The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-08-19
FREE SOIL PLATOON.


Pntire, and we commend it to the attention of /
fil tuch Freesoilers as are asking the Wings !
2 abandon their organization, and Unite with
them. -
Their twenty-one resolutions offer perhaps |
twice tho humber of reasons why Wings |
cannot u. s,mith them. The doctrines of
some of their resolutions are the doctrines of |
the Wings; but then other of their resolutions
contain doctrines which no Wing, who was
ever Whig from principle and who is not
the merest political sufiler, and has no prn-
ciples, can endorse.
The leaders of the Free Soilers aimed. as
this platform shows, to unite all sorts of fac
tions who stood upon single idea. They
propose to the Kossuth intervention fanatics
-"Come, 60 with us on the slavery question,
and we 60 with you for intervention. See re-
solution 8.
10 the Cuban flibusters they say.--"Go
with us, and help us agitate the slavery ques-
ton, and we will 60 with you for a fibuster
war upon Cuba and another upon Mexico"
See resolution 7.
To the "manifest destiny" men they throw
bait and go for expansion-for conquest.
Resolution 8. addresses.
| The anti-war men, the members of the
peace association-atter they have passed re-
solutions 5, 6 and 7, which contain any a.
mount OF war sentiment-are to be caught
by inserting resolution 9, which declares in
favor of settling national disputes by arbitra-
ton. they blow peace and war at the same
! breath. % .
To catch the land reform fanatcs-that
class who 60 in for an agrarian law which
shall take our homes from us, and divide them
among the homeless--they throw in resolu-
tion i.
And to see that they have no reference to
the division of the public lands among the
landless, it is only necessary to read resolu-
ton IL, which refers expressly to the public
lands.
| What Wing, we ask ,can endorse the senti
ments of their 9th, 7th and llth resolutions
to say nothing of the others here! Yet the
Freesoilers have the unparalleled impudence
to ask the Wings to desert their own party
and unite with party holding the sentiments
of these resolutions.
But If these resolutions will preven. Wings
from going to the Freesoil party, the 18th
resolution will operate as a complete barrier
against it. What Wing can for a moment
thnk OF uniting with party which declares
IN favor OF free trade and direct taxation! II
there be any such Wings they have been ex.
pediency Wings, and never cared for princi-
pies.
Locofocoism has ruled the State badly-&
we are very desirous to see it turned out to
grass; and knowing, as we do, that it lives,
not so much from its own inherent strength,
as from division among its enemies, we are
willing to see the elements of opposition
combined. ii it can be done "wthout war,
without dishonor, and by the general consent" "
But we cannot swallow the Freesoil platform,
in order to defeat Locofoism. We would
rather swat little longer" and trust to the
good sense of the conservative portion of the
Democratic party to turn against the incom-
petent, corrupt, fire-eating Locofocos, who
rule that party, and administer the govern
ment, and aid in hurting them, and their cor
ruptions and ultrusms, from place. We Go
not believe that the people of Ohio will al
low bad men to administer their government
much longer. They are sick and tired of it
II
things is to grow out OF the present dsor-
ganzation of parties-for, deny it who will,
parties are knocked into ga cooked hat" The
/ Wings have been defeated-and they may be
again; but they are now better united than
either the Democratic or Freesoil parties, be-
cause composed OF materials more homoee enc
Gus. A time is coming when new combina-
tions will take place. Conservatism and
ultraism cannot long act together. A large
portion of the Freesol party is i'll at ease on
their platform, and will not stand upon it
longer than the next election, if SO long
They do not like its ultraism and utopian no.
tions. They are very poor-food while Loco
focoism is feeding them on the substantals
of bad laws and heavy taxes.
The leaders of the Locofoco party are a,
swords points. The new constitution killed
their general-Medary-b requiring the
public printing to be let to the lowest bidder
and since his death their language has been
confounded, and they speak all manner of
tongues. The dssensons among them can
not be cured by the "cohesive power of public
plumber" They must and will fall to pieces.
THE PEoPLE-the thinking, honest, patriotic
portion of them--wil then unite, and the
work of renovation will done. THE PEOPLE
will be the Hercules who will cleanse the
Augean stables of Locolocosm-and they
will do it right
Until that time comes, the Wings must
wait, and fight. The Wing party cannot dis
band, if they try. There is no place for them
to go to. But when the time comes that the
people resolve in their might that corruption
shall 90 no farther, that incompetence must
give way for talent and experience; when
they determine to reform abuses, they will
have their watchword, they will have their
platform, and their leaders; and in the mean
time let the Wings do all the good, and pre-
vent all the harm they can, and when the |
people fight, let the Wings fight for the right,
whether the people should call themselves
WHIGs, or by some other name.
II is the principles of the party that Wings
are welded to, and not to the name.
MarysuiIie Tribune.