Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-06-13
WHOLE NO. 926.
The pemocratic Party.

There is period in the history Of a par
~, as of feverything else, when it must have
an end. II dies the same as the human
body dies. Preceding its final dissolution
it struggles heroically and fights with the
grim monster manfully. 1t dies by inches,
and clings to life with the teuscity of de-
spair. The death of great party is not
the work Of day, Of a week. Of a month
or of year. 1t loses its vitality so grad
ually. that it is difficult to tell Just when
the disease commenced. or when the breath
stopped. The infection commences at the
extremities.-fa out at the fingers and
toes, and it travels slowly until it reaches
the head, and then dissolution takes
place.
More than two years ago the masses in
the Democratic party began to complain of
the corruptions Of that party. The people
became alarmed at the recklesness Of the
President and the leaders at Washington,
and showed unmistakable signs of dissat-
isfaction. They denounced their head and
spurned the principles sought to be forced
upon them. The infection spread through
the Democratic party with the rapidity
that poison infuses itself through the veins
and arteries Of the natural body, until at
last, final dismemberment took place at
Charleston. The great Democratic party
went down amid the roar of breakers and
the hiss Of the whirlwind. The lightning
carried the news all over the country and
alternate curses and prayers, denuncia.
tons and praises followed.
The Northern faction are now making
Intellectual attempts to rally around the
standard Of revolt erected by the Little
Giant, while the Southern Democrats swear
e.ernal hostility to him, aud sustain the
corrupt policy of the Administration. In
Indiana the throes of the party are equally
painful and ominous Of death. The Dem
ocratic Governor. wallowing in the most
corrupt partisan pool that ever held for
saken sinner. backed by the two Demo.
cratic U. s. Senators, is at war with the
popular sentiment Of their party in this
State. and the people in their primary as
semblies, are denounciug them with a Bit
terness and vehemence unparalleled. At
this very hour Messrs. Bright and Fitch.
the accredited representatives Of the De-
mocracy in the United States Senate from
Indiana, are exerting all their power and
all their influence to ihwart the wish Of the
masses Of the Democratic party here, while
the Democratic Governor takes issue with
his party aud defes their censure. Thus
the war goes gloriously ON in Indiana,
while Douglas leads faction of the once
united party, the President leads another
and shareholders aud slave interests lead
the third. Distracted, disrupted and divi-
ded 10 this party which but few years
ago swept the entire country as with the
bosom Of destruction. Its sgoniss are ex-
cruciating and its final death awaits but
the meeting of the Baltimore Convention.
Its quietus will there be given to it. Its
winding sheets will there be folded closely
around it. Its requiem will there be chan
ted. It's pail. bearers will there be present,
and after the adjournment of that Conven-
tion, its obituary can be written.