has been
embarrassed by a very obvious cause. Indued
with the sagacity to perceive that the honors of
the Commonwealth were confined 10 those who
professed certain doctrines, many Wings who had
been an hungered In the wilderness of hopeless
minority, sl,ly slipped of the uniform that had
marked them for prescription, and drew on the
yellow plush livery of the privileged order. They
we're warmly received, promptly promoted, ard as
acute and enegetic foreigners have, from the days
Of Joseph in Egypt attained the confidence and
control Of the service into which they had entered
40 these political adyczturcrs soon held commits
sons of the highest dignity in the golden order Of
Democracy The public attention was called to
this fact with remarkable dslinctness when il was
perceived that three Of them absolutely occupied
the tickst for the highest honors of the Common
wealth The most ancient OF the golden order,
- h. a.. IN II IL
were startled at this new danger, and as the PrR-
toriau troops and Janizaies have been occasion
ally massacred by native stipendiaries who wanted
all the pay and honor themselves, so have the old
the Democrats risen In irreconcilabe mutiny
against the sway Of these political stipendiaries.
Thus we have that truest Of partisans, ET.Gov-
ernor, Extra William Smith, whose services TO the
golden order alike beyond estimate and COM
D ,nsation, barring bis battle-scarrcd breast and
asking with indignant eloquence
who gave those wounds p
The Obvious reply is, that I" they were inflicted
bv tue common enemy, the Wings" And In
what service has Henry A. Wise, who aspircs 70
command Governor Smith, gained his laurels :"
la the service OF the Wings" l. the unavoidable
response Then Governor Smith, having risked
his political life in a warfare against the Wings and
having conquered them Is now required to submit
20 one OF the very captves Of his own bow and
spear This is beyond endurance and It u no
wonder that Ex-Governor Smith is insubordinate,
and threatens 70 rebel against the sacred authority
which has so long ruled Virginia. To appreciate
ia lie full cnouny this outrage upon this grizzled
centurion We have only to suppose that Congress-,
having taken three Hesaian ptisoncrs, gradually
promoted them until general order announces
that they were 10 take command Of Washington,
end Greene and Lincoln add that the Emperor
OF Russia, having captured in sorte three active,
desperate, and maiaudirg Zouavcs, should pro-
mote them 10 the command Of his army and navy.
The indignation Of the Continentals In the first
case or tho sons and seifs OF the Emperor in the
second could not begin 10 compare with the indig-
nation Of These Virginia Democrats who now see
the cup Of Office dashed from their lips and handed
10 4 thirsty antagonist, whose very appetite has
bs,n enhanced by his desperate struggles against
the Democratic party.
With these causcs OF schism and hostility upon
the part Of the Democracy Of Virginia, we cannot
zee how cordial fusion IL possible; divided, dis
h,a tened, betrayed and insultcd, we cannot sec
how the Democratic party in Virginia can be ro-
united and combined in formidable force against
their active and resolute antagonists We think
the empire Of party is at an end. From New
Hampshire TO New Orleans lie cohorts have been
defeated and dispersed. All those ancient aud
p ivlleged o. ders which constituted its pricstbood
aud III atistOcncy viii be overthrow and oblite-
rated for ever, aud the golden order Of Democracy
which has 50 long held sway IL the Old Dominion,
WILL with tue systems Of primogenture and tythes,
be only recol ded IN history remembered in tfa-
dition.
gz- The arrests IN New \ ork city on Saturday
anu sunday last, amounted to thirty-one.