, 1854-08-19
The WING Party no More.

publish 1t IN our paper. we were about
writing on the same subject. But this is
better, and we ask our readers to peruse it
carefully:
"The anti-slavery agitatOrs are defeated.
The final passage of the Nebraska bill APP
pears to have stunned and confounded our
abolition organs. They are taken all aback,
and are beating about at random as if
sorely puzzled in which direction to strike.
The most virulent of the gang falls upon
the leading Southern whgs-Clayton, Bad
ger, Pearce, Dawson, Toombs and others
of the Senate and ii says, that in respect
to the Northern traitors who have co-ope-
rated in this deed, language fails to express
our detestation of their Infamous conduct
And a mighty appeal is made to the people
of the North, without distinction of par
ty,' to enlist themselves under one BAN
ner,' to resist the invasion Of free territory
by the Shareholders of the South Direct
ly to this point, our leading oracle Of Sew
ardism emphatically declares, that in view
of the great issues before us, we throw all
party considerations to the Winds
In connection with this declaration, the
closing scenes in the Senate of the United
States upon the Nebraska bill, confirm the
dissolution of the whig party. The T;olent
controversy upon the flSOr, between Mr..
Bell, of Tennessee, on the one side, and
Mr.. Toombs, of Georgia, and other South
ern wings who supported the bill, on the
other side, was terminated in the formal
separation of Mr.. Bell and the Missouri
compromise wings, even of the South, from
those wings cooperating in the repeal. 1t
is difficult to read the closing debates upon
the final ratification of the House bill in
the Senate without arriving at the fixed
conclusion that between the free soil wings
of the North and the Nebraska wings Of
the South there is now an impossible bar
rier, and that in the reorganization OF po-
itical parties for the campaign of '56, the
mass of the wings of the North will he ar
rayed in hostility against their late breth-
ren of the South. There is no visible or
probable contingency upon which they can
ever be re-united-none in the world.
Here. then, VIC have the first fruits Of
the Nebraska bill. 1t utterly demolishes
the last vestge of chance for the recon
struction of the materials Of the late great
whig party upon the same general platform.
The die is cast-the Rubicon is crossed,
and the unanimous vote Of the Northern
wings in Congress against the Nebraska
bill, and the exciting closing scenes in the
Senate significantly warn us Of the mean
ing of this throwing Of party considera-
tions to the winds.' 1t admonishes the
Union men of the country of the speedy
mastering, upon the basis Of Sewardism,
and the anti-slayery debris of the late
Northern whig party, Of a grand combined
anti-siayery organization throughout the
Northern States in open hostility to the
institutions of the South, until Southern
slavery is put down, or until the Southern
States are driven to secession-till the two
sections of our present Union are hurried
into civil war, and the two races OF our
population are exasperated into the hor-
rors of another st. Domingo rebelllon.-
Such is the drift of the new party program
me as laid down by the confidential oracle
of Sewardism, which simply means a juno
ton of abolitionism with all the other trea-
sonablo denominations of the day, against
the good order of society and the peace of
the Union.
The pronEneiamentO has gone forth-the
whig party is extinct-its materials IN the
North are to be made the neucles OF a great
overshadowing abolition party, while the
conservative wings of the South may go
over to the new democratic party, to the
administration. or to the devil, as soon as
they like. Clayton, Badger, Pearce, Daw-
son, and even Crittenden, have been given
their walking tickets they are at liberty
to 60 and shift for themselves, wherever
they please, and as soon as they please
The controlling Seward division Of the late
national whig party has formally excom-
muncated them in the lump-in detail
They arc adrift upon the high seas, and
legal prizes to such political wreckers as
may choose to pick them up. The reunion
between the wings of the North and the
wings of the South is now utterly hopeless.
The party is disbanded for good-forever
The Northern branch is to be made the
basis of an overshadowing Northern anti
slavery party. But where are the South
ern wings to 60? When Mr.. Webster
was left alone in Tyler's Cabinet, he asked
=" where am / to go?" And we repeat
the inquiry in behalf of the Southern wings
where are they to go !"
For the information Of those unacquaint-
ed with the following facts and figures, we
submit them for their consideration, show
ing the extent to which slavery existed in
the western States and Territories since
the passage of the ordinance Of 1881:
! 1900 1910 1920 1890 1910
Indiana, $50 ISL l9V o
Ohio, 20 80
| Illinois, l6S 9lf 80 ofi
Michigan, u -,
Wisconsin, ~