Eastern times., 1854-09-21
The Tribune and the Whig Party.

The Tribune and the Whig Party.
Now it is useless to attempt to disguise the
fact that there is some basis for this unex-
pected result 1t will not do Try to CLASH
fy it as one of those spasms which occasional
ly affict the body polite.
! 1t cannot be characterized as q temporary
frenzy into which the people have been aroused
by inlammatory harangues and interested ap-
peals Such were not the elements which
entered into the question. No-the stern,
practical fact lies back of all this fact, too,
which cannot be winked out of sight-and the
sooner it is taken home, in all its bearings, to
the heart and understanding of every honest
citizen, the better for him and for all the
fact is, this result is but the natural sequence
of causes, which have been adding, none the
less surely because silently, year after year,
TO the popular dissatisfaction with old party
drills, and drlll-machinery. If ever an cleo
tion transpred in this State, in which fugle
men were more at a discount than in this, we
| have yet to learn it. Every element shows
that it was the settled determination of the
! peOple-the people as such in reality, and not
as they are apt TO be afiectionately termed by
\ interested politicians on the eve of elections,
TO take the matter into their own hands,
away from the dictations of cliques and the
/ langiing of cabals.-Ir1bunc.
We hardly expected TO see the Tribune
take such strong ground in favor OF the new
party, born Of the recent election. That the
bearing of that paper has been that way, We
did not doubt; but was it necessary to inhict
such a stab upon the whig party as the Ian
guage of the abo~e extract indicates Now
bear in mind that the wings are the worst de-
feated of any party in the election, running
down from near thirty thousand votes to some
twelve thousand, and what can good whig
make out of such strange remarks as ''popu-
lar dissatisfaction with old pa-ty-drills and
drill machinery "fugle men at discount"
-"dictation of cliques and jangling of cabals," !"
but that the application was intended 10 have
a bearing upon the whg party! The Ian
guage has no application to the democrats,
certainly, for, as party, we have nearly held
our own. Do the real wings of Bath, who
are not forever running after strange gods,
feel particularly edited on the Perusal Of such
remarks in whig paper! We don't believe
they do.
The truth is, the Tribune has made mis-
take in giving to the fusion party such conse-
I quence. Without the whig element in the
combination, the victors Of to-day would be
powerless in another campaign. Does the
Tribune imagine. the fwenty thousand whig
voters for Morrill, are always to be caught in
! n fuSin froa fror thoxy ho 1a1
round by free soil leaders who 60 for the re-
peal Of the fugitive law and the necessary
overturn of the Constitution We are ready
TO give any real whig too much credit for pat
riotism than to believe he can long continue
the advocate Of such doctrine. Our neigh
Dor would evince more sagacity if he would
look at this present fusion combination as a
temporary affair and not as the ''settled deter
mination of the people," He will find ere
long, when his new party shall be scattered
into adverse PARTICLES by the effect of some
new political breeze upon its discordant mate
rials, that his adhesion was given in little
too soon.
But the greatest Joke in the Tribune's cleo
ton commentary. is the attempt to show that
the result Is the work of the people, and that
"cliques' had nothing to do with it. We
say that the whig party was sold out to
the free soilers by as desperate clique as
ever had control of party, headed by that
prince of party ''drilling," Henry Carter, of
the Portland Advertiser. The State Conven-
ton, and the nomination of Mr. Reed, were
catches to deceive honest wings; while the
effective ''drill machinery" was Immediately
set in motion TO elect Mr.. Morrill,. Look at
the display of Mr.. Reeds name in the col
umns Of the Portland Advertiser, and not a
word in favor Of his election during the whole
campaign. We will not charge the same in
consistency upon the Tribune for there was
his favor. But where was the "drill machn-
ery!" In active operation; with Carter and
Wiley and others, keeping up the fires, as
grand fugle men,
No, no-the Tribune will have to get up
another election commentary before it tells
the truth Honest, whole souled wings can
not be deceived with such arrant nonsense.
And we will wager good beaver against a
biscuit the writer of that article has had lift
from free solism, know nothingism, Morrill,
ism or all combined
DECLINE IN RELIGION. The following par