THE TIDE AS IT TURNS.
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We find in the Poughkeepsie Journal the following significant address:

 To the Democratic Republican Young Men of

 the County of Duchess.

 The undersigned were appointed at your last regular Convention, members of a Gen. tral Committee for the Democratic Young Men of this county, and have acted in that capacity from the time of their appointment until now. We are still willing to act, in forwarding and promoting all measures, which are calculated to forward and pro- mote Democratic Republican principles, but we are yet to learn that there is potency in name, which can change either the Ethio- pian's skin or the Leopard's spots. We are at a loss to discover how it is possible that those "principles and expedients that were subversive of the very principles of our go- vernment from 1769 down to 1884," should now become the only test of democracy.- From such democracy we wish to be deli vered-a democracy, which in the language of an illustrious Senator, concentrates all power in the hands of one mana democra- cy which subjects the opinions and actions of party followers to his will, and to his will alone-a democracy which makes the great and paramount interests of the country sub- servient to the low and grovelling pursuits of fparty-a democracy which permits no ac- tion on any question, however urgent the ne- cessity may be-, without orders from head quarters-a democracy that appeals to the passions and prejudices of the people, instead of enlightening their judgments, and relying upon their reason and their patriCtism-a democracy which attempts to set up one class of the community against the other. as ittheir interests were not reciprocal and iden- tical-a democracy which denies to every man the right to think and act for himself on those great questions in which the vital inte- rests of the country are so deeply involved "a democracy which attempts, by party drill and party discipline, to subvert the very spirit of the Constitution, to substitute Executive for Legislative power, to subject the will of the Representative to the will of