The true Democrat., 1855-10-09
From the Washington Union
 What Killed the Maine Fusionists

The inquest now held over the dead body of Maine "fusion' by the abolition and know mo- tOlng press affords to the survivors a wide range for speculation and testimony of the most con tradctory character. The learned doctors of the New York Tribune are quite certain that the death of the deceased was entirely owing to the aid and comfort rendered to the demo- cracy of Maine by the ''rum-Scllers" of Boston and New York. The know nothing practtion- CTS are equally as certain that the Pope must have had hand in the matter The follow ing from the ''State of Maine," an able whig journal published at Portland, shows, ill our opinion, the true cause of the disease which has terminated so fatally for the aboltionists and know nothings. Speaking for the Merrill party as embracing lree-soilers whigs, free democrats, Maine-law advocates, and know nothings, it says:
 "The.e incongruous elements, combined to- gether solely by the cohesive power of plunder, attempted a serious of measures in violation of the constitution of this State, and against the rights of the people, under the spacious garb of temperance, and higher American feeling, unparalleled in the legislation of the country The attempt to enforce the present intensified liquor law had produced highly exasperated state of feeling throughout the State; but this was not enough to have raised the intense an- mosity that entered into the canvass This was mainly due to the introduction of the for eign legion and the disunion sentiments of Senator Wade.
 ''Bad as our State administration-uu- popular as the Maine law had become, through the violence and folly of its reputed author 1t required the pressure of other influences than those to arouse throughout tle State the intense eXctementof the occasion. It was the feeling Ipf lny-o r., +bo T,iO ! d. | disunion doctrines put forth by the republican leaders, that excited, alarmed, and aroused the people of Maine.
 Ut was Senator Wades speech at Portland on the l4th of August that Overwhelmed and crushed the republican party. He was feasted and carreSsed by Senator Fessenden, lionized and ldoIlzed by the fierce abolition fanatics of the city, after he declared the most infamous dlsunlOn sentiments that ever disgraced a poli- tical demagogue.
 ' It was this that aroused the solid men of Maine to action, and, disregardins all minor issues and personal questions, they put their shoulder to the wheel and laid disunion and the Maine law together in the same grave.
 "ln this city the conduct of Neal Dow and the transactions of the 2nd of June, were mat ters that came in direct issue, and the verdict of the people of this city has put an end to his unfortunate career.
 The boasted popularity of the Portland massacre, the shameless manner in which Rev. B. D. Peck asserted at Banso-, and in his pa- per, that the majority of the people of Port land sustained the act of homicide committed by Neal Dow on the 2nd of June, are now blown to the winds.
 The finding of the jury of his peers establishes his guilt beyond all hope of reversal of its Judgment"
 That our readers may see how this result is appreciated by the fusionists, we quote para graph from their leading paper the Portland Advertiser. The attempt to be witty Is follow ed by very sad reflection that the spells be- long to the victors Admitting the defeat of their party throughout the State, the Advertiser has The following in regard to the overwhelming result in Portland:
 "INvENTTvE GENIUs--We announced yester. day morning that the allied representative tick ct of this city must be whipped,' and that there was mo other way So we thought at the time. But the Yankee ingenuity of our people passes all comprehension; and during the excitement at the polls several citizens succeeded in discovering anotler, though not a better way, which was to whip us The nov city took and we took t,'"
 "The Advertiser will continue to be pub liShed just the same as before the election"