The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-07-06

The Wing Party.
An Ohio paper abuses US for saying that the
whig party. as such, is dead. This is useless
Abuse does not reach an s'evil, or refute fact' -
If it be true that ''this great evil, as con-
Temporary calls it. has befallen the country, face
ii; if not dsprove 1t.
What the Tribune asserts, our readers know
The reasons it gives .for its faith" they also un-
derstand. But that paper of The 3Olh reaHirms
its corrections-thus:
We have displeased sundry highly respect
| able Whig journals. while alarming some of the
! contrary part, by proclaiming our belief that
the whig party is hopelessy prostrate and can
not be revived. The; it was badly defeated last
November in 27 OF the 81 States is only an
incident, not the cause of lis de- truclion. Ii
was killed IN Baltimore in June last, by the ut
tempt 10 enforce in its ranks fict tious imro:-
81 de uniformity on the subject of slavery. In
fact. from the day that President Fl more was
induced TO remove from office i,hful and ca
Pable Whig nominees of Gen. Tyler for nom
approval of the fugitive slave law, the over
throw Of the party was all but inevitable. The
Wings will not stand the amount of drill and
dragooning thtt can be safely applied 10 their
anita gonists. and even these were crowded too far
at their Baltimore Convention in IS4s The
whig party was formed without reference to
slavery; it has always welcomed TO its ranks
men holding diverse opinions on this subject
and from The hour when q pro-slavery tene
was seemingly foi>ted into its creed, is dissou.
tion or reconstruction was inevitable.
These facts we we're not first in proclaimipe
The Silver Grays asserted them in defeating
several Whig candidates for Congress in 1850,
and defeating most of the State ticket. For
years it has been obvious and uudenied that they
preferred Irrational" Democrat 10 a higher
law" Wing I his preference was not vi hcur
parallel on the other side. And Gen. Scot,
was defeated last fall by Wigs who hearli ap-
proved the platform" on which he was nom
mated at Bal imore, wi h his own approval oil
il yet who crushed him because they feared
that Seward Wings would not be repelled from
his counsels or excluded from office at his hands
We simply state fact, which existed indie
pendently of and prior TO our statement of it
in affirming the dissolution of the late Whig par
y." ...--.
That is plain enough and strong enough
But the Tribune, not content with its views
brings an old conservative, the North American
Review, TO their support. Its authority Is up
questioned. 1t procaims the old issues dead
bank, and what not. 1t saSs:
i What has happened once may happen again
1t is time for the old appellatons, and the or
parties the sslves, to die out, when contes
between them. in respect to principles ant
measures. has virtually ceased, and the opposi
ton is only kept alive as means of polilica
Intrigue and an avenue for the attainment o.
Office. 1t is a little remarkable that the old
party linef are beginning 10 fade ou, at the sam'
time both in Englnnd and This country; ant
great :nconveniences are experienced in both
from the attempt 10 continue the vitality of tht
old organisms after their natural life has depart
ed. .
In this country, also, il would be difficult Il
point Oul uuy Cuuso vi uisS6HSioH oet"ceu tus
Wings and Democrats, except that one party
f has now got all the Offices, and the other ha
recently forfeited them; and this cause the bod,
Oft the people, who neither hold office nor wisl
Cor it, may be supposed to regard with profount
indifference. There are, Indeed, question
enough which are fercely debated in Congress
and the newspapers: but they are not question
in respect to which Wings are separated from
Democrats.
The present moment seems favorable one
therefore, for calling attention to the fac, 'ha
these party names of Wing and Democrat nov
mean nothing and point to nothing; that they
are only the memorials Of a past conflict; ina
the antagonism which they indicate is witt
| difficulty maintained by the strenuous efforts o.
a few, who alone have an interest in keeping it
alive; and that this facttious hostility, this seem.
ing warfare, is injurious to the best interests
and prejudicial to tho good nome Of the Repub
lie.
Perhaps these authorities may weigh with
our contemporaries; they certainly are dessrv
, ing Of their attention.
Be cheerful-Happiness is older Than misery
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