New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-10

WIN bii. EfTtiobb cbfVnoioBJ' ho hhV"s POa-
fectly well that the Democratic party first became
sectional, and that it Is the Republican party which
is becoming 80 "by the force of circumstances, "
II ii is becoming so at al. 1t Is not the Republican
lamb which has troubled the water, but the Dem
ocratic wolf which makes the charge. The fact
that the shareholders, being in possession Of the
national Government and its vast patronage, have
been able to control Northern men, and even as
late as 1866 few Northern electoral votes, is no
proof that the Democratic party is national. There
are always parasites, and there are always gran
nies, and the party in possession Of power can
generally purchase the one class and frightsn the
other.
Mr.. Everetts proof of Republican sectionalsm
seems to consist in the alleged fact that "the party
does not expect to control single electoral vote
"beyond its sectional limits" This sounds very
wise, but it is in reality very shallow. No party
ever expects to control votes beyond its limits.
The question u.s. where ere its limits 1t looks as
if the Democratic limit might include California
and Oregon on the extreme north, and the Repus-
lcsn limit include Maryland and Missouri in the
central and western south. There is no fear Of
ether party rejecting electoral votes on the ground
that they are beyond its limits Mr.. Everett, when
be carefully considers this subject, will hardly pre-
sumo TO say that a party which does not carry
Northern votes, or one which does not carry South
ern votes, must of necessity be sectional. Why
Mr.. Webster, when he ran for President in 1886,
got no Southern votes. Was he sectional candi-
date before the people1 In 1852 he received no
Southern votes at Baltimore. Was he sectional
candidate before the Convention! Nobody pre-
tends it; least of all, Mr. Everett
10 soy that the Republican party must relinquish
its purposes because the shareholders are angry and
threaten to secede from the Union, is the extreme
of pusilIanimity If those purposes are just wise,
and within the constitutional power Of the Govern
me Mt, resistance 10 them by unconstitutional means,
cannot be undertaken without great risk, and those
men incur heavy responsibility who, like Mr.
CushiDg, directly ncite the Slave States to rebel
hon and secession, or, like Mr.. Everett, encourage
them by making unreasonable complaints of the
course of their opponents. A party, being meior-
ity of tie people, which yields TO real danger and
abandons it's wise and necessary purposes. is weak
aud cowardly; but party which yields to buster
and to the fears which the busterers are able TO
eIgender is simply contemplate.
What we need. says Mr.. Everett, in another part
of his letter, is "a spontaneous burst of patriotic
Feeling from one end of the Union to the other"
This is as impracticable as the cure all prescribed
by some other statesman, which consists in drop
Z" ping the subject" The Spontaneous burst" is
not likely TO come. The Democratic leaders are
too deeply committed to Disunion doctrines at
present. The best we can do for Mr.. Everett is 10
give him spontaneous burst" from the Repub-
lcan party, and he is getting that. Let him read
the Republican speeches in the Senate and House,
The messages of Republican Governors, the remarks
of Pennington Sherman, Hickman, Grow, and
Forney, after the disorganzers we're finally put
down at the capital, and he will learn, perhaps,
who are the patriots and friends of the Union and
Constitution. 1t il, indeed, singular spectacle
this of a man like Mr.. Everett, q trained poll
iciaD, a man who watches public events, or
ought to watch them, incorporating and condemn
ing the men with whom, until very recently. he has
always voted, aud the men who now uphold the
Union, which he PROCESSES to consider the chief of
blessings, and deferrng to, excusing, and patron
iziDg his old enemies, half of whom, if they to
be believed, are disunionists and traitors. curl
Gus spectacle to rec this man encouraging political
meetings got up by the stoolpigeons ofthe Disunion
party for the sole purpose of disraeting the people
and giving another victory in 1860 to the party
which hopes that d" discOrd will reign forever -
How MANY men In the Free States will follow these
blind guides this year,