New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-10

" tie JeEtrsoai.n system Of poIties But ewes
HsmiItcn and his friends CID nos r. 20 fIs - 10
.vsw Themselves ~ Esscraliis. "a few might
have secretly gone the lsrgsI Of wi,hios 10 sse
the Ststs Governments reduced ito mere echoes
and instruments Of the ULited States Governmeat,
but even the mo.t ultra of these did not ves-
ture TO cal Themselves anything more than
Federsli,tx. However, this epithet Of National, -
sppid to qualify aud dig-ify our modern Den'c
rscy, is not original. 1t Vas frat introduced b.
the combustion Of old Fedsrslists All Cd Dsno
Gratis, who thirty ye,ls ago supported the Admins
trstion Of John Quincy Adams, aad who, while
doing SO, took to themselves the name Of hseonal
Republicans. There was no end to the criticism
aid the tDeen bestowed then upon this term
National" At that tune the Dem cratic leaders
had not found on! the beauty srd proprety Of al
adjective which they now seem 10 regard a. more
significant and more test Of political orthodoxy
than the very substantive it lie employed to q1alif7
Nowadays It il nothing 10 be Democrat. Il is
necesiary 70 be also National Democrat that 10
to soy, according to the original employment BY the
Democratic party Of those two Words contra
dicton in terms.
curious Illustration OF the undermining proeeu
now sorg On in tie Democratic party against the
sovereignty and legislative authority Of the States
is tforeed both in the Presidents M'sage AID in
tteReJoIt Of Mr. Secretary Cobb, our First Lord Of
the Tre.,ury Neither Of there gentlemen, both Ct
whom are remarkable for tfeir caution, proposes 80
yet actually to supsrsds ard set aside the leSils
ton Of tie States in tbe mater Of bank charters
snd tie collection, custody and disbursement
Of the State revenue. They are content to allow
tie State Legislatures to 90 on for q little while
longer; as yet hey are satisfied with merely kick
rg aside the State Governors, ard While their
h,nd is in. in the way Of MESSAGES AID reports,
grsciously tasirg upon Themselves TO address not
merely CcDsrs,s but the States al,o. This is de-
cidedly new feature IN these national do;u ments-
the first time, we believe, that either Preh-
DENTS Message or Treasury R-pOrt las undertaken
to push the State Governors FROM their seats, ard
to address tbei recommer d.iicns on the subject Of
new hws to be made, not exclusively 10 Congress,
but 10 the State Legislatures also.
We area little anxious 70 see how this raw
method Of Demtctstc Stats pohsJ Is going to
woik-whether We are to have the Democratic
State Governors repeating Like so may d'oiie
pupils the le,roLs which the great men at Wash
ireton have put tito their mouths whether these
gentlemen may object to be thus j's'led aside By
. President ard Secretary, who viii claim, per-
bspr that they have given bOder as we'll as better
advice than was to have been expected from any
State Governor, held in check by local influences
AID interests. Whether the Safe Governors AID
tie President will get along costly together, like
tie two Kings Of Bfentfofd seated On ole thron,,
or whether they will quarrel for the possession Of
the seat-whether the Governors will insist upon
their right to reap in their Own fields, or whether
they will col fine themselves to srch eleanings as
the President AMI bis Secretaries may choose to
leave them-ttese are questicns which still Lie hid
in the future Of the Democratic party.