Butte record., 1856-10-11

ceded that the other was aiming to promOt,
the true and legitimate objects of civil gov
ernment-the happiness of the people anC
the honor and prosperity of the nation
But the two parties, while they agreed al
TO the great end to be attained, differed as
20 the method of reaching that end. Th,
Democratic party marked out system o.
policy widely differing in its fundamental
basis. as well as in its details, from that de
fined by the whig party; but both methods
intended to embrace, the same ultimate OBJ
Joct The question Of the adoption of one
or the other Of these two systems was put
in issue before the people-than which there
can be no higher tribunal-for it is in the
breasts Of the people that the sovereignty o:
state abides. the people decided in favor
of that system proposed and advocated by
the democratic party. This decision was
final, for from it there can be no appeal; the
prerogative of deciding these leading ques-
tions Of national policy being an immunity
peculiarly belonging to the sovereign power.
Whether the measures advocated by the
whig party could have better attained the
end sought by both parties, will. perhaps
never be known; for the whg policy was
oycrruled, and the issues which divided the
then parties can never be again revived.
The democratic measures were then adopted.
aud have ever since given character to our
institutions, aud have raised US to pre- en-
incnt position in the scale of nations. The
principles Of the democratic party have be-
come so interviewer with our syst.m of self
government-have so interminglel with the
very fountains of our governmental policy
NJ to give color and character to its minut
est details; rejecting honor upon us as a
nation, and upon each citizen as an indvid-
ual member of the great Republican family
Here is the cud sought to be attained oy the
old Ehig party, but not attained in the man
ner proposed by them. Our country has
ascend led from poverty to wealth, from
weakness to strength, from an empty treas
ury chest to an overhowng one, from deep
Indebtedness to a clear balance sheet, from
thirteen peut up States to an almost interim
Unable dominion, from handful of people
to an almost innumerable population, from
a military dependency to military dicta
tarship among nations, from people with
out name to the title of the mightiest ma
ton of the earth. The honest portion Of
the old wl,ig party must be willing to admit
that those party measures which have led to
such hatteriug results, contain the great
conservative elements OF safe and salutary
government, and now, when a party has
arisen in one section of the Union, from
whose success must date the decline if net
the di-membcrmcnt Of our country, why can
not these two cid par les, in the pursuance
of their legitimate aim, and the end sought
to be attained by both, unite to crush the
monster in its infancy;
In yesterdays issue, We showed that the
end sought to be gained by both the whig and
democratic aries, had been attained by
the adoption of the measures proposed by
the democratic party In the whig party.
as will be found in all other parties, at all
times, there were insincere Individuals
demagogucs whose attachment to any party
is only kept by hopes Of reward,& aspirations
10 honors and prefermeut; these for time.
kept up a show of opposition to the success
ful party--a name without difference
This opposition obtained, until those who
famed and kept it alive fancied they could
never obtain what they sought-olicc and
the honors and emo oluments of office-by it,
when the necessity of the establishment of a
new party suggested itself as n specious
means of reaching their inglorious aims.
The effect of the new political organization
was, to attract to the abolitionists, $50 feeble
at the time, as to be without party name)
as common nucleus, or rallying point, the
insincere politicians. the political gamblers,
jugglcrs and demagogues, from both the
rhig and democratic ranks; leaving the
sincere and honest friends of peace and order
in the whig and Democratic parties, to unite
in the preservation Of those sacred principles
of civil government which have guided our
nation from feeble infancy to a glorious
maturity 1t is now. when these Office
seekers, jugglers. and political demagogues
uuite their destiny with the abolition agi-
tators, that a sense of duty, should prompt
every national minded man to join heart
and hand with the democratic party, in up
holding the constitution and mantaing the
Union.
But let US glance at the main feature in the
platform of thi. Republican party. The
democratic party, agrinst which they have
arisen, ov0r advocated slavery, or its e1-
tension, and as party was opposed to both
In the northern States there is but one
opinion upon the subject of slavery and it'
extension, and that opinion is opposed TO
both. Being we'll convinced Of this fact as
intelligent men must generally be, what
other conclusions can be drawn frem the
professions of a political party claiming nc
other merit than that of opposition to slave
ry and the extension Of slave territory, than
that such party is insincere, dishonest and
dangerous to the C mmon veal Of the Re-
public Demagogues and political trick
sters have accommodated their platform t,
this feeling. with the hope that it may prov
sufficiently powerful to place them in posi-
tions of honor and emolument, eFen at th
erpeuse of their country.