Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-08-23

position. Both disaffected factions Of the
two great political parties, and especially
the wing malcontents, protested against
the Presidential nominees Of their respec-
tive parties, mainly upon the ground Of a
real or alleged aoant Of radical political
vieus on the part Of the respective candi-
daaes. But strange to tell, both these hi
therto hostile extremes are now conglo-
merated into one, by the aid and assistance
of glutinous admixture Of political aboli-
tionism; and the bali thus formed has been
set in motion upon the pursuit Of its ignus
fatuus chase after tone idea" in the poll
tics of the nation, which, after all, will be
the farther from settlement the more close
ly they pursue it. Thus has this new
party, as at present formed, been calcula-
ted only for the emergencies Of the pre-
sent campaign: thus does it contain with
in itself the seeds Of its own speedy and
inevitable dissolution.
In specializing upon the probable effect
which this movement is calculated to have
upon the two great political parties Of the
day, we would first observe that, although
designed by men themselves caring but
little, one way ~ the other, about the
rs.ui,n issue which it presents, it is calcu-
lated to operate upon portion of the mas
ses whose opinions upon this subject are
generally more the result Of impulse than
Of refection---men who, either from habit
or from their limited capacities, are capa-
Bile of Selling and Of pursuing but one idea
at time. To such the question at issue
lat least as far as the Presidential cam
paign is concerned-presents an aspect far
more dangerous and formidable in its pro-
bable effect upon the wing, than upon the
democratic party. For the masses of that
party-having long been accustomed to
hear abuse heaped upon the democracy for
their alleged trucking to the slave power,
and having natural tendency gradually
and of themselves to stuff off into political
abolitionism--cannot help being affected
more by this political leprosy than the de-
mocratic masses will be. This conclusion
the wing press at the East, though some
what slow in arriving at, have at last at
tanned to; and hence portion of them
since their fears have received new i'm
petus in consequence Of the, to them some
what suspicious nomination of Mr.. Adams,
Ga radical whig,) have set to work
in good earnest to cry down the new
movement. Even in New York-whlch
State the democracy have hitherto had but
little expectation of carrying for Cass and
Butler-seriouss alarms are beginning to
be felt by the wings, in view of the pro-
liabilities that the Free Soil ticket will
either carry the State for Van Buren, and
Adams, or at least divert enough strength
from the wing party to secure the triumph
OF the regular democratic nominees. In
some OF the other eastern states tie case
stands still worse with our opponents.
There, while the democracy are united
and listied with the nomination of Gen.
Cass as a northern man, the wings have
been out in open rebellion at the manner
in which the wing national convention
overruled and trampled upon the "Frec
North" Thus. for instance, in Massa-
chusetts and Ohio the new movement de-
stroys the last iorlorn hope of carrying
those states for a STAKEHOLDER, against a
n-slaveholder. In the West, i'm view
OF the additional local advantage of our
candidates, the g Free Soil" ticket, if run
at all, will produce twice the mischief to
our opponents that it possibly can to the
democracy. So that, were It not for fear
OF justly subJecting ourselves to charge
OF dishonest manouvering, we might be
led to the remark, that personally we
should be favorable" to the circulation off
the Free Soil'' ticket throughout the
West, and particularly in Iowa