Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-06-04

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Those who are acquainted With DO
| sition Of public men and parties in
this country during and after war with
Great Britain, cannot fail 70 remember
the asperity which existed between
John Randolph and John c. Calhoun.
They were rival Southern statesman,
and the former being the senior. a.
we'll as the stronger Of the two, had
the most marked position. Mr.. RAN
dolph, pending this controversy, and
toward the latter part of his Congress
sional life was taken Ill. He was con.
sidered sick even unto death. All hope
Of his recovery was given up, and the
friends Of Mr.. Calhoun, being DESTROYS
that reconciliation should take place
before Randolph died, arranged q
meeting between the two. Mr.. CAL
houn repaired to the bedside of Mr..
Randolph. He found him feeble,
though able to converse freely. Mr..
Calhoun sincerity forgave his PROSTATE
antagonist every severe thing he had
ever uttered against him, and Mr.. Ran
dolpe reciprocated. Thus were the
kiudest relations (ostensibly) restored.
But to the establishment Of Calhoun,
as he was about taking his leave, Ran
dolph called him back, and with his
shrill, sharp voice exclaimed s: "Now,
remember, Mr.. Calhoun-J I get s0eA
all Mis goes for nothing" He did
get we'll, and true to his well settled
hatred, he never spoke to Calhoun
afterward.
We are reminded of this incident
BY the billing and cooling now going
on between the Black Republicans"
and the Americans" and Oldy Clay
Wings. The plumber mongers Of each
are DESTROYS Of a reconciliation be-
ween the antagonistic elements OF the
two organizations. The one is yet
alive-especially in the easterIy part
of its extremities-while the other is
considered hopelessly lost and beyond
the reach of any possible political res
direction. The former is nothing with
out the latter, and not much with it.
1t is therefore deemed essential that
the past differences shall be ignored
and new coalition be formed. Well
suppose it ostensibly effected, and that
it will last until the eve Of the Con-
vention, when all OF a sudden the
Woolly headed part OF the programme
will be started with an exclamation
from the dying yet necessary support
to its tottering fortunes, which will
say "Now remember, Mr.. Abolition,
il. you insist upon the nomination of
Seward or any other WooIty, or if |
get in any better health, all this goes
for nothing" And this is an apt il
lustration OF coalitions or pretended
friendship formed without the great
cohesive power Of principle which
unites the Democratic party of the
Union. 1t is an artificial, disjointed
and uncertain cooperate u, which, be-
ing without patriotic impulses or COM
mendable objects, and with mortal an
irnosities, suspicious and jealousies to
contend with, can no more go through
Presidential campaign without fall
lg out, than two women with the
same husband could live together with
out a row. Wait and see.
1t is true, IN several of the States,
from local causes, the opposition to the
Democracy are in the majority. AS
soon as the contest becomes national,
the dissolution Of the Opposition par
ty is inevitable. There is nonational-
i,y or pervsding position in favor of
any one great principle upon which 1t
can rally. The homogeneous elements
OF this piebald concern are we'll told
in the various cognomens it has been
obliged to assume in different States.
10 Mass. they are Jetf,ersonian "Amcr-
lean" Republicans ~ in Mo-, Free
Democrats in Va, Wings in Nd,
Know Nothings; In Cal, Broderick
men in Penn, the peoples party !;
in KY, Tenn, and other Southern
States there are not enough of them
to agree upon any suitable name, and
call themselves the Opposition. And
il is such conglomcratcd, anti-within
itself coalition that talks about beating
the great Democratic party of the
county. We ask pardon for dignity
ing the assumption with serious criti-
cism.