White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1857-10-15
Disintegration Of Parties-The Slave.
N Questian.

ulaton or regret, It is very certain that this ap
athletic indifference really exists, and is gradu,
ally becoming more and more marked, il VIC
judge truly the signs of the times. .,-rri
The old Wing party is fairly broken into frag.
menu The strata Of the new Republican par
y have been upheayed by its own internal fires
and are now to be seen cropping out at various
points in the Northern section of the Union, in
distorted masses, and with every variety of in.
clination. Every where but in Maryland, the
American party has met with succession Of
disasters, and this youthful, but sturdy Titan,
who threatened at one time to exercise supreme
control in every State in the Union, is now re.
duced to Torso, endowed with strong vitality
yet, but shorn of thatstrength and activity which
once rendered il so formidable. The Democrat.
ic party is huge, unwieldy, shapeless mass
con pnded of incongruous elements, all work.
ing in diverse ways, all weak in cohesive prop.
critics, and threatening, within brief period, to
bring about complete disintegration.
We may safely assert that the forces now in
activity among all the political organizations Of
the day, are working inversely. They are work.
ing not to build up but to destroy. This is so
manifest that it needs no proof. Even the DOM
inant party gains nothing by its victories. Like
the Boa Constructor, after swallowing its prey,
it lies prone upon the ground-gorged to reple-
ton and utterly helpless. A single blow well
aimed would annihilate it. The time was when
its recuperative power was immense but now,
even when the will is strong the members are
insubordinate. The Democratic North clamors
for free soil-the Democratic South demands an
open field and non-nterference. The Democn-
ic Government steers towards Scylla to avoid
Charybdis, and now towards Charybdis to avoid
Scylla, and how to escape the one rock or the
other, even the pilot at the helm is at loss to
determine. In none of the parties, as at pres
ent organized, is there sufficient strength remain
ing to warrant long life. The Republicans can
no more establish themselves firmly on one idea
than table on one leg. The Democrats, like
greyhounds in aleash, are pulling different ways.
The Wings are scattered beyond uniting, and
the Americans weakened by recent defeats, only
lift up triumphant banner in one State of the
Union. ~
Foreign writer's, reviewing the present aspect
of things, boldly assert that unconsciousy to our
selves We are in the midst of revolution. How
ever this may be, we feel assured that it will re-
suit happily. Serious and threatening as the sla-
very question has apparently become, we enter
tain firm conviction that the Middle and Yves
tern States will not suffer this quarrel between
the extreme North and the extreme South to
continue much longer without administering such
a rebuke to the factionists Of both sections as
shall have the effect Of bringing home to them
the consciousness that there are other members
Of the confederaey besides themselves, whose
opinions are worthy of respect, and members,
too, whose weight and influence in the national
councils are sufficient to put end to these dis
graceful brawls, originating in unjust prejudices
on the one side, and met by ill grounded passion
on the other.
The revolution-ifw we may give this imposing
title to the change now taking place in the COM
plexion Of political parties-is revolution of
sentiment. 1t emanates from that spirit Of con-
servatism newly awakened into activity by the
increasing gravity and acrinony of the slavery
feud. The influence of this modifying and re-
straining force upon the popular mind cannot be
otherwise than healthfu and iuvigorating, for its
appeal is to our nationality. To Americauism
properly so called in contradistinction to section
alisn. 1t points to our power, to our wealth,
and to our general career of prosperity, in evil
dence of the benefits which have resulted from
united action and harmonious councils.
The clamor about the expansion of slavery
northward is unmitigated folly. The experience
of the past, and the evidence daily placed before
US, ought to be sufficient to prove that wherever
white labor can be turned to profitable account,
slavery must succunb. Prior to the revolution
it existed in all the Colonies. Ten of them are
now free. From the remaining three-Delaware,
Maryland and virginia-it is slowly, but not less
surely disappearing. In Kentucky and Missouri
it presents similar evidences of decay. Its ten
dency has ever been to the Southwark, for it is
only in semi-tropical regions that slavery can
flourish. As the Caucasian race moves West
ward, no territorial laws could bind the African
to the soil. He finds his cOngenial soil and eli
mate in tropical and semi-trOpical regions only
North Of the Missouri line he is not only an ex-
otto, but comes into contact with white labor
strengthened and economical by superior intel
ligence. The laws of climate are also against
him. Governor Walkers " isothermal line" as
relating to slavery, may be sneered at, but can
not be controverted. It is for this reason We
contend that it matters not where the South
seeks to plant its institution. In every uncon-
genial soil it must die out. Perhaps in the rev
olution of parties now taking place, common
sense view of the whole field of controversy viii
induce the ultraists to leave something TO the
natural laws that govern population, and thus get
rid Of a a vexata questio," which the more they
agitate, the more profoundly they muddle--Bal-
timore Pstriot. fsa.t
A SLIGHT MIsrAKE.-A resident Of Brooklyn,
returning late one night from New Yerk, slight
| " inebriated, while passing through quiet tho
roughfare, ~ punp-handle, and about the
same tims bring watchman's club, imagined
that the ganoters were after him. He threw