counsel that moral Titan, Daniel Webster, that glowing and eloquent and intrepid patriot, Henry Clay, and asserted the dignity of the constitution. IIe invoked, not merely his party adherents, but the American people, as such, to stay up his hands in defence of the Union as the common property, hope, and pride of all. But the patriotism and democracy of Gen. Jackson would have been condemned by the treason-excusing and treason-loving patriots of this day, because he did not invoke a party instead of a people, and he would have been set down by treason-mongers as an exceedingly black republican.

The republican party, to its credit be it said, although it was largely in the ascendant in the loyal States, and had not only a Chief Magistrate of its choice and of its party, but a large majority of the Governors of the several States, and, after secession, a majority in both branches of Congress, and a majority in most of the State Legislatures, early saw the impropriety and the impossibility of defending the Union against such an infamous and formidable conspiracy and rebellion by a political party; and, in this State, in a spirit becoming the occasion, generously proposed that all should unite, irrespective of party, lay aside party platforms, and prosecute the war together, as American citizens, upon a common platform. It did not ask the abandonment of any existing organization, but a union of the whole loyal people to put down secession and rebellion, sustain the government, uph ld the constitution, and preserve the Union. But this proposition was rejected by the opposing organization, misrepresenting the Democratic party, upon the alleged ground of principle.

The Democratic party, in its elements, is the same now it ever was; and when it has relieved itself of the dead weight of rotten leaders, who hang upon its neck in festering regencies and State committees; of treasonable presses which misrepresent it; and the time comes for the exercise of political opinions, it will assert its office and claim its place. These self-constituted heads of the democratic church fear, if there is a Union movement and they are cut off, that Democracy will be lost; upon the same principle that a philosopher of a kindred school feared, if the earth should revolve, the water would all be spilled. Its organization, for the present, is but a cabal of selfish leaders. Its members are in the tented field, defending the capital of the

Union; on the ocean, rescuing our flag from secession piracy; in the workshops, plying their busy trades; on their farms, engaged in the pursuits of agriculture; along the swarming railroads, freighting the productions of the West to the seaboard; and the miserable secession clique who claim to speak for it in this State no more represent it than Brigham Young and his saints represent the Christian church. They have dragged it into a hopeless minority; its organization is demoralized by lobby agents; its masses, disgusted by such conduct, scattered and disbanded; its principles, as promulgated by those who abuse its name, and have worked its temporary overthrow, are and never have been Democratic principles. They put forth in the name of Democracy anything and everything to suit emergencies, from the "Buffalo platform " to rank secession and disunion-sometimes open, sometimes covert, sometimes sugared over with liberal propositions of peace to armed traitors; sometimes boldly denouncing the Executive for his arrest and imprisonment of lurking spies, and refusal to release them; sometimes because he has laid the strong hand of military power upon a treasonable press; sometimes insinuating in aid of the rebellion what they have not the manhood to utter, and at all times censuring and embarrassing the President in the discharge of his duty. They are for the Union, and sympathize with those in arms against it; they are for the war, and discourage enlistment and howl over taxation; they are for the government, and embarrass those charged with its administration; they are against rebellion, and join it in assaults upon Union These political ornaments, so full of the name of Democracy and so empty in its principles, while loud in their denunciation of all who would not act under their party lead instead of with the people as such, changed their "great principles " radically three times in as many weeks, and are not through yet. First, the "State Committee," which has been the evil genius of the Democratic party, declined the proposition of the Republicans for united action during the war, because "great principles " required them to accompany all the demonstrations to put down the rebellion with the "most liberal propositions of peace." In ten days thereafter the same patriots assembled in State convention and voted down this very proposition, and the one who offered it, not knowing of the intermediate change

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of "great principles," went away like the servant who was sent to collect rent for the vineyard-" shamefully handled." In place of this they passed the ninth resolution, with as many heads and horns as the beast of the Apocalypse, calculated to censure and embarrass the Executive for having done his duty in the arrest of spies; in refusing in the midst of treason and rebellion and murder, to release conspirators and enemies and traitors on habeas corpus, that they might ply their hellish mischief again; and for another week the ninth resolution was the "great principles" upon which this bastard organization required all Democrats to stand, on pain of excommunication. But a Tremaine and a Brunck, two of their nominees, having both patriotism and manliness, could neither stand nor run upon. such "great principles," and repudiated them and the nomination together.

The State Committee, however, was to the Regency what the lamp was to Aladd n; when he required aid he rubbed the lamp, and when they require it they rub the Committee; and on this occasion they called together not only the Committee, but with them the candidates, and rubbed both Committee and candidates; and by unanimous consent made up a new declaration of "great principles," which lived to be a week old, and they were given to the world under the certificates and hands of the candidates themselves; and where would they have stood but for the Union movement? Still the platform was loose, shaky, rickety, unsafe, and unsatisfactory; and Tammany Hall (all there was left of the defunct organization) arraigned the whole as a flagrant imposition, and declared its repudiation of the ticket unless its managers should change the fourth time, and come up manfully to the exigencies of the occasion, go for prosecuting the war to an honorable peace and for maintaining the honor of the government and the integrity of the Constitution and the Union. They have as much trouble with their platform as the Common Council of New Haven with a certain city ordinance. It is said that the students of Yale College having been suspected of some nocturnal depredations, the city fathers proclaimed an ordinance making it a penal offence to be in the streets after ten o'clock in the evening without a lantern. Large numbers of the students were found walking in the dark after the hour

designated, and were arrested; but as each man was able to show he had a lantern with him, as required, he was discharged. The ordinance was then so worded as to require a candle to be placed in the lantern. This the students complied with as before, but still walked in darkness, and escaped punishment. It was then further amended, requiring the candle to be lighted. This the students complied with again, but wrapped a cloth around the lantern and escaped again. Finally, the city fathers, upon a further amendment and revision, required each one to have a lantern, with a lighted candle in it, giving light in the streets, &c., and succeeded.

The poor candidates of the regency-some of them gentlemen of great cleverness, and some of whom I do not speak, and all in bad company-are now, after so many changes, somewhat in the condition of the negro boy on the Mississippi steamer. "Come here, my lad,” said a gentleman to a bright little darkey, one day upon deck. “Would you like to have me buy you and go and live with me?" "Yes, I would, massa," was the answer. "And whose boy are you?" inquired the gentleman. "Can't tell dat, massa; Cap'n's boy dis mornin', but he been in cabin playing poker all day, so I don't know who I b'long to by dis time." Since the third change, before the third week had elapsed, we have not learned of a new edition of "great principles," but as the State committee have recently been together, and have doubtless been rubbed again by the regency, we may look for change number four before election. And yet this selfstultified cheat, sympathizing with rebellion and treason; without principles; without the rank and file of a party, except such as have failed to comprehend the nature of the rebellion, and are yet fighting in imagination some political conflict over again; without public confidence or consistency, denounce all as "republicans," who, when our existence is trembling in the balance, prefer a great, generous, and ennobling popular movement to such grovelling and mischievous associations, or to following such perfidious leaders. And as often as they are exposed as charlatans and trimmers, acting in sympathy with traitors, they bawl loudly and lustily that the democratic party is abused! The democratic party, forsooth! The democratic party consists of the honest masses of men, and not of self-constituted committees and self-stultified regencies. I love and revere the dem

ocratic party, but scout and defy and despise its camp-followers, counterfeits, hangers-on, and Swiss incendiaries. If the democratic party is assailed by exposing those who have brought it to defeat and disgrace, then, by the same rule, Jo Smith, when he was characterized as a beast and an impostor, might have exclaimed that Christianity is denounced! Or, when the blear-eyed, painted harlot is called by the name of her vocation, she may cry out that virtuous woman is assailed by obscene epithets! The democratic party has been betrayed, crippled, and crucified by corrupt and vicious leaders; but these will strut their brief hour and perish, and then the poetic conception will be realized that

"Truth, crushed to earth, will rise again."

"Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow."

In such a fearful crisis, the united and harmonious movement of a great people, embracing members of all parties, but acknowledging the supremacy of none, presents one of the grandest moral spectacles of modern times. Without preconcert, it sprung from the masses, in spite of conflicting and even hostile organizations, fully armed for the conflict with rebellion abroad and treachery at home, like Minerva, the goddess of war and wisdom, from the brain of Jupiter. That it should so suddenly have risen to complete perfection was not to have been expected; but, with no platform save the constitution, no rallying cry but the Union, no banner but the Stars and Stripes, no purpose but the overthrow of rebellion, it has already carried terror to traitors abroad, and reduced the swaggering gasconade of traitors at home to secret, tremulous whispers. Before it faction trembles and cowers while it conspires; craven politicians find it too strong for their party harness, and fall back abashed; and Billingsgate, the last desperate resort of detected villainy, pays it, and those who have been active in its advancement, the generous tribute of opening upon it and them her floodgates afresh! But the Union rivulets are gathered in a single stream, whose broad and deep and quiet yet resistless current will bear away all opposing obstacles, and sweep onward to gladden and bless the extended domains of freedom and humanity; to give strength to the weak and hope