The New England Weekly Review

UNION OF PARTIES.

The primary meetings in the various towns of the State for the union of the Jackson and Anti-Jackson Republicans, are to be held on Monday next. These meetings can be attended by none but Democrats.-So says the decree of the Legislative Caucus.

The project of uniting the Democratic party originated with the Jacksonians. With them it began-with them let it end. Previous to the last Presidential election, they would not allow, that there was a single Democrat among all their opponents-but now they allow it without hesitation. Whence this sudden and unexpected liberality ?-They find themselves a minority, and wish to form a league with one portion of their opponents for the sake of acquiring an ascendency over the other. Their plan is to make fools of one half of our party and slaves of the rest.-Had they constituted a majority of the freemen of the State, they would not to this day, have consented, that a solitary individual among their opponents should bear the name of "Democrat"-but their one absorbing passion is for power, and, to gain this, they will consent to any thing.

There are only two or three of the Anti-Administration Editors, who shew a disposition to unite with the Jackson party in persecuting their federal brethren; and those two or three, like cyphers on the left of whole numbers in Decimal Fractions, diminish the value of any thing to which they are annexed. The Editors of the New Haven Register and Bridgeport Farmer are in favour of the union. They have expressed their determination to unite with the Jackson Democrats, in proscribing those federal patriots with whom they fought side by side and shoulder to shoulder, in the late desperate struggle.-Shame on the mercenary renegadoes. They imagine, that, if they can re-establish the old distinction between Federalists and Democrats they shall recover a portion of their lost influence. They have always got their broth by crying " Federalism" at stated intervals, just as a town-watch gets his by crying " all's well."

Of course, the moment federalists cease to be legitimate objects of persecution, these redoubtable Editors will have nothing to do but to go about, babbling-" our occupation's gone." The idea of supporting themselves by the force of talent, unaided by party prejudice, is too chimerical to be entertained by them for a moment We feel for them--but what can be done?-Must the bitterness of forgotten prejudices be renewed, and the whole community embroiled in civil war, simply that the Editors of the Register and Farmer may "live upon turtle-soup and carry big, round bellies?" Better, that each of the gentlemen should be suspended from his political gallows, with his quill and ink-horn tied to his neck.

Between the Federalists and Democrats of the present day, there are no grounds of controversy. The great question, upon which the community are divided, is that which relates to the Northern and Southern policy. The Jacksonians, almost to a man, are the advocates of the southern policy-and the Anti Jackson Federalists are opposed to it. Why then should we unite with the former to persecute the latter ?-The latter are prepared to go hand in hand with us in every public measure--but the former will not go with us, unless we consent that the interests of New England should be made a blank in the policy of the nation. To us, then, it seems perfectly ridiculous, that a general movement should be made through all the towns of Connecticut to unite the Democratic party.-Why are not such things done in the other States?-They are content, that things should take their own course, and that their best men, whether federalists or democrats, should be appointed to office. Connecticut, at her last election, imitated their example-and, for this, she received the warm congratulations of every sister State in New England. Why, then, should she again use her former degradation? Why should she again clothe herself in the vile rags, which she so lately threw, with loathing and indignation, from her back? The meetings of Monday next will not be attended by a single true-hearted and high-minded Democrat in all Connecticut. A few desperate politicians will assemble from the four winds and pass their resolutions, but they will find that the yeomanry of the State are not dogs to run at the whistling of men like them.