New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-16
FROM FISHING TON.
Correspondence Of The N. Y Tribune.


WASHINGTON, May IA, 1860.
have been stopped here on my way 10 Chicago
by the accident of falling into the doctors hands
and am now compelled, like the rest of the world,
to take that city at distance. / find there are
comparatively few members of the House and
only three Senators, gone tbither-PrestOn King
and Mr. Simmons of Rhode Island being delegates,
and Mr. Wilkinson of Minnesota having gone on
bis own account. OF course, this is from no want
of interest in the acts of the squatter soveregs at
Chicago, but from a cOmmendabe modesty on the
part of members, or difidence in their own abil-
ty to settle the questions of preference and propr
ETY. of action there to be considered.
The question of who shall be the candidate liz in
every5Odys mouth, and there is but little unanimity
on the subject. The nomination of any one of half
dozen candidates would excite no surprise.
The opinions here as To what the catcrwauling re-
mains of the Charleston Convention will do at Bal
tmore when they shall reassemble next month"; are
maziIgly dscOrdant. There are those who think
the boiler is not so badly bursted but it can be
mended and the tinkers round with their patches
and riyets. But when the steam is let on again it
is likely the mendng will rip off. Considerate gen.
tlemen among the Pro-Slavery people look grave,
and consider the case desperate. The little male
Mrs. PartingtOns of the concern think 1t only n
TO be swept back. They putter away with the n
dustry of tumbe-bugs repairing creyasse IN the
eyee along the Mississippi, and with about as dis
tirguisEed results.
The Democratic party tcas, but no longer IS. 10
planted itself originally on great idea namely, the
nights of man. and long as it adhered TO that idea,
it was powerful and mighty. BUTT became shorn
Samson the day il apOstaiZed. Its managers can
not see refuse TO see this one great cause OF all
their previous disasters and present ruin. Their
party is dying of an idea and they do not know IT.
Like man wasting away of consumption, it strug
giles to save ITSELF and every day ilatters Itself with
new hOpes which each returning night converts into
fresh disappointments The old rotten and worm
out organization will go under at Baltimore to be
heard of 10 more. Ott of the wreck will arise
Squatter- Soverelgnty party in the North, and an
extreme Slavery party in the South, each acting on
its own hook. These two divisions may keep up an
imaginary show Of some sort of eamy affiiatiOD,
but they must ultimately become just as hostile TO
one another as any other two political organizations
in The country. The leaders may lie and cheat, and
play dOughface much they like, and try to pre-
vent this consummation, but to this complexion it
will come al last
But as TO the Squatter- Sovereignty organization
being able To take the place of the old Democratic
marty in the North, il is gross deusi0n. 1t stands
on the mighty fallacy that enc class Of men may of
right ensaye another, and that whether they shall
enslave them or not, is merely question OF phys-
cal geography. So gross, material, and insulting TO
God and man is this fundamental tenet, that it will
be swept away into oblivion while its shortsighted
authors still i've 1t may take root for Che moment
through mistaken apprehension, but it cannot with
stand the ravages of time and of discussion. The
new party win waste away, and its debris accrete
to Repubhcanism, till that party shall stand unani
NOUS and alone in the Free States, on the peculiar
principles upon which it sprang into being. Ameri-
can Democracy will have its new birth and baptism
on that day. From this day until that, We are
simply undergoing the processes of transition and
restoration of the shattered elements of old parties
TO their natural alinities and normal condition.
JS.P