Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1853-07-09
THE COMING CAMPAIGN.

There is no dodging the fact, that the COM
ing campaign is one of vital Importance to the
Wing party in this State tits the crisis which
is to determine the fate of the ancient " hg
organization; which is to decide that oft re-
peated question contemptuously put by DEM
ocratic prints, els there Wing party" 1t
has frequently been argued by the Locofoco
knowing ones, that SCOTS defeat was the an.
Inhalation of our party. II is true that that
defeat was signal and complete; that we can
didly acknowledge; but do our Democratic
friends make this foundation for an argu-
ment, that the Wbig party is dead ? If they
do, their conclusions, like their premises, are
false for it never can become a data, that
the defeat of q political party, however signal,
in this Republic, augurs its overthrow. To
prove this, it is only necessary to cite them
TO the defeat which the Locofoco party sus-
taiued in lS40. And now behold them in
'62, not only able to cope with their adver-
saries, but to discom6t them entirely. There
is much greater danger of the dissolution of
a party in times of prosperity than in times
of adversely. In prosperity, conflicting inter-
ests, sectional prejudice, and the chicane of
designing demagogues painting for official
spoils, are much more likely to work disu-
nion, or disorganization Of a party. than when
in times Of adversely, all sections are united
againsta common foe, and striving for one
object only, to wit: The ascendency of their
own party and their own doctrine. To say
that party defeated is party dead, is to
hang all hopes Of success upon single trial
of strength, and to say, that physical body
overcome With exhaustion is never to awaken
to energy. life, or activity again.
Were the Wing party contending for con-
tention alone, were there no great principles
upon which they firmly rely for the prosper.
ity and perpetuation Of the institutions Of
their country. and which they are resolved to
sustain at all hazards. it is possible that sin
gle defeat might annihilate them that as a
party they might be swallowed up in the vor-
tex of selfish interest. But when we know
that the cardinal doctrines of the Whig par
ty can never be lost or abandoned. while our
institutions remain as they are, we are foroi'
bly, struck with the conviction, that the party
like the principles which they advocate, can
not die. It is true that the name may
change but what Of that The man who
was Wing in 1910. will be Wing at heart
in SO. Notwithstanding the defeat Of '52.
1t has been urged by some who have here
tofors acted with the Wing party. that it il
better not to attempt an organization under
the present circumstances, but lei the oppo
sition take their own course. We have Il
say Of such persons. that We can only thinl
of them, that they acted with the party from
mercenary motives. and not from desire t.
benefit their country. But supposing then
to act honestly and sincerely, we would ther
ask this question: What are we to gain BY
remaining SILENT and allowing our partizan'
to become partially identified with the Loco
foco party? Every discerning person will SET
at once. that we are ultimately to be the 10.
sers by SO doing. We are then to have 81
organiEstion--a Wing organization--not only
in the State, but in the county. We have q
ticket composed of energetic young men u
support for the various Stale ofices--a tick
ket too. of which we may well be proud
Let US then come up to its support with alac
rity and cheefulness. and let our move
ments be unanimous, decisive and energetic
and we shall soon reap the fruits Of a victory
which "is not to the strong alone" but ~
the vigilani the active, the brave"