New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-02-16

/ iIHE DIVISION OF PARTIEs.-A correspondent of
the New York Times undertakes a forecast of the
future of political parties in this country. He as
sares us that at present there are four parties
namely, the Conservative Republicans, under the
lead of Mr.. Seward The Radical Republicans,
under the lead of Sumner and Stevens; the ortho-
dox Democrats, who are rallying under Andrew
johnson; and the Radical Democrats, under the
lead Of Vallandigham and Ben Wood. The writer
goes on to show to his own satisfaction, that these
parties will certainly resolve themselves into two,
of which the Conservative Republicans and the
Conservative Democrats will constitute one, and
the Radicals, meaning those who insist upon con-
hscaton, negro suffrage, and the territorial States
of the South, the other. l'-- ''tN'-
The New York Evening Post, which is uttering
truths very fprciby nova days, dssents from the
conclusions of the prophet Of the Times on the
ground that the question of restoration will soon be
out of the way; that with the restoration of the
Union, sectional parties will disappear, and a
homogeneous society will pervade the republic.
1t draws the dividing line Of parties as follows:
That distinction will be made by the eternal an,
tagonsm which seems to exist between the prin-
ciple of right and maxims of expediency. There
are those who hold that governments are instituted
to promote the general welfare aud there those
who hold that governments are instituted solely to
establish universal Justice; and between the
methods, as well as the aims of these, there is
always difference and conflict. The one uses
its powers for active interference in all the CON
Germs of society," the other would restrict that in-
reference to the simple protection of human liber
ties. Consequently, the one desires to operate
through special legislation patronage. favor, en-
couragement and expenditures, while the other de-
sres to operate through the unrestricted energies
of the people. The one believes in State establish
ments, in endowments aud subsidies, in what are
called internal improvements III protecting tariffs
and discriminating taxes; and the other in imp4r
tal law, equal rights, and the largest liberty to the
individual. The one orders its action by what it
deems expedient or useful for the time, or accord
| ing to its own tallible judgment, and the other
LOOKS alone to the immutabe law Of right, which
| is the same here and everywhere, now and forever
Around the one will naturally rally all who seek to
| grow rich or great by the adyenttious assistance
OF power, While the other must as naturally de-
pend upon the purer instincts, the native disinter
estedness and good sense of the masses of the
people, What The one will be called will depend
upon the shifting issues of the day-but the ether
will invariably cling to its bapnsmal name OF
Democrat. f''
| In palmer terms, there is to be the Democratic
party and an opposition party There is to be the
party OF principle and the party of expediency--
the party of the people and the party of the
monopolists. We commend the paragraph quoted
from the Post to the diigent reading Of every one.
There is more sound, practical and political truth
in it than is often condensed in the same compass
| 4g. -
| Ho FOR Mexico IA number Of persons have
passed through here recently en- route to Cordova.
From Sumter county, Alabama, we notice Col.
I'D. Lee, Drs. Sam. Arlington and Eades,i Mr.
Mccain and others. From Marengo, we saw DR..
Ashe, Mr.. Geo. Skinner and Major Spear They
had been preceded by Messrs. $. 8. Stndwick and
f.sN. stndwick, with several others whom they
expected to overtake in New Orleans About a
i week ago we met s. Z. Catterlin, of Choctaw
county, on his way thither. VIM. l.. Mitchell, also
leans - - = 80 ~ i, -.
SO far, those bound tor Mexico, are on teur of
inspection merely. None that we have mentioned
are removing their families and effects They go
to prospect te prepare the way select Locations if
pleased, and TO make all needfu preparations for a
final moyement.-T Meridian Messenger