Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-05-12
Political Insanity.

The able and amiable editor Of the Rt-
land Herald thinks that /" the insanest move
ment ever proposed in the political history
Of Vermont is the dissolution Of the Wing
party !" and thereupon he launches an elo-
quent eulogium Of the Wing party. The
eulogy is good true and touching; in
short, il is very well done, and if the whig
party does die, we hereby nominate friend
Hayden to pronounce the funeral oration.-
Nobody will do it better. But we do not
agree with him as to this matter Of insanity.
The suggestion to harmcnize and concen-
trate the action Of the opponents to Slavery
Propagandism or, il the Herald pleases,
even the suggestion Of dissolution of the
Wing party to effect the same purpose-is
hardly proof Of insanity, in our opinion; is,
rather, indicative OF sanity of mind, and
soundness Of heart into the bargain. The
first suggestion comes from wings, and is
based upon the important, palpabe, indls-
puiable fact, that the whig party alonc-the
wing party as II is-the whig party unaided
I by strength from without--is utterly made
quate to the task which it is undoubtedly
ready to undertake. 1t must have large ac-
cesions, or fail. Losing strength at the
South, the party must make up that strength
at the North, or submit to defeat. Whoever
/ fails 10 see that. is blind. Whoever sees 1t,
and fails to open the way for these Access
ions, is well nigh insane. The suggestion
of a dissolution Of the Wing party, and the
formation Of another and stronger, to accom-
plsh technically the same purpose that the
Wing party desires to accomplish, springs
from Free Sellers ana Free Democrats, and
is based upon a conviction Of the utter ina
bility of the Free Soil party as it is, the Free
Soil party alone-the Free Sod party unaid-
ed by Whigs-to successfully meet the
present crisis. While the Wing party has
lost the Slavery Propagandists at the South,
(good radiance, the Free Soil party has been
losing at the Nor,h-hls been corrupted, be-
traved and more than decimatcd by the pro-
fessed democratic converts of 1919. Honest
frecsollers, then, have no hope for their
cnuse, but in accessions from the Wing
ranks and in the fullness Of their hearts
they cry" oh, that the Wing party were
with It's ~ Thus there are two sets of men
seeking the same end Wings, through the
accession of freesolers to the Wing party
Free soilers, through the accession Of the
Wings to their cause, though not exactly TO
their present organization, for they propose
new organization. Each set follows the
bent of its party predilections-they are APP
parently in different roads but both are
bound to the same point. In both we recog-
nize an honest purpose to accomplish
necessary and righteous end. Ia both, we
see men who ought to act together and
whom nothing can sever but iliberality and
jealousy. To give the rein to these, against
Patriotism, against Liberty, against Right
would be insanity indeed. To fear that
the Wing party cannot take care of itself in
this emergency; to fear that it will do
any thing which honor forbds, or omit
anything which Patriotism demands also
borders on insanity We entertain no such
fear.