The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-07-12

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Reorganization NJ the Democratic Party
On the Plats0rA Of jackson 1n 1854 mai
k1nooin In l96a.
We have received intfmaiohs that general
and ward meetings are about to be called, for
the purpose Of establishing grand national
party, on the ruins OF the sectional cygaaiza-
tiens of the las. few years, which shall have
for It's platform no other principles than those
50 successfully laid down by General jackson,
in 1882, against the qualification beresy Of
John G. Calhoun, and which Abraham Lincoln
has revived, against secession treason, in 1881.
This is grand idea, commanding itself to the
common sense of all good citizens. The re-
cent Message of the President to Congress,
completely ignores past issues, and scars to the
level which the exigsncies Of tie country de-
naud. II is bold, statesmauiike, sna ssssr'oos
and appeals to those higher Conservative in
stincts, from which a people is never Invested,
unless they ere utterly dsmoraliaed, and about
to be delivered over to destruction by imbe-
ciisy or passion. The Old Hickory rim, which
vibrates to every patriotic touch, has been
taFillsd BY 1t to its 7ery centre and, in densaee
OF the miserable partisan manifestations OF
corrupted press, the unterri6ed masses are
about to inaugursts one Of those grand ma
tional huzzas, which are only elcitsd when
public sentiment is stirred 10 its very founda
tons
1t is idle to talk Of by-gons political oliques
and factions. Whore are they? Numbered
with the dead or dying; without vitality;
cropping n the darkness Of obsolete re-
miniseences crawling to the grave, what
there 10 LEFT of them, poverty stricken
naked, and deepissd, with sinone 20 poor
al to do them, reverence Tamnany Hall
is 20 utterly def0nct, that scarcely bub-
bic appears upon the surface whsre il won't
down, dragging with it to psrdision the Pewter
Mug aud the. Coal Hole, and leaving behind az
ssnourners onty an Alderman or two, and some
municipal officials, to mark the spot.it disap-
peared in. Mozart is deserted and empty,
without an appearance of being 'swept and
gsrnishsd," to make room for "ths seven devils
who are to replace the one that has left" The
wret0hed forlorn Regency, at Albany, is 80
mouidy and maggoteaten that Dean Richmond
himself is said to pass by Confidence Cassidy
without recognition, and Palinurus Csgger
walks on the sunny side Of the street, wi&h.hat
drawn closely over his eyebrows, to avoid be-
ing known by his nsighbors. In fact, the old
hBues which have convuised the republic for
over thirty years, such as slavery, the tariff, a
national bank internal improvements, and the
like, are all swept away not avestigc of them
remains, under the pressure of the crisis
through which the country is passing, and as
the narrow minded partisan journals Of the
North have failed to understand this, the people
have been compelled to take matters into their
own hands, and apply remedy in their own
manner. Hence the public meetings which are
about to be held to inaugurate o gres. national
party which will carry everything before 1t at
future elections.
No period in the history Of ths United States,
since the days of the Revolution, can compare
with the present, excepting the outbreak in
South Carolina, Ia 1852 aud 1858, winch General
Jackson crushed out, just as President Lincoln
is grinding TO powder the rebellion Of Jefferson
Davr. 1t may indeed be safely asserted that
the War Of Independence, in the last century.
is the OILY event on the American continent
which has ever squallsd the msmensous ssrug.
gle Of the p-esent year, to preserve The IN
tegrits Of the Union. Fog ttis reason the Jerry
Sneak HsIlooks and Ben. Woods of shs Old dc.
moc,aic press, with nos the smallest appre-
citation Of popular sentiment, or Of tae ext
gencies Of the nation. indulge in those daily
diatribss against the adminissI alton which
might have been expected from suca sources.
Their readers stare with wonder at their trea.
sonAble folliss, which are only oquailed by tie
angular, abolition trcubrAieAs Of the Hon