The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-08-16
AL KINDS O
More wing Opposition to the Fusion

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The indications are unmistakable
that throughout the North and West
the number of Wings who win repu-
date g fusion y with the Abolitionist
Disnnienists, will be very respectable in
numbers. In Michigan, a Wing State
Convention is soon to be held, for the
nomination of a State ticket, in oppo-
-sition to that of the Fusionists. The
Wings of Boston tMass. have declared
against fusion in their primary meetings
The Albany Euening Journal N. York
Commercial Advertiser, and other Wing
papers, are against abandoning their or
sg~anization in New York. In Ohio, the
hogan Gazette and the Columbiana Pal
shdiuns have expressed decided repug-
nance to the whole movement. The dis
affection also exists in Indiana, and the
voice of the National Wings is echoed
in the V~incennes Gazette, one of the
Oldest and most influential Wing papers
in the State, which, after noticing the
Fusion Conventions at Columbus and
Indianapolis, thus discourses:
There is a serious objection to this or
ganization, which we hope will be well
considered. 1t is found in the geographi-
cal divisions of parties in the Union, SC
: solennly and impressively referred to in
the Farewell Address of the Father of
his Country. If the South does wrong,
that fact is no justification for the North
IN committinga greater evil. If it were
the South, In turn, might commit a thirc
soffense, still more aggravated; and thus
~offenses might be continued till a cruel
and bloody war should deluge the land
We think the Missouri Compromise might
have been replaced upon the statute
book, without a specific and d~istractine
organization for that express purpose
One-idea parties, or parties organized
solely for one purpose, are prone to ruI
vaernable and undisciplined as were the
followers of Peter the Great.
The Organization effected in Ohio and
this State has been the result of combi
nations of Wings and Democrats, with
few Freesoilersl This utilization will
Locofocoism and Freesoilism we utterly
abominate, and whether the purpose O
the utilization, be good or bad, we lool
upon such a combination, such a depar
ture from the long-established customs
of parties, as eminently disastrous to tn,
Wings. If the Wing party could b,
successful under such a combination, i
would be IN the game predicament al
the Democratic party has been since tn,
enactment of the Nebraska and, Kansas
. law No power on earth can preserv,
such a mixture of the " blue SPIRITS, gray
spirits, and black spirits }" in harmony
Inasmuch as our neighbor, of the Ga
-szette, likes the "readingsn which W,
give from that influential Wing paper
= the Detroit & advertiser, ne make tie fol
lowing late extract from its columns:
80 With the same faulty that has brood
ed over their fortunes for many years o
disappointment, they again seek to sec
tionalize the whole North, and lead OF
Il q movement, where only a few shall
bebenefted. The sole purpose and de
sign of these .disturbers and factionist
Is. to create and maintain eternal hatred
and jealousy between the North and tn,
South, and render a cordial cooperation
in, great national schemes impossible. L
sucha purse wise? Can any who hav
ever held the name Of Wing, enter upol
such a scheme of partial and temporar
interest? Does such a course compar
we'll with the plans to which they hav
devoted. so much labor? mol We d
mot believe that the honest and tru
Wing will abandon the broad principle
which grow out of our Constitution, t
accept the narrow platform of :" oppc
sition to the South ."-Ctn. Eng.