Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1858-07-24
Parties Necessary N 3 RspabIie.

VI ali the cdntlng mat Is QOne IN Nllt Ceulilk
world, the most contemplate is thatof the pre-
tended enemies Of the spirit Of party. ln the
economy Of human government, parties are
Just as necessary as salt is in the ocean. They
preserve the mighty volume Of political mind
from stagnatiOn and disease. And who are
these gentlemen who pirate so eloquently against
party spirit? They are simply the leaders OF
the oppositton 20 the Democracy. They pro-
fess no principles, for the very good reason
that they hare none their business is to pull
down and destroy. Democracy is positive,
creative, and is the mighty builder OF the nation
whose destinies it now controls
Infinitely various have been the efforts Of the
opposition to ride into power. A little while
ago we were sEsailed by an organization more
thorough and formidable than any previously
recorded in the history Of two thousand years.
The sun has hardly set upon the field OF that
tremendous contest in which the Democracy
achieved one Of the most splendid victories on
record. and vet some OF the very gentlemen
who pledged themselves to be faithful TO party
orders until they should shuttle of this mortal
coil,D are now coming forward under the mask
Of " Republiesnism," and l~ecturlng US upon the
evils Of party organization. We are the pee
PIE we have tried the shackles OF party, and
they have not awaited to crush Democracy;
our { principles,' about which we were foolish
enough at one time to talk, have all been repu-
dated at the polls. We, therefore, solemnly
resolve to be EBown hereafter simply as the
enemies Of the Democracy. 10 this end, we
have made a bonfire Of our ridiculous platforms,
and have sacrificed the last Testiges Of cur for
meF identities upon one eOmmo altar Of pub
lie plumber. Great was Diana Of the Ephe-
SLAMS, and great was our organization years
ago, but greater in future will be that party
which will not be a party at all, which viii
neither have nor profess a principle, which
viii look only to the Offices, and which will
call itself The PEoPLEn
The Democracy have only to stand firm and
receive the blank discharges from this new
order Of hlli5nsters ; nobody viii be hurt II
we were able TO meet the living body Of the
opposition, we ought not to fear an encounter
with the political CHEST BY which We are about
to be sssailed. We are, fortunately, not under
the necessity Of making the attack, for the
% burden Of proof" rests upon the rsvenous
host of place-hunters, whose dilapidated polit-
ical fortunes have forced themto merge private
differences and lifetime hatreds, and crystalline
into some sort If a tangible opposition TO The
Democratic party.
Our party planted itself, in the beginning,
upon the high and commanding ground Of the
right Of man to govern himself. Our history
is nothing more and nothing less than the
history Of the country itself. Every acre Of
soil acquired BY the Government we owe to
Democratic statesmen. Every law upon the
statute-book Of the nation was passed by the
representatives OF the Democratic party. Fac
ton after faction has sprung into life, from the
davs Of the elder Adams until the presenthour;
every move we have made, whether in peace
or IN war, has been asssiled with a bitterness
and malignity almost unprecedented In the
annals Of parliamentary debate. As the Ma
tionsl Democracy fought their battles, 90 they
are now permitted to celebrate their ~triunphs,
in the face Of an enlightened and an approving
world. We have nothing Of which to be
Misunderstanding Of which we should repent.
Our flag, like that bright banner which waved
at yorktown, has sometimes trailed in the
dust but il has always fallen with its motto
engraved upon it-glittering like the ORR
hsmme-THE CONSTITUTIONS y 4 UEIoEi
To the Young men Of this country, psrtieu-
larry, such d party as that OF the Democracy
presents inducements such as can nowhere else
be found. We have no such dead weights ss
uninterrupted defeat we are lashe1 to no de-
cayed or decaying csreasses OF political error
and religious fanaticism; We are not compelled
to fight our battles on the ground that we are
destitute Of principles, and are simply In search
Of the Offices.
Our organization is radical, irresolvabIs, for
mhabls, flushed with victory, conscious Of its
strength, and able to meet, as 1t has met in
other days, all the factions which demagogues
can array against the Constitution. LET those
whom the great apostle OF antiquity denounced
az neither shot nor eold"-those sTeet-lipped,
smooth-tongaed aud willy hypOeritss, who pro-
fess to worship at once both God and Nam
mon-bow down to their naked and s~oulless OBJ
iect II alteration, and proclaim that they are
better than other men, because they belong TO
no political party. We are proud Of the Dem
oerstic organization, proud Of it's glorious and
brilliant record, proud Of It's ability 10 meet
any and every crisis and We honestly consider
it to-day as much above the shriveled and jarr-
ing dement's Of the opposition ss the heavens
are above the esrth.-CiBcfaaGti EaqUtTn.
q The New York Post, an able, though a
less influential paper than the TTibgse, be-
cause more dignifed and honest, is not satisfied
with the " new party" programme Of Critten-
den, Bel, Greeley and others. The Post is a
consistent free trade Journal, and has always
been equally opposed to nativeism, in both Of
which Il sees q desire to identify themselves
with the cause Of abolitionisn. This the Post
cannot consent to, and it now sees that the
recent ~OvstiOns rendered to Messrs. Crittenden
and Bell by the abolitionists Of New York
were not, as some supposed, merely a series
Of complimentary tributes 10 faithful public
servants, but the tattoo Of a new party.D This
manzuver the Post very correctly character
Uses a desire to bind the live body OF Repub-
licanism to the dead body Of silver-gTsy Whig-
gery,D and expresses his regret TO observe "by
Mr. Crittenden's speech at Cincinnati that be
had permitted himself to become a party to
this silly combination, which can only tend to
blight the laurels with which last winters
work was covering his venerable brow
I" When the Republican party,0 says the Post,
"is ready 10 adopt any such party tests as
these, protection and nativsisn, we shall be
happy TO assist in changing their name to the
{ Union or OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF any
other party name than that which they have
hitherto borne with honor and success"
This Is a pretty plain talk to the Southern
allies Of Greeley & Co. The Post Is not dis
posed to deal dsceitfully with them. II they
expect to bind the live bo5y Of Black Rspu5If-
eanism to the dead carcass Of silyergray Why
gerytor any other ends than anti slavery, they
will ind themselves very much mistaken. This