The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-03-23
From the National Democrat.
watchmanl What of the Night?

The opposition press, like the boy who whis-
ties to keep his courage up, are now engaged
in the praiseworthy act of insisting that the
Democratic party is divided-so rent into fac
lions that the division can never be healed
that the various parts can never again unite
IF this were true, the opposition might rejoice,
while the country would have cause to mourn.
But it Is not true to an extent which gives
any alarm. The Democracy differ now, as its
members always did differ on minor points,
while on those involving principles of govern
mental policy, now, as ever, the Democratic
party is a unit.
But how is it with our opponents? If all
that we hear. or one half of that which we
have the best reason for believing, be true,
they are in as sorry a condition as ever party
was. Nay, so far has that organization failed
to answer its purposes divided are its mem
bers in the State and in the Union, that even
now, eighteen months before the Presidential
election, arrangements are being made 70 dis
solve the, SO called, Republican party, and 20
form another and a new one, in which the re
gro will form but a small plank in the plat
form, while the old Wing party, with a strong
mixture of Know Nothingism, will oyershadoWW
the "gemman from Africa" and give him a
back seat in the synagogue. To accomplish
this, the Giddingses of the Republican party
have been obliged to retire, and their places
filled with others of less note, but of more pill
able consclences-men whose principles are of
that pliable material, that they can be made to
swear fealty to any principle that promises tenn
porary success.
In Ohio this feeling is the dominant one, and
it will be carried out in the nomination of Mr.. |
Dennlson as Governor, and the overthrow and
complete rout of his great rivals, Giddings,
Carter, Welker, Fudge [what an appropriate
name for a coalition candidate! and others
While it is certain that Dennison will be the
ma If 4 Qn11alu oarfo1n +lo4 L. Ill - IL
suffered to walk over the track without a fight.
The Abolition element, awaking from their
Rip Van Wrinkle sleep of fancied security, are
beginning to organize, and are looking about
to see where best and with the most promise of
success, they can concentrate their forces, but
they are too late-the battle is already more
than halfSwon-the price has been secured and
IN the hour of the battle, they will find their
ranks thinned by desertions not only of the
rank and the file, but of their most trusted
leaders,-the men for whom the party has
done everything and nature nothing.
While thus the opposition are on the eve of
dissolution-each particular man of the leaders
suspecting his %neighbor of treachery or of try
ing to aid his fortunes on the ruin of others,
the Democracy of the State are marshaling
their forces for the fight. They present a
party, battling under the same standard-on a
broad and strong and patriotic, where
who love the Union can stand and battle
for its preservation. And it is that Democracy, l
that the opposition would fain make the coun- 6
try believe is a divided one-this the party,
that our opponents tell US cannot stand the
of another battle. 1t will stand while |
the Republic stands-when it falls and is dis :
banded, the only national party is gone and q
with it goes the Union itself, for the one is the S
sworn, and is now the only, protector of the t
'ther, and the twain are so connected, that the 7
'ne cannot exist without the other. o
These charges of a radical and incurable di- e
Tision in the ranks of the Democratic party, r
lave been made annually for so long a time n
hat memory fails to carry US back to their c
The opposition have built their hopes .
hereon and have been disappointed just as of a
en- as their predictions have been made. AS IL
party they "never are, butalways to be best" IL
nd if they deserve credit for nothing else,
hey do for hoping, always against hope, that
he Democracy will fall to pieces, and they
Eil get the Government into their hands,. d
ike the boy in the story: they will catch all tc
he larks when the sky falls. 1t will, we think, L
re such event, that will enable a sectional par Sc
y to rule the destinies of such a Republic as "
of the United States. y