Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-01-19

ganiZation OF the House.
is THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY A SEC
TIONAL PARTY .-HON. MIR. OAR
LILLE, OF VIRGINIA.
The only solid, we'll cemented political party
now in this country, is the Democratic party.
1t is so consistent in its course, SO firm in its
principles so solid in its character, that neither
the winds of Know-nothingism nor the turbid
waves Of Black Republicanism can shake it.
But while it bids defiance to its enemies, and
while those enemies see md understand that
all their attempts against it are like an attempt
to storm the rock of Gibraltar with pocket
pistol, they yet in impotent malice and childish
rage shoot their harmless arrows against its
steelclad breast. There is but one thing in
which the various opposition parties agree,
and that is in hatred of the Democracy, and
in the endeavor to make and to hold it respon-
sible for every evil that afflicts the country.
The last effort Of this kind was made on Thurs.
day in the House of Representatives by Mr..
Garlic, member of Congress from Virginia,
the only member of that delegation who repre-
sents the views of the Know-nothing order.
Mr.. Garlic said 1--WE quote the brief report of
his remarks) that the Democratic party first
gave cause for the organization of sectional
parties. BY the resolution adopted in the eau
Gus of the Administration party the Saturday
preceding the day fixed for the meeting of
Congress- they had planted themselves, not
upon their old time-honored principles, but
upon those contained in the Nebraska Kansas
bill-the very bill which had created the pres
ent agitation and led to the formation of Sec
tional parties"
The Democratic party SECTIONAL PARTY
THE FIRST SECTIONAL PARTY The remark is
simply preposterous. The Democratic party
was party and National party long before
the Abolition party or the Know-nothing party
breathed the breath of life, if indeed they may
be said to breathe. 1t would never have sue
ceeded, had it not been national party. 1t
has faithfully, rigidly, and persistently opposed
sectionalism in all the Protean shapes it has
assumed. 1t has been the worst enemy Of
Aboitionism, and the most fatal foe to Free
1t has been against every ism in every State
1t has been divided nowhere. Democratic
resolves have varied somewhat on some occa-
sions, but Democratic action-never. Unlike
Know nothingism, it is atthe North what it is at
the South-unlke Abolitonism, it extends to,
and includes, both sections.
But it is sectional, according to Mr.. Garlic,
because it originated the Nebraska Kansas bill,
which repealed the restrictive clause of the
M issouri compromise, which was a departure
from its time-honored principles" How he
can show that the Democratic opposition to
Abolitionism is sectionalsm, and that the repeal
of compromise which, in effect, was the
Wilmot proviso, is departure from time-hon.
ored principles, is what we cannot understand.
In another part Of his speech, Mr.. Carlile
expressed his opposition to the Kansas bill,
and one of the reasons assigned by him for
that opposition was that it establishes "squat-
ter sovereignty" While we know that it nei
Their establishes nor was intended to establish
that doctrine, yet, as Mr.. Garlic thinks so and
processes to be most violent foe to "squatter
sovereignty" it seems a little odd that he
should declare himself against the repeal of
that bill, big as it is with all the evils and hor-
rors of that unreal thing named "squatter SOY.
ereignty."
When Mr.. Garlic sees the Democracy Of the
House Of Representatives, both from the North
and the South, the East and the West, voting
as one man and standing on one common plat
form - when he sees the now.nothings Of
the House split and divided, some voting for
one candidate, some for another some for
Freesoiler, some for conservative when he
looks to his own honored State and sees the
Democracy as solid as granite and as true as
steel, and sees, on the other hand, his own
party split into twelfth section and antitwelfth
section divisions, and quarrelling, like hungry
wolves, over the carcass Of Mr.. John Minor
Botts-when he sees these things, it i'll be-
comes him to charge that the Democratic
party is an unsound, or sectional party. That
great party stands upon the rock Of the Consti-
tuition, and unless the Constitution be sectional
it is not sectional.