The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-10-12

by the friction of the machinery The hands were
in the Gin House at the time, but the flames
spread so suddenly that it was impossible to save
even the tools Loss about 81 500
BS~ To-day the election in PENNSYLVANIA takes
place for State officers and congressman The re-
suit is uncertain, but We are prepared to hear of
the defeat OF the Administration party. The deec-
ton of Forney and other Office hunters may secure
temporary triumph to the enemies of Mr. Buch-
anan, but such victories cannot be lasting-upon
the heads of dsorganzers the evil results will soon
settle and crush them out
The fact is there are too many men who cling to
the democratic party only for the purpose of get
ting Office, and the sooner the party is clear of
them the better They are very patriotic and
loud in their professions until the party refuses to
promote them, then they show the eleven foot and
prove that "self" was the main spring of their
action 1t is time for the masses Of the democratic
party to understand the motives which prompt dis
organizers everywhere If this hunt after office is
to be submitted to, and the aspirants pampered
and coaxed for fear of their influence the party
will be ruined and broken up, and black republi-
canism and every other ism will take possession
of the country and soon shatter it to atoms
Let there be no succumbing to disorganizers in
the least and all will be right after a while Look
at those men who kicked up in the democratic
party short time agO-whele arc they now?
Henry S. Foote ruined himself in Mississippi and
went to California and joined the Know-nothings,
but failing to make much out of that operation, he
has returned and is now engaged in abusing Buch-
anan. California has just pronounced against
Senator Broderick and his crew who did every.
thing they could to injure the administration in
the last Congress-; and the fate later
awaits all other diSorganizcrs.
We quote below from the Wilmington Journal
some remarks this subject:
"The "Me, l. Myself" tone of some politicians
of the class to which we allude is more than little
amusing. They have an idea that they can do
what no man ever yet could do successfully, and
that is TO array himself against great party,
great principle great measure founded upon
principle. Why. when Mr. Benton himself, whose
services had been those of statesman and
Of great genius, whose party and personal standing
high and undisputed, permitted the one, L,
Myself feeling, the vanity, egotism and the worse
folly Of personal spite to control him, even he fell
without power nfuence-not forgotten to be
sure for his talents, and the power of his character
forbade that but excluded from the Senate Of which
he was Nestor, repudiated by the State he had
represented for thirty years, with little or no posi-
ton in the Democratic party Of which he had been
one of the most trusted.
And yet Mr. Forney and Mr. Foote and Mr.
Broderick, and such like, think that their little
cock boats can ride out the storm that wrecked the
stately frst-rate of the great Missourian. There
was temper, egotism, anything you please, with
Benton, but he no trickster, no office-huntcr
His alterations were free from that faint. The
present crop of dsorganizers cannot hide their mo-
tives nor their feelings from the public.
The power Of even the feebest agency when
excrted in support of good cause cannot lie light
Iy estmated-the vanity of even the most adrolt
managers, in seeking to elevate movements based
upon their personal spites or ambitions, into the
dignity of opposition to a great party and great
principles, is too absurd to awaken other feelings
than those of contempt"