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so decided, and now let us look at things as
they are.
The Wings Of Pennsylvania held Wing
Convention, nominated Wing candidate, and
intend to keep up Wing Party. The Free
OF Independent Democrats will cooperate in
the election of Pollock, and the Liberal Dem
ocrats will help him indirectly--but after the
election, there will be Wing Party, Demo-
cratic Party, and an Independent Democratic
Party.
In Vermont, the Wings claimed that their
platform was just as Anti-Slavery as anybody
could wish were quite willing, however, to
countenance a general movement, with the
understanding that their candidates should be
adopted, and now, we presume, are determined
to maintain their Wing organization.
In Massachusetts,, where political controver-
sizes have engendered great deal of personal
i'll will, the Wings claim that their party is
Anti Slavery enough, their ticket Anti-Slavery
enough. They stand stifily in the old organi-
cation, and affect wonder that all sincere Free
Sellers do not unite with them, and upon their
candidates The Independent Democrats were
anxious for reorganization of parties-were
willing to give up their distinctive name and
machinery of action-made overtures for a
general Convention of all opponents of Sla-
very and the Nebraska iniquity. An organi-
zation under such auspices, they said truly
would absorb all the Liberal Democrats of the
State, besides comprehending Wings and dis
tinctive Free-Soilers, and its nominations would
sweep the State by unprecedented majorisies
Who doubted ita But their overtures were
rejected, and the separate action of the Wings
compelled them to separate action. OF course
go strong is the Anti Nebraska sentiment in
Massachusetts,, that it will fnd expression in
State affairs, despite the division but look
beyond November, and tell us how that great
State will then be prepared to make herself
felt in the work of regenerating the National
Administration For the hundredth time we
repeat what nothing but stolid ignorance will
gainsay, that Independent Democrats and Lib
eral Democrats have no faith in National
Wing party, and will not support National
Wing party.
Let us look ahead, then. The Free States
have all voted, and returned to Congress ma
jority of Anti-Nebraska members. You, old
politicians have succeeded in preserving q
Wing organization in Massachusetts, Pennsyl-
vsnia, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey,
Vermont, and New Hampshire; but in so
doing, you have perpetuated in each Of those
States the Democratic and the Independent
Democratic organizations On the other hand
in Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, ILL
nOis, and Maine, the Wing organization has
the old Democratic party is known
as the Slavery Party, the triumphant organi-
cation is the Republican Party.
What will you do, then9 National Con-
ventions will be proposed for the nomination
of Presidential candidates. Suppose you call
a National Wing Convention. Who will at.
tend! Delegates from the very Anti-Slavery
Wings of Massachusetts, and Vermont, to hold
friendly conference and agree upon common
platform with the Badgers and Claytons of
the South And delegates from the Western
States, representing a party that having given
up its name and disbanded its old organiza-
tion will have to seek for its adherents in the
great Republican party, and get up process
of segregation. And do you imagine that the
Independent Democrats and the Republicans.
and the Liberal Democrats, would have any
thing to do with such Convention No
There would be another called-a Republican
National Conven.ion-and then another, an
Administration, or Baltimore Democracy Con-
ventiop, the last Of which would command
the support Of majority in every Southern
State. The old game over sgain-the free
States, all-pOwerful, if united, divided into
contending factions, and therefore powerless
before the weaker South acting as a unit
Another Pro-Slavery Administration, brought
into power by the insensate divisions of the
North, engendered and kept alive by blind
bigotry, white-livered conservatism, aud self
seeking demagoguism
The dissolution of the Wing Party, and the
Of the political power of the
free States in Party of Freedom, would have
completed the Anti-Slavery political regonera-
ton, so auspicously commenced. The main
tenance of this Party in some of these States,
with the consequent division of Northern politi.
cal power it has kept up, threatens to arrest
this benefcent work almost on the threshold.
1t is not too late TO correct the error but is
there enough of common sense and disinterest-
ed devotion to the cause of Human Rights in
the free States to compel general recognition
of the true policy2
Meantime, let the friends of Freedom "hold
fast whereunto they have attained" The
Party, or the Morrill, Democracy,
is now q defined organization, and the domi-
nant Party, in Maine. Henceforth, let it act
as q unit, in utter disregard of the several
out of which it has been formed.
In Vermont and Massachusetts, fusion y has
gone 80 far as to bring considerable numbers
from the Wings and Old Line Democrats to
act with the Independent Democracy, under
the general title of Republicans. Let them
maintain their organization. In Connecticut,
Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, and New York, where no such
Republican Party has been formed, the Inde-
pendent Democracy will preserve its organiza-
ton, always ready to cooperate with other
organizations when a practical gain for FREQ
dom is to be effected, and willing at any mo-
ment to give up its name and organization,
when one or both of the other Parties, or
large section of either, will consent to do like
wise, and unite with it in Party of Freedom.
In the Western States, the Republican Party
has more definite form than anywhere else,
and whateva- the rea,ylta Of Tho 70 n oIoot;ox,.