The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1854-08-23
From the carolllon Companion
Harmonious Fusionists.

AhC Stu auS fiSO D~h pdPciS aAC ARAte
the new Republican party fore and aft.-
After all there are none better capable {
pulling the mask from the Bireworkers {
the Columbus convention than the staunc
old liberty papers who understand fully tn
principles for which they have contended
They are a little too shJewd to be caugh
with such "chaf' as was prepared by tn
Fusionists. The meaningless, cowardly res
olutions of the Republicans" are "servet
out" by genuine Free soilers, as ga con
7alescent man would dose Of tartar emet
ic."
Speaking of resolutions, the Herald o
Freedom says
.'They bear evident marks of desire t
please, aud that at the expense of genuine
.anti-slaEe-y men. An officer elected OF
that platform might say, as Pierce and Fill
more said, 'the fugitive slave law shall b.
executed to the letter." He might be a.
very great supporter of slavery in the Dis
trict of Columbia, and of the interstate
slave trade as any "soul-driver" i'll the
.south.'
"In our opinion, the convention should
have taken as high grounds as that of Mich
igan; should have demanded that slavery
be entirely denationalized. We believe that
any one who will vote in good faith against
slavery, would vote against the fugitive
slave law and against the degradation oi
our national capital by continuing slavery
therein. And if not, if such resolutions
would have insured defeat, still the conven-
Ition should have passed them, for every man
there knew that right demanded their pas
sage; their neglect to do their duty proves
them to be cowardy, and under these cir
cumstances, if they obtain victory, they
will fare better than they deserve"
The Aurora, the oldest free soil paper in
Ohio, says:
"Suppose hereafter that our churches
were to act on this principle-leave out
three fourths of their creeds for fear few
bogus saints would not come if they didn't
do SO? What would the "world say to that!
Absurd as it might be, it looks no more so
than for protesting friends of liberty to throw
aside nearly all their most cherished prin.
ciples to accommodate a few hunkers."
The Charleston Standard, a free soil pa
per published in Clark county, was disposed
at first to sustain the "Repubcan" organi-
zation, supposing (honest soul!) that the
whig leaders were honest and woula carry
out in good faith, the fusion; but the call
for wing county convention in Franklin
county and other indications of treachery,
opened his eyes and he talks out as follows:
"WHAr's IN THE WIND!--We perceive
by the Ohio State Journal, that the Wing
Central Committee of Franklin county had
notified the wings of several townships to
assemble at the usual place of holding their
elections, on the llth day of August, 1854,
at three O'Clock p. m. for the purpose of ap.
pointing delegates to attend Whig county
convention to be held on Saturday, the l2th
day of August, 1854, at the City Hall, in
Columbus" ~
1--WE had thought frcm the dcmonstra-
tions Of the "Fusion C,nvention," recently
held in Columbus, that the "bye cones were
TO be bYe-gones.' But since we have been
led to think differently; and we have the best
OF reasons for thus thinking. For in every
Congressional district where the wings have
the least hope of success, we notice that the
Silver Grcy's are in th, & ID ; but VISA VERSA
IN districts strongly advocated. Now, we
on the political chess board.
eve confess our partiality for the Re-
publican party, and had hoped that the
whiy party had concluaed to yield up the
ghost; but their indomitible lhirsting for
spoils, absorbs every principle Of humaLity
and justice.
"Gentlemen. this will not do! You can
not serve two masters; you cannot support
both the EIunker Wing and Republican tlck,
cts. We confess our predictions for the
latter, and hoped that We should hear 70
more of Wing conventions of Wing nom-
nations, for il the principles of The Repub-
lcan party ale good As far as the election Of
State officers are concerned, they will GER
tailly hold good in relation to , ounty off
GERS"
There is great deal of truth contained
in the foregoing x ractS. The fact is the
resolutions passed by the Fus on or 'Repub.
lican' convention, are mere verbiage -shsm<
not resolving dt fnitely, in ia, or of any.
thing, not even in favor OF restoring the
Missouri Compromise, the understandable
repeal OF which they pretend TO make The
basis of or pretext for the new organization
They dodge the Fugitive Slave law--the
inter State slave trade-slavery in the Dis
trict of Columba---tEe restoration of the
Missouri act--lhe homestead measure; and
simply resolved to use their efforts to rem
der the Nebraska bill imperative and void
so that. as remarked above by the editor oil
the Herald of Reform: an officer elected
upon that platform might say, 1.-The fugi-
tive slave law shall be executed to the let
ter'--he mi sht be as very supporter OF
slavery in the District OF Columbia and ol
the inter-S'ave trade AS any soul driver in
the south"
The Whole thing is transparent, patent to
every man the least conversant with politi- !
cal movements. A set OF wire puers and
political jugglers, holding antagonisic opn-
ions ppph almost every question that has,
heretofore, been the subject of political &C
tion, got together at Columbus and agreed
to bury all former animosties. ignore all
their former political principles, band them
selves together in a new organization, y
clept Republican," kick up great dust.
supposing that in the "noise an confusion
the masses of the people could be led bin /
folded to the polls and induced to vote their
ticket "without why Or wherefore" In |
this way they hoped to harp into the support
of the "Republican ticket Webster COM