Civilian & telegraph., 1860-05-10

5atlsueu uutll IHey nave Teuuceu thtS
clique into everlasting obscurity. That
they will do this at the next polls, l re-
gard as morally certain. Their motto
is away with these political harpies, that
thus either eat up or polute the sumptu-
Gus feast prepared for faithful democrats
who vote the ticket without looking at
it
In addition to the foregoing apple of
discord growing out of the defeat of the
Canal bill, it is said there is anotl er line
of contention between the liners and the
boilers. The liners, the men who have
always done the voting and tie clecting,
have had the cobwcbs and dust ofdccep-
ton removed from their optics, and now
begin to see quite clearly. that all the
officers here are through the agency of
some secret power, made to move in q
singularly narrow circle, and that each
incumbent, as his officisl term expires,
with all the precision and regularity
imaginable, gracefully moves from one
point of profit and honor to another, so
that all the emoluments and laurcls are
on one side, and all the labor and hard
knocks on the other The boilers who
happen to be "in" are to be kept "in,"
aud the liners who happen to be "out"
are to be incontinently kept "out,' on
the authority of the new exposition CIV
en- to the principle of rotation laid down
in the democratic platform. That prin-
ciple is now construed to mean rotation
out of one Office into another. This con-
venient system of tactics has often been
practiced by the arch leader of the boil
tiers; but the liners now understand it
thoroughly, and as they have shrewd-
perhaps, an ill-naturcd suspicion that
all the Offices to be distributed here for
the next four or six years are already,
with admirable foresight, parceled out,
promised, and labelled to different men,
bers of the boilers, and their sympathi
zers, they have concluded to stand aside
at the coming election, and take lessons
in the philosophy of disappointment,
while the boilers are left to fight their
own battles, plead up patriotism and the
necessity of unity, when in the face of
the enemy, to such consumptive audcn-
ces as they can assemble.
You therefore perceive that the dem
ocratic household here, is not precise
representation of Barnum's happy family
by any means. The quarrel is very
pretty one just as it stands, and it would
be thousand pities for any ofiicious
hand to interfere in what promises to
yield such an abundant crop of democra-
| tic troubles 1t calls to mind, to be sure
only on small scale, the domestic
squabbles of poor Pearce and custom
house Brownson, which startled the
kitchen cabinet out of its proprlcty, Gre
ated so much dismay in old Tammany,
and such frightful bugaboo in all the
democratic wigwams throughout the
| country.
What effects these divisions will exert
on the election to come off next fall, it
is difficult exactly to foretell. But, with
out assuming the gift of prophecy, ven
ture the prediction thatyou will see some
queer Developments and trcnchant blows
given to the democratic ticket by large
portion of the disatfected Tired of re-
spending to the call of men who have
been accustomed to lead the party in or
der to advance their own private inter
ests: and disgustcd with that party dis
ciplinc which will first release the ordi.
nary and j"st penalty of boilers, exclu-
sion from the party, and then receive
the offenders back to promote tlrem to
high position; they are anxious as soon
as the opportunity offers, to rid them
selves of political bondage more irk-
some and oppressive than that of the
Israclites in the reign of Pharoah. One
thing is certain, the back bone of de-
mocracy is broken here, or if 70. quite
broken, its strength is weakened and
shattered, and, what is far more inter-
eptipg, it is every day growing less beau
tiful and smaller by degrees. 1t may
in fact be considered in fair way Of
being entirely annhilatcd under the lc-
gionary march and heavy tread of the
great conservative Opposition Union
party looming up on the horizon. and
forming into line of battle under the
leadership of Judge Bates.
ALLEG ANY,