The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-11-19

tHelr eNeCtS On the fortunes OF pfomlnen
7 Democrats, and that they form another o
those sacrifices Of Senators which have beel
so common since 1854 as consequence O
, the subserviency of the Democratic party t.
, slavery. When the present phase of tn,
slavery contest began, the Senate was al
7 most filed with pro-slavery men, counting
Senators who have been elected as southern
Wings, Scarcely more than one fifth of ths
: Senators opposed the repeal of the Missor'
ri Compromise. Compare the Senate as il
!; is, and as it soon will be, with what it wa,
in 1854, and the change will be seen to bs
astonishing. Since the latter date, ths
Democrats have lost Senators in Maine
New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut
} New Jersey, Michigan, Iowa, Ohio, Mime.
sofa and Wisconsin, counting Alr. Pugh, Of
Ohio, as one Of those Democrats who ore
booked to 60 "down among the dead men, y
and Gen. Shields, Of Minnesota-a man de.
serving better fate-as another. Mr..
Bigler, Of Pennsylvania, has had his frs,
stroke of political apople1y, by the Repub-
licans having made sure Of his States Sen.
ate, not for next year only, but the year
after that, when his term will be out. Thus
do the minions of slavery fade away into
deserved obscurity. Some of them have
managed to keep up during the storm,
through executive favor. President Bu-
chanan good-naturedly turns his cabinet
into an asylum for political bankrupts, and
there Gen. Cass and Mr.. Toucey took ref
uge, after they had been repudiated by
Michigan and Connecticut. But where are
Wright, Stuart and Allen, and James, and
Brodhead, and other Democratic Senators,
who were once as high as are the best of
their brethren of to- day, and who deserved
happier fortune than being broken and
thrown aside, as if they were "dishonored
tools:" If Senators have been "expended'
in this Democratic crusade for the extension
of slavery, so also have Representatives.
There are no Democratic Representatives
from New England, few from New York, not
not half dozen from n ew Jersey and Penn
sylvana, and not much more than dozen
| from the entire Northwest. A Democratic
candidate in the free States is now almost
certain to be beaten, let him run for what
Office he may. 1t is not many years since
all the States but three or four had Demo-
cratic Governors, and now there are anti
Democratic administrations in three fourths
Of the free States. This change cannot fail
to have a marked effect on politics and par
ties. Men desirous Of political advancement
and the number of such men is large, and
the sentiment that animates them is in itself
goud, and a source of good to the public
will see that they cannot side with the De-
mocracy, and reasonably hope for success.
| Heretofore Democracy has been successful
in most battles. has ruled ns the general
thing, has speedily recovered from disaster,
and has been, in short, the ascendency"
for nearly sixty years. Hence it has attract
ed to its standard, not onl most Of those
aspiring men who have sought national hon.
ors, but that numerous class of voters who
loves to be on the strongest side, and who
are always attracted by great bodies. A
change has now taken place. All the good
places in most of the free States 90 to the
Opposition, and that party has the attractive
power that belongs to great bodies. Local
prom otion is denied to Democrats and To-
cal promotion is the first step. and a neces-
sary step, too, toward national office. De-
mocratic administrations. even if the Demo
cracy should cOntrive to maintain possession
of the general government, will pay but lit
| tie regard to men who reside in States from
/ which they have no support, and can hope
for none. Already has the work Of reform
been commenced among the ofhcohoders Of
:
useless class and the experiment thus indi-
Gated will be carried out on comprehensive
scale. But the prospect is, that the gene
raj government Itself Will pass from Demo-
cratic hands, and that the honors and re-
wards of victory, of a national character,
will become the prizes of those men who
stand in the front rank of the OPPOSITION
Let that happen, and slavery will have ex-
perienced deadly blow at home. Its south
ern enemies-who are many, and need only
central support to enable them to act with
etfect-will move, and we shall hear no more
about the revival of the slave trade, and the
extension of servile labor, and the dissolu-
tloD of the Union. All things now look
most promising to the Opposition, who have
only to act with hrmness and discretion to
be enabled to seize the sceptre, according to
the requirements OF the Constitution. They
are a majority, and a great ma jority, too,
Of the people; and the Democrats, as friends
of popular sovereignty, would have to bow
to the decision of the many, legally made
and clearly expressed. Virtually, the Dem
ocratic party is now the Opposition, their
foes having possession of the pop
ular branch of the government, and
the President and the Senate being support
ed by a mere minority. All means that is
honorable should be used to complete the
change that has been so well begun, and
which, when perfected, will cause the entire
government to sympathize with the people,
whose creation it will be. One year more
will suffice to do all that is necessary, all that
can be done, or need be done, to effect a re-
formation which the evil doing of the De-
mocracy has rendered inevitable, if our
iS 70 rafo ,,1o oh nc
ARE WE A NATION OF DRINKERS:
Frenchman once said the Americans
were "nation Of one gravy"
Would he not have been nearer the mark
if he had called US a nation of drinkers p
We drink upon every and all OCCASIONS
Not water. As continuous beverage, wa
ter is not remarkably popular. Not water.
but sundry and various spurious and vinu-
Gus fluids, whereof the custom hath never,
official knowledge. But We drink notwith-
standing. We drink morning, noon and
night. We drink between times. We drink
when we don't want it, and when we don't
need it, in order to have a cargo on board
when We do need and want it.
The American drinks his cocktails to
| uEo"n HIS soTToN, ue swallows them because
he is joyful he pours them down his throat
when disappointed in business, and gorges
upon them because he is prosperous
Friendship commences over julep end in a
smash. Jealousy broods darkly over the
absorption of rum punch, and meditates
suicides, murder or divorce, over the last
lingering drop Of brandy plain. Hope
bubbles eternally in sherry cobblers and wit
effervesces in champagne. With us-for are
we not nation of drinkers "a bargain
cannot be settled unless it is settled over
gin and sugar. No president, no governor;
no official can be nominated, much less cleo
ted, without the bar-feast of crackers and
cheese and the flow of whisky. The welfare
of the nation, the stability os the govern
ment, cannot be maintained without morning
eye. openers, MONDAY nips and midnight
night-caps. The goddess Of liberty couldn't
stand an hour without her " smile.'' The
Great Bird can't fly without the benefit of
tod. We drink to get rid of the blues,
and drink when we haven't them to keep
them of. We drink when we are not dry,
and get dry in order to drink when we are