The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1854-06-21
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parties is to be consumated. if the Iabors
OF some Of the leading Wing and Freesoil
papers can accomplish it, In fact an effort
Is TO 5e made to unite all factions and par.
ties that stand in opposition to the great
Democratic party of,his country. State
Convention is called to be held in Colum.
bus on the 18th Of July, to inaugurate
Party Of the People!" Now what is all
this for? Is it to promote any great inter.
est of this State--to compel the Banks, for
instance, to pay taxes as the private citizen
is compelled TO do? lstto take into consid-
Grafton what is to be done wher the over.
grown money power has become above the
Constitution and laws of Ohio? Or is i,
to declare that the people Of territory are
incapable Of government; or tha, Con.
gress shall dictate to them by what laws
they shall be governed?
We do not believe that the Democracy
of this county. or OF the State. are prepared
to iorsake their old organization or their
old friends, and unite with the Wings and
Freesoilers. What good could be accom-.
Plished by it? Do they expect to repeal
the Nebraska Kansas bill? No. There
is not man in the State, who is aware Of
the organization Of the Senate Of the Uni.
ted States, who will for moment contend
that that can be done. There is in that
body majority of two to one in favor OF
the bills and there is no prospect OF a
change for many years to come. Wha,
then is the object of this new party? We
confess we can see in it no other object
than that of "spoils," or that those now
"out'' Of Office may become the ''ins"--
1t is simply, then, war Of the 'outs''
against the ''ins." And into this war the
leaders of the whig and treesoil parties
will endeavor TO draw the rank and file Of
their parties. But. unless we are much
mistaken, there are hundreds and thou.
sands OF old line wings who will depreeate
any such movement. They will enter into
no arrangement out OF which they cannot
come but with "a loss OF both strength and
reputation" Hear what that sturdy old
whig paper, the Pittsburgh american, says:
The Wings, more particularly Of Alle-
gheny, have everything TO lose and nothing
to gain by wandering in mental blindness
from their own firm and broad platform
and the principles and spirit Of their or
ganization, to take ground on any of the
ephemeral and narrow planks Of the isms
arising always around us. No move Of
this kind can ever be made without loss
Of both strength and reputation. as such
moves will ever be regarded, and justly, as
partial abandonment Of our own ground.
or an admission that il is no longer tenable
and requires this particular new issue 10
prop it at the time. Does any Wing ad-
nit of this unsoundness Of his party's con-
slituiion and its damaged state? Such a
thing will be scorned by every Whig.-
Why then do they apply TO it the unseem-
ly and unsightly patches OF every new col
ored ism that rises?'
On the subject OF the "fusion" the
Statesman and Democrat says:
THE evidences Of general and con.
certed effort throughout the country 10
consolidate all the factions which made
up the opposition 10 the election Of PIERCE
and KING, are constantly multiplying
l''Fusion" is every where the order OF the
day. All the malcontents, whose appe.
tites for political power have been quick.
ened by proiracted abstinence, are mar,
shaling their forces under the banner o.
a lone idea to make common cause against
the Democratic party. Wing and Free
Soil editors, bu, recently engaged in acrim
onious strife, are every where consoliaa
ting or cooperating. Whenever, as in
Connecticut, the opposition elements car
overwhelm the Democracy by combina
|,ion, they form alliances and divide the
patronage. In our own State, the coali
tion between the incongruous elements o
the opposition. appears as substantial a.
the famous reconciliation between Mr.. ant
Mrs. MIcAwBER and the twins.
oThe Ohio State Journal and othe
kindred prints have apparently struck th'
flag of Whiggery. and now regard onl,
fusion. and-spoils. That paper task
!; not for the cooperation OF the Free De
mocracy or Of the Old Democracy a
) distinct bodies," but it invokes "the De
: mocracy of numbers. The friends Of liber,,
every where. and all parties, to take hol,
4 of this work." &c. The DiSORGANI
! ZATION and CONQUEST Of the Demo
y cratic party is the object sought by th
Stale Jonrnal-being entirely indifferen
a as to the means or the tools employed 70
: the purpose. Accordingly. the Journa
0 and all the Whig, Free Soil and Abolitio
: papers Of Ohio, heartily indorse the Ca
issued by Messrs. GIDDINGs. WADE an
i others, from their ead.quarters at Wash
o ington, for State Convention to assem-