New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-09
END OLE A GREAT PARTY.

zenith, sinks rapidly again and already begins
to dip below that very horizon from beneath
| which il had in the morning rsen-then we know
that the day is almost done. When the sun in its
crcling course makes again that first degree OF
Aries, from which twelve months before it hsd
set out, then We perceive that the year is ended
When the young man who started in life with
empty pockets indeed and without fame repu-
tation but rich in hope and full of promises, grown
at length an old man, with broken constitution,
lost character and forced 10 maintain himself by
begging thinks no more of anything except to live
from hand to mouth and not without difficulty ac-
complishes that-it then becomes too clear that
his next move will be to the AlmS-H0use or
into coffin. The same course of rise, progress,
decline and disappearance to be traced in physical
history and in the of individuals, is just as OBJ
seryable in the career Of parties. They too have
their rise. progress and culminaton they too have
their decline, fall and disappearance-Often as
rapid and sudden that Of the sun beneath the
tropical horizon, leaving twilight behind it, or
any indication hardly that it had ever shOne.
OF the Democratic party in these United States
was he, Virginian and stakeholder though he was,
who picked up the poor, helpless thing, unable to
run OF even to stand left forlOrD and deserted at
the wayside by its natural parents, the people of
New England and Pennsylvania. This Thomas
Jefferson was an enthusiastic believer in natural
rights, human rights, the equal rights of all men,
and that was the milk upon which he fed his
bo,f riva1 llu
under it; so much so that, from II weak and pulling
infant, in twelve years or less it became strong
enough not only to carry Thomas Jefferson on its
back into the Presidency but the body Of slave
holders along with him into the administration and
full control of the General Government.
So far did the Democratic party carry its enthu-
siasm for the doctrine of human rights that for the
sake of the right of a few British sailors to run
away from the pretended claims to their services
by the crown Of England under certain alleged
laws of that realm and instead of serving the king,
to earn their living if they chose by working on
board American vessels that party did not hesitate
to plunge the United States into disastrous war
with Great Britain, which, instead of breaking down
the Democratic party, as many expected, only rem
dered it more absolute than before, and that rather
by virtue of the great principles for which it strug
gled than from any coDquests which it made or
military glory which it gained in that war.
This was the eliminating point of the Demo
cratic party. From that moment it began to de-
cline. Jackson and Van Buren, she'd indeed
certain afternoon Splendor upon it by the struggles
of the one against the financial domination which
the United States Bank stroye to establish for
itself, and of the other against the pet banks
which, in reward for the special patronage of the
Administration, strOve TO saddle the country with
II deprecated paper currency. Under Polk, the
light of liberty, claimed hitherto as the peculiar
benefcence Of tho Democratic party, became sadly
obscured by slayehOlding fog, OF which, indeed,
sOEe mist had darkened the Democratic sky ever
since the time Of the Missouri COMPROMISED and
now, under Pierce, the Democratic sun sinks and
suddenly disappears in the black thunder-cloud of
judicial slsye-catcbing encroachments and the
Kansas Nebraska bill.
Mr. Pierce, or Mr.. Gushing, or to whomsoeyer
the authorship may belong OF the historical essay on
the Federal Government which forms the con-
GLIDING part of tie Presidents late Message 10
Congress, informs that the object of the ReyOlu:
tiQnary War was "tO disenthrall the United Colo
mics from foreign rule, which had proved to be
Oppressive, and TO separate them permanently
from the mother country; the political result was
the foundation of Federal Republic of the free
" nhite men Of the Colonies, constituted as they
"were in distinct and reciprocally independent
State Governments. AS for the subject races,
whether Indian or African, the wise and brave
statesmen OF that day, being engaged in no ex.
trayagant schemes OF social change. left them as
they were, and thus preserved themselves and
their posterity from the anarchy and ever
recurring civil wars which have prevailed in
"other reyolutiOnized European colonies of
America Such is the statement made on the first
day of January, 1856, by those post-revolutiou-
AIRY patriots, Messrs Pierce and Cushing. As an
Offset to this account of the matter. We shall beg
leave TO cite cotempOraneOus official document,
not emanating. indeed, from President and
Attorney General in eSse, and President and
Chiei-Justice in posse, but which may yet be
deemed By some old-fashoned people, OF almost
equal authority. Madison, Hamilton. and Els.
worth, IA sn address to the States which they
reported 70 toe Continental Congress, of which they