The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1854-09-27
Hear "a Free SOiler.

Q JOHN FRosT, who for more than twenty
years, has edited the Aurora, at New Lisbon
who has always been an ardent and en-
thusiastic anti-Slavery man, and whose pa
per has .been'a Free Soil paper, in his last
number rebukes the Fusionists in strong
terms. Hear him: ..'r a....' "a
i "If the Freesoil party had retained its Or
ganization what would have been the conse-
quence at the present time! Hundreds and
thousands Of both the other parties are said
to have become dissatisfied with them, and
here, had the friends of Liberty been faith
ful, all these would have come into the or
ganization. 1t is an organization the prin-
ciples of which are known-they are anti
slavery. Then the principles of the Free
soil party would have been the leading fea-
ture. Being understood by all, no one need
to have been deceived. 1t would then have
been arrayed against slavery as its principal
object of opposition. But how is it now!
Where is that well-defned, weI-understood
organization! Gone into fusion--compro-
missed away--fzzled out, SO that it will defy
the most subtitle ingenuity of the keenest
politician to tell what principles, or indeed
whether any principles, save that of secur-
ing the offices and whipping the 'loeofocos,
govern it. There is much in the fusion cem-
promise movement which may be responded
to by the southern wings and yet not abate a
jot of their adhesion to slavery. Prominent
in it are those who go in for the fugitive slave
law, w,and even for slavery itself; and they have
as much to say in directing the course of the
party as the most thorough anti-slavery men.
That will just suit the south. They like the
professed friends of Liberty to compromise
it allthey ask. #f ~ aaa "5
f. .Again:--.This compromise fusion move
ment has no more well known object of op
position to slavery then the "locofocos.
1 True, slavery is named-that is, among thu
fusion ,6hig papers-"locofocoism' is wha
they are driving at all the time. Every bod
knows that if the Freesoil party had main
tanned its integrity hundreds and thousand
of democrats wculd have come upon its plat
form; while now they regard themselves al
Justified in adhering to their old party, mas
much as they find that fusion requires then
to fight for disguised whigism. 1t is pre-
tended that many Of them 60 in for fusion
Perhaps so; but the result of the election
! win materially snbstract from the size 9
this delusion, it is thought. When democrat
4 join party they mostly want to know wha
atsits principles. Can they or any body els
tell what distinct principles they arearequir
ed to adopt! Truly, there was wisdom il
naming this new partyt"Fusion:" 'Thef
are in it lnasons' and ahtimasons. slavery an
anti-slavery, 'grosr and antiigrog-for som
great soapsticks are prominent in'its eoun
Y cilsA4bank and anti-bank, tariff and anti-tar
if;; and the pros and cons of pretty fnuc
every thing else The prophet Amos ono
Inquired, 9Can two walk together excep
theysqre agrsed" Doubtful, Were be in
carnate now he might renew the inquiry Z
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