New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-25
Npxv WORK DAILY TRIBUNE TUESDAY, DECEMBER 80 1860

attempted to abolish the right Of petition and for
time il was SUCCESSFUL. Shareholders bad only
to speak and they we're obeyed. When they
clamored for war, the gates Of Janus were
oper.ed; and when they commanded peace, treaties
followed as o consequence. But we are not
writing history; and that long, unquestionlng,
oro,,ling and canting subseryiency is yet too ioui
in ibc memories Of men for detail 10 Dc deinun'-
a The agitation Of events began the Work Oh
= went forward, from time
70 time mas, after mass Of voters ae'acneo
tselC-State after State deo,'''u :, a;o-;,;os
banner-legslatiye aud congressional "
became smaller, aud finally altogether disop-
peared; until now, in the election OF Mr.. LIN
coin, We have contamination Of the ruin, ond
n burial from which there can be no resurrec-
ton. The people-if We may be permitted TO
use the very words of the Rev. o. A. Brownson
have grown weary Of this eternal cant and
:" this eternal absense of living principle and
I" manly thought" The natural and instructive
democracy Of tho many has proved more than
match for the simulated and artificial platitudes
Of popular leaders; and the Democratic party, |
with a creed which, if it bad been genuinely |
vital. would have made that party coexistent
with the Republic, viii be known in the places |
which it loved 80 well, no more forever.
We sometimes talk of poetieal justice; but the |
sternest equity is that which is to be found, not
in metrical fables, but in the most rigidly pro-
sale chronicle of public affairs. Estimated by a
merely conventional standard, the services OF the
Democratic party to the South deserved a dlf- |
ferent need, and fairly enough earned the emOu- |
ments of perpetual ace-hoding-sinecures with |
ont number, and salaries without stint. If
our sympathies can be of any balsamic service, |
we hereby extend them to men who have been |
swinded out of their souls who have been |
bought for O price, aud then cheated Of the pur-
chase.mOney; who have lied, fawned ond 6attered.
and then been bilked at last. The priests who |
bought Judas, at least paid him in clean specie. |
The shareholders who bought the fee OF the |
Democratic party hsye not only withheld the |
consideration but in the day OF its distress, they
refuse to take care otherproperty. The lords ofthe
lash sometimes permit an octOgenarian negro, lame,
sick, and half blind to run away, and are cruelty |
disappointed, if, by any chance he is brought back
to them. They have shufled off the Democratic
party, tie squeezed orange, the remainder bis
cult, in the same nonchalant way. The pet OF
Democratic politicians at the North has been the
Federal Union. To preserve it, they have dared
the ridcule of the satnircal, the contempt Of the
honest. tie reproaches Of their own conscien-
ces. The Union which they lave loved and
lied for, dotted upon and debauched themselves
TO sustain-the Union which they have served
with fidelity which good men reserve for their
God-the Union so lovely that its perpetuity
though purchased at the cost Of truth, honor, and
sacred pity, would be purchased cheaply, is
broken already, if Ye may credit its exultant
foes. Who struck tine blow Was it some Bos-
ton AbotioDist! Was il some crazy fanatic?
Alb, no The allies Of the Democratic party are
foremost in tie iconocasm. The valiant men for
whom such prodigious sacrifices have been made,
are the frst to slnite the altar and to polute the
sacred places. Do the Union-loying gentlemen OF
New York, now deep in anxious consultation and
busy with inventions of Cancellation, feel no touch
Of natural Indignation at the childish petulance Of
these frCward commonwealth! Are they not
beginning 10 think these spoiled States o little
troubescnel And should success crown their
udicious struggles to-day what security have they
Tor Tomorrow They are no doubt willing to
surrender at discretion; but where will they find
the discretion to which they must surTeoder