The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-08-18


The VrrAL ISSUE WITH TIE DExocKAriC PARTY
KANSAS In CosGsEss. Buchanan has illus
kated his policy in reference to Kansas in the
executive course pursued ~ Governor Walker
The President and the Governor can stand before
the country upon the merits Of that policy, rest
ing as it does upon the popular sovereignty doc
tines of the organic Law, honestly administered
But the issue with the democratic party, as q ma
tional Organization, is widely aud vitality diHe
rent.
The case is clear. This party have majority
in the new Congress, and upon them will devolve
the admission OF Kansas as q free State, or as a
e,aye State II they admit Kaasns rs u slsye
lowed up and lost in the Northern aattslagery
rescicn--if they admit Kansas as free State,
the party will be eplit in twain in NE South.
Ore or the other of these alternatives is the
GROWING consequence awaiting the faal solution
Of the Kansas issue ia Congress.
The administrator is right aud safe ~ it
stauds; but tie disso.atiou Of tie last E, mains
OF the old democratic party. Hnd tccoa
s4ruction OF parties ali round for 1860. are
distinctly foresoadowed as among the Grst
events Of the Kansas agitation in the coming
Congress THAT'S So" Aud why should it not
be so? Every settlement Of the slavery question
has resulted in the dissolution Of one or more Of
the old pre-exetiDg parties, ard in the re organi
zation of all parties Thus the Missouri com
promise of 1920 was followed by the Presiden-
tial scrub race Of 1924, III which four several
candidates bad each party OF his own, but
which, in 1898. were concentrated into the Jack
sou and Adams paries-the beginning of the
whig and democratic parties. Thus the compro-
mises of 1860 were followed by the death and
dispersion of the wing party In the election of
1852; and thus, With the Kansas Nebraska bill o.
1854. Tao disintegrstiOu of the demOralized de-
mocrGtic party commenced in the North. and its
fioa, dissolution awaits the issue in Congress upon
, ksueas
The democratic party stands just now in the
condition Of the Roman empire after its division
into the Eastern and Western empires, with the
HUGS. the GOths aud Vandals ha1assing them
upon oil sides. There is Northern and there is
Southern democratic party, and as the Western
Romaa empire in its decay looked to the Eastern
for support against the brbarians, 10 have
the Northern democracy been made subservient
to The Southern democracy, under pressure
which has brought the Goths and Vandals into
the very forum Of Tammany Hall. This state Of
things cannot last. Parties, like empires, are
subject to the same inevitable laws. They rise,
flourish become corrupt, fall to pieces, and other
organizations rise upon their ruins. Thus, our
democratic party, which, with the passage of the
Kansas Nebraska bill, was distinctly separated
into two divisions, the democracy of the North
and the democracy OF The South, must now yield
to the ascsndancy Of the one or the other, or go
10 pieces. The iire.catcrs Of The South will not
yield: the conservatives o.! the North cannot
and we leave the consequences to the test Of the
crueibe.
The real issue which the party North and
South have ipgeniously eyaded and put of since
the repeal Of the Missouri compromise must now
be met and solved, yea or nay, In the admission
of Karsa as slave State or a. a free State
II is one thing to "leave the people OF the Terri
tory perfectly free to form their domestic nstitu-
lions in their own way" in BILL but il is another
the Territory To the North or the South.
Oun CRY I.EGIsI,roEs.If the black republi
can Legislature Of the State, which at its last ses
sion inflicted such mass Of bad laws on this me-
topolis, deserved to be branded with opprobrious
epithets, We must in candor admit that our mum
cipal Legislators are not much ahead of them in
point OF honesty, talent or responsibility. Look
ing back for the past four or five years we see
many evidences Of the corrupt character OF our
Common Council. We find them on one occasion
arraigned IN nqese for corruption in reference to
the Broadway Railroad project, and for contempt
of court in disobcying legal injunction In that
matter We find them again accused Of corrup-
ton, collectively and individually, in reference
10 other grants for city railroads. Again, we
have several of them indicted for specified cases
Of individual bribery, when they only escape
conviction and punishment by having one or two
Inscriptions political friends on hand NJ their
trial. This IL the record OF the recent past
in regard 10 our Common Council Let Us see
whether we have any cause 10 boast OF the pre-
cent.
PassiDg over all minor matters aud fraudulent
contracts, involving no very large amount we
find the city Just now being victimzed by two
schemes, one involving some 100000 the other
some 100000. The one IL the matter Of The
Lowber contract for ground for an up town mar
ket a contract which, ir the truth were known,
would probably be found to have netted, or TO
promise the netting Of, quite nice little sum TO
many of our virtuous legislators The property
of The city liz at this moment under execution TO
satisfy Judgment procured in this case and there
isl remedy but to have the money paid. fine
Flagg csnnot or will not raise the needfu (or the
city treasury isbonkrupD 10 pay of this Judgment
the city must undergo the shame aud morti6ca.
ton Of seeing it's chsttels brought to the hammer