Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-10-23
UNTRY.

EVEN SON Pennsylvania Ohio, Georgia Missis-
sppi, California and Iowa, the Democrats were tri-
unphantIy successful In the City of Baltimore Know
Nothingsm carried all before it.
In the States enumerated the elections passed off
peaceably and quietly and without bloodshed Or riot
In Baltimore there was really election at all. Elec
ton means choice. On the l4th inst there was no
choice at ALL But party allowed to vote, and
more than half Of the citizens prevented from vo
ing at ALL The polls were regulated and controlled by
the excellent and patriotic Tigers Black Snakes, Stay
Iates Plug Uglies Rough Skins, Hard Times, Little
Fellows, Blood Tubs Dips, Ranters and Rip Raps,
and under the auspices othese" noble American Clubs,
as the Baltimore Clipper calls them, great Ameri-
can victory was achieved the rights Of suffrage
the freedom of opinion the sancy of the balot-box
Richard Taylor, the only son Of the late Presi-
dent TAYLOR is the Democratic candidate for the Senate
of Louisiana in the Saint Charles District 1t is a re-
markable thing that the Of nearly all the leading
Wing statesmen of the Old Line have been carried into
the ranks of the Democracy by the changes Of the times
The sons of Clay of Webster and of Taylor bear the
banner ofthe Democratic party Our american" friends
NAV thank the allotment of such outrages as those which
have dsgraced their party in Baltimore for deprvng them
of the support Of the leading members of the Old Wing
party North and South. We trust we shall always
know how to submit to the decision Of the majority pro-
pery expressed, no matter how much we may regret
that decision or however much may differ from the pol
icy of the successful party We would argue against rea
son with combat in every fair way the doctrines put
forth by the organization first known to the public
the Know Nothing order, but now styling itself the
American party. If defeated, we would pick our fnts
and try again, as we have done more than once. But
what is to be done in places like Baltimore What is
to be done against the delicate lambs they keep there and
in St. Louis, and in some other places? What wonder
that if local and temporary triumph be secured by
such MEANS is only purchased at the expense of moral
power-at the risk of driving into the ranks of the
Democracy the abest and most influential of its former
opponents.
Such victories as those achieved in Baltimore, have
led to the speedy ruin of the American party-ther to
GRANGE must operate to the serious injury ofthe city in
which they are perpetrated. Many-very many of the
members of the American party regard these things
with as much dislike as we do but still the humiliating
fact remains that the acts of riotous violence
dOr8ed by the organs of the party in Baltimore and 81
lently approved by the authorities since the police made
not one effort to prevent the occurrences
Bg~ Men say that out of the existing panic pressure
or whatever else it may be called, political issues
and associations will arise and that efforts will be made
to modernise some Of the obsolete ideas Of the old
wing party. We have no doubt but that there are
restless politicians enough in the country to seize upon
anything panaceamOngers enough to vend any
sort of nostruns no matter how often exposed and
shown up-and, more painful STILL must confess that
experience has shown that quackery can never want
dupes, nor impoSture fail to secure victims.
In using the strong expressions with which we have
closed the preceding paragraph we have reference to TIT
manufacturers, revampers OF issues for political eec
and for the purpose Of attaining power and securing per
sonal advancement, not to those who in view ma.
be strangely yet honestly mistaken We suppose Their
are people who have yet abandoned their dream
of u" Great Regulators Protective Tariffs and Gen
cral Bankrupt Laws" From them there is nothing t.
fear The simon pure articles, under their own prope
names and sembances have had their day Of trial and
condemnation. They are known. But in the decadenc
of the interest attached to existing issues there is dear
of capital for the class of trading politicians to work uI
on and something must be brought forward to create
temporary excitement and afford chance for th
restless and disappointed to attain the ends of their pat
riotisnl--ther own advancement to Office and prom
nence.
In times of difficulty danger panic men are prom
to grasp at all sorts of expedens, which their coole
judgments would at other times reject, people in
tain cases of sickness take up with all of
trums "yarbs frogs toes and other queer affairs,
to speak of incantations and pow vows. Such time
afford rich harvest for political quackery and read
market for empirical prescriptions, and may look fl
full crop of such affairs, within no distant time.
Democracy is now in the ascendant-it always is
the ascendant except at those times when divisions
its own ranks, fOrtuitOus circumstances, artful
seized upon succeed in turning the of events fro
their accustomed channels Such being the case, v
may reasonably expect that the getters-up of the
sues will endeavor to foist them upon the public as Der
ocratic truths.
We think that we family discern some slight spec
in the political skies-away down on the distant horizC
little clouds no bigger than a hand, yet ready to
blown into portentOus size, provided enough wind C;
be raised to stir up respectable breezea breeze 81
6cent watt the would-be thunderers into the haven
their hOpes-the object of their aspiration, the end
their patriOtsm-pOwer-offce
We, therefore deem it proper to refer to this matt
with the view of putting Democratic readers the
guard against new issues which may be attempted to
sprung upon a country agitated by pecuniary emba
easements arising out of extended credits suddenly broug
to full stop by the arrival of the day of settlemer
which cannot things stand be much longer postpon
or evaded.
1t would appear, from the foreign news by the Nor
America, that the Gulf of Finland has been the see
of disaster even more terrible than that of the Centy
america, the Russian man-oEwar Lqtorte, having go