New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-07-18
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/ The political revolution now going on in all per
tons of the country, North and South, will pro
duce results which will probably surprise certain
set of politicians OF the antiquarian order who
never learn anything until several years after
everybody else has known all about it. These
politicians, some of whom belong to our own party
are entirely unconscious of the fact that there is
new order of things at the present time altogether
different from what they have been heretofore nc
customed 10; and they are looking forward to the
result Of the present canvass as being entirely in
harmony with the aspect which it presented in the
beginning. There never was greater mistake.
Z There has been no time since 1924 when such a
general disorganzaton and revolution, in political
affairs, existed as is now the case. There has been
no time when men were SO little bound by the
obligations Of party, and SO entirely at liberty to
pursue whatever course their inclinatons pointed
out, without forfeiture of their political reputa-
ton. &
It is admitted by the candid men Of both sec
tons of the Democratic organization that there
were no nominations made at Baltimore in accord
ance with the nsages of the party. Neither Breek-
inridge nor Douglas is a nominee in the sense ia
which that word has always been understood.
They have been merely recommended as proper
persons to be voted for--not nominated by an ar-
thorised and accredited representative body As
well might a town meeting, SO far as authority
goes, designate Democratic candidate, and claim
for him the popular support Douglas was recon-
mended by one wing Of the party, Breckenridge by
the other--and while Democrats may have pref.
erence between the two, it depends not upon the
regularity of the nomination, but only upon politi-
cal or personal considerations
There was no Democratic nomination at Baltimore
simply because there was no Democratic party
Thereon, rather, because there were two Demo-
cratic parties, as different the one from the other
as black is from white. The claim, heretofore set
up, that the Democratic was the only Z National
party was shown to be utterly unfounded. Thus
the party is hepelessly broken to pieces-and it
has involved, in its disruption, the disintegraton
also to very great extent, of the sectional party
of the North, and general revolution which can
result in no other way than by new combinations,
which must lead to the formation of a National
Union party on the one hand, and
sectional Black Republican party on the other-and
these two will occupy the whole field of American
politics.
Mr.. Clay foresaw and predicted the very state of |
things that now exists, and he proclaimed in adj |
vance ON what side he would be found. He saw
that outside issues would soon be swallowed up,
and that the grand issue would be nationality on
,ne side and seetenalism on the other. Three or
our parties may exist for short time, in q Re-
publican Government. but they exist for short
ime only. Eventually all the outside and floating
materials Of disorganized parties come together.
md two great parties are formed to contest with |
ara other the control OF the Government
This is the tendency Of things at the present |
ime, and the sooner the fact is recognized by the
low-coach and old-fogy politicians Of the country I
be better it will be for them. Instead Of hanging
n to the wreck of the old Democratic party. with T
he vain and delusiVe idea that it is any longer d
wing and effective organization, they ought at
nee to see that the party is entirely .played
ut,' and is impotent to arrest the onward march
Northern sectionalism. But in the midst Of the
noke and ruin Of its destruction there appears
lie live vigorous, healthy, national Constitutional
MON organization, attracting to IFS ranks those
onseryative citizens North and South, Of all par
es, who have never before been carried away By |
temperate fanaticism, and who believe ii IS
etter to preserve the Union for the wise and ben
icent ends contemplated by its founders, than to
seit divided into two hostile, wranglng and dis
ordant sections, perpetually involved in civil war,
nd verifying the predictions of the monarchists Of
nrope that the experiment Of popular Govern
rent would sooner or later prove a failure This,
2 repeat is the tendency of things at the present
me; marking grand political revolution, which
i'll teach the politicians that they are no longer
lasters Of the people, and that they must either
3 along with the current, or be left high and dry
pom the shore amid the drift-wood and debris
hich have remained behind.
The few issues which now divide parties at the
outh are SO immateral, in the presence of the
rand issue of nationality and sectionasm, that
0 one is at liberty to adhere to old party organi-
ltions with the hope that there will be brought
bout realization of the old order of things He
o careless reader of our past history who does J
It see that parties have changed, have risen and
lien, have lourished and faded, and given place !
new political combinations many times already, :
en- in the brief space of our national existence.
,other revolution Of the sort Is now in progress.
he Constitutional Union movement offers us an
cape from the evils and dangers of sectional
umph, which is offered by none of the others
th any prospect5of victory Tt remains for the |
nservatiye Democracy of the Union, North and
nth, now that they have no longer national or.
IMITATION, to unite in the effort which promises
be successful TO put down the sectionasts and
store to the nation the blessings of unity and ,
ncord, and of equal rights aud exact Justice to i
e people of all sections Of the confederacy Fl
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