Morning journal and courier., 1880-12-20
NEW HAVEN, CONN. MONDAY MORNING. DECEMBER % 1880.
5ournd allo Courier.
EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY HARRINGTON & CO,
Monday Morning, Dec. 20, 1880.


 No. 400 State Street, Courier Building. JOHN B. cARRrNaroN.
 EDWARD T. cARRrEeroN. JOHN B. oARR1seroN, JR.
 Monday Morning, Dec. 20, 1880. THE FUTURE OF OUR TWO GREAT
 POLITICAL PARTIES.
 In a very able and interesting article in the January number of the North American Re Politics. Senator Edmunds sketches the po- sition of the two great parties of the country at the present time and gives an opinion con corning their future
 He points out that it is grave and mis- leading mistake to suppose that the present opposition of parties is in any correct sense sectional, although every southern State has voted for the Democratic candidate, and every northern and western State (with three exceptions, produced, it is believed, by the crime of the forged Mercy letter. has voted for the Republican candidate. This division of parties is essentially institutional and not geographical. Every State in which slavery recently existed has voted for. one thing, and every State with the exceptions nameG in which slavery has not Gf ever) ex- isted within more than half century has voted for another thing. No me will deny, says Mir. Edmunds, that the same result would have occurred had the people of Louis jana, with her institutions and history, been established on the shores of Massachusetts bay, and the State of Massachusetts, with the principles and traditions of her people, grown up at the mouth of the great river that waters eighteen degrees of latitude, and bears on it's benefcent stream half the commerce of the continent. If geographical divisions were the cause of this so-called sectionalism, all the attacks made upon it would be war fare upon geography, and might continue forever without effect. The difference is 8 difference of ideas and designs depending up on the history, habits and institutions of the people of the respective States, and not at all upon the particular part of the country they happen to occupy.a
 This being so, 1t is evident to Mir. Ed munds that when the ruling classes of the late slaveholding States come to be imbued with and put in practice the principles of the old free States there will be no longer any broad sectional division in politics. And he gives those ruling classes some good advice as follows It may be hard for the small DOT tion of the people of the south ern States who have been educated and accustomed to govern and to regard labor as servile, to find themselves suddenly out-numbered by mass of political equals who have been hitherto nothing but laborers and chattels, and vho as a whole, are unedu- cated and inexperienced but this is mis- fortune inevitable from the defeat of the re- bellion, and one that with time and justice will grow into blessing It cannot be cured, consistently with the idea of a Repub- hcan government founded on equality of rights, by violent domination, or by the re- pression of the education of the liberated race. The healing elixir will be found in 8 totally opposite course. Other States feel and bear with patience analogous evil in1u- ences arising from the importation into great sea-board cities and the adjoining regions of vast numbers of foreigners who become cit izens and vote without education and without adequate knowledge of the true nature and operation of our institutions; but a genera ton or two assimilate these untoward ele- ments into the life, the orderly freedom, and the restraints which regulate the rest of soci- ety.
 Whatever may be the future of the present Democratic organization, MT. Edmunds thinks it may fairly be expected, with the brave, just, and steady administration of af fairs upon the principles of the Republican party that we have right to anticipate, that II~ 1a-- taken place the minds of many men who have called themselves Democrats have re- ceived impressions and formed conclusions touching present parties and their measures and future politics, that, like writing in sym pathetic ink, will come forth in the warmth of good government to the support of that party which increases the public credit and reduces the public debt, which provides an equable and universal currency of fixed value, which recognizes and fu16ls the duty of so impos- ing taxes and duties as to develop and en- courage the industries of it's own people, which practices wise and rigid economy in all de- partments, and which endeavors to elevate and promote the character and stability of the civil service of the country. He does not think it probable that in the immediate future the formation of great parties will change, nor, until the chief questions that now divide them are settled in practice as well as in theory, does he see any reason why they should. Each, says he in conclu- sion, will pursue it's characteristic methods, and bear or enjoy their logical results, but personal fealty to party that is not founded on an intelligent belief in it's propose meas ures and willingness to share the responsi- bility of it's modes of contest, will grow less and less, and in the same ratio parties will become more pure and more tolerant, and fulfill more nearly their true and valuable ends