Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-16

In le4O the Wing party went INTO convention
Mt Harrisburg and determined that they would
elect President without any party and without
any principles They nominated candidates but
adopted no platform. Harrison was Wing and
Tyler was an old Democrat The arrangement
seemed fair Many honest and patriotic Demo
Gratis were deceived by the ruse. Harrison and
Tyler elected opposition majority
returned to Congress, and the no party victory
was complete. But how did no party work.
The Democrats were cheated; the Wings were
cheated. the people were cheated, and the no.
party Congress and the no party Administration
overwhelmed with popular execration and con-
tempt.
Again in ls4S the Wings resorted to similar
means to secure success. Gen. Taylor had never
voted in his life. He was partisan, and knew
nothing about party-nothing of the principles
which divided parties He had no friends to re-
ward-no enemies TO punish. The era of good
feeling by his election was to be restored, and the
Government was thereafter to run smooth
ly a maiden's summer dream. Again Demo
Gratis were deceived by specous pretences
Many of the discontinued and disappointed Dem
Ocratic politicians went over to the enemy
Many patriotic Democrats went over with them,
thinking to establish political millennium. No
sooner however, had the new Administration
sumed the reihs of power than party spirit ragged
more fiercely than before in the country s
history. ! nc Ak OF the pOHtlcal eAecuuOneefs
Washington flew up and down with lightning
speed, and those who went into Office pledged
against political prescription, prescribed every
body but their working partisans. The triumph
of party-the Democratic party-in the Con
gressional elections which succeeded, alone Sc
cured the country from the adoption of the most
ruinous partisan measures.
The same year that Taylor was elected por
ton of the Democrats of New \ ork, under what
they believed grievoQs party provocation, aban-
doned the Democratic party and struck hands
with their political enemies. They adopted a
platform at Buffalo, and attempted to make use
of the anti-slavery elements of the North in ac-
cOmplishing their purpose. To this day every
man who countena need that detection bushes to
ackpow ledge his part in it. What seemed com
paratively harmless at the time, aided in finally
plunging the country into civil war,
Such have been the results of an abandonment
of the Democratic party heretofore. Is there any
real Democrat who can fail TO be warned in this
matter by the admonitons of the past? Is there
any real Democrat who does not know that to
abandon his party under any pretence is to
SUR ender the control of the Government TO evil
Influences and To endanger its very existence in
the futur,? To abandon the Democratic party j.
to renounce the constitutional principles upon
which that party is based. 1t is TO yield the helm
of the ship to hands unworthy of trust. The first
step toward compromise with our political enc
mics is a fatal step downward Every Democratic
vote withheld from the Democracy is vote
withheld from the Constitution the Govern ment.
the Union and the laws-Mil,oaukee Neics