Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1860-06-21
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The Condition Of the Democracy.

We need not go to misrepresentation, nor tC
the spectacles through which Republicans look,
to learn what the condition of the Democrat
party now is. But take their own organs and
lamentations, and we have picture sufficiently
sad for all purposes. The New York Herald,
an especial organ of the party, has the follow
ing:
The signs of the times indicate that there is
no centripetal force left in the disordered ele-
ments of the old democratic party, and that the
country can expect nothing from it in the pres
ent emergency in our public affairs.
Two fragmentary conventions are soon to
meet-one at Richmond and one at Baltimore
and hopes are still entertained in some quarters
that the voice of reason and Of patriotism will
prevail over the factious counsels of contending
cliques and leaders. How little probability ex-
lists that such a result will ensue may be seen in
tile several efforts that have been made, either
through old local party organizations, or by
getting up Of new ones, to secure the bias of
the conventions in favor of one or the other of
the contestants for supremacy in the party.
The practical result of these efforts has been
to widen the breach and embitter the animosi-
ties between the leaders, and to demonstrate to
the people how little reliance is TO be placed In
any of them. As II natural consequence, the
rank and file of the old democratic party have
been thrown into disorder and confusion and
none of the ambitious leaders can count upon
general and united support. They all recognise
this fact, and it only makes them more bitter
towards each other. Each of the leaders ac-
cuses the other of being the cause of the pres
ent party disintegration, and they are much
further to-day from common ground of union
than they were when the motion to adjourn was
made at Charleston.
These are the indications that every man may
see around him, and from them no logical mind
can deduce anything but further contention be-
tween the two conventions that are soon to
meet.
From the proximate Richmond and Baltimore
conventions nothing may therefore be expected
other than the presentation of two, if not three,
platforms and candidates The old democratic
party organization is sundcred, and they will
meet to make this more apparent, and to set the
seal to the act of separation. The great ma
tional interests, which underie and support all
the others, will be ignored and forgotten in the
general greed for place and spoil. National
sentiment to-day lives only in the hearts Of the
people. The demagogues and spoilS hunters
have driven national statesmen from every posi-
ton of influence in the management Of our cor
rupt party organizations. and their folly is about
to carry us all into the maolstrom Of political
fanaticsm which leeds the abyss of revolution
and civil war. Such is the tendency Of the
present strife among the political managers of
the democratic party organization, and tho
presentation of two candidates from its ranks
can but produce one of the alternatives Either
Lincoln will be elected by the popular vote,
through the division of the great conservative
majority against him in the central and com
mercial States, or the election of President will
go into the the present House of Representa-
tives. What the result there will be no man
can foresee, and, constituted as the House of
is today every one will con-
template with doubt and fear.
When we have such admissions as these, and
expressions of fear from the Democracy them
selves, the Republicans may take courage,