Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1859-02-18
What Of the Future.

The family quarrels among the Demo-
Gratis are only for effect, and only scarf
skin deep. The '.ns'' do not care to 60 far
enough in their peans to the LAcompton De-
moerAey of Buchanan, to compromise their
position when a new Golden Calf shall be
erected for their worship. Most Of these
gentlemen are old st4gers in politics; and
this class of public servants have no such
clogs about them to impede their advance
ment. as personal loyalty to Chieftains, or
that high sense of honor which impels men
to sustain the hand that supplies their daily
bread. No such womaTly weaknesses oper-
snow OF resistance to the move of M9ssrs,
Smart & Co, to head off Bnc aanan and get
control of the party in this State, and to get
the delegates to the Charleston Convent ion
will be kept up all the while: but it means
nothing. and the end will be like point in
geometry. Such men are al,cags ready to
receive the rising political Sun and to salute
him with the blanlat OF smiles, and the
most perfect obeisanee; but th2y never stick
by a sinking hulk or fail to leave at the right
time to reach political life boat. There
fore, 'old Buck" having failed, he will be
deserted at the right time by all of his office
holders
Messrs Smart, Sewall & c. will b, al
lowed to lead the party in this State, to
nominate the Governor. make the platform.
and Plan the campaign. The office-holder-
will furnish the ''snews of war; and give
laid and comfort in all the approved meth
DDS of eectioneering. The same plan vii! he
adopted and carried out in the State that was
adopted in this Congressional District last
season: that of supporting candidates On an
anti-administration platform.
Smart & co. care nothing about squatter
sovereignty, or Lecolnptonism, or Congress
ional intervention, or the annexation Of Gu
ba, or Doug lasism, or any other ism; they
90 in for winning and for the winning side.
They all know the political gamut by long
practice and frequent rising and falling
of its notes. They have all been at some
time Wilmot Proviso-Democrats; and they
slid from that position into another las easily
and as gracefully as a seal does from some
rock by the seaside where it has been bask-
ing in the sun, into the water.
These politicians, as before observed care
Al.
Douglas had this principle squat out of the
Kansas and Nebraska bill; and the Supreme
Court has, in the bred Scott opinion, decid-
ed that the constitution carries and protects
slavery in the territories, and these men be-
. leve in that decision, 50 what becomes of
their boasted principle Of squatter sovereign
ty? Territorial Legislatures cannot undo
what the Federal Constitution does, nor
pass laws contrayenlng the provisions of that
instrument They cannot honestly believe
in both the bred Scott opinion and squatter
sovereignty, because they are antagonistic,
and yet they are trying to make the public
believe that they hold to both. Hon. F. P
Blair in recent speech at Concord, n. II.
describes Douglas squatter sovereignty
Democrat to the life, as follows
He believes that the people of the Terrific
ries shall have the right to form their own
institutions, subject only to the bred Scott
decision, which says they shall have no right
at all, Applause. My friends, if you have
the hook OF that decision in your gills, you
are gone fishes ILaughter.l