Butte record., 1856-07-19
Political Parties.

Political Parties,
One of the three political parties who will
occupy public attention during the present
campaign, is already in the field The ar
rival of Steamer will doubtless bring the
announcement of the action of the Demo
cratic National Convention The third, OF
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 upon sectional grounds, are
not the Insignificant party that all lovers ol
the Union could wish. In the northern
States, this party has swallowed the K n
institution, or sonearly used it up as to rem.
der the contest between the Democracy and
the Republican parties. Some thirty K Ms
were all that could be counted of their Ma
tonal party in Congress. This party may
be dismissed from national consideration
with single remark. Their platform is q
mass Of verbiage, in.ipidities, crudities,
fatulent professions, and impalpable alb.
stractions. However respectable in charae-
ter and talent, it is too nconsiderable in
numbers to be more than skirmishing
party upon the field of battle.
The sectional, abolition or Republican party
were sufficiently numerous in Congress to
secsre the election of Speaker, after keeping
their candidate in State for weeks, in sight
Of the chair. His cold finger, excited by a b.
olition electricity, has wandered ''round the
dial plate, and now points to the stroke" of
disunion, massacre and servile insurrection
The battle then now is between the Black
Republican and Democratic parties, and the
question for the consideration of the.people
is Under which banner - In determining
this, the citizens of the State and of the I'm
ion, should examine the inscriptions upon
the banners Upon the Black Republican
banner is inscribed-"The restoration of the
Missouri restriction, the abolition of the in
ter-state slave trade. the rejection of slave
State from admission into the Union, and the
repeal Of the fugitive slave law" The diff
ferences of opinion created by this party are
merged in sectional hate, and they array
one portion of the Union against the other
The Missouri compromise is made the lever
by which the mind and conscience of the
North, and array it against the South.
Sectional feeling, fanaticisms and aggres-
sions have made these issues, and the democ
racy, standing upon the broad platform OF
the Constitution and the Union, are prepared
to meet them. Not with platform alone,
covering heresies with keen dlalectics and
slippery evasicns; but the representative OF
the democracy must be upon the platform, a
firm and devoted friend to the principle es
emblazoned upon the Democratic escutcheon.
The Democratic party of the No, thern States
has been cut down in the fight. at has
passed through fire and water, but, like Mo-
zart's Zauberfote, it has come out with
cleansed and whitened garments Its now
strong enough to do battle for the Constitu-
tion. The Democracy of California have
shared the defeat of their northern brethren
in their purifcation-and, like them, are
strong in their faith of constitutional gov
ernments, and impregnable in their support
Of the constitution and the Union
The coming contest will be a momentous
one. Present indications are that it will
turn upon the question Of constitutional
rights The Democratic banner bears the
glorious inscription of ''The Constitution
and the Union," and around it will rally
the good and the pure of every section. 1t
can make but little difference in the ap-
preaching contest, which of the many dis
tinguished names mentioned in correction
with the nomination, is brought forward to
OCCUPY the place of Ajax at the feast OF
Agnmemnon.' The principles of the Dem
cratic party are hose which have governed
the country since the formation of the Re-
publc-received the sanction of its founders
and the support of American Statesmen who
were born amid the thunders of the revolv-
o]ution.
Tine mission of the Democracy is indeed
q noble one. 1t holds the government al
most in fee simple; if it be true to the con-
stituton it will hold it absolutely in fee
o lever to disenthral and regenerate the
civilization of the world, not by military
propagandism, not by fire and steel, but BY
the influence of mind and l)fty example
Its mission is to break the barbaric dark nest
of centuries-to enthrone again that knowl-
edge which in olden time made men as demi,
gods--to set at work power subtler than
brute force, and mightier than armed num-
bers" Ay, to teach men once more to pay
homage to the royalty of mind. And wha
magnificent appliances it has to accomplish
this destiny With the blood of every peo-
pie flowing through its veins; with the in
fellect and energy of every race inherited
with the treasures of every language it:
spoils-as the temple was built upon tht
brow of Moriah, by Canaannite and Tyrian
as Lebanon gave her cedars to it, and Ophil
her gold so, too, a temple seems to have
been builded here by the elect of lands, on
whose affairs patriotism might kindleits fires
and from whose portals philanthropy nigh
20 forth TO meet the future, leaning upon
the arm of Jehovah"
Gs- The Town Talk thinks that "the out
rage upon Mr. Sumner, in the Senate Cham
Der, will have the same effect upon Mr.
Pierce's denomination to the Presidency az
Casey's pistol shot had upon Cora. 1t seals
his doom" Now, we had always supposed
that Cora was hung because he murdered
Richardson, and not because Casey shot Mr.
King. But the Talk being Immediately on
the scene of action. probably thoroughly un-