The American patriot., 1855-07-21
w The leaders of the opposition have bu-


| R- The leaders of the opposition have bu-
sled themselves harping on what they fondly
imagine is want of organization and unity Of
sentiment in the ranks of our party. They
seem to be so busy hunting up something in
the movements of the Native American Order,
out of which they may wiring little capital,
that they forget their own dissentions, and the
civil war which is going on in their own camp.
In the State of New York the Democracy with
Dickinson and Beardley at its head, has de-
nounced the administration of Gen. Pierce in
the most bitter and unmeasured terms, charac-
terizing the President as treacherous, faithess.
&C., and his doings as weak and imbecile in
the extreme The selfstyled democracy of our
own State is the only portion Of that party
which finds any thing to commend in the
present administration. For daring to en-
dorse Gen. Pierce and his policy this unfortu-
nate schism in Louisiana which has most ad-
mira6lg carried out that good old doctrine
"your party right or wrong-stick to your
party" has drawn down upon its devoted head
the unqualified denunciation of the old fogies
in other portions of the Union.
The following is clipped from the New Or
leans Bulletin and explains theposture Of affairs
exactly:
Democratic Harmony.
The Democratic party, as every one knows,
maintains in many, if not all of the States
lingering existence, the mere shadow or ghost
of body which has lost all strength and vigor,
with bnt little of the vital principle left View
ing it as national party it is gone, dead, de-
funct; it lacks all the elements of harmony and
unity; even the cohesive bonds of public plum
der can not aggregate it into any thing like a
whole, for there are not teats enough for the
voracious mouths that are hungering after the
enviable nourishment. The Democratic party
is as disintegrated and denationalized as the
Wing party, and only differs from it by having
in spots local habitation and name.
Hopes were entertained that the opposing
factions of the Democratic party at the North
might be induced to coalesce for the purpose
Of fighting common enemy, the KnowNoth-
ings-a party which all democrats, whatever
might be the distinctive marks or shades or
differences, hate with a perfect hatred but
even here, contrary to a principle of social
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bers of q household against those who attempt
to intefere with their domestic relations, all
attempts at a combination even to fight those
noxious intruders the Know Nothings, have
signally failed These factions are as much
estranged and alienated as if there had never
been bond of Union between them; as if they
had never sworn by gen. jackson, and fought
together under his banner against the United
States Bank, a Protective Tariff, and Internal
improvements, doctrines and articles of polit.
ical faith long forgotten, and merged and swal.
lowed up in the maclstrom of Freesoilsm and
Abolitionism.
We have an article before us, from leading
organ of the Soft Shell wing of the New York
Democracy, which shows with what regard
and affection the Northern Democrats, the
"natural allies of the South" as they facecious.
ly used to be called, feel towards their South.
ern brethren. After quoting the two resolu
tions in the Louisiana Democratic platform
endorsing the action Of the last Congress il
3 the Nebraska-Kansas act, and expressing tn,
, sympathies of Louisiana Democrats with thu
friends of the slavery cause in Kansas, follow
ing them up with some comments of the Wash
: ington Union, which said that "thc resolutions
! alluded to show an unfaltering adherence t.
the recognized principles and landmarks of tn,
Democratic party" the Soft Shell organ pro
ceeds in the following contemptuous and with
ering strain
"Upon what strange times have we fallen
f when declarations like these are set down al
, recognitions of the ancient landmarks of th
Democratic party To tyrannize over peaceful
and unarmed men, to wrest the right of sui
frage from those who are justly entitled to il
to cog, to cheat, to make false returns of cleo
Il Al. n
mocracy?
"It is clear that no honest man at the Mort
$ can act with those who thus shamelcesly adop
G fraud, and avow settled determination t
! uphold it and profit by it. If we were to sur
: port nominations made under the avowal 9
such principles, we should feel that we entere
. into partnership with rogues."
t Referring to the platform of the Georgi
!; Democracy, the same editor remarks:
"The resolutions passed at their State Cor
vention in Georgia make the same declaration
y as those of Louisiana. These politicians site
at nothing-shrink from no assertion of til
v rights Of slavery, however broad, and whe
a there is no pretence of right, they fall bacl
= without hesitation, upon the title of the stron,
s est, the doctrine that the territory belongs
:. those who are audacious enough to possess
If by violence. They are fraud, free-spoken
c They keep back nothing; the are determine
=, to lose no advantage of any sort by the failul
. to claim it early and boldly"
It This is a fair specimen of the sentiments an
C feelings of the Nothern Democracy, saving a
Il inconsiderabe fragment called the Hard Shell
- which have no existence outside of the city
:, New York. And yet we see in the procee,
q ings of Southern Democratic meetings. compl
n mentarv illusions made to National Democra
,. at the North, from whom they expect symp
;s thy and support. II our Democratic frien,
70 South call such conduct Of the North backi,
IT their friends-a fig for such backing, say "