, 1866-08-24
Of New Parties-oH New ESA'ea EpccS.

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Dead elephats, enormous monsters, covered
with hair, have been found among the iceberk1
which fringe the outlets Of the great rivera oI
| Sioeria. skeletons OF the extinct mastodon
nave oeen dug out of the swamps Of New'JSt
seyi Ano 10 the lower end Of the State they have
'heir dealers 10 the weli-seasoned lumber or 4
suoterranean forest at this day. The difSysnf
strata which form the crusts Of our planet mar
each some geological period Ndistinguished from
the rest by different clfsAte, race of animals,
aud orders Of vegetation 10 the& same Olorality
Here we have the records Of the wonderful coS.
Nulslons, changes and revolutions which the
earth has undergone in itssprogressive dsvelop.
uaents OF vegetable and animal life. Next, from
the pyramids Of Egypt to the ancient tempIea
oi ucAtan, We have II series Of lessons In the
relics OF Kingdoms and empires, equally iustrns.
i've as TO the veisstudes and changes 70 which
all created things are subject. Still contracting
tue circle OF our observations, we learn frotd
tue rlse, development and decay OF the political
parties OF every age and every people, that uu.
der different notifications we have been and ara
gong through the same processes of reyolution
and reconstruction.
Thus In the political parties and factions thai
we read Of in the histories Of the ancient Isra.
ehtes, and Of every intervening country thepcs
To the British lslands, we may find something
resembling our original federal and republican,
parties, our old whig, democratic and abolition
parties, and the republican, radical and conser-
VdtIve factions, aud the war and copperbeadl
peace factions Of the democratic party, and the
ultra Massachusetts negro-equaliIy faction Of the
present DAY. Great cOnvulsi0ns in tue natural
or polllcal world bring about great ehanRe1
from the old order Of things. Against these
changes old parties and factions that have full.
hiIed their time may struggle, but they will
SrugsIe IN vain. Change, for insteneei a field
OF tobacco int field of Indian corn, and the
tobacco worm will be superseded by another in.
sat So with the abolition of Southern slave
ry the old pro. slavery and no-slavery partiei
must take new shape, as did the old National
Bank and anti bank parties; with the death Of
Blddle s monster. The present republican par
y, teng admirably adapted for the purpose,
was appointed by the people of the North 10 pot
down great Southern rebellion In doing thi6
work thus party has fulfilled its mission. Il ia
not adapted to meet the new conditions Of a res4
toration OF peace. Nor is the peace party of the
war. New issues call for new ideas, new I lat.
forms, new organizations and new leaders. The
Radical republican leaders caunot be made I'd
believe that the war is over; the old hide-bound
sheut-per-shent democratic leaders still believe
that tue war was failure. They are the Bour.
oons who never learn any thing and never forget
anything; they are the old Euglish JacobiueS,
"ho have but ole idea, the restoration of their
worthless King James, who has been cast out,
never to return.
Macauley says that under William of Orange
England's great and glorious revolution was
completei' = but under the good and amented
Abraham of Illinois we have accomplished a
much greater revolution. We must have, there.
fore, more marked reorganization of parties.
me tenacity of the republican party and its dis
cipline are great, but late is against it. From
Its very excessive strength it is falling to pieces
like The old democratic party of 1852 and The
old whig party of lS4O The Doolittle and Dir.
on call for a conservative national convention
at Philadelphia marks a positive dsintegration
Of the republican party. The manifesto of the
democratic members OF Congress 1.-THE authofi-
tatlve high priests of their church,, in urging .
fusion OF the democrats in this Philadelphia
movement, proclaims the democratic party dis
banded in view of new and broader and
stronger and more elastic national party. The
most powerful parties, like the. most powerful
nations, are made up of apparently the most in.
congruous elements. Look at the British mon
archy and our great American republic, and the
materials which have made them. e.
Why, then, may not this conservative Phila-
dolphin movement result 10 the dominant party
of the future, in absorbing the demo.
cratic party and the best materials of the repub-
liean camp? There appears to be every reason
for the prediction that this thing will come from
the experience of parties gone by and from all
The signs of change and reconstruction to which
we have referred. We must remember, too that
disintegration has set in at both ends Of the res
publican party that while the conservatives
are Sling IF with DOOlittle the ultra negro equal
ity radicals are following the brazen trumpet Of
Wendell Phillips. A candle burning at both
ends is soon consumed. We know how it was
with the little abolition party of 1874. In rob.
bing Henry Clay of the vote of New York il elec.
ted Polk and opened the way for the whole
tpter of events that have resulted FROM that
nave resulted from that election Slavery might
have been hourishing in full feather this day but
those fifteen thousand abolition Whig votes
cast haphaEard for Birney, in New York, in that
election. So now in this Wendell Phillips de.
fection from the radical party of Congress We
may have another ultra abolition faction, deg.
tined to draw off the balance of power aud to
WELD it against the republican party in the sp-
preaching Presidential contest. Why not? II
is the same balance of power which broke up
the great old whig party and the proud and
domineering old democratic party. There 10
time enough yet, and there are floating mAteri-
ais enough from which to build up a new party
competent to carry the next Presidency; aud 10
this end this Philadelphia movement for the
practical restoration of the Union takes hold OF
the right end'ofthe main question.-N. Herald.