Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1856-02-15
FRIDAY MORNING, FEB. Is. 1856
Esiohala Leaders Seeking for k.maly ANA
ton
There Is an experiment now being tried

There Is an experiment now being tried
ny political leaders in Maine worthy the
attention Of the pc5p'e, and % which we
invite their special attention. The lead
CTS of ;1e So called democratic part!
through ;hoiz presses and other means.
C.. II .lc Ebert 10 c ,usc their allies. the
former leaders Of tins remnant Of the wing
party, Ia organization ofwh:ch they have
prctenici 70 hold for three or four years
t. s,ya Up that organization and be Who'll
" and st once fused, and swallowed up
N tie Democratic party. These leaders
Of the Wig party ale wiling aud very
anxious to do this. they even say in their
Range. Journal, that they asgce now in
principle entirely with the dcmoora; lead
ers--...ey mouth very slibly the word
Union, as anonymous Win Slavery, and
they VS.. to &c doNn in the democratic
rest: blt they wish to carry enough of
t..eir followers VIII tAc1n-ncn who have
to....osed their leaf because they made
load professions q carrying only the Wing
5aa-@--,57catso they know tina, they
will only be -eSqrtled in proportion to the
Pa....ticsi and voting capital they can put
:ato t'lc co.ccra.
The drzsocratic leaders arc urging these
-,rr 70 hurry up their arrangements. but
the so:-t.issant whis leaders beg to be per-
:ni:tei the TIM necessary to talk thu rank
sna a.a u the whig party into the RICH:
state OF mind 70 agree 70 transf =, from
the Wig party into the .mocratic patty
to Do duty, not for principles, but for po
,iticai leaders. These quiet and sincere
men who have held to the whig orgari-
astion, and who have been encouraged TO
Dc 80 Ga account o. the past history OF
that party, do not see the propriety, in
the first place, q; abandoning the party,
nor the necessity FOR doing SO; and even
i!taere y anecess:t: for an Abandonment
OF the party, It docs nc: seem clear to
them why thcg should 50 the s1rthe-es:
Possibl2 f-o-a theircAerish d political prin-
eiples . g:r.itc With the 50 called democrat
i-2sr.y and uaierits single banner. The
conductors OF the Bangor Journal, who be-
ga . .cir carer u III loudest yociferations
syaini. I'll fusion and who screamed at the
top Of their swect v0ices in favor Of main
;sini@s, intact, the wing party have tanned
down and are now week IN and week
cut. belaooring their readers to forget all
the glorious history OF the past-so for
get the gallant Henry Clay and Daniel
N'cbs.er-to forge. even the leading doc
t,ines and principles of the whig party.
and al It's public declarations, and all its
sable ssru9 sics, and to merge themselves
into .Ac ranks CT .ilair former political
,ze-ai"s TO carry tie ark of their polt-
zeal party into the camp OF the democrat
ic ps.:s Gad there let it be debasci and
cz.sae / cat. il order ,lat their leaders
may .aare s:,e spoils Of petty officers, as
che purchase monas ofsaeis treachery and
:ac;r debssamcnt.
Tae Belfast journal democratic sheet
frca the start. a2d others Of like charac-
ter a-s now Ginning in with ike purpose.
i1r merging of The whig party with their
wing OF he d.aoera'ic party. all of :hem
very lovingly agreeing with the Bangor
JcG-ns. that there is Eow no difference,
tast the democratic parry claims the pre-
er,:ncncc of taking ia'o itself tho whig
parry AID Of rubbing ont it's nan1c. Blu,
wAai is tae WING party aside from rs lead
era 10 gain BY this, They do 10, gain BAT
greatly lose, in Their political principles
a,d measures. because ,hey mus, swallow
nll ,ha, they have previously profssscd
asains, he spread Of Slavery over free
territory: They mast yield up The anali'y
OF the Compromise a.rasurcs.- and they
gan nothing but the poor privilege OF
voting for the nominees Of tie democrat
ic cancusses and conventions. Il cannon
DC .appos II ,ha, tbs thousands OF men in
Maine who hay. chung to The whir par
~ even agaias the doctrine that those
who think alike shoaie. ac' 10 ye,her, and |
TOW to De- Led like sheep 10 the sizash- |
nv. bya few rock'css and unprinc;Plod
sea !ors
This taaacra.ir party, asi' calls i'self,
has arrayed itself az inst the organization
tad principles of The wing, American and
Republican pa.'ies 1t has arrcyed il
self aseias; IN" popaa ar sentiment in "a
vor of freedom in tho territories. and
against the SPREAD a. the !oprosy Of sia--
very l, has op7o3,l Use agaiast those
,,ra'ar measures Of las. y7ar S sis'a'ion.
/, is row posing Use fasaiasi he Judic- t