Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-07-07
Our ANXIOUS OPPONENTS.

Those anxious democrats who have dream.
ed of saving their party from destruction by
means of coalition electoral tickets, in the
northern states do not find much encourage.
ment. They begin TO see that their old ma
chine is quite too much out of joint to be
saved by any kind of tinkering. Its days are
numbered; its time has come. In Pennsylva-
MIA, where Mr.. Bigler had planned an AMIGA
BILE coalition, the controlling leaders of both
contending parties have spit upon his scheme,
and trampled it in the dust In OHIO the
Breckenridge men have made an angry and
decisive bolt from the democratic state conven-
ton, and nothing is possible there between the
factions but fierce and irrecOncilable hostility
In New York, Dean Richmond'S Albany re-
gency would rule the party so as to make
split impossible; but this case is beyond their
skill They failed at Charleston and at Balti-
more and they will fail now The battle is
to be fought out there quite as fiercely as any
where else, and the Breckenridge men, who
fight for control of the organization will in the
end get what they fight for, although it will
not be much.
The coalition that has been talked of in
New York is really too rich to be lost. The
very talk of it is mournfu confession of
weakness, besides, showing how completely
the troubled and hopeless factions are in the
hands Of INSCRIPTIONS soldiers of fortune.
There can be no doubt as to the quality of
those who serve Buchanan and the Brecken-
ridge ticket. No description can tell so
much as the simple statement that a man
consents to be the political creature of james
Buchanan. The most wonderful eloquence
employed diligently for month could not say
more. And yet, these political soldiers of for
tune are notquite matchless for, if there be any
particulars in which the other fierce democra-
cy must confess inferiority it will be admitted
at once that the politicians represented by the
New York Express and Erastus Brooks can
match them in anything And we are not sure
that service under Buchanan is not the fittest
work for those Express politicians that was ever
contrived. AT any rate, we do not think this
estimate OF their quality will be called in ques-
ton by any republican who remembers their
atrOcous treatment of Fremont in 1856.
They constitute one of the parties to the pro-
posed coalition; therefore we shall be very
sorry to see it fail. We hope it will prosper,
for nothin g could so aptly symbolic the char
acter and spirit of the current opposition to
the republican party, or put that opposition, in
New York, in position where it could be so
readily annihilated
Men in earnest 10 vindicate and carry out
great principles, cannot afford to destroy their
party and ruin their cause, by personal
quarrel, nor by any selfish struggle for control
OF political power and patronage. Such quar-
rels and struggles can be made of the first
importance only when there is nothing else
left in a party. The democrats have quarrelled
and wrecked their organization, because the
democratic party had entirely lost its original
significance, and become a mere continuance
for securing control of the power and patron
age of the general government. If that party
really meant democracy, and were in earnest
to carry out that meaning everywhere it
would not be attractive to such politicians as
those ofthe New York Express, nor should we
see all the malignant old hunkers turn to it as
acity of refuge as they crawl from the wreck Of
other party organizations to which they have
belonged No, indeed; for it would have an
other fame and attract men Of another sort.
But it does not mean democracy, nor has it
meant anything of the kind very lately
therefore it became a cage of unclean birds, a
den of ravenous beasts, such as we saw at
Baltimore and Charleston.
We do not think it possible for the opposi-
ton to the republican party to defeat it. Mr..
Lincoln is likely to get decisive majority of
the electoral votes, and the rest will probably
be divided between Breckenridge and Bell, the
former getting the larger part of them. Mr.
Douglas may be Mr. Lncoln's leading antag-
onist in the northern states, without getting an
electoral vote; and we do not at present see
where he can get one unless it be in Missouri,
where his prospects are not by any means
iatterng. Breckenridge is likely to receive
all the electoral votes in the democratic states
and as the Breckenridge and Lane faction
have entire control of the senate, all the
democratic Senators being on their side,
save Mr.. Douglas himself and Mr.. Pugh,
whose term expires next March, it is
not difficult to see who will have control of the
democratic organization that may contrive to
keep itself in existence after the election.
The Breckenridge faction will have it. The
leaders OF this faction appear to believe they
can rally and reorganize the broken party, SO
as to carry the country on their own platform
In 1864. So have we seen other demented
people put on sovereign airs, while they talked
confidently of raising the dead.