Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1859 — A Dissolving' View of the Democracy. [ARTICLE]

A Dissolving' View of the Democracy.

Dr. O. A. Brownson, in,the April number ! of his Quarterly Review, has ail article up- | on Democracy, which, cou-idering he has been one of itschief p.’jphets, is as significant as as it is conclusive. The Do tor wields a ! vigorous pen and is a strong thinker. When the “logic of ei ents” brings such a man ttg: the confessional, it lias meaning in it. Dr. Brownson confesses :o have supported Mr. Buchanan with reluctance, admits that his “worst apprehensions have been reali ized,” and intimates that bis Administration has inaugurated a policy which, if not checked, will one day make the President - an Emperor. But in casting off Buchanan the Review i does not take up Douglas, for it regards his ‘ great principle” with aversion. It declares ; that, “His doctrine of popular sovereigty, as we j understand it, is the most dangerous doctrine ! that can be asserted, and one which every American statesman should set his face l against.” The doctrine advanced by Mr. Lincoln in ; his canvass, that this country must eventually “become all free or all slave—that u j house divided against itself cannot long ; stand,” is thus stated ifi the Review: “It (Cuba) is wanted only to give us [another slave State, ahd to strengthen the institution of slavery, which, after all, it would we.-ken. The South is strong, it she remains as she Is, and does not attempt to ; ex end slaver*' beyond its present limits, or ito acquire new slave territory. Slavery and I the free labor system are decidedly antagonistic- | al, and the expansion of one necessarily resists that of the other. It is not possible that the slave system of labor should triumph in this country, and the South may as well give up the - hope of it at once. There is yet power enough in the Sou’hern States, and loyalty to the Constitution in the North, to protect Slavery where it is: out let the South attempt to ex.ond it bet, ,nd its present constitutional limits, and she will lose what she | has. Secession from the Union, and the formation of a Southern slave republic, even if attempted, will not save slavery, but precipitate its abolition.” Of the future, the Review says: “Whatever party may succeed in 1860, we I trust it will not be called “Democratic,” and any party in the country not called by that name will prove a gain. We do not sympathize with the Republican party, so called, it is not purely Republican in contradistinction from Demo.ratic, has too many Democratic principles and tendencies, and is tinctured with Abolitionism, is even yet a little “wooly headed;” but it has a good name, and if it succeeds to power under that name, will be forced to eliminate its Democratic elements, and develop in a constitutional sense. It is even now assuming a ground less unconstitutional than that which it formerly occupied, and approaching, on the question of Slavery, a p ilicy equ i > \ removed from Abolitionism and Pro-S ery. YVe should not fear its accession to power so much as ice did in 1856. The election, even of Mr. Seward to the Presidency, would do less to try the strength of the Union, than the election of Air. Buchanan has done." We are glad to find so able a Democratic expounder admitting that the Union might still hang together, if a Republican should be elected President in 1660. It is a confession, in view of t!> • probability, which is exceedingly grateful and we put it on record that the prepnr.t! ion-, to “let the Union slide,” may begi 1 . ver. A Natural Whistler. —A little Irish chap in Cincinnati, aged seventeen months, is said neither4o cry or talk, but to whistle instead. Of course, his whistle hasn’t got many turns to it in the way of tune, but is as clear as an adult’s. An exchange suggests that it’s a young locomotive, probably, but wc think this phenomenon might be ascribed to a superabundance of “wind.”