New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-12

tsncSt hkely 20 tes&c'lol
IS, tha, the Entlsh alliance 70 rather weakening.
"Englfh seTsrtics have undergone ,sa Improvement;
and The tore a the market hss beer generally sood"
The REPUBLICANS OF THE UNITED STATES.
From the london 7'iaes, Noe. % .
Auery other impor ant results OF the late Pfeeloen-
tial election IL tie United States may be ranked The
fusion into two opposite oamPs OF al me preyous eA
sti.g divisions of parties. Tie American kepaolic
boV 10, sepses that for many years England DOS
setsed ard show no Onger-two parties differ
hg mere in name but in principles, and sworn 20
strive the uttermos ali Esue the most m centour
that can Ell nuate the passions enlist The symp sthles
Of the human mind. The smalness of the number OF
yOtes IOLed for Fillmore must convincingy prove bow
COMPLETELY the Old Wing ard know-Nothing parties
had been pulverzed and destroyed in the shock of
conflicting opinions which the great Presidential con
ct has called forth. The conduct OF the Wings dur
ing the recent election IL such es TO remind us very
forciby OF the Petite party IN our own House OF Com
mons Both had, III some degree, lost the confidence
of the pubic by a1ecation Of superior refinement
i'll calculated 10 vic public sympathy, and escb had
an opportunity of retrieving It's position-the one by
eur u ring public feeling IN favor Of The war, and the
Other by placing tsef at the head ofthe popular excite
met eanst tie extension OF Slavery In Kansas Both
American Wing and English Peeite were wanting to
their destiny. The opportunity has passed them by, and
they must wait probably In vsD, Tor the recurrence OF
another occasion, and undergo in the meanwhile the
disntegraOn which never tails to operate rapidly on
unsuccessful political parties. The Know NOthings-a
party founded secret organization and protesting
principles adverse 10 the Tree emigration TO which
America owes her wealth her popuiaion and her pub
lie worBs-haye also been a1Dihilated and American
history hencef, rth will probably know but TWO parties
the Republicans Of the North and the Democrats Of
the South. In such 20 for very htte and
the most popular is scrau bed for and adopted without
the slightest reference to the principles or professions OF
rle arty that fight under IT, The word - Republican
OILY pledges 10 Il Republican form of Government,
which may be either oligarchlc or Democratic, while
the term democrat means Republican Tree iron
all ogarcbical faint The first s generic and properly
includes both parties the second specific, and prop
erly understood excludes the olgsrchy OF the South
who have ~ ceeded in pre-occupy the and APP
plying il TO Themselves. If Wing aud Tory be
perpetuation Of the barbarous sang OF obscure fac
tions, Democrat" and "Republican are a standing
mOnun Cf the cCnus OF ideas SO apt 10 wait on
vebemt ut party excitement.
Tie Republican party may be ssid at present 10 be
confined to the northern States Of the Union. Those
who spite of the terrorism Of the South dare 10 dis
cent from The shibboleb prescribed TO them generally
arrange themselves under the now Obsolete name OF
Wing Know Nothing, and the Republican party
south OF Mason and Dixons hue If phen 1nenon yet
far distant. Tht local CIcumscription he's been en-
ployed in IT, late contest TO asten the Republicans
the charge of sect ODaism,' a word OF underlined
DeanI &, the import OF which IN controversy Is de-
stroy cd as soon il is paraphrased. If sectional
ism" means that TIE opinion is confined to par
ticular part Of the Union the Republicans are section
aiss. If sectiOnalsm means opinions arising from
narrow local and Personal views, III w1lch sense alone
il is q term of reproacb then is the South and not
c6ns that sectiODals:s The one tenet OF the Repub
can party is resissnce t. the extension vi slavery.
II has sprung into existence TO meet particular
emergency and has not yet either formulated its pyn-
ciples or regulated its internal dscpinetwo defects
TO which it principally It's recent defeat. But II
is too numerous and too enthusiastic, too firmly con
WINGED OF the justce Of IFS cause and too confident III
ultimate victory, TO be dsheaIted by sueh result; and
is not unrea, enable to expect that il will acquire in
TIE coming struggle that confidence in itself, tnst
horence and that discipline which, whether in the Capt.
toll at Washington or some future field of battle
will enable it to do justice 10 iis and its cOny,c
tons. Growth and increase the side of tae
North and if the South is to counterfeit them il must
be by a succession of maneuvers such that which
has lust 70 signslly succeeded each Of which Will be-
come al once more perilous 10 the North, and more
certain to e1s tie evaporation Of It's nhabtsns and
prom ote then uIiGn and thor energy.
The position OF the South is at this moment n very
peculiar one. For the foryve years preceding 1884
its atitu ie was tbst of oontent 10 remain on the
delt nsve and safed 10 forego the increase of their
territory toward the north in consideration of being
allowed full scope for ber operations toward the soutl
ard southwest Such an attitude was thoroughly con
sistent with the maintenance of the Union and the
PIE IyatiOn Of Slavery nom al attacks on u part OF
The Federal Government. But the North was growing
spsce and was felt that the unprecedented progress
of the North in population rendered the transierenc
of supreme power INTO its hands only question OF
time, and in 1854 Congress destroyed this wise
and statesmaDlibe Compromise on The motion OF
Mr.. Douglas of Illinois. From this moment the
" hole career and polcs of the Sou;h were altered.
Disdaining, and indeed openly violating, f)rmer
contacts and agreen ents, the Southern party de
termined to take advantage to the utmost Of the
prtdomidonce which they possessed, and by
series of bold and welcembiped maHeuvets, TO pre-
serve the balance of the Constitution still IN their
favor. The strength of the South rests on technical
and artificial advantages arising from the letter OF the
Constitution. The strength Of the North is in its
wealth, its population, and its industry, advantages
which the Constitution did not give, and which its
sbroe alton will not take away. When the contest,
therefore has reached its ultimate conditions, the
South will find in the Constitution shield and the
North Gil obstacle and the positions OF the two parties
with respect to it, therefore likely Ia be reversed
The South is embarked in career i'll which it cannot
stop. II has scomed compromise, and boldly aims at
supremacy. The point must be re sched a. last a.
which the North VIII cOncede further, and it will
then be seen if the Constitution is strong enough
TO restrain the furious anpathies hitherto content to
fight within its limits