Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-07-14
Political Parties.

rival OF Steamer will doubtless bring the
announcement of the action of the Demo.
cratic National Convention The third, or
Republican party. will doubtless soon have
candidates in nomination, and then the tri-
angular campaign, like Jack Easy's three
cornered duel, will open. The latter party,
although formed uron sectional grounds, are
not the insignificant party that all lovers of
the Union could wish. In the northern
States, this party has swallowed the X. n.
Institution, or sonearly used it up q. 10 rem
der the contest between the Democracy and
the Republican parties Some thirty X. n $
we're all that could be counted of their Ma.
'onal party in Congress. This party may
be dismissed from national consideration
with single remark. Their platform is a
mass Of verbiagc, in.ipilties, crudities,
fa,ulent professions, and impalpnbe nb
stractons. However respectable in charac-
ter and talent, it is too inconsiderable in
numbers TO be more than a skrmishing
party upon the field of battle
The sectional. abolition OF Republican party
were sufficiently numerous in Congress TO
-ecAre the election ofSpenker, after keeping
their candidate in State for weeks, in sight
clifton electricity, has wandered Ground the
dial plate, and now points to the t,oke" of
disunion, massacre and servile iusurrection
The battle then now is between the Black
Republican and Democratic parties, aud the
question for the consideration of the people
is II nder which banner - In determining
this, tue citizens of the State and Of the I'M
ion, should examine the inscriptions upon
the banners. Upon the Back Republican
banner is cribed-"The restoration OF the
Missouri restriction, the abolition of the in
ter-state slave trade. the /, lection Of slave
State from admission iuto the Union, aud the
repeal of the fugitive slave law The dill
tcrences OF opinion created by this party are
merged in sectional hate, aud they array
one portion Of the Union against he other
AhS -hi1'Nu'I Sph bHioO 10 ibduC VIC lSHcI
by which the mind AMI conscience OF the
North, and array it tagainst the South.
Sectional feeling, fanarlcisms and aggrcs-
sions have nude these issues and the delnoc
racy, standing upon tbc broad platform If
the COnsttution aud the Union, are prepared
to meet them Not with II platform alone,
covering heresies with keen dIalectics and
slippery eva>cns; but the representative Of
the democracy must be upon the platform, n
firm ami devoted friend to the prlncipl rs
embi,z ned upon the Democratic escutcheun.
The Democratic party of the No thern States
has been cut down in the fight. 1T has
passed through fire and water, but, like Mo-
zart's Zaubel tl,te, 1t has come out with
eanscd aud wh'tenea garments" Its now
s'rong enough to do battle for the Constiiu-
ton The Democracy of California have
shared the defeat of their northern breth Ell
in their puritication-and, Ike them, are
strong in their faith of constitutional gov
ernments, uni impregnable in their support
of the constitution and the Union.
The coming contest will be momentous
one Present indie .tIous are that it will
turn upon the question Of constitutional
rights The Democratic banner bears the
glorious inscription Of 1.-The Constitution
and the Union" and around it will rally
the good and the pure of every section. 1t
can make but lItle difference in the ap
pru aching contest, which of the many dis.
Iuru, shed names mentioned IN connection
wuh the nomination, is brought forward TO
..occupy the place Of Ajax at the feast of
Ayntnrmnon.' The princ'pl OF the Dem
cratic party are hose which have governed
The country since the formation OF the he
public-received the sanction OF its founders
and the support of American Statesmen who
were born amid the thunders OF the reyoiv
oIutIUn
Tine mission of the Democracy is indeed
n noble one. 1t holds the government al
IN, st in tee simple; il 1t be true t. the con
-riution il will hold it absolutely in fee
simple Thus holding it they may use II ms
;, lever to dlsenthral and regene:ate the
ivi,ization of the world, not by military
not by fire and steel, but by
he influence Of mind and l,fIy example
[ - mis,,.n is to break the barbaric darkness
ni centuries to enthrune again that knowl-
edge which in olden time made men as demi-
uds--to set at work power subtler than
brute force, and mig ghier than armed mum
,.rs'- Ay. TO teach men once more to pay
homage to the royalty of mind. And what
- hos RI lIQh