Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1850-10-24
"Cnholy Alliance

ticket nominated. The Tribune complains |
grievously because c. c. Hazewell, the editor
Of the Boston Times, was placed upon the tick
ct. He says
"No man has said more hard things against
the Free Sellers than has this same Hazewell.
And now they are made to swallow him, even
without greasing. This is cruel and even
worse than it was TO swallow Van Buren,
But after swallowing the latter. we suppose
their outlets have become so elastic they can
swallow most anything"
his is a fine commentary on the sincerity
OF our neighbours recent professions of friend
ship for the party that has such "gullete''.-
and comes with an i'll grace at so early an
hour bath Times. -
Our neighbor of the Times must have
"Optics keen
To what is not TO be seeu."
Just as though there was any Inconsistency
in protesting friendship for Free Soil princi.
Piles, which the Wings always entertained, and
| condemning an "unholy alliance" of Free Soil
ers with radical, pro-slavery Locofocos. Just
cite US to any thing we ever said, approving of
such an alliance, and then, Mr.. Times, you
may cry INCONSISTENCY
We never professed friendship for the course
Free Soilers have taken, either in forming
separate organization, or in allying themselves
with locofocoism, especially when the Wings,
from whom most of them seeded, have always
acted upon, and carried out Free Soil princi-
pies as fully as any party ever acted upon, or
carried out any one doctrine. Still we believe
that most of the Free Soil party, so called, are
honest in their attachment TO Free Soil princi-
pies; but SO far as they have formed alliances
with locos they have been tricked and bam-
boozled into classifying of their principles, by
a set of as selfish and INSCRIPTIONS political
gamblers disappointed locos-as ever existed,
with whom the Times man seems to have a
remarkably strong sympathy just now, if he
does not hold even more intimate relation
Nothing but want of capacity to make dis
tnction, could have led him 10 make the above
i'll founded suggestion But his anxiety and
haste TO scramble over from the Provso demo-
Gratis TO the wildcat, proslavery section of his
own party, now since the election is over, and
his new rival ''down East has come into the
field, seem 10 have completely bewidered him
and destroyed all of his moral as well as intel
lectnal perceptions of political distinctions, if
he ever had any, and makes him exhibit him
self to the world in a very awkward and ride
ulous position. But haste makes waste. Mr..
quite so soon yon would have appeared to a
good deal better advantage You have even
out Heroded Herod. In your confusion and
anxiety TO make amends to the wildcats for
your past political sins, you have left them al
together in the rear. You have outstripped
the whole possee of your proslavery compeers
and gone the whole animal-fugitive slave bill
and all. Poor fellow! We hope you will
not do penance by selling yourself into Slavery.
But II you stop where you are, we fear there
will be but distinction without difference
Tribune.
We publish our neighbours comments in full,
lest the omission of single idea might in some
manner produce an hiatus in the logical train
of thought pervadins his remarks, and thereby
weaken the force of the argument. The per-
sondhties going to affect the capacity of our
humble self we "pass''-those affecting our
political character we feel bound to notice
simply remarking, in this connection, that our |
equanim.y is not in the least disturbed by the |
''ill-humor'' which we have the charity to be-
lieve makes our brother "forgetful"
The classical Introductory of our neighbor |
lacks only one essential, application. If our
to be seem" we beg pardon. We thought we
saw an inclination on your part to "break |
friendship" with your old friends because they |
had deigned to exercise a little independence,
and SO we rebuked you little for alluding so
harshly and disrespectfully to their "gullets."
We did not charge you with Inconsistency in
protesting friendship for free soil principles -
only questioned the sincerity of your profess
sions. We wavered very little, couldn't help
it, when Zachary, with his two hundred siarcs.
SO readily slid down your wing "gulets," but
as we are now assured that "you always enter
tanned friendship for free soil principles we
are bound to believe it. As to citing you to
"any thing you have ever said approving of an
alliance of free sellers with the democracracy''
we shouldn't attempt it-oh no!
But most of the free soil party, our neighbor
thinks, seeded from the ,chigs,-ergo, the
wings have exclusive claims to their assistance.
The deduction may follow from the premises,
but II the premises are correct, what a COM
mentary do they read upon the insincerity of
wing professions! The more the wings de-
clared themselves the friends of the black man,
the more they have been disbelieved and de-
serted, until very respectable party, in num-
bers, have broken away from the shackles and |
thraldom of whiggery. by which they have
been "tricked and bamboozled'' long enough.
The inuendo about our "haste to scramble
over from the Proviso democrats 10 the wild
cat, pro-slavery section of the party is abou;
as senseless as the twaddle about "new rival
&C., sc. We have never considered ourselves |
liable to the charge of being '.Proviso demo-
crat"-further, we challenge our ncighbor to
put his finger upon a paragraph of ours in |
which we advocated or even endorsed the Will |
mot Proviso. We have sympathised with the
sentiment common to the North, against the |
further extension of slavery, but we have al
ways commended that the Wilmot Proviso could |
not be relied upon, for any practical purposes.
But we understand the inuendoes of our neigh
Dor, and consider it time wasted to pursue this
part of the subject further.
As to the insnuation about the fugitive slave
bill. 1t is in perfect keeping with the spirit of
Misrepresentation that runs through the whole
extent OF our neighbours article. Have we, to
use the classical language of our brother,
"gone" the fugitive slave bill: If so, give us
the proof. We have s'gone no further than
to give Judge McLeans comments upon the
bill, which, by the way, we believe our neigh
Dor did not withhold from his readers and 70