, 1859-02-03
PRESS AND TRIBUNE.
THURSDAY MoRNmo. FEnRuARY, 5. 1853.


14e dAfN0nt0u4 DeM0cf&cys
That the Democratic party maintains an
organization and an entity only through the
cohesive power Of The treasury contents, is
fact made manifest BY the vote On every pub
ic measure in Congress. The Douglas split
was only the beginning Of niserics.- Since
the heavy slough-oF which followed the diyis-
ion on Lecompton, divisions on the tariff, On
Cuba-stealing, On land reform, on the Pacific
Railroad, on the slave trade and alas, on
Popular Sovereignty" have succeeded each
other with the utmost regularity. Coupled with
differences Of opinion ..as to measures there has
been equal disagreement Is to the means, and
in the aggregate Of variance have been min
gled high words and sincere auimoJty. As
usual the South has emerged triumphant in
all the essentials, leaving that big lubber, the
balance Of the Union, to cbuckle over the
distractions and digest them at leisure. Big
Ter and the Pennsylvania Democracy, aided
BY New Jersey, and q frnction Of New York,
are crying Tor specific duties and spro lection
to iron. They will not get what they want.
Pray they never 60 hunbly, lisp they never
so soltly, the Gat Of the slave Democracy is
recorded against them. The popular soTer-
eigns Of Minnesota and the Western States
generally are pretty earnest on the subject Of
pioneers rights on the public domain. Their
bill for the protection Of pre-emptots is vo-
ted down by the solid South and the more di-
1apidated Of the doushfaces The Home
stead hill by some marvel Of legerdemain
passes the House, hut only to get its quietns
in The Senate. California, overwhelm-
ingly Democratic, wants Pacific
Railroad, and in this demand she is
seconded, with o single exception, by
the whole Republican vote Of the Senate
Her demand is negatived BY the power which
she has most obsequiously served ever since
her creation as an American State. Ia the
matter Of grabbing Cuba by purchase or sub
jugation the quarrel extends both To the
means and end. II the thirty million. bill for
the corruption Of Spanish auukeys is not
finally wcdged through Congress, it will be
solely because there are no thirty milliona to
give. Tie division on the high privilege Of
slave trading, became even rancorous and
excitjng-two or three Of the dongbfaces
waxing H7athfully Indignant at the eugges-
tion to legalizc traffic On the seas which is
eminently constitutional and admissible on
land. And glowering before them still is the
gorgon Of "Unfriendly Legislation" which
Kansas is hastening to introduce to the dis.
cordant squads Quite fitly, it eccms that
James Gordon Bennett las taken upon him
self the job OF Strengthening the Democratic
kinks Tor 1850, restoring sweet temper to tie
loggerbeads and arrayipg the spoils in such
tempting attitude that past wrangles shall
sink in q promiecuous and pell lmell rush at-
ter offices, jobs, contracts, and land grabs.
It is not FOR us to aid in restoring peace in
the brawling kennel, but we may suggest
what no one is 60 puzbl1nd rs not to seq
though Mr.. Douglas was so powerful in com.
batting it during the late campaign-that
house divided against itself cannot stand.
The warring Democracy cannot stand with
ono section in favor of tariffs, land reform
and Squatter Sovereignty md against the
slave trade, and the other squarcly hostile 10
it on all those grave questions. Federal
Plunder may do much towards cemcnting the
hztach but the people who get none and want
none, who see principles Int not flcah.pots,
will strike for come organization which pre-
sentsa record Of wise legislation and united
eudcoror: and this will mt I've fhe Dnmorra+;c