Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-06-10
New PARTY Speculations.

ment of political parties is very generally dill
fused throughout the country, and is leading Z
variety of speculations The Lecomptonize'
Democracy is considered to have taken its fina
position-got to the bottom Of the hill--so tina
we know Just where to find that. So much /
clear. But what relation shall exist between
the various shades of the Opposition !? +" |
there capacity for union between them? Ii
that desirable? On what basis shall it be at
tempted? Or, shall everything like systematic
effort be given up, and the problem be allowed
to settle itself by the quiet action OF existing
forces? We may have something more to sa,
on these points than we have yet found occasion
for but to-day we quote some relevant expires
slons from leading papers in different portions 0
the Union, in order that our readers may not
the feeling which is abroad.
The Philadelphia Press, edited by John W
Forney, has yet great faith in the Democratic
party but Mr.. Forney fears that the anti-Le
compton Democrats will be forced out of tn
present Administration ranks and compelled t.
form another Democratic party. He proceed
thus
"Then suppose the Republican party SHOULD
approve the action of their representatives il
Congress on this question in uniting with anti
Lecompton Democrats, in their determination
to carry out the Compromise Of 1860, honestl,
and PAINFULLY, and should thus withdraw tn,
whole question of Slavery from any further ac
ton of the general government what remains
to hinder them from joining theanti-L ecomptor
wing of the Democratic party?
Why might not this be done, and why SHOULD
it not be done? If the Republican party il
willing to give up or lay aside it's opposition
to the principles Of the Kansas-N Nebraska act,
fairly carried out, and thus end the whole con
trovcrsy IN regard to the Slavery question, what
reason is there why the Republicans, everywhere
spread over the whole Northern States, who
were once in good faith and standing in the
Democratic party, and who only left it on this
Slavery question, might not return to their first
love, and act with the Democratic party
again?
Suppose, too, that the remnant of the Amer
lean party, who once belonged to the Demo-
cratic party, and yet remain in opposition to it,
should yield their one idea-which may now be
said to he an obsolete idea and join their
old friends again, as most of that Organization
has done. Who can object to it?''
To this the Louisville Journal (American) re-
plies with some severity. 1t says that " the
anti-Lecompton Democrats are not of the Dem
ocratic party, and if they We're, it would be
quite as proper for them to turn Americans as
it would be for the Americans to turn Demo-
Gratis, numbers going for nothing in point of
honor, if indeed, the Americans do not largely
outnumber them But the editor maintains
that any set propositions toward organizing a
new party are. at the present time, out of
place. 60 We have now" he says, in the
stand taken on the Montgomery-Cr ittenden bill
by the anti Lecompton section of Congress, the
undoubted germ of a great national party -
A common rallying point for the Northern and
Southern supporters of popular rights is therein
teached. He is content with thus much for the
present, as will be seen by the following sug-
gestions
'Shall we, after having reached at length,
through the most painful and fearful dissension,
a commanding point of agreement between the
North and the South, hold fast to it, whilst the
simple law of political affinity arranges party
about it or shall we let it 90, throw away
this lofty vantage point, and resorting to the
old rallying cries, fighting on the old level. in
slst thai the Democratic, or the Republican. or
the American organization is the coming ,
party, before which each of the others must
lower its colors and its cause? Ina word, shall
we suffer the new party to develop itself, or
shall we attempt to distort it into the proper
tons of some other? If the opinion we have
expressed respecting the formation of parties is
Just, there can be but one answer to this ques-
tion. The party so generally foretold, and all
other genuine parties, must be left to the force
Of instructive development, or pei ish in the
germ. Too much nursing can only prove the
death of it,
The Baltimore Patriot (old Wing and lately
Amercan) considers the great objection to the
Democratic party to be its utter want of ma
tonality and its corruption. 1t believes that
the people of the Union demand something bet
ter, and that material exists to meet the de-
mand. 1t says:
"Old Whigsa old Democrats, Republicans,
Americans, Lecomptonites, and anti-Lccomp-
good citizens, native or adopted
who cherish respect for themselves and enter
tain a becoming solicitude for their country's
welfare who comprehend the true value of
conservatism who understand their own and
our nations best interests, present and to come,
may be found willing coworkers in this great
party now springing up in opposition to mis-
called Democracy, waiting to be systematized,
perhaps named, and certain of potent develop
ment.
We have unmistakable indications, even at
this early day, from all parts of the country,
which plainly foreshadow the formidable up
rising of this powerful antagonist to the cor
rupt ruling of modern Democracy, and we find
it everywhere taking a firm stand upon the ex-
pansive platform of nationality, imbued with
an American sentiment patriotic as it is Just
and consonant with the popular will
The Richmond Why (Amerlcan) thinks that
the desideratum is to prevent the Black Re-
publicans " from triumphing in 1860 1t con-
slders the Democracy incapable of arresting
that result, and if it were capable, the remedy
would be about as bad as the disease. 1t BE-
lieves both these parties to be ruled by extrem-
lists, while the masses are in heart opposed to
both. Without laying down any platform,
the editor observes
" Thousands and tens of thousands of con-
sentative, patriotic Democrats, and thousands
and tens of thousands of conservative, patriotic
would readily cooperate in the
formation of a new party, discarding the errors,
tolies, and vices of both the Others, and looking
only to the perpetuation of the Constitution
and Union, and the best interests of the whole
country. The conservatives of the North have
now nowhere to go, neither have the conserva-
tives of the South, and both feeling the neces-
sity of reconstruction of parties, and the or
ganization of one with which they can consis-
tently connect themselves, and with which they
can efficiently act in behalf of the country in
every emergency"
Thus much for national speculations. In the
the opposition in one State have be-
run the work Before the recent adiourn1ncnt
of the Legislature of New Jersey, those mem
bcrs opposed to the conduct of the present Ad-
came together on common plat
form, and issued an address to the people. in
which they speak Of the various shades of the
opposition as follows:
" If all such will make common effort, as
united opposition party IN faror Of conservative
men and measures, fair protection to home indus
try, the purity of the electric franchise and the
Ialfot-bor, free Kansas, and the sovereignty Of
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