Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-11-29

unsound mon for seats in Congress and the alter
native Of loss by their defeat a greater loss by
their election, the tendency to substitute excite
mcnt tor sentiment in the pru9agandism of the
campaign; and those consequent reactionary
movements whose existence it was impossible to
conceal on the approach of the election.
! On the twenty.second day of February last q
! body of men assembled at Pittsburgh to lay the
foundations Of Republican party. To that Con
ecnton came Horace Greeley Of the New York
Tribune, bearing, as he said a message, not Of
his own, but from older and wiser heads than him
self whose words Of wisdom he Geputed t.
deliver. lie desired that there should be great
caution, and that above ali things, measures SAVIOR
I ing Of precipitation shoLld be avoided lie rep
resented the times rs exceedingly critical and gave
! his hearers to understand that nothing but the
most consummate adrotness could he relied upon
to accomplish the end in view. lie expressed the
belief that coalition of all parties and persons
opposed to the present administration would he
necessary in order to accomplish its defeat, and
advised that a communication be opened with a
Know Nothing body then sitting in New York, and
that the doings at Pittsburgh might be in cores
pondence With those Of the body at the commercial
metropolis. This was the message of Horace
Greeley by whom dictated we will not pretend to
say, The evil that has come Of it is before the
world.
Here it was and probably by the only person in
the world who could have done it to equal
extent that Fusion was inaugurated and made Il
pait Of the tactics of the Republican party. Its
first effect was the revival of Now Nothingsm,
which then expiring under the influence Of
free republican sentiments, and making it, what
otherwise it could not have been, material
element in the campaign. When the leaders of
the Know Ncthings found themselves worth pur-
chasing they raised their prize. Courted by both
parties, they traded with both, aud with both
hands took bribes from those whom they betrayed.
IL the place Of principle, coalition was put for
ward as the ground Of hope or success. Men more
Know Nothing than Republican assumed to lead,
and nominations we're made Of such yet
bowling over their Americanism in the privacy of
Know Nothing concaves.
just in proportion as the advice of NJ. Greeley y
adopted has the Republican party failed. In
Ohio fusion had been tried, and that to Re
publcans enough In the general election it
was, in turn avoided, but it is than probable
that many Thousand votes were lost by its inter
mixture in the local canvass. In Pennsy sylvania
and Indiana i: permitted to have its full effect
and that which might have been expected has
occurred Mr.. Greeley and the body of New York
politicians by whom he was accompanied and those
whom he represented, had no faith in the Repub-
lcan sentiment-none in the people. They ap-
peGred to be capable Of but idea-that of a
composite par4y--and of but one wish--to succeed.
BY their too great anxiety for success they pre-
pared the way for defeat They have itand the full
| credit of the result should be theirs