Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-04-23
The Decentralization OF the Democratic
Party.
Ool respondsncs Of the Philadelphia Press.
WASHINGTON, April 7, 1859.

ed, in Washington, to succession of extraor-
binary political shocks. After behOlding the
whole North swept away from Presidential
control; after seeing Pennsylvania return a
Congressional delegation with but two Ad-
ministration members, and the Gibraltar of
Berks county repudiate the immortal Jehu we
were prepared for almost anything; but still,
l must confess that the returns of the elec-
tons held during the past week have excited
deep surprise and CONSERVATION. Much was
| hoped from Connecticut, the land of steady
habits" where the Opposition partisans were
engaged in bitter and complicated internal
| strife, where strong American and old line
Whig sentiment prevailed, and where, it was
supposed, deep veneration and regard for her
distinguished son, the Secretary Of the Navy,
prevailed. Mr.. Toucey continued to the last
moment confident in his expectations that the
magic of his name, aided by his extraordina-
ry skill as partisan leader, would be sufi-
| cient to immortalize his State as the Northern
stronghold of the Administration, and to send
back her two Lecompton Congressman in tri-
umph. But, alas for the vanity of human ex-
pectations all these hopes have been blast.
ed! Turning to Michigan, the home of ano-
ther member of the Cabinet, which, in olden
time was always faithful in her Democratic
fealty, we find Republican Judge of the Su-
preme Court elected by fifteen thousand ma
jority. Looking to st. Louis for comfort, we
discovered that, although located in slave
State, a Republican candidate for Mayor de-
feated, by twenty-five hundred majority, the
Democratic nominee, while forty-fye hundred
votes were polled for the American candidate.
Even in Louisville, the late home of another
member of the Cabinet, Mr.. Holt, the Democ-
racy were routed.
In France the favorite style of destroying
obnoxious kings and emperors is by using
"infernal machines :" but notwithstanding the
ingenuity displayed in their construction, they
have never answered the purposes of their
inventors. If any diaboical spirit, in mo-
ment of perverse ingenuity, had endeavored
to invent an instrument for the destruction of
the Democratic party of this country, and
had finally put forward as his master piece
the present National Administration, he would
be hailed as the greatest genius that ever lv-
ed and for its adaptation to that purpose,
and the skill with which it has persistently
labored to accomplish it, is really astonishing.
Intent on this errand, it is a living embodi-
ment of perpetual motion; for not day nor
an hour passes that it does not seem able to
find some method of inficting still further in
jury on that party. The only wonder to me
is, that any portion of the Democracy should
be so blind to the interests of the great organ
ization which has been so completely demor-
allied, and almost destroyed, to still maintain
their adhesion to the Administration. But
on this point l could make you many inter-
esting revelations did not the confidence of
private conversations forbid. The people of
the United States would be greatly astsnished
if they could hear what bitter contempt for
the Administration is daily and hourly ex-
pressed by the men who, for their daily pay,
or from motives Of policy, affect in public to
endorse it, but who, in private, do not scruple
to denounce it in terms so indignant that the
attacks made upon it by the Republican ora
tors sound like eulogy when compared with
their denunciations. ..
The utraists of the South are growing des-
perate, and are apparently determined to in
sist upon doctrines which no honest Northern
Democrat, who has the soul of a freeman with
in him, will think for one moment of endors
ing The Charleston Mercury announces that
if the Charleston Convention is to be held at
all, the Southern ultraists will either rule or
run it. Another ultra Southern Convention,
to be held at Vicksburg, on the 9th of May,
has been called by DE Bow, of Louisiana,
McRae, of Mississippi, Yancey, of Alabama,
and Chase, of Florida; and this assemblage
will doubtless seek to still farther strengthen
the rapacious and financial slavery propagan-
da spirit in the Southern States; SO that un-
less there is a mighty and speedy movement
among the moderate and conservative people
Of the South, you may expect to see her most
impracticable and naughty spirits completely
in the ascendency, result which will be
mainly due to the aid and comfort they have
received from the National Administration, by
the cowardice and subserviency it has shown.