The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1863-03-20
From the Boston Journal.
The DIVISION Of the Democracy.

nominal Democratic party now holds two
distinct classes Of men, who arc moro radi-
cally opposed to each other than one OF them
is to the great body Of the Republican party,
and that, under the present tendencies OF
opinion, there must soon DO separation Of
tho two. The late speeches Of Messrs. Brady
DAILY, and John Van Buren, in New York
were thoroughly offensive to the Wood and
Brooks clique, who aspire to control tho
Democratic party in that city and State,
and who are affiliated with the managers in
New Hampshire and Connecticut. Their state
ments Of political tenets were not so unlike
US to forcshadow any rupture-it was rather
the tone, the prevailing sentiment Of the
speakcD-in short, that flavor and SAVIOR OF
genuine loyalty which, in times like these.
makes its presence felt like the sunshine, and
strikes terror and resentment into the hearts
Of those who love darkness rather than light.
The same demonstration of irreconcilable
tendencies is going on throughout the coun.
try. In Philadelphia, for instance, grand
meeting was held few evenings ago, which
had among its speakers three leading Demo-
Gratis. One of them. Hon. Kendrick B.
Wright, says in reference to his course in
Congress:
"The Administration was of the Republi.
can school in politics; was Democratic.
This gave me no reason to sympathize with
traitors. If it had, should have degraded
my name and dishonored my country. |
think it was bad policy to do many things
connected especially with the slave question
but because Of this, no mau can throw It into
my teeth that committed, in word, thought
or deed, an act Of disloyalty. And chal.
lenge the nation to point me to an official act
which leaned toward treason. had, have,
no sympathy with those vile men who, in
their madness, not only level their shaft ut
the Union, but at the heart of every loyal
man in it. My sympathies are all with and
for my country. (Applause.) This is the
doctrine which must ultimately prevail
throughout the North. The influences Of
bad men viii daily grow less, and in few
months you will hardly see the man bold
enough to say that he was ever on tho side
Of the rebellion. 1t may not be safe for hun
to say so, il he have the moral depravity to
think so."
Another, Gov. Andrew johnson OF Ten.
nessec. said:
"l am democrat upon the principles of
the Constitution. know, and you know,
there is too much intelligence here not to know
that the design Of the South is to change the
genius OF the Government. have fought
the Southern cOnspirators with this appre-
hension. They contend for an aristocracy,
and an aristocracy without brains has my
contempt. (Applause.) Island before you an
gence and of that dignity which flows from
natures God. lam for an aristocracy OF
labor, (Applause) and for the amelioration
Of those who perform it. My Democracy l
learned from the school of Thomas Jefferson.
(Applause.) learned it in that school which
punished treason when Burr attempted to-
overthrow the Government. Burr complained
that no was arrested without process. Zap.
plausc.) do not intend to say much of ar.
bitrary arrest. All need to say is. that
there has not been enough Of them. Zap.
plausc.)"
And the third, Hon. Joseph A. Wright
Of Indiana. said:
"Certain parties cay, "Resolped. that Alb
olitionisn and Secessionism are twin heresis. +"
Iaughter.) How dare this be told? Shame!
Shame No my friends; secessionism fur
nishes the plan of uprooting the purest gov.
eminent on the earth. When scccssionsm
is once winked or connived at. there is then
nothing worth living for but to ceaselessly
battle against its pernicious influences. To
unite the States az they have been united.
and then to dissolve the Union at will is like
packing pork, and breaking il up again the
beginning of the year! daughter and up.
plause) When once man comes talking
10 me thus, and coupling such with the word
Democracy, always kick him out Of my
company. (Laughtcr)
Before twelve months are over you can't
point out single Democrat in Philadelphia
who won't put gun into the negroes hand,
and swear he was always in for it, and prove
it, too! daughter and applauso.) | would
put steel toes on mules, and arm rattlesnakes
"a voice-"and coPperheads,') in order to
quell the rebellion"
Now il is impossible that men like these
can long keep political company with Val.
Richardson, the Woods and the
Scymours. No party is big enough to hold
them together. And yet these are represen-
tative men on both sides, johnson and Wright
having large bodies Of admirers and adho-
,cnts as distinct from the admirers and adhe-
'ents Of the Vallandigham stripe as the two
classes Of leaders are from each other. In
many communities, however, there has been
10 visible separation, especially at the polls.
n most States the Democrats have assumed
he position merely Of an opposing party,
nd were therefore called upon rather to in
icate in their platform and speeches, those
'oints Of difference which distinguish them
rom the Republican supporters Of the Ad-
than to define fully their own
Jews. This has allowed the party to act
ogether in apparent harmony.
But the time is rapidly approaching when
very man must take his place, not according
o his estimate Of Others, but FROM his own
impulses and sympathies. Par
, lines, as hitherto existing, will be oblit.
rated. The vallandigham school cannot
emain objectors much longer. They must