The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-07-06
Political.
An Address to the Democratic Party.

Respected friends You now present to
the world the spectacle Of house divided a
ganst itself, and We are assured by the high
est authority that house divided cannot
stand. AS party, you are about to die
Following the law of all voluntary organiza- .
ton of men, especially where society pro-
crosses, as in America, your party has out
lived its usefulness, departed from its
original principles, and become corrupt
by its resort to temporary expedients for the
perpetuation of its power. You are, indeed,
party no longer. You are held together by
common creed YOU do not, and cannot,
follow common leader You are so far at
war among yourselves that half of you would
much prefer to see the enemies of both Your
factions triumph, than have your particular
opponent. The old politician under whose
leadership you achieved your last national
victory, is about to depart from his post Of
responsibility and power, used-up man
politically disgraced- last president of a
used-up party. Better men than you, or he,
must take charge Of the government, or the
government itself will fall.
There is to be a great reaction from all
this corruption and diahlerie, and this reac-
ton is identified with the Republican move
ment. When that party like yours shall be-
come corrupt or useless, it will die as yours
is dying to-day. God forbid that it live long
enough to become rotten like yours If it
die, sooner or later as we suppose it will, lie;
it be surrounded with associations Of gallant
struggles and noble men, Ike the chivalric
old Wing party Let us remember it with
respect
In view of your approaching dissolution,
there are few words of counsel which, as
members of party a hat died one day, we
feel peculiarly qualified to say to you.
|. Admit, at once, what common sense, a.
2 nalogy and common observation teach YOU
l that, as a party, YOU are going to die, and
then go immediately ard make preparations
;. for your funeral. DO not stand up through
i, all this campaign and try to make people be-
, lieve that your party is bound to win. What
i is the use of lying. and trying to convince
yourself anc. others that YOU are not IN ar
l. G,uI2 moHiS .! Die gracefully y-dic good
naturcdy. Make the most of what you can
not help. You know YOU do not like Tic
way your party has been going on for a few
Years past, and that there must be a reform
: You know that the old issues on which tn.
Democratic party was originally founded
: have faded cu., and that the party cannot, il
the nature of things. survive them. Fol
4 that, at least, you are not to blame. So.giv,
u up the old concern, and if there is anything
IT pleasant about it. cherish it in your memory
IT II. When YOU die, die. Don't be tiv,
years about it. Look about You and Sc,
le what spoonies lot of respectable old " his
+ have made of themselves. The poor fellow:
ID did not suppose it was possible for the Whis
party TO die and when the noble old organ
k zaton was entombed, and the mourner
e. went about the streets. or went off immedi
" ately to look up new connections, the
id "could net make it dead Simple minded
H. chiyaric, devoted men, they believed that tn
party had only hidden itself for little sea
~, son, and that ultimately it would come forth
o. conquering and to conquer. Some of then
ar still, with the eye of 4 sublime, unwavern
:; faith, look forward to a golden day in the f,
N future when the Wing party, with its nam
y upon its forehead, will appear, and bclev
II that the whole nation will fall down and VOL
~ ship it. Look at these old fellows, and Sc
no how they are laid up, forgotten, shelved an
done for, and all because they will not b,
- leve their party is dead. No, no. Whe
80 YOU die, die, and be done with it. If you st
among the machines left on the track al
that you think you would like to ride atte
Jump on. Otherwise, wait till the new nj
~ chine comes along. Don't be left behind t
y" accommodate anybody. If you do, you wi
y" be sorry for it as long as you live, and poss
70 bly,, be left at last to getting up Bell and f
." erett parties, or something else as foolish.
e0 ILL., Having recognized the fact that II
.' Democratic party is dead, and that it has 7
more claims upon you, and has in it nothir
more for you, bring to your realization Il
% fact that it was killed by the niger, and Il
"o to understand that from this time forwal
this government is to be niger or anti-ni
~ ger We mean by this nothing more NJ
''u less than the irrepressible conflict bctwee
freedom and slavery. The great interest c
oP slave labor has ruled this country in the "a
for many years. The slave power has bee
"' the dominant power, and because the who
," of the Democratic party, as of old, would n
~ consent to have it continue so, has that DO,
er seeded from the party and broken
our backbone. The party dies because of tt
Law ngger. In the future then, as in the pa
the the niger will rule or his opponents W
ar rule. There can be no halfway, fence stra
ha ding position in this matter. There can
er 10 ignoring of the niger longer. The wo'
md ly head stands above all other heads and W
zen not down.
all ". Having realized the fact that vo