The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-06-07
THE PRESS.
CINCINNATI, TUESDAY, JUNE ..
Mutation of Parties.

u NAOAO PoAIJ w ooeuLlluB VI sustaining u
position that before had not particle of
interest in it, and what to-day is the con-
trolling question was yesterday of no
consequence, or perhaps the very con-
verse of the proposition. was the one
upon which they stood We need not
go back to the days of the fathers,
whose argument for Constitution instead
Of Confederation was that we might
have Tariff for protection to home in
terests, with the same men urging it who
went to war few years later on the cry
of "Free Trade and Sailors Rights, -
nor later, when a majority of Democrats
in a Democratic Congress chartered q
United States Bank, which same Bank
was defended in after years by those
who opposed it in the first place, and was
broken down by the cry of the later
Democracy against its onstitutionality,-
nor need we reach back to the time when
leading Southern Democrats were re-
stricting Slavery in the Territories, and
urging emancipation in the States, to
show the change of parties, who say their
principles never change. We have some
amusing incidents in that way, of deci-
dedly modern date
The great Whig party, proud in its in
tellect and its numbers, has gone down,
down, until the last call made to them in
the depth of their almost cutter gone
ness" comes in the Enquirer of Sunday,
bringing as eoaxing bait, choice quota
tions from WEBSTER and CLAY, written,
too probably by the same hand that had
spent all its energies in traduoing those
great men while they lived.
E Pluribus Unum GEORGE WASHING
TON spread-Eagle SAM,-Young America
Wide-awake SAM, crowded on to the stage
as the old Wings jostled oA-spread out
his platform Of unseasoned planks, and
took the country by storm. After the
MIsTs had cleared away little, the hot
Southern sun came down on the platform
80 strong that it twisted and checked the
planks in all the Northern parts where
the days are longest to an extent that it
would no longer hold up Northern SAM,
and most of the party fell off. The South,
to keep the balance of power" got off
also. And now we find the few remain
ing On the platform, running from side to
side, looking for good place to drop,
calling for help to get down, and offering
to get down on the side that will give
them the most 1t has been intimated
that since" PEATT" is no more, the SYM
pathizing Democracy have started the
original inquiry, Have you seen SAM p
The great Republican party, when they
organized at Philadelphia, laid out SO
large a platform that nobody ever fully
examined it, and they have not been
troubled as yet with the quality of the
timber, 80 much as with the quantity;
and when the Know Nothings of Massa-
chusetts put in a long stick to hang
themselves on, it sort O. oanted up
until the dutch, over the Rhine" got
In a counterpoise. AT Columbus, the
other day, the latest information from the
craft was, that some American and some
German philosopers - gentlemen who
stand upon principles-were trying to
balance it. The Republican party not
yet having been burthened with power,
The strength of their timber has NOT been
30 well tl,t'd
The everlasting Democracy have fixed
their State platform, this year, on the
principle of the turn-table at the Rail
road Car House-by turning it round, it
suits any kind of principles or candi-
dates. The principle upon which it
centers, may be supposed to be Office
that party not being in power in the
State, and the constituents of all parties
moving around the attracting point.
The question to be solved is, whether the
centripetal, or centrifugal power, pre-
dominates--whethe the elements are
going on, or GOING OFF the turn-table.
That issues should change as between
parties, consequent upon the changing
circumstances Of the country, is logical ;
but that parties should change entirely
pnon questions which have always been
before it, in the same aspect, is not so
rational--such for instance as protection
by Tariff, Slavery Extension, Slave Trade,
Naturalization Of Foreigners, &c, &c.
Yet we do find great parties entirely
changing ground; and the pivot upon
which they turn, is often some quite OBJ
scure expression which the emergency o