The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1860-03-28
From the New York Express.
A THIRD PARTY.

Men who are partlZan Democrats and Re-
publisans frequently express their surprise
or Indignation that there should be more
than two parties in the country. They don't
understand how it is. that men do not see
just as they see. and act just as they act
and he is thought to be a very foolish or stub
born fellow who will not look upon every
thing as black or white, just as they look
upon il. There is no use wasting words
upon persons holding such opinions, and we
shall not attempt il; but there is another
class. who doubt the expediency Of third
parties, TO whom a word NAV be said with
profit.
Ia the first place. then, there is large
plurality Of intelligent voters in America,
who are not satisfied with either the Demo-
cratic or Republican parties, and who, IT
they would act as unit upon their princ'
Piles and preferences. would soon largely
outnumber either Of them. This class EN-.
braces thousands and tens Of thousands, who
vote with both the larger organizations. be-
cause they suppose they have no where else
to go; or else they stay at home. and leave
local. state and national politics to take care
| OF themselves. There are seventy-flss
thousand of this last class OF voters IN the
State Of New York. and more than eighty
thousand Of the same class in the six New
Hnglend States; and one hundred thousand
| in the three States Of Ohio, Pennsylvania
and New Jersey; and quite half million Of
stay. at. homes among the so-called most re-
spectacle and wealthy citizens Of the country.
Put this number into an active Presidential
canvass, with the nine hundred thousand
who voted for Fillmore and Donelson IN
4 1856. and the three hundred and fifty thou
sand, at least, who preferred FILLMORE 70
! Fremont or Buchanan, but WIN voted for the
one or the other Of the last two upon the
plea that the former had M chance. and here
IS a vote exceeding the entire vote Of Ere.
mont, in 1856, by more than four hundred
thousand Nor is there any exaggeratisn
in this statement.
Again, ten to one, if you meet a leading
Democrat or Republican. not a protested
politician, Office holder or aspirant for place,
he will agree with you that third party be-
tween the extremes of the two other parties,
lis Just what the country needs. party
not for the South alone, nor for the North
alone, but for the country and the whole
county, Constitutional Union party,
founded on the broad principles Of Justice,
. Fraternity and Equity,-is what we need,
! and such q party, with good and irse men
as its leaders in the Councils Of the Nation,
would give such an electrical LIE TO the peo-
pie as would thrill every patriotic heart be-
! tween Nova Scotia and the Pacific.
:. And Why may not such party be success
! fall Why may il not appeal 10 the good
| sense and patriotism Of the people TO add "a
| its numbersi IL there no virtue and NJ
+ good 10 be found outside OF organization,
I which for years past have kept the country
/. in state Of sectional excitement hardly q
!. be exceeded between foreign States in time
! OF war;
II is lawful enough to join bird church
! or third sect-to believe in a creed not all
! Unitarian, or all Episcopal, calyinistic OF
, Universalist-and 10 man j. deemed Zoe
or a fanatic thereby. One, too. when h
finds two parties, or two men. disagrcein:
. widely, can see that there are errors on boil
sides. and point out road Of safety betweer
: the two. The trainers Of the government
Q when they met in national convention Z
. frame q national constitution, found IL abso
! lutely necessary 70 compromise upon n,
b great questions of State and Federal power
! and when the constitution was made. State
J. like New York. and men like Patrick Henr,
; of Virginia. held out yehemently for a tint
= against its ratification. Had there been NJ
D medium between extreme opinions. We shoul'
. have had no Declaration Of Independence
5 no Constitution, no Federal Government, ri
: thirteen State. in one Union, and from whic
! have sprung mnre than three times the orig
D inai number Of States. This government
. indeed, could not last ten years under III
0 extreme pressure Of the extreme parties VIII
= NV seek to administer it. We see III
!. spirit Of an eternal conflict between ihes
!. tao contestants. There is IN neither d
E them any Of the forbearanee aud tone 0
l peace which characterized the founders 2
. Inc government. One side 10 fighting. as
2 thinks, for the very life Of one section .
the sountry,--and The other side are maxim
an aggressive. constant war upon this sec
! ton. /" A higher law than the Constitution
/. is preached 10 civil government =" an IL
II repressible conflict among fraternal States
y war between Capital in one part Of th
o country and labor 10 another. And the
i preeede or follow, as the case may be, 10
i and CRY about The Territories, one side N
N sisting upon special legislation for SLAYER
10 10 the Territories. and the other side e
( special legislation against slavery 10 III
Territories, and each side fighting for a
y abstraction, not for a practical principle, an
Ii putting The country by the ears with the yer
il abundance ~ tseir superiluous breath.
,e ssrely there is a stright and right way BE-
ts tween these extremes, and a. i j. . safe an
10 straight road. is Il TOO much 10 expect that
millios or twoof the American people. Mort
ADD South. East and West, will delight
Ia walk therein
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