Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1859-02-19

The Voice Of the Democratic Party.
1T would take a Philadelphia lawyer 10
tell what party has majority in this House, -
vas the exclamation lately wrung from a dis.
tinguished Virginia Democrat 81 all unac.
Icountsble vote Of that body. Yet in the as
sembly Of which he spoke their is nominal
Democratic prepoDderancc of twenty votes
The Virginia member gave but form and
expression to thought in the minds of all
rejecting men and no honest Democrat will
blink the unpleasant truth embodied in it, or
hustle and hide it from the popular gaze.
'1ave we Democratic party amoug us?'
we ask again. If not, where is it? Ifsince
tho Democratic people, only two years ago,
sent up to this capital President and a con-
gress planted upon and sworn to support
tho t'me-honored: principles which have
borne the country TO it's present pitch of
power and renown, as the representatives
OF me Democratic party, and that party has
disappeared, what causes have. brought it
about, and what men are responsible for it !?
These questions have to be answered before
the grand popular Democratic INQUEST, Orr
caddor in putting the pertinent query. has
been censured by those who hold it wise and
humane to spare the patient the necessary
Ipangs Of the sergcon's PROBE
1t may be that the spirit of true Demo
cracy has taken its departure from the
White House, and fled from the distracted
councils and personal ambitions in the Capi-
toll but let no man belive it has ceased: to
vi:alize the great body of the American nao.
pie. fhe to whom was committed the lof.
ty banner of foreign policy, woven and es.
cutcheoned by the Democrats representa.
t'ves at Cincinnati, has wavered in his march
and let it fa!: to the ground, the Democratic
people will take it up, and with cries of "Ex:
csis'or ;" press it to victory in holder and
ADLER hands. In that convention the foreign
policy adopted by the infant confederacy
was repudiated, and in its place was subs'i-
tuted one worthy Of . people that have taken
their stand with the first Powers Of the
earth. Half the term of the Presidential
standard bearer has passed away and the
Paraguay expedition stands out the solitary
landmark Of progress to the summit of dig
nifty and honor, upon which he was pledged
to plant the republic. Mexico and the 18th
milan transits have been abandoned to their
fate, and to British and French intrigues and
|squadrons. Cuba is farther than ever from
Union incorporation. while the national dig
nifty has gone down so slow that even the
mongrel races Of Mexico and Contra! Anne.
RIGA affect to despise u.s., .,........
In vain will the President throw the re-
sponsioility of this inactivity upon Congress,
and plead the want of constitutional power.
If Congress fails Gifts duty, that is no excuse
for Executive dereliction. No Congress
could withstand the ring Of true Presidential
metal. and no Congress is so stupid as not to
be able to distinguish between the harmless
notes Of the shepherds pipe and the stirring
tones Of the bugles blast. The President
must do, as we'll as write messages and
when he shows an ambition above the ap.
polntment of village postmas.ers and the re-
gu!ation of New York clique politics, Con-
gress will believe him to be an earnest man,
whose heart beats for the honor of his coun-
try. and one worthy to be trusted with the
sword and the purse, to maintain the stand
of the republic at the couneil-board of the ma
ton. fit does not, the people will soon
rend up mandates to their servants to sup
PoAs VIC pa'1iOto 1IeSlucut, WulCu lucy Will
rot dare t. disobey.
But ;fthe Executive has not advanced the
foreig policy principles Of the Cincinnati
platform If this offence is only neglect, he
is chargeable with the sin Of commission
upon great and vital question of Demo-
cratic policy-the question of Free Trade.
The President Of the whole country, he can
not forget that he was Senator from Penn
sylvania, and protection Of her coal and iron
Is pressed upon q Democratic Congress,
when he knows that partial legislation in ali
IS shapes :stinks in the nostsils'. of the Dem {.
ocratic people who elected him. If there is
distraction in the Democratic ranks of Con-
lgress; if the disgraccful spectacle is to be
presented Of Free Trade strangulation in the
House Of its Democratic friends, the impair
tial pen Of history must. ascribc it to the
combined influence Of class avarice and Pres
idential influence It is fearful odds that
this great principle. Of freedom has to con.
tend against. 1t is patronage and plumber"
literally combined ; and timid Secretary OF
the Treasury, who was frightened into SUBJ
mission by the sound of bis own voice ut
tered in one spasnodic squeak Of opposition,
stands by to witness the unhallowed coali-
tion. It is tirue for tho people to sneak to
their servants Washington States.