The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-06-15
From the Forest City
Only two Ex-A flig Dapers

From. the Forest City.
Only two Ex-S hig papers
This is the continual sneer oflhe Silver Grey
press. "Only two whig papers in faver of re-
organ zalion of the wing party. Now the fact
is notorious. that majority Of the press which
gave vitality and life to the canvass last fall
have either boldly declared that the whig
party was .sun6one" or by their silence give as
sent 10 the fact. The whig press of Cincinnati
embrasng the Gazette, Atlas and Times. have
all declared The whig party dissolved, its issues
dead, and It's power gone. We have given lib
eral extracts from the Atlas, and to-day copy
the following from the Times and Gazette of re-
cent date First from the Times:
IL Is very evident. that the whig party has
long been on the decline, for we find whig
s,aes fating off in every quarter, until three
fou ths of them have democratic Governors.-
Kentucky. always wbig. has democratic Gov
ernor, and Ohio. which once gave $4,000 ma
jority fof Corwin and others, is now all the olh-
er way.
The wings have no Ieaoer, no embodiment,
no incarnaian There is no code of homogene-
Gus poll ical principles ex,an,, around which the
conservative mind Of the mutton cau be drawn.
Men are now all equals. aad the current OF
events is SO rapidly throwing up questions Of
ma gnitude without form, anj void as yet Of
practical bearing, that men wall for farther de-
velopment. The democratic party, relieved of
outside pressure, is obliged 10 act as lis own con-
servatve. and thus, necessarily divides itself in
| to two faciious. Custom, old associations, hab-
i,s and many local causes, operate 10 keep up
The old political distinctions, aud they are used
to some extent ty men who have nothing else
TO use, t.. forward and recommend their own pc
cutler objects.
Men, long accustomed to WELD political pow
er give it up with as much reluctance as they
do their lives and fortunes, and hey stick close.
iy,,o their old political bunker associations, un-
Ill they beaten Otter, that 1t al last is clear
even to their stupidity that they grasp nothing
but barren sceptre. Then il is, years after
their party died, they begir, as now to argue
the question. Is the whig party nl.ye?-aDd
the amount of twaddle penned under the name
ofpoli ical philosophy,is prodigious. Thisb!ind-
ness is only equaled by want Of appreciation
Of the new order, in course of establishment
from new ideas, new combinations and new OBJ
jects.
But, unless man, or question. now pre-
sented to the people for their verdict, has some
intrinsic worth, no calculation can be safely
made on the issue. Men are alive. and the
world i, active, and ii may be difficult to dislin.
guish between these facts and an organization
of this life and activity, which is to all intent.
dead yet this perception muat be clear before
the subject can be comprehended, or understood.
as n practical matter.
Ii parties die, the voters do not, but they vote
as individuals, net as par,isans, and mag nd
do often give their verdict partisan appearance;
but it is not SO in reality, it is popular decree
Mere politicians, wi hou, sagacty, do not dscr;-
inmate in such contingency and hence great
deal of nonsense is put forth. 1t may well be
said of the innumerable small fry poli,lcans nne
editors. "Othello's occupations gone" Mer
who can live only in corrup,i,n and the sun
shine Of politics, can have no conception o
public duty, when the spos Of victory are glory
and renowr.'
Probubly the above language is plain and point
ed enough to be comprehended by the cast iror
pates of fossil fogies.
The Times i, the exponent Of the protestan
wings of Cincinnaii; and has six thousand daily
and ten thousand weekly subscribers.
: We must introduce 10 our readers the Inn
: gunge uf Judge WRIGHT of the Cincinnati Ga
+, z'ite. which for qualer Of century has beel
J, the organ Of the weahier and more conserva
tive class of whigs-a puper which the Heral'
D Of this city closely models after:-
'.'rhe spectacle which our county now pre-
senls TO the world, is one that should overwheln
: every American with humiliation. The faul
does not lie with either party exclusively: it be
longs 10 them both, and consequently is the faul
of the whole people. 1t is the natural resul
OF the existence of parties which are kePt u
more by old party traditions, waichwords ant
o associations, than by the advocacy of imporian
,f political measures. One by one the whig party
!. discouraged By defeat, has given up or moditie
i, iis old measures OF domestic policy, untils finally
they have come t2 differ bu, little from the dem