The Nevada journal., 1858-08-06
P0liticS---T!ie prOSpect.

ken place as at present. The old par
ties have apparently reached the end Of
their lease, and are falling to pieces A
general breaking mp seems to be the or
der of the day. Formerly the people
might be classed under two heads: now,
there is every shade of political opinion
Once the bank, tariff, internal improve
ments and distribution Of the proceeds
of the sales ofpublc lands, were meas
ures of half of the American people
while the other half were arrayed in op-
position to these measures But at this
day the fragments of the old parties
with new and strange accreions to them,
are scattered promiscuously over the
field of politics.
The Democratic party is rent in twain,
One segment clings 10 the aLministra-
ton. 1t tcarries with it pro slavery doc
trines, extravaganza il the public ex-
penditures, Intolerance of difference of
opinion, and tyranny against the will of
the people. The otEer segment ad-
heres to the President and sustans him
in his unboundcd prodigality, and nu-
mcrous acts Of Inismanagement, but
takes issue with him on the course he
pursucs in the settlement of the slavery
question il which is involved the So
called doctrine Of popular sovereignty.
And yet tLere IS !. segment of the De
mociacy, betwivt and between, a sort of
half ard half, nondescript thing, despi s.
ed alike. ly both We allude to the Eng
lish cOmyivaHce adhercuts Claimed
by the administration as supporters, they
are, condemned to hold no office for their
former adhesion 20 Douglas and apos-
tacy from .he immaculate President,
and owned eornet;mes by the Douglas
wing because they chanccd to be right
once, forgetting they were all wrong
now these men are literally no where
Like half-breeds tley belong to neither
race ard are claimed with a bad grace
BY either.
In the north formidable party ex-
lists under the name Of Republican. -
Finding its home among a manufacture
ing, commercial and progressive people,
it claims pl lotcction to American indus
try, the public domain for the homes of
freeman, and powers to Coagress for the
preservation of Territories for white
men and white labor. The Republi-
cans also maintain the right of the gen
eral government to make appropriations
as shall cohduce to the public good; such
as the improvement of rivers and har-
bors and building ofrailroads to facili-
tate trade and communication between
remote PARTS of the republic.
Another, and respectable party in
point of numbers is the American, COM
posed principally of old Wings. In op-
poses foreign influences in American af-
fairs, and advocates protection to every
thing American. 1t is not to be denied
that one of the causes Of its members be-
ing mostly former Wings is the weight
of voting influence the foreign popula-
ton had always thrown against the pro-
tecting policy of Henry Clay; nor that
reason of tic opposition to foreigners
being most strong in the Southern States,
is the undouhtcd help the Free States
have received from foreign immigration,
in gaining their supremacy over the
Slave, in population, wealth, and political
power.
In reference to the agitated question
the Americans are not a nnit. A part
profess to adhere to the doctrine that
the Constitution carries slavery with it
wherever it goes. Others acQaiesce in
the decision of the Supreme Court on
this point as the highest authority in
the land. And others, again are not
slow to say with Thomas H. Benton
that that decision is extra judicial and
and an outrage, not binding upon the
people, trenching on the powers of Con.
gress, and that Congress should resist
and reassert its rights.
There is still large and influential
body of Wings, who spite of all inAuen-
ces, are yet proud to call themselves by
the old nanfc, and who live with tie
hope of seeing The Wing banner once
more uneurled over the Union. and borne
aloft by worthy successors to the gallant
chieftains of the past. They hang THEN
harps on the willows in this politiea
Babylon and weep when they remember
the Zion of old
And yet there are other political fra
ternities, a sort of cross between those
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