New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-05

M syt;ss ana combined 20 felci.ously the most
rgDusf Of national sympathies with the most m
sfsrste and repusve Of conservative interests has
ION the South 20 deJterOusly by stimulating lts mad
st ambition and yet has held the North teasciousy
and 20 long, by awakening its widest and most de-
moralizing fears. What is its condition 1t is dlsttn-
gnshed 10 fortune from its extingushed rivals only by
lie circumstance That both portions Of it's crew, dVi'
ed "A the hulk breaks into not unequal parts,
tan sufficient energy in their despair TO seizs on the
drifting wrecks of other parties, and by cunning
though hopeIess caIpentery, 70 frame wretched ana
Tieke;v rats on which 10 sustain themselves for ons
dark night more on tne temges.nous SEA % o ara
6rCapyed not specially TO establish justice and main
IAN freedom and equality among an honest, jealous,
and hberty-lovipg people, but TO aeaieve some mate
RAJ publc advantage OF temporary importance or 10
.nra he advancement of chief to whose deere
~ az II the Government an elective despotism
instead of republic the distribution OF ITS patronage
snS tbe direction of its affairs should be implicitly con
f3ed They did indeed out Of respect or fear OF gen.
srous reforms often affect ~ express elevated prnci-
ples and generous sentiments IN their carefully elbo-
rated creeds but these creeds nevertheless even When
mot ambieuously expressed, were from time TO time re-
Wis and qualified and modified go that al last the in
terpreters who alone had them by heart, and were
able 10 repeat them were found pervertlng the Con-
stuton in It's most unequvoca parts, and most paPa-
bic meaning dispsraging and rejecting the Declaration
of Independence and stutfylng the founders OF the
Republic The parties thus constituted, dependent not
on any national even any natural sentlmen but on
mere discipline for their cohesion, and coming at last
through constant decentralization to assume that capital
and not labor property and not liberty is the great IN
terest Of every people, and that religion conyersant
only with the relations of to an unseen aud future
world must be abiured in their conduct toward each
other on earth have finally discarded Justice and hui
manty from their systems broken mp nearly all the
existing combinations for spiritual ends ana atenPeu
70 conduct affairs of government on principles equaly
m violation Of the Constitution and OF the eSer1ai
laws of Gods Providence for the regulation OF tne
universe. l., o.;o,
are nv 10 rnssns newly conceived of my part In tuat
high and intensely exciting debate IN congress IN the
year $780, which, overriding inc Aomln.sua.lon VI
Gen TAYLOR brought the then two dominating parues
INTO q comprorse at the time solemnly pronounced
final irrevocable and eternal, but which was never
theless scattered to the WINDS OF heaven only lCur
wears aferward the great statesman OF Kentucky de-
nounced party spirit as he assumed 1t TO be raging
throughout the country as pregnant with the Imminent
and intoerable disasters OF civil war and nar0na ds'
eoution ventured then 70 reply that, IN my humble
INDICTMENT il was not conflict Of parties that we then
were seeing and hearing bnt II was on the contrary
the agony of distracted parties CONFUSION resulting
from the too foundations of both the great par
ties an of all the parties of the APPROXIMATIONS that
had been laid in compromises of natural justice and hu
man Iigbts--that a new and great quesnOn-a moral
question transcending the too narrow creeds OF exist
ing parties had arisen-tha the public conscience was
expanding with IT, and the green wEhes OF party COM
binstions were giving way and breaking under !he
pressurethst 1t was not the Union that was dscsylg
and diving as was supposed, of the fever OF party
spirit but that the two great parties were smlten with
paralysis fatal indeed 10 them, unless they shoud con-
sent 70 be Immediately renewed and reorgauzed, Dor
rowing needful elements of health and vigor from
cordial embrace with the humane spirit of the age.
But feow.ctzens, 10 exempt our statesmen by
casting blame our political parties does not reach
but only approximate the real of responslb y
All of these parties have been composed OF citizens
not few but many citizens, in the aggregate, all the
citizens of the Republic. They were not ignorant will
full dishonest citizens but sincere, faithful and USE
full members of the State The parties of our country
what are they at any time but ourselves the people
of our country Thus the faults Of past Aduins-
tra6on and Of course the responsibility for existing
evils are brought directly home to yourselves and my
self-tO the whole people. This IL no hard saying.
The wisest, ustest, and most vrtuous Of men occa'
sonally errs and has need daily TO mpore the Divine
Goodness that he be not led further into temptation;
and Just the wises iustes and most vrtuous of ma
lions often uncOnscOusy lose and depart from their
ancient approved and safer ways ls there any sccle-
ty Of Christians that has had occasion to
reform it's practice Tetrace It's too careless steps and
discard hereses that have corrupted its accepted faith
What was the English revolution of l64S bat return
from the dark and dangerous rood of absolutsm
that the French revolution, but mighty convulsion,
that while it carried brave, enlightened, and liberty
loving nation backward ON their progress of three
hundred years. owed all its horrors to the delay which
had 30 long postponed the needed reaction!
A national departure always happens when great
emergency OCCURS unobserved aud unfelt, bringing
the necessity for the attainment Of some new and i'm
pOgtant object which can only be secured through the
inspiration of new but great and generous nation
al sentiment.
when our departure from the right and safe way
occurred. Certainly it was not in the Revolutionary
age. The nation then experienced and felt stern ne
cessity perceived and resolutely aimed at ranseen-
IDENTIFY sublime object, and accepted cheerfully the
awakening influences of intensel ymovlng and gen.
erous principle. The necessity deiverance from
British oppTession the object Independence the prln-
ciple the inaienable rights of man. The Revolution
ySas success because the country had in Adams aud
Jefferson and Washington and their associates, the
leaders and in the Wigs the party needful for this
crisis, and these sustained by the people
Our departure not at the uncture of the estab-
ishment of the Constitution. The country then had
and owned new and overpOwering necessity, per-
ceved and demanded new object, and adopted a new
and most animating principle. Inc necessity, the
escape from anarchy; the object Federal Union; the
principle fraternity of the American people. The
Copsttution with the Ordinance of 49, practically
part of it, not failure, because Hamilton, Jay,
and Madison competent, and the Federal party
was constant, and the people gave 1t conndng and
generous support
place Then were disclosed new public necessity,
new object, and new principle. separation and re-
moval Of arisocratic checks end interests from the
mechanism Of republican inetutiOns. The needed
reform did not fall because Jefferson and George Chm
ton with their associates, braved all resistance, the
Republican party defended and the people sustained
them.
Again, the departure did not occur in 1912. Then
was discovered further necessity, bringing into view
further object and introducing yet another new and
noble prnepla of action The necessity vindicatiOn
of national rights; the object freedom of intercourse
with mankind the principle, the defense of our homes
and our honor. The of 1912 a success, be-
cause Clay, Calhoun, and Tompkins, did not Shrek
from the trial. the Republican party approved, and the
people sustained them.
In 1870, however, the nation had unconsciously
reached and entered new stage in It's successful ca
Teer, namely, that Of expansion. BY purchases from
France and Spain it had extended its borders from
the St. Mays southwark around the peninsula Of
Florida and from the Mississippi TO the Rocky Noun