Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-07-30
Origin and Use of q Third Party.

NOs4ANSNt
will comprehend the motives which enter into the
strife; which divisions can be as well expressed
BY the terms conscience" and " cotton" as any
thing else. And in this present undeveloped
superficial age, when men seek and know no
higher interest than is involved in the attainment
OF the most feeting, evanescent, and perishing
objects, it cannot be denied that the cotton in
terest is decidedly in the ascendant. To the use
of this term cotton" however, we attach some
thing more than its literal significance We
mean to include IN it that large class Of men
who make the perishable objects Of earth their
highest object of action; and are consequently
instead of being governed by any fixed principle,
controlled by the infinite variety of conflict
ing circumstances which are continually arising
out of the world Of trade 81 commerce. To-day
this class Of men will vociferate violently in ia
vor Of freedom ; tomorrow they see their inter-
est in another channel, and they will straightway
still more violently vociferate the other way; and
nominate who you please and what you please
for President. just show them that wealth, honor,
place, lay in that direction, and they will swa-
low, if necessary, every thing they ever said
and find excuses plenty as black berries for 60
ing in for the nominee. This, we are sorry TO
! say ,allowing however for some redeeming shades
is the positive character of the two great parties
of the country, and under the circumstances, a
third party is necessary, and consequently inc
yitabe
Third parties do not always exist, nor are they
always necessary, for lie reason that chief par
ty may, and sometimes does, find its interest in
the channel of its duties, and consequently gives
no reason for secession from its ranks. World
ly interest and positive duty are not necessarily
incompatible with each other both may be pur-
sued together and when they are conscience and
cotton harmonize and there is no third party.
But III the ever changing phase of worldly int
rest, It frequently runs counter to duty, and con-
science men are then. of necessity, repealed the
! party and compelled to make new party for and
/ OF themselves Democracyis certainly opposed
to slavery, and the conscience Of every man in
dicates the duty Of democracy to be 10 destroy
slavery, From the very moment then that the
democratic party began to play false to its duty
on this question, conscientious men began to be
repealed from it, and as the departure from duty
became wider and clearer, so did the third party
! gather numbers and strength, until matters have
attained the position they now hold. We make
no account Of the free soil furry OF '48. Num-
bers who then attached themselves to the Free
Soil party were impelled by 10 conscientious mo-
tives, and they returned to their affiuiies first
convenient opportunity Every year has shown
steady increase of the third party, and this year
we apprehcnd, will show it to have attained q
permanent strength and vigor that will lift it very
far above contempt. 50 much for the origin OF
d third party; word as to its use.
The practical use of a third party is simply tc
compel an observance Of duty on the part of the
chief party to make it find its interest in its du
ty. In this matter we make no special account
Of the wing party. In fact we can hardly cal
that class of men who are properly wings, par
ty. 1t is simply Heterogeneous aggregation OF
conservative elements, without end, aim, obiec,
or any common bond of union; no principle eX,
cept to oppose what the other proposes; success
| full only through the blunders of its opponents
and powerless in itself for good or evil Three
out OF four of those who compose the third par
ty come from the democratic party,and the fourth
was conservative only by accident. The Demo
cratic party is the executive party of the country
and through it will the country be either saved
or ruined. The mission then of the third party
is to compel this party to its duty, and this will
be done simply by securing its defeat as long and
as often as it presents itself in wrong attitude.
Destiny herself has beautifully ordered this mat
ter that Freedom may not be entirely crushed.
She says TO this great party, thus far but no far
Their can you go in wrong doing. The moment
the wrong is entered upon that moment common
ces secession, and when they would strike the
fatal blow at liberty, 10, for want of sufficient
numbers, they find themselves powerlcSs. One
who knows, says:
"Sweet are the OF adversely;
Which, like the toad ugly and veuemous,
Yet wears precious jewel in its head"
Through the Christening influences Of adversitv
Is this great party to learn lis duty and be brought
back TO the path rccttudc, and fate has decreed
third party to hold the chalice to its lips. When
this party finds that thrift will no longer follow
fawning-that honor and place and emoumcnt
will no longer attend on wrong doing, cotton will
become reconciled to conscience and interest will
be sought in the path of dnty, for the party, we
are quite sure, would as willingly do right as
wrong, if it could see the same pecuniary inter
est in the former as the latter
But, in this connection, our friends will un-
derstand that it is not simply the defeat of this
great party that is to accomplish the result sta
ted, but the mode and manner of the defeat is of
equal importance. To have it beaten bv the
wings alone, would amount to nothing for it