New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-10-16
FUSION AND THE FU rURE.

When the masks fell off the faces Of the Ne
braska cOnspirators, and revealed Badger, Gey-
or, James G.. Jones and the entire Wing dele
cation from Keutucby-not to speak of To0mbs,
Stephens and CliDgman, who had deserted long
before-plOtiipg and cnucusing with Hunter and
Mason Butler and Orr, Bayly and Atchiscn,
Douglas and Bright for the overthrow of the
Missouri Restriction, it was clear enough to all
discerning vision that old party distinctions were
superseded and unmcaniDg. Not by us 'f,na-
tics, LOT through any coutrivance or action on
our part, but by the deliberate and determined
resolve of cur natural and necessary antagonists,
had those divisions been eilaced and annhatcd.
Here were we confronted by the almost accom-
plished realization of Wiscs threat, when he
left the Wing party to carry the Annexation of
Texas that Slavery pour itself out without re-
"strain., and find no limit but the Pacific Ocean"
The very men who had for years denounced agi
taton upon Slavery as dsunion and virtual
treason, and who in so had solemny resolved at
Baltimore that such agitation should henceforth
cease, and all who attempted it be marked rs
moral traitors had themselves commenced a tresh
and utterly wanton agitation the first moment
they could do SO with any prospect OF achieving
their end. II was Lot, it now appeared, action
respecting Slavery, but opposition toSayery, that
really provoked these mems maledlctions We
might speak of Slavery every day so that we
took care to say nothing against it, without in
curing their resentment; we might urge any ac-
ton respecting it, National or other, so that we
did not seek to fetter its aggressive energies or
limit its power.
From the moment that this coalition of Slavery
Extensionists irrespective Of party became obSi-
Gus, it has seemed to us the plain dictate prin
ciple ard duty, of interest and necessity, that a
similar union Of all opposed to Slavery Extension
should be formed to resist it. When Douglas
and Dixon rode lovingly at the head Of the newly
combined forces, it seemed to us absurd and sui
cdsl that we OF any others who clung to the time.
honored principles, traditions aud policy Of tho
North. should refuse to fraternize as cordially
with Hale and Preston King, Julian aud the Jays.
When Southern Democracy roared ont its exulta.
ton over the defeat of Col. Benton by Wig,
how could we be anxious to place Wing of the
school of Choate, Ben. Curtis and Everett, in the
seat of Charles Sumner In fact the recon-
struction of parties had become necessity,
forced upon us by the compact'breakers of the
South and their Northern accomplices, SO that the
only open question was one OF tnne.
And no other time was so fit aud favorable as
the very earliest. The first ayowal in the Senate
that Southern Wing caucus had been held in
favor of Douglass bill, and an attempt made
thereby to drseOon every Southern Wing into les
support, should have been met by Northern
Wing proaers Of fraternity and fellowship to all
earnest upbolders Of the landmarks of Freedom.
What hindered this natural and ultimately in.
eSitable contamination
In the fret place. the existing political ma.
ehipery was in the hands Of men to whom a fusion
Of the elements Of Northern resistance tn Slavery
aggression would be an abdicatiou of personal
consequence. The members Of whis State and
County Committees would be disranked by . new
organization on the simple Republican platform
The aspirants to seats in Congress or the Legis.
lsture who had beer buying and selling in Wnig
Conventions for years to form oAptL on which
10 secure their own neuinst.oos respectively 1t