Weekly American. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1858-1858, 1858-02-06

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our paper to our city subscribers and also
agents who win pay us the money they collect
We have tried this plan long enough to test il
to our cost, and we shall try it no longer than
till the last of this month
With the 1st Of February we shall adopt the
plan of requiring payment quarterly In ad-
uance. All who want the WEEKLY AMERICAN,
or have Americanism enough in their bosohs
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February to the 1st Of May faa W., n +
By this arrangement we shall be enabled to
have the paper distributed by two or three
men, and be sure that it viii be promptly and
regularly dclvered---which is not the case
now--at much less cost to US than at present,
Those who prefer receiving their papers
through the post-office, can have them thus
sent. ~ 8as va .s.5.,..
We may lose some subscribers by this
change, but we had better run that risk than
continue to lose money by the agents and many
Of our subscribers, and to have our friends
continually annoyed by not receiving their
papers regularly. From the LIST of February
no paper will be delivered that is not already
paid for, as above.
Our office is in the building on Second street,
between Indiana Avenue and ID street, north, in
the fourth story, entrance on Second street
Henry johnson, orr Clerk, is the only per-
son authorized to receive monies for this office,
after this month (January.)
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THE GREAT DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
1t can no longer be questioned or denied,
that the great party which has ruled the coun-
try SO long and SO disastrously, is now rent in
twain, and that the two sections arc arrayed
in bitter hostility against each other; one por-
ton going with the administration for the ad-
mission of Kansas as a State with the, Lee
compton Constitution, the other opposing that
measure Ito the bitter end" That the breach
can ever be healed, no one of the leaders on
either side believes possible, and we hardly
think that its reunion is even desired by any
of them Certainly the leaders Of the Lee
compton party can never again take Mr.. Doug
las and his immediate friends into their conf
dence and councils, and sure we are that the
latter will be quite as unlikely to desire any
intimate association with the former, or to be
considered, at any time hereafter, as their nat
ural allies Their connection and friendship,
like that which so long subsisted between
Burke and Fox, have been severed at single
blow, never to be restored. By this division
of that great, and heretofore all powerful and
overpowering party, it is laid PROSTATE and
powerless upon the earth, and like giant Of
the forest, in its fall it breaks, disturbs and
overthrows others standing within the reach
of it, Briarean arms.
We might, had we sufficient space, indulge
in some reflections naturally suggested by the
great event mentioned butwe have not. We
can only say that that party, which owed its
success for so many years to the votes of for
eigners, and to reiterated and habitual frauds
of the most abominable kind perpetrated in the
name of suffrage, has at last fallen a. victim to
the last and most stupcndous Of all the frauds
that can claim paternity from its loins; that Of
the Kansas Nebraska act, and the series Of out
RACES perpetrated under it, from the first in
ception of that act down to the sending in Of
the Presidents message with the Lecompton
Constitution. Like the famous Phalaris, invcn
tor of the bruzen bull, the party which orig
mated and brought into existence the Kansas
Nebraska act, have been the first and most signal
victims Of their own continuance. Eyen-handcd
justice has commended the chalice which they
had prepared for others to their own lips, and
the draught has proved to be fatal poison
In their reckless course in 1854, they scatter.
ed dragons teeth broadcast along their path,
which have sprung up armed men to overthrow
them.
That party has deserved its fate; it has rush.
ed blindly and madly upon il, and now, pros
trate upon the earth, like huge monster
which had been terrible to. all who dared OPP
pose it, there are none to mourn its fate, none
to shed tear over its fall, none to pronounce
a eulogy at its grave. Let the dead bury the
dead.
WATCHMAN, VIII AT OF THE NIGHT
DARK, CLOUDY AND PORTENTOUS.
The Lecompton Constitution has at length
come, and been sent to Congress by the Pres.
ident with a recommendation from him that
Kansas be admitted as State under that
Constitution. Whether this will be done or
not, cannot at this time be confidently affirmed;
but our belief now is, that it will not What
thenP 1t said that a movement will be made
at once, by four or five Southern States 10
bring about dissolution Of the Union. What
this will lead to, we canl,otprcdict; but Of this