The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1844-03-13
T HE G ALA KY.
ID '1- s' MIDDLEBURY::
Wednesday March Is, 1874.
MIDDLEBURY:
THE LOCOFOCRACY AND THIRD
PARTYISM.

The LOCOF OChAC1- AND HIND
| PARTYISM.
No one who has kept up even an imper-
feet observation of the Signs of the Times,
could have failed.to observe the fostering
care which the locofocracy takes in the or
ganization of the third party. Their mo-
/ tives for this course are derived from the well
! attesed fact, that the converts to third party
ism are, in four cases out Of five, drawnfrom
; the wing ranks. This last despicable card
I to sustain the control Of locofocoism in the
government Of the union has been played in
Vermont, for the two last elections with great
adroitness and considerable effect. One or
two artful locos in each town, under pretext
of great zeal for abolitionism, lay siege to
wings who are truly sincere and conscientious
upon the same subject, turn their sympathies
exclusively to the wrongs of the down trod-
den slave fill them with holy tenderness for
the cause-urge the nece ssity of distinct
organization for the redress of their grievance
es-promise them support, and straightway
go to the polls and vote for their own party
with scrupulous fidelity. But 10, the strata
gem has succeeded. The wing party has
been dismembered, and the detached frag-
ment is left to jostle against the main body,
in a manner most admirably calculated to Sc
cure the success of party, which is as bitter
against abolitionism as southern Shareholders
can possibly desire. The same traps are be-
ing sprung upon conscientious and confding
wings at the pending election in Connecticut,
as will be seen by the following statement
made in the New Haven Palladium.
But we cannot leave this subject without
calling the attention of wings to some other
facts in relation to third partyism. We
would by no means subject all those who
may be considered the leaders Of third party
ism under the same condemnation. But we
would appeal to the public to decide wheth-
er the most jealous and boisterous among
them, have not hitherto been more or less
tinctured with locofocoism, while the few of
this class who have been wings have not ev-
identity reason to entertain much more brill
liant prospects of political distn ction in this
organization than with remaining with the
party who have hitherto neglected their
claims of speedy preferment Should we
aGGL. to these suggestions the fact that the
wing party in acts and professions are the de-
cided foes to slavery, altho sincerely opposed
to the specific measures which those who
par excellence arc called aboitionists, would
adopt for the eradication ofthe evil,an we can
easily decipher the motives for the exceeding
ly mgenerous and unfair course pursued by
the advocates of ihird-partyism in relation to
the wing party. Nothing is so much fearedb by
their political feuglers as the return of the truly
patriotic portion of their followers to the
wing ranks. Prudence cannot always be
made to slumber among the enlightened peo-
pie of this country, aud the first dawn of re-
turning common sense must demonstrate TO
their understandings the visionary and haz-
ardous character of the schemes of third-psr-
tyism in contrast with the reasonable and
practical plans which the whig party propose
to pursue, 10 ameliorate the evils of the pc
culiGr institution, to the fartherest possible
extent consistent with the preservation of the
constitution and coniederacy Of the states.
Hence the character of the wing party
must be branded with tenfold broader stig
ma than that Of locofocoism. Hence the black
and bilious abuse which the seli-styled liberty
party ponr out upon the wings is diluted into
the mildest terms of reproach when applied
to our opponents. Hence the perfect
riot of the most odious epithets which
the most ingenious malice can invent
in which the Green Mountain Freeman indul-
ges towards the wing party, and its peacable
and cooling manner towards our opponents,
which renders it so doubtful whether this Or
gan of third-partyism is counting Van Buren,
men to sustain third-partyism, or the third
party to support Van Burenism.
ARTS OF THE DEMAGOGUE.
Eversince the /" Liberty Party was form
ed it has been evident that the loco locos
have felt deep interest in its organization,
and regarded it as aiding them very material I
ly in their efforts to control the government
of the States and the Union. The reason is |
obvious; for it is well known to every one |
that when the liberty party draws off one
vote from the loco focos it obtains at least five
from the wings. But though the loco focos
have always rejoiced at the operations of the
liberty party" we have not until the pres
ent year had certain knowledge that they
were directly assisting in its movements and
efforts, and we learn now for the first time
that candidates for office on the loco foco tick
ct are distributing "ltberty pQrtsf' papers.-f