Butte record. (Bidwell, Butte County, Cal.) 1853-1858, 1857-01-31
Political Parties.

opnositiou writer's, to speak OF parties as II
all were disorganized and thrown together
in one Heterogeneous mass, and urge the ne
cessitv of forming parties anew. This was
laid down as the basis of the Know Nothing
organization-the groundwork upon which
that anti American and intolerant mon
strosity was reared. 1t was an evil institu-
ton, founded upon false basis, and after
the novelty of its organization had worn off,
and it was brought to the test of the Judg-
ment of the people, it was swept from before
them, like house erected upon the sands of
the sea shore, from before the advancing
waves of the Ocean.
The declared object of that organization
was the publication of the old parties, and
it did, indeed effect that object during the
brief period of its existence. 1t gathered
from the old parties all the vile and worth
less spirits that was ever attached to them
spirits such as follow in the wake Of an ORR
entail Army, but flee from it in the hour of
battle, and turn TO assist in the labor of an
Inhalation in the hour of its defeat. 1t was
loathsome herd, which could be compared
to nothing so fifty as to the rabble of Comus
rrotesque monsters, half beastial, half hu-
man, dropping with political excitement,
the progenitors of Vigilancism and the ia .
Tiers of the Republican Organization
Amidst these was placed the liberty of Cali
fornia. like the chaste lady of the Masque,
lofty, spotless and serene, to be chatted at,
rabblc of Satyrs and COLLINS The Democ-
racy, unlike the needless brothers in Mil
tons poem, in their eagerness to dispense the
train of political sorcerers, have not neg
lected the means of iberating the captive
The new organization were the self constitu-
ted protectors of American liberties and the
conscience keepers of the people. They laid
it down as a self evident proposition that no
man was fit to be free, until he knew how to
use his freedom. They forgot that there
is but one cure for the evils which newly ac-
quired freedom produces-and that is free
dom They used the freedom which they
enjoyed to render themselves more grotesque
and mercenary than those whom they pro-
scribcd. They groveled, and Missed, and
stung, and cried wo unto those who should
attempt to crush them. Their infamous OBJ
legations, their prejudiees of party, and
their unholy appea! to the venerable names
history, threw over them spell potent as
that eff Duessa; and like the Red Cross
Knight, they thought they were doing bat
tie for an injured beauty, while they de-
Tended false and loathsome sorceress.-
They extracted pittance from the compass
sion Of the inexperienced By exposing the
wickedness and sores of their minds. They
professed to hold in reverence the great
names and the great actions Of former times
in order to find in them some excuse for the
abuses they practiced. If in any part of the
great examples Of our forefathers, there was
anything unsound, these flesh flies detected
it with an unerring instinct and seized upon
it with avidity, as a justification of their
own course. But those whom they had de-
ceived, soon began to reason, the scattered
elements of truth ceased to conflict, and be-
gan to coalesce, and triumph of the Demo
cratic party educed a system Of Justice and
order out of chaos.
The secret organization abandoned their
platform Of proscriptiye and intolerant
principles, and descended into man wor-
shipping party-if it were possible to de-
scend from Buntlinism to Boswellism. The
opposition to the Democracy were known as
Fillmore men, and merged their proscrip-
tive principles into the foolish feeling of
man worship. We are not among those who
would reject as models, the few characters
(which have stood the closest scrutiny and
the severest tests, which have been tried in
the furnace and proved pure, which have
been weighed in the baljnc and have not
been found wanting, which have been de-
clared sterling blythe general consent Of man
kind, and which are visibly stamped with the
image and superscription of the Most High"
Such great men, we trust, we know how to
prize. and such were the founders of the
Republic. The sight of their works and the
sound of their names are powerful, not only
to delight, but to elevate and purify. Nor
do we envy the man who can study either the
lives or the writings of these great States
men and patriots, without striving to per-
petuate the works with which they have en-
dowed our country, and to emulate the zeal
with which they labored for the public good,
the fortitude with which they endured every
private calamity, the lofty disdain with
which they looked down on temptation and
dangers, the deadly hatred which they bore
to bigots and tyrants. and the faith which
they so sternly kept with their country and
their fame. But it requires something more
than mere "Man- woi ship to bring into ex-
stence a powerful political party. Doc
trines must be embodied before they can
excite strong public feeling. The oppos-
ton failed in this, and the Fillmore men,
'.slept with their forefathers' Wings
and Known othings.
A late announcement in the opposition
press, informs US that movements are now
on foot to form a new party, out of the bro
ken and dismembered fragments of the late
Fillmore and Republican organizations-and
as the announcement reads-'the better
portion Of the Democratic party" Having
once been successful in catching the multi
tude with the most unmeaning badge and
insignificant name, they fancy they can do
so again, and Notwithstanding the deception