The daily union., 1854-10-15
From the Binghaiaton(N ~ Democtn
WHIG CAMPAIGN TACTICS.

The whig managers in this State made chief point in
their programme for this campaign to rope in it is
perinenty called TO the whg ranks and service not on
the believers in all the s, but the supporters of every
outside ISSUE moral religious benevolent partakng OF
any shade of either Their object being form grand
sectional northern party they spread broad for fusion
of all the elements alluded tothey volunteer believers
in every shey form the front rank of the supporters
of every outside issue how diversethey shout
the praise of every mans peculiar hobby; but only TO
bring them all within the working of the we-planned
machinery that make them members and supporters
of the great northern party which they hope will enable
them to elect sectional President in 1856 Their present
action forms the serious deliberate, dangerous at
tempt that has hitherto been made upon the principles of
the constitution the rights Of the States ana the integrity
of the Union but trust that like those which have
from time time preceded it is destined TO fail ingo-
rously under the patriotic ebuke OF consttuon-abi-
ding Union-ovng people.
In pursuance of their object their first
citc and imbody Saratoga great antNebraska
ment uito distinction TO party and then adjourn it to n
dag subsequent 10 The wg contention At the regular wg
convention Syracuse the basis of their operations
they adopted platform sectional as they dared, having
eye retaining in their ranks the national Fillmore
wings but they careful to place upon it candi-
dates men the broadest sectional Seward stripe This
was their prevailing feature and the ground upon which
they nominated Not tint or shade of natonasm
allowed 4hey wgEt 10 he convention of free demo-
cras1-a modified abolition concern-and succeeded in
getting their ultra wing candidate for governor, Myron H.
Clark nominated the candidate of the free democ
racyw They next went 60 the Saratoga convention ad-
iourned at Auburn, and there openly repudated all
onalism including the whig Baltimore platform of 1852
adopted an ultra sectional creed and placed upon bodily
the entire whg cketthe several candidates giving in
their unreserved adhesion Their next performance
one of holder and more distinctive character and consist
ed in inducing the State temparaace convention to adopt
the whig ticket entire. They that the temperance
question the prominent of the outside issues
having large organizations, composed of all parties inn
bodied and it worth "an effort TO take possession
of and appropriate exclusively element in the
sectional crusade The effort made the temperance
convention was invaded and taken by the cohorts of Sew
ardm the ichg candidates athough of them recently
strongly approved Of Seymours veto as sound and
titled weight and condemned the Maine law of last
session calculated bring the temperance into
popular contempt) adopted the temperance cand-
dates and the Of temperance reform trails after
the chariot wheels Of Seward sectonasm We say these
things because they notorously Men attended the
temperance convention and used their influence and
cred all their power induce the adoption OF the whg
ticket who could not certainly be cased temperance
men in any sense; but they love temperance vastly
in heory-becaqse temperance have votes which are
wanted prosperousy tha new northern, sectional
whigaboliton party.
II is for temperance democrats to say how far they
will aid unprinciped attempt to make desire for
particular reform secondary and subserven TO far differ
ent object and one which democrat certainly
tenance approve
ILLxos--The democratic congressional nominations in
Illinois all made They follows First dis
trict--Wlliam NJ. Jackson second-John b. Turner II
third-John n Drake; fourth-Wilam McMurry; fifth
WA & Richardson sixth--Thomas L, Harris seventh
James C. Allen sighta--g T. Fouke; ninth--S. 5. Mar
shall All Of these gentlemen supporters OF the
great principle Embodied in the Nebraska bill