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The WAshingson Ssases Douglas Organ !,
says:
The doubt implied 10 tho shove interrora
HQsTnPowsyar startling q nrst sight, appears
Ut tho hsyard Of coptradicting the vulgar
prejudice and shocking our own sense OF se.
curity, We are obliged to announce the DELHI.
crate conclusion that there 10 now no Demo
cratic party in existence. And We will ven.
turc the assertion, that the parad oxiosl opin-
ion will be embraced by oil observing and
rejecting persons.
Of individual Democrats, dispersed over
the country, each with his peculiar profes.
sion Of faith and object of pursuit, there il
unquestionably very abundant supply. But
they no more constitute party in the philo.
sophical and practical sense OF the word, than
. heap Of unhewn and unadjusted stone con-
stituts palace. For the realisation Of that
idea, there must be primarily . common
foundation, then due subordination and
fitness among the parts, and finally = com.
plete unity Of organisation. We doubt IL
any one OF transformations can be predicsted
Of the Democracy.
In the first place, will any man pretend to
affirm that Demoorats are agreed upon ba-
sis OF principle? In respect Of which one
among the political issues before the country
is there so much even ~ an approach to una
nimity in the aparty." Not surely in regard
to squatter sovereignty. The disagreement
between the President and his Secretary Of
State on the subject, 10 the symbol Of IN
equivalent difference among the Democracy.
Not in regard to the Pacific Railroad, for
here again the chief OF the administration 10
M ratpNa 18th hsn - w. ~.
class OF strict construction Democrats dissent
from the faith OF their less scrupulous ssso.
ciates. Not in regard to federal appropria.
tions for tho Improvement OF rivers and har-
bors; since the division Of the Cabinet ON
this issue 10 likewise responsive to : similar
division among the mass Of the Democracy.
Nor yet 10 thsre anything like unanimity In
that "pArty" in regard to that most import
ant matter Of ail-ths tariff question. in re-
spect OF which Mr.. Buchanan aiirms one be-
lief, while Mr.. Cobb maintains directly the
opposite.
We nsed not recapitulate all the points Of
divergent doctrine among the Democracy.
1t 10 sufhcisnt to say that upon no single is
sue V there adequate agreement for com-
mon basis of action.
In the matter OF organisation We discover
an equal absence Of concord and unity in the
party" We have . Lecompton and IN an
ti-Lecompton faction; there are the followers
Of Douglas and here the adhsrsuts Of Bu-
chanan in short, - many ~ are the aspi-
rants for the Presidency, 90 many are the
cliques and oabsls among the Dsmocracy.
Heretofore the administration has afforded
rallying point for tho individusls OF the
"party 4" but, instead, it 10 become an orig
inal occasion OF dispute and dissension. In
tbs latter days, the recommendation of .
Democratic Executive implies little more au-
thority with Democratic representative
than with . member Of the opposition.
In one particular the Democracy are tho't
to be very generally agreed in opinion and
concurrent in action, and that 10 10 the pur-
suit OF the spoils. But even in this moskim.
portant matter they exhibit the same diver
sity OF interest and policy observable in every
other regard. The course Of the present
Democratic Executive has been signalixed BY
the indiscriminate ostracism Of the surviving
oihce-holders OF ito Democratic predecessor.
And in respect Of future promotion, the rival
factions in the "psrty" arc more intent each
on the defeat OF its rival than on the over
throw OF the common enemy. Unless these
domestic dlssensions be harmonixed BY the
prevalence OF more fraternal counsels or sup
Pt0DsV0 W shS ~ uoO0Iu VI NJ OvUTouaUOW
peril, We are not warranted ia anticipating
the cordial CO. cooperation OF the various fac
tions among the "party" in the struggle OF
1860. Even the potent spell Of the spoils
will not now avail to subdue the demon Of
discord among the Democracy.
It 10 no absurd speculation, therefore. TO
inquire whether there BIO Democrats party
among us? In fact, on elaborate investiga-
ton, We are constrained to return Z negative
response to the question. There 10 no such
entity a. Democratic party. Greater con-
fusion Of tongues did mot prevail among the
children Of men after their ambitious but
abortive attempt in the plain OF Shinar, than
are now visible 10 tho broken ranks and mu-
tual snimosities OF the once harmonious and
triumphant Democracy. II
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