Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-04-22
A Southern View.


A Southern View. |
The recent elections are fast prepar-
inc the South to submit TO inevitable
destiry, and await resignedly the hour
that shall see the government restored to
the policy of the fathers and placed in
the hands of the Republican party. And
they are evidently getting the more re-
conciled to this, from the poor success
which has attended the efforts Of the
Democratic party to serve them. In
fact. the shareholders find the Northen
Democracy, though evidently willing TO
do anything for slavery, sadly wanting
in pluck. With the exception of Bueh-
anaD, the party have, in fact, no pluck
at all. The President is about the only
plueky friend the South has at the North.
The party don't sustain him in any OF
his great measures. They are afraid of
the people, and, just at the moment
they are wanted most, they sink away
ike guilty hounds that fear the lash
The Charleston IS. c. Mercury, the
ablest Democratic paper in the whole
South, after discussing the measures
and failures of the democrats in the last
/ Congress, says
Z. Now, what do these things show +?
Why, that the Democratic party has no
party cohesion, and is no party at ALL
It is broken up into little fractions. One
/ fraction supports the Pacific Railroad
another. Protective TariF-another,
the Homestead bilI-another, Squatter
Sovereignty but all tending to one gen
eraI consummation--the array of the
two sections of the Union against each
other in deadly hostility. Whether we
look to the operations of the party with
regard to the President, or with regard
to measures, there is distraction, disunioI
aud opposition amongst its members
This was never the case until sectional
ism became the great controlling elemen
} in the politics Of the Union. Down +
the days of President Van Buren,, tn
President was the respected and honor
: ed head of the party. When he recon
mended the adoption Of the independen
, Treasury policy, the Democratic part
supported it. All who opposed it wer
? cut off as members of the party. Whe
D President Polk recommended the Mex
E can war, the party supported if, and a
who opposed it were out Of the party
t Sectionalism, lingering always as til
; great disturbing cause which would,
5 due time, rend aSsunder all parties an
e the Union itself, sprung up into gigant
n proportions from this war The acquis
n ton of California disclosed and precipit
ie ted the antagonism between the two Sc
y tons of the Union. By the effort on Il
i part of the North to exclude the Sou
'e from this territory, the great battle
rs state and sectional equality was foug
y and lost. The North won. Her Sc
I'd iional superiority became settled ia
is in the Union. Nothing could preve
al thereafter the predominance Of seetio
lg aIism in the politics of the Union, al
ed nothing could prevent its consequent d
ne solution. Its end was mere matter
II time. Yet the wiseacres who perpetI
be ted this enormous fraud upon the Soui
ae. and the greater wiseacres who SUBMIT
n to il, did it all 10 save and continue t
! Union. The politics of the Union frs
W that day to this has been nothing but :,
he tionalism. The two sections of 1
ut Union having been driven wider a
hal wider apart-are more concentrat
TO amongst themselves. The aggressi
mt North has first completed her section
ne organization to rule the South. 7
TO- Wing party has crumbled before it a
d. now the Democratic party Of the Nor
- Ike fostering corpse, is falling to pie
ed BY the decomposing element Of sect
Isl. ahsm. It must be dissolved, and t
rd- parties-and two only--arise "A
nd Union-a party Of the North and a pa
dy, Of the South. The one TO rule, the G
lis er to defend the one 10 destroy,
2a'- other to save, the South. a sectio
for party, faithful TO the constitution and
I've rights Of the two sections Of the Uni
nit is an impossibility. The South. althol
an more slowly and reluctantly, is steat
the moving o. 70 Der sectional crystal
OFT. tion.