The Kanzas news., 1858-09-25
ELECTION, MONDAY, OCT. 4

Dissolution OF ''the Democracy"
The history of the so-calied Democratic
party is long and eventful one. WhateV-
er faults may have marked its early career.
the candid historian must concede to its
founders and early champions the posses
sion of rare political sagacity, earnestness,
and jealous attachment to fundamental
principles. Jefferson. as political philos
opher, was certainly without an equal, and
almost without rival, and he evinced the
rare faculty of inspiring his followers with
his own views, and animating them with
Democratic organization were laid by men
deeply imbued with principles. the mainten
anee of which they regarded as essential to
the success and permanence of Republican
institutions. 1t was not cold and passive
adherence to a platform which they but
dimly comprehended, but deep, earnest,
and enthusiastic devotion to truths which
seemed to them self-eyident and all impor-
tant. 1t mingled with and formed part
of their religion, and pious men prayed as
fervently and as sincerely for the success of
their political principles as for the spread
of their religious faith. To such minds De-
mocracy and Christianity seemed to be natu-
raj allies-hemispheres of the same golden
globe they hailed the .'self-evident
truths" of Declaration of Independence
as temporal gospel-the PRONUNCIATION of
stGood ne,cs Of great jog, achich should be to
all people," in their political relations. To
such minds zsa
"rThe words to which, by GalliIee's lake shore,
The humble fishers listened with hushed oar
Which found an echo in the common heart,
And of the peoples faith became a living part,S
seemed to breath kindred spirit with those
other words which rung out from the Old
Hall of Independence in Philadelphia
Such were the men and such the spirit of
Democracy in its palmy days.
And it should not be forgotten that the
name of the organization throughout this
period was 'sAe Republican party'' Its
members were, to be sure, spoken of by its
orators and its presses as s'the Democracy
to distinguish them from ''the Aristocracy,''
the purse proud favorites of Fortune, and
self-styied :'good society,"" but never until
the last few years, would the leaders and
prophets of the faith acknowledge any 9TH
er designation than that of "Republicans''-
''the Republican rty''-the Estate Rights
Republicans, etc., etc. Within the last
two decades an entire change has taken place
in all these respects.
LIS increasing subserviency to the Pro-
slavery propagandism of the Southern null
lifiers, has driven from its ranks the men of
principle-of sincere and earnest convic
tions, and their places have been in part
supplied by recent lmportations from the
Emerald Isle, by the "Hittites'' of the large
cities and the mercenary soldiers of fortune
the world over. ''The cohesive power of
the public plunder'' is now the acknowledge
ed bond of Democracy, and the ''loaves
and fishes" to the apprehension of all ex-
cept the blind deyotees of party, the mere
worshippers of the name, now comprise the
real creed of the party. As natural con-
sequence of this change of spirit, the pow
er of the organization has departed, so that
the once mighty organization now betrays
all the signs of decrepitude. imbeeility and
rapidly approaching dissolution. It no lon
ger talks of fundamental truths or trusts
itself to utter such fanatical words as Lib
Observation-Disclosures, but croaks
hoarsely about ''the usages of the party"
the horrors of agitation, and anon as if in
dreams, mutters its latest and foulest Shib-
boleth-"Lecompton.'' 1t reads Washing
ton, Jefferson. Madison, Jackson, and even
Polk, outof its communion, as Sectionalists
and "Black Republicans while it hugs to
Its bosom the advocates of eternal Slavery
and OF the re-opening of the Slave Trade
II no longer enlists the unbought enthusiasm
of youth. but manages occasionally to make
aproselyte of some mammon-worshippinp
old man who, like Choate, has outIiyed all
the generous instincts and impulses of his
youth. and yearns for the good old times
when the few could lord it over the many,
and control them to their liking. Such men
yield ready and cordial assent to Senator
Hammond's ..mud sill'' theory.
Tie signs of the times portend speedy
dissolution of this servile and decrepid or
ganization. Its union and harmony were
once proverbial, and whether in triumph or
defeat. it never failed to present au unbro-
ken front and resolute and dogged defiance
to the foe. While itreposed upon the strong
arms and spontaneous enthusiasm of its fol-
lowers, defeat was but an accident of unfre-