Daily American organ., 1856-04-17
The Harmonious Democracy.


ly>vindicated the claims of its editor, as one
of the best and most talented authors of I" fancy
sketches in the country. Under the head Of
Wall done good and faithful servants" we
| find the most fanciful sketch Of the pseudo
Democratic party we have ever read, or ever
expect to read Our neighbor Is a political
Barnum. The "woolly horse" of that dis.
| tinguished man of humbugs, has its rival in
the recent work of the man of the Washington
Union. The mechanical skill displayed in
manufacturing the fancy animal which Bar
mum of New York exhibited to gazing crowds
of ninnies, is even more than rivalled by this
high polticaf effort of our very imaginative
neighbor. We shall present few extracts for
comment from his sketch He says:
- The nationality Of the principles and the or
ganization of the Democratic party is seen, felt,
illustrated and acknowledged, in every section of
the Union. Democracy as taught in Maine is the
same as that which is recognised in Georgia; and
the platforms which have been erected by the
Democrats of the South cannot be distinguished
in the slightest particular from the platforms erect
ed by the Democrats of the North"
The ideas of the Union man are indeed
most happily expressed. Nationality Of prin-
ciples and uniformity of platforms That is
to say, it is Kankas and Nebraska" and ''Ne-
braska and Kansas" from Maine to California.
Not particle Of difference in the platforms
erected by Democrats of the South and Demo
Gratis of the North Thus speaks the Wash.
ington Union. If by the term nationality Of
principles" we are to understand that, every-
where the pseudo Democracy are working for
the same objects we can only infer that those
objects are power and plunder, for in no other
particular than this do Southern and Northern
administration men agree as to purposes The
similarity in the platforms North and South,
so far as toords are concerned, is identical, for
everywhere in the North and the South we see
embazoned upon their banners Kansas and
Nebraska" (alias) Nebraska and Kansasl'
And how admirably these notices are calcu-
lated to effect the purposes of that national
ity of principles" which has its beginning and
its ending in the desire for the spoils of powerl
The administration men of the South, cry
out Kansas and Nebraska" and the "erten-
sion Of slaoery whilst the same classes at
the North, simply reverse the motto and its
Interpretation, crying out Nebraska and Kan
sasN" and no more slaue StatesW Not the
slightest difference in their platforms, and only
a small shade of difference in the interpreta-
tons
But here come two passages in the sketch
given by the Union, which contain strange
commingling of fancy and fact, but beautifully
expressed as follows:
The unity, strength, and recuperative energies
of the Democratic party tried by the severest tests
and under the most Encouraging circumstances,
were never more powerfully or more triumphantly
illustrated than in the bold steady and persistent
action of the Democratic members of the present
Federal House Of Representative"
"How well they have discharged their duty,
and their whole duty, to their country, their con-
stituents, and their party, has already become a
part, and proud, conspicuous part, in the jour
nalism of the times"
These passages in the fancy sketch" of the
Union-man, carry us back to the months of
December and January last, when the "unity,
strength, and recuperative energies of the
Democratic party" were illustrated by the
election to the Speakership, through their an
strumentality, Of the man they professed SO
much to despise, for whose principles they
avowed an utter adherence, and whose eleva-
ton they declared would be signal for dis.
solution of the Unionl "How well they dis
charged their duty /" quoth the Union-man
Aye, and not only their simple duty, but
81 their whole duty to their country, their con-
stituents and their partyp How admirably
('os would say) they played out the game Of
politicians, in bringing about the adoption OF
the plurality rule" by detailing from their
ranks, just enough of their Grained bands, y
to accomplish this purpose, which they kneao
would result in the election of Speaker Banks
We remember how that upon the very day
and at the cery hour the wire-workers of the
pseudo Democracy had fixed, for the com
pletion of their plans to elect Mr.. Banks,
the Hon. Humphrey Marshall arose in his
place, and in tones Of thunder harmed the ad-
ministration party that the certain effect Of
adopting that " plurality rule" would be the
election of Mr.. Banks
We remember the effect Of that warning
given by Mr. Marshall on that day; what fiut-
tering was exhibited by the selected instru-
ments of the pseudo Democracy, and how they
quailed, and finally shrunk back from the
performance Of the duty which had been de-
yolved upon them. But " the unity, strength,
and recuperatiUe energies Of the Democratic
party" on the following day accomplished its
purposes; the plurality rule was adopted; the
game was successfully played out by the