Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-09-17
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Party OrRanization-A Remarkable
Article from astUniOn''.Repub U lean
Paper.
The following remarkable and sIguiHoan,
article is copied from the New York World oil
the lO.h September:
MEETING OF THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION
Ills to be hoped that the political convention
at ALBANY to-day may rise above narrow party
Views. TIE gravity of the crisis requires that
every organised political body which has con.
siderable constituency to back 1t. should use the
occaeons which draw public attention 70 itH
proceedings to give o wise direction to public
sentiment. Auy soion which looks to the pro.
motion of mere party ends nould fall infinitely
below The demands of q oopjuucture iraus6t
With the EXTREMIST p, rll not oDly TO the Uulor
but to the very existence of the national gov.
ernment' An imbecile administration has Civ.
en- indisputable proofs of It's incspaclty to cou.
duct great war. Even its own frIends are
constrained to confess its impotence, and are
meditsting its displacement bY extra cone itu.
tionel and revolutionary methods, tending To
hopeless divisions In the North and general
anarchy. AZ such time every citizen, much
more every political organ zttion with large
constituency, Is bound BY every consideration Of
patriotic duty to make the safety, welfare, and
hoIor OF the country paramount to every lesser
motive,
The demonstrated inoaRacity of the admin.
istraton now in power blunts the edge of all
the Arguments heretofore used against party
action pending the war. When, QUE year age,
the disposition Vas so general 90 give inis ad-
ministration the unanimous support Of the 10y.
al States, ,t was on the assumption that, with
suoh support, IL would conduct the war TO q
successful, speedy, honorable, and triumphsut
iseue. All the world knoas how disastrously
this hope has been disappointed Supplied with
all the men Is asked tor aud ell the money II
needed, unemoarrassed by even the shadow Of
party opposition in Congress Or the country,
there has never been on administration Ia this
or any ciher free country which welded re-
sources so great, possessed power 30 un United,
or proved 30 unequal to q great exigeDcy. So
notorious Is its inoompetepoy that its own
friends are demanding OF Mr.. Lincoln change
OF his Cabinet under the pressure of an invA
sion which renders It doubtful whether he will
NOS, within the next two weeks, be himself O
captive In the hands of the rebels. A war
committee OF the commercial metropolis Lro.
pose raisng large army in opposition to the
President, and putting IL under the command oil
popular leader, the most prominent trait oil
WhOss character 10 characterization to conssltut
ed authority. The Governors Of several State'
belonging 10 the party which elected the Presi
dent, hold In New England city . couo ave
said 70 be In co0cert with the NeW York wal
committeei whose procet tdinRs, kept vailed from
the public, are well understood 10 have been
dictated BY spirit Of opposition, with view
TO dspose che present Cabinet. Ia this state ol
things, with toe Government In imminent dan.
ger either oil d. sIuction by the rtbels or cub
version by irregular and revolutionary action al
the NORTH, only capting imbeoility oan dep Q
cate the formation of an organised, efiUept
and patriotic opposition party in the loyal States
Such an opposition party 10 the great necessity
OF the Iimes. IL Ia mainly owing 60 its non.ex'
istence thas We are now on the brink of QUO,
ter revolution and anarchy. The people have
conhdiDgly surrendered to this administration
such an excess Of power that 1t has assumed
to1ard them the bearing and enforced upon
them the arbitrary edlcts Of a despotism, and
large bodies Of then are beginning to me itate
its overthrow by the same irregular aud revolu.
stonary methods by which dsspotsms are cub.
| Versed. We protest In the name OF free gov.
ernment and constitutional liberty, sgainst all
such reasonable proceedIbgd, againss all such
desperate and aparchlcsl resOrts Under free
Constitution weak administration can be de.
posed obly by powerful opposition party
epeskiDg through the bsllot.box and controlling
| the elections. r,
Witnous the safety.valveG of free press,
unuammeled discussion, and party opposition,
tne pent-up political passions generated by ads
minisraive imbecility and acts Of arbitrary
M ~ ma lhaRf ia rit1lo n1 al.
The conditIon OF the country 10 now sucn ths,
these safety-vaIves must be reopsped, or there
10 danger that our elsborately -constr ucted and
nicely .balspced system Of governments will lie
-oout Us in scattered and dIsolnted fragments.
But les the public voice be pronounced emphat-
loally against the present Standardization in the
| approaching tall elections, ard q change oi
measures, either with VI without o change VI
men, ie inevitable. The Only authentic exp
sion OF the public will, under Tree govern.
ment, 10 through the ballotbox. Such party
opposition Is the regular constitutional method
under our government, OF deposing incom petrnt
rulers. We Seem TO be cl0se upon period
when the country will choose between changing
the admins tratlon by party action through tne
elections, or Dy fsiul ana irresponsible action
inspired Dy dangerous revolutionary passions
II the opposition party prevails In the State
eleotlons this tall, o change of Csbine, will fol
low OF course, but 1t is absurd to suppose thai
Mr.. Lincoln will reconstruct his administration
If powerful msjorities in all the loyal States sc,
The seal OF public appreciation on his past course
II an opposition Congress 10 elected, It's srro
CANT bullying Of the Executive, which has beer
the source ot nine.Sanshs Of Oar didssters, will
cease. But II most OF the presenS members are
reelected, their Endorsement by the people will
make them mere arrogant domiueeripg spd
absuId than ever. M
The necessity. then, for an earnest, vigorous,
patriotic, and powerful opposition party, is toe
manifest to be reasonably Questioned. THAI
the Democratic Convention ~ Albany will COZ
tribute 70 the Inauguration of such party il
their action 20 day would DO Q bs1asdous ore,
dicsion. The recent history of that party
affords slight guarantee OF that elevation above
.uere party views and ends, and of that liberia
epirit Of wise tolerance toward other citizeps-
friends Of constitutional liberty, who love che
Union and favor vigorous prosecution of the
~ar--Whloh could make it the nucleus of q
successful conservative opposition. But what
ever doubts there may be on this point, the
necessity OF an Efficient opposition party is un.
| questionable, and nothing contribules more e
such efficiency than thorough organic iLioE
whose rAmiacatlous already extend into every
county and township of the State. ''
Frequent elections and ftes party action ar,
the very essence of Republican Government
they are LIE vital cir and daily bread. Veal
and Incompetent rulers can be displaced only b,
party opposition, or revolutionary violence. Al
the institution OF marriage Ia the world's safe
guard Bgaipet brutal license Of the sexual pas
sionsi as the institution of property pro,ecte,
By the laws is the best restraint on the acouisi
tive instinct; ss pure religion 10 the only anti