Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-05-05

THL WORLD MOVES on IN A CIRCLE.-were
the history Of the world from the beginning Of
time, within the reach Of all, all would compre-
bend that man moves as it were, in a circle-pe-
riodically performing pretty much the same acts
he performed years, decades or centuries before;
Ike all else in nature. That is to say that the
character of races peoples is as interchangeable az
the character Of the trees Of the forests or plants
of the fields, unless changed. as they are by
the infusion Of new elements into their nature
Unvarying, nature produces unvarying acts,
season after season. That is in ali created things
but man, who being alone endowed with INTEL
lect, varies his acts more or less; though in the
grand cycles Of his history he presents as unvary
ing features Of his nature, the trees or the ami
mails do. The passions and prejudices, the am
billions and the weaknesses that actuate him a
thousand, hundred, or fifty years ago, lead him
to repeat day, his acts of those times
We are fOrcibly led into this train of reflection
by the closeness of resemblance in point of prin
ell pie between the condition of the affairs of the
Democratic party at this time and their condition
In the times when the souls Of men in this country
most sincerely devoted to free institutions were
most sorely tried. We allude to the times when
Aaron Burr, surrounded and abetted by the most
interruptions band of disappointed office seekers.
dis6anded military men and would be plumber
mongers that the country had then known, sought
to defeat the evident will of the Democratic ma
Jority who sustained Jefferson and through the
assistance Of such allies TO seize upon the Presi-
dency by coup de main. There was then as little
pretense that he was the choice of the Democracy
for the Presidency, though sustained by them for
the Vice Presidency, as at this time there is sub
stanta reason to believe that Douglas is the Pres
idential choice of the constituents of the effective
portion of the late Charleston Convention-quite
as little Yet he, (Burr,) by dint of just such as
surance, recklessness and cunning, on the part of
all the disconnected and unprinciple elements
engaged in politics nominally on the Democratic
side then banded together, came quite as near
cheating the Democracy out of the Presidency. as
Douglas came, day or two since, to cheating
them out of the nomination
The Pretenses alleged in favor of the cI,ims
of the two adventures were in principle alike.
equally unfounded in truth and Justice, and
equally revolutionary in their tendency Had
Burr then succeeded, this Government would
long since have come TO an end Had Douglas
succeeded at Charleston his success, wrought
out as 1t would have been by fraud and men,
uaclty, and at the deliberate sacrifice of all
Democratic party principle, would have been
but The signal for the destruction Of the Gov
eminent Thus 1t was not possible that the
Presidential candidacy could have been usurped
In the name Of the Democratic party by such
hagrant violations of truth, justice and party
sentiment, without repelling from candidate so
made the support Of the Democracy of tue South
without driving them off from any future atil-
latiOn with the Democracy of the anti Democratic
party States, If the latter had sanctioned the act
Nor could that have occurred without so widen
Ing the current deplorable sectional breach a.
that the existence Of the Government would have
been greatly endangered thereby; FOR the nation
ality OF the Democratic party is the only remain
ing link binding our North and South together.
outside Of the laws, which, under our system
OF government, depend almost wholly on Ia.
force OF popular opinion for the maintenance of
their authority. That Douglas and those cope
rating for him are aware of these facts is as true
as that they know well the true character and
tendency Of the measures to which they resorted
at Charleston to compass their ends; which meas
ures go to prove the truth Of our declaration tia,
the class Of politicians who sought TO usurp the
direction Of the affairs Of the Democratic party
during the Jefferson Burr times resort to parallel
exPedients in these times to effect similar ends