Demoine courier., 1855-07-05

An article, under the above caption,
appears ir a late number of the Great
Vest, a neutral paper published in Gin.
cinna'i Ohio, and as i, contains some
very wholesome truths we make a few
extracts for the benefit, Of our readers.
The Grea, Yves, says:
1.-The old Democratic party presents
a curious anomaly. Its name is a live
ry of Heaven. and its deeGs, we confess,
have sometimes indicated tina, it was
stolen 10 serve the devifin. Bat, for all
that, it has a charm which only a long
apostaoy can break. Its old and gallant
adversaries, the Wings, are not so much
defeated, as crowded off the stage, or
absorbed IN later issues. IL the Wings
surrendered their bank and high tariff
projects, the Democrats abandoned their
hard money and free trade doctrines.-
II Webster stood up for he Union, the
Constitution, and the supremacy of Fed
eral power, SO did Jackson; and Jackson
was a better Democra, ,han Calhoun
And the single remnant of all the sub.
jects OF discussion, now left to quarrel
over, is the question Of River and Har.
Dor Improvements by The general gov
ernment-a bone whose marrow will be
found, we hope, before our great rivers
Our ''great inland seas" as Calhoun
called them--sre quite choked up.
1.-The two leading political topics, now
before the country, are Americanism and
Slavery, and TO these all others, for a
time, will be made subservient. When
the first symptoms of American feeling
appeared, the Democratic leaders and
The Democratic press announced i! with
a sneer; but when its power was mani
tested in important town elections, they
were alarmed: The "proscriptionists,"
the "bigoieG natives" of the week be
fore were wood as gently as a sucking
dove. But when Slate after State was
carried by this invisible strength, ,he
Washington Kitchen Cabinet, The Alba.
ny Regency. the Richmond Junto. the
Palmetto Club, and other kindred asso
cia,ions, weighed The chances of the
contest, and declared for open war. The
Wings were afilia,ihg with the Ameri-
can party AID were not TO be ouibid,
while the foreign and Catholic vote al
ways had been, and might always be
made sufficient 10 turn the scale, and SO
Americanism was TO be attacked. The
flag was run up, and the hounds which
had already akir,ed The field on the other
side were now wIiis,led home, and put
upon the new scent. But a large num-.
Der of Democrats refused TO follow this
lead and joined the American divisions,
and here was a formidable split where
union was Indispensable 10 strength.
slavery is now a more formidable
enemy to the Democratic party than A.
mericanism. 1t has been the pride of
Northern Democracy, tina, i. has always
stood by the South, through thick and
thin of all the troubles, which sprung
from its peculiar institutions. No mat.
ter if the pill was sometimes bitter-men
who were SO skilled at The game of ..fol-
low my leader" shut their eyes and
swallowed il without hesitation. 1t is
true that New York had shown symp.
toms Of disaffeclion-,hat the Hards
and Sof;s had got up q pretty family
quarrel which embraced ex President
Van Buren, and his son, Prince John;
but as a whole, the res, were thought 10
be sound at the core. Bat the leaders
who were so blindly followed, seem TO
have led their Democratic followers nigh
unto death. Taking the submission of
the past as an example of their p over,
they set up a o arbitrary rule ard
were de,hrone9. They considered the
people as the instruments for the g%ra,ifi-
cation of their ambition-as President
makers, and paymasters-general, and
servants, who were to lift them up, 10
fortune and to fame, and the people re-
pudia,ed the servitude. And here we
come to that master stroke of policy
which alienated the affections oil the
Northern Democracy.
"Counting upon a continuance of the
blind submission, tina, had sc long char
acterisedt the Den. ocratic party, Atchison,
Dor2las & Co., determined to pu, it to
a seveier test han ever. They passed
the Nebraska bill and repealed the Mis-
souri, Compromise of 1920. In a mo.
ment, they declared that all previous
compacts on the subject of slavery were
null and void, and opened the door for
its admission into territories, from which
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