New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-02-14

either ieocrsd altogether. o. treated ~ ms<'er
.I,.sdv ssstlsd AID disposed Of The defeat "a
he Sham Democrats in 1864 is exclusively a.
crited to the upfi.e of the Know-NOshing party,
10 the DEGREES of whose self constituted aud self
sh leaders the people Of New Hampshire are rep
resented a, having yielded most blind unthink'
ing. bigoted obedience.
This history of their downfall, even we're fs Truth
10 be admitted would hardly tel msch for the SELF
styled Democratic party. The political edscanon
and discipline of the people of New Hampshire had
according 10 this very Address been fcr twenty i've
years previously exclusively IN their hands ana
the result wss--if We are to take this Address is
authority--tbat the people had become so stup"
and 20 accustomed to be led BY the nose as to fall an
easy prey to "the grossest fraud and the most IN
'principled deception and Misrepresentation, de-
Everirg themselves blindtclded into the leadership
of &" corrupt and prohigate politicians individual
conscience and responsibility, personal investigs-
"ton and political honesty" giving way "to implicit
" obedience to the will Of those in authority" 1fsuch
atotancspacity toguard themselves sgainst the arts
of political pro8igates if such total extinction of al
habits and ideas of self government, was the fruit of
twenty five years of Democratic domination, that
single fact alone would seem an excellent reason
Why the people of New-Hampshire should be ex-
ceedngly cautious how they again put themselves
under political guides and teachers, blind leaders OF
the blind, who by their own confession had neither
been able to save the people ofNew- Hampshire from
falling il TO the ditch Of Know NOthnglsB nor TO IN
still into them during twenty five years tuiton and
dscipne sufficient sense and sagacity to keep them
selves out of it,
Yet amid all the denuncation hurled at the
Know Nothing party and it's leaders, the authors
of this Address find in that party, 'as presented
in 1854 one "redeeming feature professed
nationality and its intense hatred Of Abolitonism
as dangerous to the existence of the Union.
The political revolution of 1854 is not only sscribed
directly to causes entirely aside from hostility TO
the extension of Slavery, but that element is ex-
pressly and in terms excluded. This redeeming
feature has. however, since disappeared, and IN
fact by the confession of the Address, the Know
Nothing party of 1854 along with it, the whole
s, stem of secret organization and implicit ooe1l-
ence in which that party consisted having quite
vanished from the scene.
The wrongs and injuries charged upon those now
in possession of the political control OF New
Hampshire are lot dark lanterns and secret
lodges. but, first and foremost. the turning their
political opponents out of ofiice-ra'her a singular
charge t. be- so emphatcaly urged by set-styied
Democratic Committee, since we have always un-
deistood thar this tTas good orthodox Democratic
doctrine and practice; secondly the existing liquor
law of that State, which, it seems, the Democracy
are pledged to repeal and thirdly, the having COM
menced the erection of State Reform Institution,
likely to cost $50, O0Q-thOugh to judge from
the charges in which this Address so Justly INDUCES
of corruption" fraud" political Prostitu-
ton. &C., there might seem 10 be no little need OF
a State Reform Institution on even larger scale.
But though afraid to recognize the great question
of Slavery Extension as the issue between the ex-
listing parties in the State, and very anxious 70
place the contest on purely local grounds, the
Committee feel the necessity OF some alluslon TO
the subject. So they seek to represent the Kansas
question as already satisfactorily disposed or and
Kansas about to come in under the operation of
"the great principle of popular sovereignty as
Ststt-whether as a Slave State or Free Labor
State they do not say; nor do they give us the least
light whether the popular sovereignty OF which
they speak is the popular sovereignty OF Platte
County and the adjacent districts OF Missouri, hith
erto so predominant. in Kansas affairs, or the popu-
lar sovereignty of Kansas itself Until these two
points shall have been satisfactorily settled, the
Kansas question can be hardly considered as dis
posed of and as it was from their interest in this
queston-spite of the representation Of this Com
mttee to the contrary-that the people of New
Hampshire we're led to repudiate the Admnistra-
ton of President Pierce We apprehend they will
hardly consent to indorse the Administration OF
President Buchanan till they shall have received
more satisfactory on this subject than it
is at present in the power Of the Sham Democratic
Committee to give.
To understand the policy and object of the war
lately undertaken by the British aganA Persia, and
which according 10 the mos. recent accounts, has