The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-16

PRICE TWO CENTS.
| The Calhounized and Van Ru,..,~~S
Democracy and tho CampaArn or 1890.
| five turn our attention to that pc1nnal so,a,cvv
which calls itself the democratic party, we shah be
struck with the noisy antagonisms Of it, priuciples
as national party, and with its consequent weak
ness and incapacity for the hard struggles Of the
next Presidential campaign. Indeed, it can no
longer with truth be said that the democracy s Q
national party. Not certainly in the proud old con-
seIvatyc sense which the name bore in the days Of
Jackson. That party is dead, and the combination
Of Southern ire-eaters and Northern free-soilers
who have crept into it's place and assumed its
venerable name dates no farther back than the
time Of that late unhappy Presidential experiment
Btigadier General Franklin Pierce, Of Concord,
New Hampshire. What calls itself the democracy
Is now thoroughly Calhounized in the South and
80 entirely Van Burenixed in the North that II h
not in reality one party, but two great noisy fse
tons OF totally dissimilar principles with NO other
tic existing between them than the spoils and plum
der of Office.
This Calhounizing and Van BurenIzing Of the ola
national democratic party was the work ofthe Pisrce
administration. That administration came into
power on the basis of the Compromise measures Of
1850. Congrcss and the country had just passed
through fiery trial Of excitement, IN which Cal-
hounism and Van Burenim put forth all their dsos-
ganizing and destructive energies The success
ful passage Of the Compromise measures was the
defeat Of both Of those malignant factions But hey
rallied again in the democratic Presidential CON-
venton Of 1852, and after whole weeks balloting
and lighting, they were again Aoored by the noni-
nation Of Gen. Pierce, ON the anti Calhoun and anti
Van Baren platform Of the Compromise Of 1850.
Mr.. Pierce took h scat IN the Presidential chair %
the elected head Of the democracy, which had nrm-
ly planted itself on basis Of opposition to the CAL
houn and Van Buren agitators, both North and
South. BE came into power pledged to regard the
Compromise as {" . fnality," and to !" NO more agi
tate the slavery question in or out of Congress-
and in his first message to Congress he congratu-
lated the country on the sense Of rspose and -
curity" to which the Compromise measures had
restored the public mind throughout the con-
federacy,r and he gave his official word
that those measures should "suner NO shock during
his ofRcial tsrm II he could help it." To the credi
Of the BEieader It must be confessed he faithfully
kept his word for almost whole month, whom he
traitorously turned his back upon the party which
elected him, and upon all the men who represented
its principles. He not only took for his counseo
but he bestowed the entire patronage Of the govern
| ment upon, the enemies Of the COMPROMISE, both
| North and South. The anti Compromise Calhouu
Jefferson Davis faction Of the South and the anti
| Compromise Van Buren, faction Of the North
were erected into new party on the ruins Of he
principles and organization Of the old democratic
party and the old conservative national democracy
in the language Of aleading member Of Mr.. Pierces
| Cabinet, was to be "cruehed out" And 10 WAS
| crushed out. Such IN exterminating war did the
President carry against all the original friends
Of the Compromise that his official organ the Wash-
ngton Union, in attempting TO defend his condsct,
was driven, % early as November, 1858, to utter
the monstrous falsehood that the democratic party
had not pledged itself to the Compromise measures
Of 1850 ct ALL and that therefore the President was
un1st - Sb1ga1lsn - Recognise IL nisHas u
those measures. Hear IT, f
We knew that they (the Compromise measures) were
sorrcconclaby obnoxious to large portion Of the demo
cratic party that would be madness to make the question
| Of approval a test Of democratic orthodoxy.
| So here was the Presidents treason TO the party
and to the men who had elected him, thus early
made manifest by this shameless falsehood Of his
mouthpiece. But having used this lying device g.
momentary justification Of the Presidents conduct,
in taking to his bosom the disciples of Calhoun In
the South, and Of Van Buren in the North his organ
is obliged to fall back upon the truth, in January
1854, when in condemning Mr.. Dixon's amendment
to the Douglas Territorial bill, which proposed to
repeal the Missouri Compromise, it said
Prudence Patriotism devotion TO the Union, the inter-
est Of the democratic party all sugges. that that public
pies Of the Compromise OF 1850 should be nconsder-
atey disturbed Tho triumphant election Of President
ElayrQ ~ hactr fha
mcnts Of the people are with the democracy.
| So here we have the admission Of the Pierce
organ, as late as January 1854, that he was trium
phantly elected on the basis of the Compromise Of
1850, and that the judgments Of the people were
with the democracy as established upon that plat
form. And yet at this very time, whenever the eye
Of the President could reach over the field Of his
official Deeds he could see nobody but the enemies
of that platform in Office. And 1t was by this act Of
folly and treachery that he succeeded in Calhoun.
izing one section, and Van Burenixing the other
Of the old democratic party, until It IL now no
longer national party, but temporary and inces-
tuous union Of two sectional factions. In this
respect the only difference between the black
republican and democratic parties Is that the former
s composed Of sectional faction, while the latter
is made up Of two factions brought together by .
yearning and hungry stomach for Official plunder
In the whole North the party has fallen down
upon the Van Buren, Buffalo platform Of lS4S.
The squstter sovereignty principle discovered
in the Nebraska bill, 1t is contended secures
the objects of the Buffalo platform, and makes
safe the proposition Of no moro slave States.
On this construction of the Nebraska bill the
democracy of every Northern State now stands.
1t was on this ground that Mr.. Van Buren, declared
'the bill secures the triumph Of the principles Of the
movement of 49," So John Van Buren, "the son ofhis
father in his principal speech Of the last Presden-
tal campaign, boldly assumed the ground that the
Cincinnati platform was entirely consistent with the
Bunalo platform, which he and his father built in
1S4S. and in answer To the republican press, which