The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-05-15
THE MOUNTAIN AND MAHoMEr.

and Enquirer is the who is best acquainted with
the ups and downs of political parties. He sold out
his democracy early in his political career for
price, and went forth from tho democratic ranks
exile and an outcast He has explored all the Botany
Bays Of politics. and has found stability, rest,
peace for the wicked in all the organizations he
has successfully joined, supported, defled, and de-
serted. He has tried his hand in reconstructions
and combinations, and kas his artificial parties
one after tho other defeated and destroyed He has
finally arrived at the conclusion that parties cannot
be made, but exist and grow of themselves, the
suits of the times that the black-repubican is
Indigenous outgrowth of this sort, and that
render, its organization and merger of heteroge-
neous factions with each other constitute party
of any consistency, efficiency, or permanent life.
We append some of the Chevaliers lucubrations
this interesting subject together with his state
ment of the purposes entertained by the backre-
publicans and his mild but positive reputation of
southern whg, southern American, and anti Lecomp-
ton democratic, aid in effecting these purposes ex
cept upon the platform of anti-slavery:
$50 to now ye republicans ye Americans ye old line
wings, ye anti Lecompton democrats let us make unto
ourselves new party So say some of cotempora-
administration and yet made terms with the republ
Well far regards ourselves listen with all
respect for relations with these journals of
the most congenal character But obliged to re-
ply that have confidence whatever in any scheme
for the reconstruction of parties The idea is essential
fallacy. What Sir James Macintosh said of govern
maph Is just as true of parties. They not made,
bus grow. You may well undertake to manufacture
oak tree endeavor to out veritable living
and self sustaining political party Such an organisation
II 1t have any vitality at ALL is spontaneouswe may
say inevitable outgrowth of the necessities of the
times The ideas Of the times Its soil; the spirit of
the times its atmosphere. These its elements and
whom 1t is longer in harmony with these it dies of
itself Just as the old wing party died
We admit that party may be bent by the art of man
from its normal direction, and that too great way
without destroying its vitality but that is not sal
utary We its effect in the present isshapen gnarl
3D. knotted, cracked and heart-rotten condition Of the
democratic party The attempt to bend any party when
once selfrooed out of its natural growth is apt to
prove mischief o The attempt to hew out
party and make it take root by any external APP
plance, Is sure to prove absurdity. 4R
Now. the sooner friends learn to appreciate this
great fnct the better The controlling necessuy Of The times
se wha shall b TIE POLICY Of the federal government tocards
slavery and that question mus BE- DEFINITELY sad bore the
republican party possy give place any other organisation
1t is idle and foolish for any to blind himself to this
manifest truth or to imagine that because particular
case has been will be settled like that Of Kansas
the policy itself is no longer in question.
Franklin Pierce yielded to southern pressure and did
all that he could to make the national policy prosavery
James Buchanan has yielded southern pressure and in
like does all that he can to make it So Both are
northern men
That prodigious power which thus subjugated
these two Presidents and pressed them like very slaves
into it's service. 1t to put end to this fede-
raj subervency that the republican party sprung into ex
stence, and nothing earth is certain than that
She republican party will continue until this work eec
tually and definitely accomplished.
They need no federal help but they do need to be
exempt from federal opposition and persecution And it
is that exemption which the republican party intend here
after secure well as keep the federal government
in all other respects to its appropriate line of action
All experience shows that other party can be relied
upon to do this The old democratic party has for wears
been in the possession body and SOUL Of the slave power
The old wing party never unit against this power
and it by the unfathuness of the southern wing Of
that party that it made possible to repeal the Mis-
souri, Compromise. The present American party has
proved equally Enthusiastically, for than one half of
its southern representatives in Congress have voted in ia
of that abomnable niquity the Lecompton consti
tuition The anti Lecompton democrats are not to be de-
pended upon, for have just half of them abandon
their declared principles and give consent to the English
bride There can be successful resistance except by
party whose central idea is opposition to slavery en-
croachmentsa party whose anmatng and ever control
ling purpose shall be to keep the federal clear
of subserviency to this well all other class or sec
tonal interests
The upshot Of it all is it seems that there can be
no reconstruction of parties save upon the black
republican platform. There are no great dividing
questions of policy that arise in this country in
the opinionof our hoary and wicked old philosopher
but the question of slavery; and he and his allies
will consent to enter organization whose central
idea is not opposition to slavery. That subject
which is local and domestic, which the democratic
party is anxious to treat domestic which the car
dinal point Of their policy is to Danish from party
contests and to exile from the floors of Congress-
that question is the one seized upon by the leaders
of the opposition the central idea" of their organ
izaton, which they insist upon thrusting into every
discussion and every election which they lug as the
leading and dividing topic of discussion into the con
troversies of their villages their States and their
section and which they yet have the hardihood to
deprecate as thrust upon them against their will to
their extreme disgust and infinitely to their iniurv
grief, and persecution.
After the experience of recent occurrences in tho
Capitol, that party could hardly be expected to do
otherwise than insist upon antslavery an the CEN
trail idea" of any organization of parties Iowa
has recently been admitted into tho Union almost
without opposition. Wisconsin has been admitted
freely. Minnesota has been admitted with
scarcely dissenting democratic or southern vote
All of them were free States. Kansas has APP
piled for admission with pro-savery constitution