Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-11-24
From the Albany Atlas,
FIDdIy AL1as.
The Dissolution of the Bronson Party.

IhS dissolution Oh the bronson rarity.
1t is said that Mr. Bronson was not cognizant of
the secret movement by which his followers were
turned en- mGsse into the know nothing camp.
In that case, the betrayal of party duty all the
more Infamous on the part of his associates. They
had urged him to put himself in collision with Mr..
Secretary Guthrie year ago. and they promised him
all the honors due TO self sacrificing herolsm. They
detached him from the party which had bestowed
honors upon him all his life long, with the promise
of the chair of State. They forced him TO run as
their candidate against his disclaimers They repel-
ed all support from the other section of democrats
and declared that such ''coalitions were "infamous
Having made Mr. Bronson a candidate. they com
PEELED him TO write that series OF contradictory letters
which so lowered his reputation politician and
candid man
Having exaced these sacrifices, they Runaway from
him in the very heat of the battle, and rushed pel-
nell into the Ulman camp. The thirty odd thous
and who still hold up the standard thus deserted
by their leaders look with bewilderment upon this
supendOus act of treason, and with Indignation at
the cowardly falsehoods behind which it is sought to
| be sheltered.
The cause of Bronson had been presented as ma
tional one, and above all democratic one To
the last moment Dickinson and O'Connor had uphed
him as the imbodment of certain very abstract but
very precious ideas. We do not doubt, we never
doubted, that many of his supporters We're men OF
the hardest metal and the intenses stamp of demo.
cracy. They were paraded in the show windows OF
and zeal coin, while the remainder was but gross
counterfeit of base alloy.
Political history shows fraud so great as this
The Ulman party in which these deserters took re-
fuge was the opposite in principle and in organiza
ton of that which had declared for Judge Bronson
) 1t was omnium gatherun of factions, which, &C
far from having national policy, had not State
policy platform broader than sufced for the ex
gencies of ward politics. Secret, proscripve, tn,
play-thing of actions, changeahle and ephemeral
with the worst principles of the alien and sedo1
law for its creed, it is the last place which
should look to find the so-caled adamantine party
The main part is there, however. The rest is bro
ken up into fragments and sold off cheap to the high
est bidder.
1t has done it's worst and let that worst be all tina
the worst enemies of democracy hope for, it cannc
q exceed th, extent it has done. The democracy q
;, New York stand alone-a united, consolidated, int
J. grail party. 1t will so stand alone for the future
Those who not of il against it. II will attrac
II to lis ranks the of men who have Democrat
e hearts, and who are mbued with the sentiments {
u true repubcansm. It will be the centre of the ne,
1T contest and will resist successfully we believe ths
reaction against republicanism and liberalism whic
g sets in strongly here it has recently in Europ
lg and threatens disastrous ends.
Whether the head of the ticket in the recent cor
IL test is voted in counted out, the result Is still Ii
a. same. The party stands, and stands aone-intac
indomitable and above all factions, and confide
E. of future aseendency and power it is conscious
its present existence. -s.s