The weekly ledger., 1857-09-12

The election is over the battle has been
fought, and the smoke is rapidly clearing
away from the field of strife For season
there will be relaxation and tranquility in
political circles for season the people will
be relieved from the harrassing appeals of
politicians, while the latter will themselves
breathe easier, and have time to recuperate
for the campaign of 1858. Meanwhile, a
short article upon the subject Indicated by
the heading of this may not be uninteresting
to the general reader, while it may tend to
the promotion of Democratic success here
after.
There are presses and individuals whose
sole end and aim seems to be denunciation of
party-not Of any particular party, but of
party in the general sense of the term They
hurl their bitterest anathemas against it, and
vainly imagine that IN SO doing they exhibit
and exalt their own superior patriotism
They believe or assume TO believe that patri-
otism is confined to themselves, and will not
admit that a partizan can be devoted to the
interests Of his country. In matters of poll
tics, these defamers Of party are selfpatriotic:
and either are or would be if professors of
religion, selfrighteous
Now we believe that party organization is
necessary to the existence of good govern
ment in republic That there can be but
two great parties has been often written
and spoken and while all history proves the
aphorism-whle itproyes that oaly two great
parties can exist at the same period-it also
proves that the two parties must exist. In
either matters of business or matters of gov
ernment, there must be system to have sys.
TEN in the government, there must be concert
of action among large portion of the peo-
pie to have concert of action, there must be
party. We repeat that there must be system
in the policy Of government without it, no
administration could be successful and there
must be party, or organization among the
people, to promote aud sustain the certain
policy that may be adopted, or to overrule it
and inaugurate a new one
AT almost every period in the history of
the country, the opinion of the people has
been divided upon some great question of ma
tional concern-oftentimes upon more than
one such question. That the people are hon
est in their opinions we verify believe and
to express their opinions, and at the same
time clothe the majority with leave to carry
out the prevailing sentiment they lnust band
themselves together in parties-that is, they
must act unitedly, upon the opinions they may
entertain, and this is the sum and substance,
the very essence of party. Is it wrong? Is
it any violation of duty?
The class of men who boastingly and self
patriotically eschew party, are in fact mere
eunuchs in the body polite. They WELD no
rational influence and their votes, if in the
count they rise above the dignity of blanks,
are given for the promotion of faction which
all will admit is the most offensive shade in
which party politics can be viewed They are
drones in the great hive of the nation, and
their insignifcance only becomes apparent to
themselves when they begin to estimate the
scale upon which their influence is marked.
Those who cry out against party should
look at the subject in ii practical point of
view for little time Whenever popular
cry is made against the party dominant
whenever there is any kind of an uprising of
The people against the party in power--that
uprising itself becomes at once party
Examples of this are numerous indeed and
in all cases ii will be found that those who
make their bed with these profeSsed anti
partizans are themselves the btterest and