The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1858-03-12

The so called Democratic Party is
broken up, 1t has neither leaders noI
substance. There is not Northern State
in which it is not split into factions
There is not Southern State III which II
has not fallen into suspicion, Il holds
conventions to declare its position on pub.
lie questions, but they are conventions OF
factions, each trying to outwit the other,
each declaring the other traitors TO Dem
ocratic principles, and the leader of each
faction trying to obtain the Offices III pos
session of the other. One portion Of the
so-called Democratic Press is arraycd
against the other. 1t is an absurdity to
pretend that such party has any vitality
or any hopeful future.
If this party ever had a leader, that
man was Senator DOUGLAS, and where ITO
we find him? Powerless in a Senate that
he once swayed with his nod. Refused
even ordinary courtesy by the conclaye of
slaee-drivers whose power he built up, and
who, without his brains, would have been
driven to the wall four years ago. Who
led the great Southern disunion movement
against FREMONT? Gov. WISE, who is
now contemporary denounced as a traitor
to Democracy by the Federal organ ut
Washington. Gov. WALKER, whe was
to be the great paciticator' Of Kansas, is
kicked out Of the party, and Col Foriiey,
who may also be said to have elected
BUCHANAN is now spoken of by the home
organ of the latter, the PcnnSylraniaI', as
the Editor of the leading Black Republi-
can paper in Pa Immense anti-Lecomp-
ton meetings are held throughout the
country by ostensible Democrats to OPP
pose the only measure upon which the
Democratic Administration has staked its
reputation. In State Legislatures Demo
cratic majorities in one instance, desire
their Congressional delegation to vote
against Lecompton, and in another in-
stance to vote for it. With all the Offices
and power of the government in charge,
by reason of its internal discussions and
inherent antagonism, it is powerless in
Congress except where some of its more
abiect tools succeed by some such uncx-
pected fraud rs ORR enacted in the torma-
ton of the Invest cation Committee
This is the great " National Democracy of
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There may be those who think that all
the above seams in the party can be closed,
that all the opposing bitterness of the two
factions can be sweetcned, that once en-
gagged on the scent Of some new plumber
the party will fegan its cohesion and sol
idarity. Those who think SO can have
counted little upon the depth and resottr-
ces of political animosities And more
than this; in every convulsive schism Of
this kind, there j. always large number
who fly the party-trail never to return =
Many will go back, hut receft contests
show that the loss of a few must be de-
structive to the Democratic party. 1t has
no men to spare, while tie opposition
need but few recruit, to render them
invncible And beyond this still, is the
effect Of the palpable march of Northern
ascendency, which from its very strength
will grow stronger. The piaceiheh, the
trimincrs, the schcmcrS, the undecided,
will travel north as they have hereto
fore travelled south Again we say the
Democratic party is broken up--deslroycd
by its own ption-Det. TriG.