The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-12-13
GOING ALONE.

Prom the kenosha (His) Tribune and Telegraph. No
yember Is.
The Milwaukee american expresses the opin-
ion, that If the Republicans have triumphed in
the recent State election, they are indebted for
such triumph to the Know Nothings. To this
the Sentinel dissents, expressing the opinion
that the Order has done the cause much more
harm than good, and that it cannot disband too
soon for the best interests of the State To this
the american again rejOins, asserting that the
Order labored for the Republican ticket. spent
money to promote its success, and finally that
it brought some fifteen or twenty thousand votes
to the ticket and the cause
We believe, with the Sentinel. that If has
done the Republican cause a vast deal more
harm than good. We have no idea that it has
brought, all told to the Republican cause, five
hundred voters who would not have been with
as without such aid; and that besides causing
discussions, strifes, and jealousies, in our own
ranks, 1t has repealed from us at least five thou
sand votes, we have not a shadow of doubt.
The american adds, further that the Order
has had the last to do with fusion" in this
State that 1t means to have. Hereafter. it is
| going 1t aione-that IS, it will nominate and
| support Its own candidates. To this we have
| no KIND OF ob]ecton-on the contrary we ear
nestly hope that such may be the case. But
| that 1t will make very meagre show in going
1t alone, we are certain. The farce is nearly
| played out-a year being full as long as it can
| flourish IN any one spot-and it now keeps up
show of strength only by means of the new
victims 1t inyeigles. The facts of recent cleo
tons show that where it was strong last year II
was weak this, and that it exists only by making
inroads into new counties and towns which it
had not before visited 1t is like an epidemic
sweeping the country, which, while it attacks
every spot, never stays long in place, nor
taxes the same victim twice. In the multitude
! OF parties existing at the late elections in New
| 1ork and Massachusetts, it seems 10 have Q
plurality OF the vote, but we are confident that
the hgures will show It's vote has largely dimin
lshed IN both States since last year.
a large majority of those who have gone into
the Order we are sure, did so out of no hatred
to foreigners, nor desire to prescribe them
nor from any unworthy or unpatriotic motive
In the chaos of parties, the corruptions which
prevailed, the demagoguism which was rife
they thought they saw in this Order a means O.
reformation and an ark of safety. But brie
experience dispels the illusion. They learn
; what they might have known before. that the
evils suffered do not spring from the causes
they spprehended, nor does the Order offer any
relief for them. They find out at last, the evil
grow out of the long continued ascendency of {
corrupt Slavery party, and the only means o
warfare with them is bold, open, hand-to HAND
encounter, and the only real success is to b,
Sound in tia defeat and demolition of that cor
rupt party. Finding ont this, they find out an
other thing; ard that is, that tie Republican
party is the only party which meets the neoes
sites of the case. Hence, as we said, a year i,
full as long as the Order can flourish success
fully in one place; for, with the exception o
the few who are governed, as their primary mo
tive, by a hatred of foreigners and desire tt
curtail their rights, it is voluntarily abandoned
Of course, too, in going it alone, the Order
expects to 60 it as National party. 1t means
to ignore the Slavery issue, or to compromise
with reference TO it, and for the Presidency vii
be obliged to present Willard Fillmore, Sam
Houston, or some such person. What them
On the other hand, the contest will probably be
between Frank Pierce and William H. Seward
How many, then, in this State or any other
Northern State, with the smallest share even OF
Republican feeling, will follow after this dodge?
1t may take from the ranks of the Compromi
sers, the Union-savers, and the dodgers" gen.
orally, but from our ranks none. When the
contest comes, as come it will, at the next
| Presidential election, fairly and squarely be-
tween National Freedom On one hand and Ma
tionsl Slavery on the other, We are confident