The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1855-11-14

dppdIFeuI. SIue StateSIHen OI our party
being better Informed of the wants of the
country, are in advance of public opinion
and whenever an important measure is acted
upon discord follows until the masses pro-
gress to the position occupied by the
leaders at the time of the action.
| This occasional dissatisfaction has been
the life and soul of the parties sailing
under the name of Wing, Fusion,TKnow
Nothing, Republican, in short every par.
ty opposing the Democratic. AS often
they have been overthrown and some
times even annihilated The establish.
ment of the principle of popular sover-
eighty, gave the late prctext for panic.
Misguided politicians take advantage Of
it, and point to Mason and Dixon's line
as the division between the Jews and
Samaritans. No power is left unapplied
which could contribute to unite one end
of our union in hostility 10 the other
! The most strenuous efforts have been
made to fuse all the factions in common
opposition. ~
/ But the effort is signal failure, and
affords an instance of fusion party
breaking to pieces by its own discordant
elements. In our State it was successful
in a State election 1t succeeded by a
species of bargain and sale which no peo-
| pie will suffer to pass unrebuked. The
leaders of two aantagonistic factions met
and contracted to aid each other into
power and divide the spoils Such con-
tract as will never he endorsed by the
people of Ohio again. Already the fac
tons are separating and directing their
forces against each other. As proof Of
this we give the following statement OF
Thomas II. Ford, Lieut.. Governor elect OF
Ohio, made to the Editor of the Auburn
(N. " American, as we find it in the
Wheeling Gazette, q Know Nothing pa
per:
He says the late election in that State
was thorough and complete American
triumph, and that if the American party
had nominated a clean State ticket, it
would have swept Ohio by a splendid ma
jority In an evil hour they consented to
adopt Senator Chase for Governor, and
carrying such dead weight crippled and
injured the. American party. Himself,
and all the other candidates on the State
ticket, were members of the American
party, having its confidence and receiving
its votes. Chase's. majority is 1929,
while Ford's, and the rest Of the ticket
ranges from $4,000 to 35,000r'
This shows very plainly the state of
feeling existing between the two factions
of Fusiondon in Ohio In nearly all the
other States they have nominated sepa-
rate tickets, and are warning against each
other with as much zeal as they ever did
against the Democrats. Even in Massa-
chusetts, thevery Babylon of Abolitionism
they are arrayed in the most inveterate
hostility. , 9ss All 40 a.ss.aEs sar
Such is the present condition of the
motley opposition to the Democratic par
ty in the north Born of momentary
excitement, it resolves itself into its ori-
ginal clements as soon as that excitement
subsidies Thus adding still another proof
that the people, however, they may be
misguided for time, will ultimately do
right-another proof that the political
leaders who endeavor to break down Dem
ocratic principles, are mistaken in their
opinion of the American people.
Extract from Letter of Gov. Wise.
The following extract is from a letter
written on the 18th ult, by Henry A.
Wise to the Democratic meeting in New
York. .saf.ess FAD 7a
As to the secret t~Americans"-the know
nothings-day has broke upon them.
And it is amusing to see Sans bats and
owls of midnight, fitting and Tapping,
blind, about in the sunlight. They are
seeking sorrily to slSulk from light and
some flap baCk to poor des-
erted Whiggery, and there some escape
to the Republican" fusion. The day
has dissolved the charm. The true bird
Of America, Jove's own eagle, is on
wing that never tires, in the lambent light
of the mid heavens. Uncle Sam has
reused himself and shaken off the slumber
and stupor Of the night dreams, and is at
his active work in broad day. ~ seEdts
The devil baited the hooks of some
preachers with politics of the Pope's big
toe; and the hooks of some politicians
with the ,unco-righteousness of a knavish
priestcraft, and set them bobbing together
for the souls of dupes, for the corruption
of the Church, and for the destruction; of
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