The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-07-12
REPUBLICAN PARTY.

We publish two communications today, one
from Butler county and one from our own coun-
ty, on the subject of the organization of the Re-
publican party. They give utterance to a de-
sire we hear expressed in every quarter, for the
speedy formation of party in Pennsylvania
which will affiliate with the Republicans of
Ohio and in the other free States. That such
party will soon be formed here, and in many
counties Of Pennsylvania, we look upon as GER
tain. The exigences Of political affairs, both
in the State and nation, demand it.
The Republican party will soon be organized
in Beaver and Lawrence counties, and we pre-
sumo also in Butler as well as Allegheny. In
Mercer, Washington, and some other counties,
| the Wing committees have been called together
to consider what is proper to be done In the
present emergency, and we do not doubt they
will recommend their constituents to follow the
example of their fellow Wings in sister counties.
Crawford, Venango, and Erie, and all the north
ern tier of counties, are ripe for the Republican
movement. The centre, the south, and the east,
will no doubt come into the movement In good
time.
The Wing party is so broken up and disorgan-
lied, that it seems useless to keep up detached
local organizations. In the South, there are
only two parties, the Democratic and the Know
Nothings, both intensely devoted to Slavery.
The Wings in that section have gone into the
new Order almost in body. There is not a
Wing paper, that we are aware of in the whole
South, that does not openly avow adhesion to
Know Nothingism, or heartily sympathize with
it. The case is different in the North. Here,
many Wing papers and hundreds of thousands
of Wings have stood aloof from the secret Or
der. In many of the States, these unseduced
Wings have united heartily with the Republican
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followed by the remainder.
We augur the best results to flow from this
movement, and have scarcely doubt of its en-
tire success. Besides the immense number OF
Wings and FreeSoilers who are prepared to
Join it, it will receive large accessions from the
Democratic ranks, of persons who are heartily
tired of the doughfaceism and subsection to
Slavery of the Democratic party. But its great
est accessions next to the Wings, will be from
the ranks of the Know Nothings. Thousands
of persons entered the Order, not from any love
of secrecy-that was rather an objection-nor
| from any particular fondness for the doctrines
| of Nativism. They had become weary of the
old parties, and thought they ought to be dis
banded. They were signing for just such a
party as the Republican party will be, and they
will forsake the Order by thousands, to join the
ranks of party that is set for the defence OF
Northern rights, and whose object is, to erect an
| impregnable barrier against the encroachments
of Slavery. Many in the Order in this region, we
doubt not, are now waiting for the Inauguration
| of the Republican party of Pennsylvania, and
we say to them confidently that they will not
have to wait long. The time for decided polit-
ical action is rapidly approaching.
Gov. Reeder and Gen. Stringfellow, of Kansas,
met at Westport Mo-, on the Governors return
thither recently, when Gen. Stringfelow de-
| manded from Gov Reeder a retraction of char.
ges or imputations made against him by the
latter in some one of his Eastern speeches.
| Gov Reeder declined to make any retraction
or to give satisfaction, and then followed a per
sonal rencontre, in which Stringfellow won no
laurels.
| The Richmond (Virginia) Examiner classes
Indiana, Illinois, and California, among the
slave States; and thinks that New Hampshire
Iowa, Michigan, New Jersey, Connecticut
Maine, and Pennsylvania, may all be set down
as aiders and abettors of the cause of Slavery
Will these States not vindicate their fame from
such foul accusations or suspicious?
SPAIN.-Mr. Dodge on the 18th of June hao
his first interview with the Minister of Foreign
Affairs. 1t was most cordial, and the Ameri
can Minister declared that his Government wa.
DESTROYS of preserving friendly relations with
that of Spain, and that he should act in thai