American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1860-01-05
The Condition Of Political Pur,ie. in ,hi.


Country Just Now.
We take The following from late letter
from the psn Of Col. FORsEr, writing to
his Press from Inc Capitol city. II con.
tains much that is true and suggestive:
1t requires no great sagscity to foresee
that some changes are feTmentiTg in Amsri-
can parties. and that the Presidential con.
test next year will, in all prob,5illty, be
decided, il not upon new issues, At least
by considerations that six months ago
ould have been secuted by most Of the
politicians. think I may clam the Press
the credit Of having predicted that no or.
ganza!lln cOIId succeed 10 1860 that did
not recos nizs in its creed largo elemeDl
nf nationality. Events have been rapidly
tsndiOg to the contingency, and it needed
only the John Brown raid to unveiI It, fact
to the public gaze, The triumph Of Pop
u.ar Sovereignty in Kansas has made so
profound an impression en- the public con
science that all other theories for the ad-
iustment Of the Territorial question have
been discarded, or made contemplate By
the contrast. Intsrvsnti2n, whether for
the protection or prohibition Of slavery, is
an obsolete idea. however leaders may ad.
vocate its application. President Buch
anan S poi,v has, il is true. done much to
sectionslizs our parties. His early surren
der to the fre.ea,ers on the Kansas ques
tion organized against the Democratic par
ty, or rather against his Administration. a
solid Northern antagonism; and his subse>
quent course has greatly infamed and
strengthened this opposition. In the mean
while the Republicans were rather pfepar'
ing for what seemed TO be the approach OF
an easy victory. than for the assertion Of
certain clear and acceptable principles
John Brown has come (ani gomez to re-
mind t..em. as well as others, that It is inn
possible for any party to succeed that does
not meet living issues in ff,I-iooted and
sensible manner. They ought for this rea,
son, take the accusations of the Admins
tration with the greatest philosophy.
1t is so easy ana so cheap a business to
: say to a great party that a great national
calamity may be charged to their doc
trines that il ls not to be wondered that
Mr.. Buchanan and his organs should have
seized upon the Harper's Ferry tragedy
as agood weapon to damage the Republi
cans. That was not only according tc
their tastes, but in harmony with the ex
pectalions Of the South, and bota will
make it their special shibboleth for the
coming year. The other Gids fthe argu
meut has yet to be made. Tho Rspubli
, cans are silent enough under the indict
ment preferred against them. They 81
like statues before the assault Of their en-
emies 10 the House. 1t would be advi
sable for those who are misunderstanding
this silence TO wait tor the rcjoinder. ]
may serve to scar up and complete th
troubled history of these most troublou
times. These are the days O mutation
S and repent4nces in pololics. 10 forgiv
: offences Is the prevailing virtue or vice o
our reigning politicians. Those who ar
3, now SO eagsr and SO fierce in their crimi
. nations of the r 'publioans have in tur,
n taken to their bosoms iar more Of
: fensive foes of the South than most OF til
r leaders of that party. What men ever di
+. more to SOW the seeds Of hostility betwee
the two sections than John Van Buren,, o
n his father, or John Cochrane, or John A
Dix, or Sumu. Tilien, of New York
.> when with the W,lmot Proviso in thei
!. hands, they helped to defeat General Cass
/ and to fill the Northern mind with pas
IT siona'e hatred of the South? There mere
$, ,oas any great organized party in II
70 Free States against Slavery til that da.
o The Republican party is the natural of
{, spring OF the Van Barsn revenge. An
ia yet all these malcontents have been (orgiv
is en- and taken to the embrace oil Mr.. Bu
l. chanan aud his fire eating friends. Now
y let us suppose the Republicans 10 max
ii short cut to the Presidency. Suppos
they, like ths Van Bnrens, make "a vii
n tue of necessity" aud become 6rstola'
at conservatives Of the existing school,
IS They have not nearly as much to recar
s, as the Van Burens, an1 if they can g
" the votes t. back them in the work, tie
will be cOnsecrated in the affections
Ia those who now deli 5ht to assail them
DR. Mark il!