Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-10-30
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[Erom the Pittsburgh Gnzstte1
! The DIsINTEGKATIOS ASD FusIoS OF PAKrlEs-
I'm Iowa, where Fillmore had $3.50 votes, the
American organization has been virtually aban'
doned and those members which had not PreVi-
ousy Joined the Republicans have gone over
openly to the locofocos. This accounts for the
reduced Republican majority in that State at the
recent election. Fortunately, tie fusion was
not sufficiently strong To carry the State.
The same fusion had previously been Effected
Ia Indiana aud Illinois. aud has also, tins lHli,
been accomplished in Wisconsin he tIllihore
organ in Milwaukee is now supporting the loco,
foco ticket In all these States land we may add
Michigan 10 the list,J there are now but TWO
parties-the Republican and IOcolocO
In Ohio, q nominal attempt was in7de to keep
up the distinctive American organizations. aud
1 State ticket was put in the field; but II was
| ticket without party. IN Cincinnati ana one
I or two other places the members uhitca WIN
tbe Republicans; but generally they went over
bodily io,the Niger democracy. in Ashtabnla'
franklin, and in the Reserve aud Central conn-
ties they voted for Payne aud the democratic
STATE. ticket. Notwithstanding the fact thnt uie
candidate on 1t for Secretary of State was a
German Catholic. or the %, l2G votes s'N9" :"
Fillmore, Van Trump has receiver oI' 49,
1000 now: the rest has been divided oG."te''
Chase aud PAYNE the bulk Of il going TO Paync'
Frcmont's minority in Ohio last fall, over 'u-
Ls,,, ,r.s Ia G52 Chase has now about
. 100 The combination Of the Fillmore ana bu-
cionan vote having produced this red"c'ioh.--
Here. however, in Iowa, the fusion was ",'
sucrcssful; but it has none the less scTTcd |"
destroy the American party aud blend It's re-
mining members with the Niger De'nogta
The Press Col. Forney'S paper, aHIciP"''
the same result in PENNSYLVANIA. IL say
eve need not take into cnnsIdorHli' !. vac
thrown for Mr. Hazlchurst, because u - .'ir
r. ~ thot If the Democratic party Is true 20 l'Sel'
be enrDilCu uIueE
CO. banner. Every citizen who voted Tor MT.
UayI.l,rrst Ind more or less confidence III the
i1on,ocr,tic marty. Those who still call theul-
scIyes Americans must see that Americamsm
Inns become an obsolete idea"
II is presumablc that Col. Forney knows
something of the nature of this vote, for it is
understood that he had the eAtree at
the side door" last fall, and has not lost the
he then acquired. We have no doubt
hat the organization has run its course in this
State, and that many, perhaps most, oil Its mem
,ers will seek place in the lOcofoco party; but
here are large numbers of honest men IN us
anks who will not be transferred at the will OF
heir leaders, but will seek more congenlal asso
iatiOns elsewhere. h
The fact however, remains indiSputabIe, that
he general tendency of the Fillmore party III
he north is to Locofocoism. Those whose great
st horror of POpery, whose most terrible lear
vas "foreIgn influence" whose watch-cry was
put none but natives on guard, nave gFaNua-
d naturally to the party OF Popery, and become
political betIfrllows Of the foreigners whom thcy
Effected most to dread And the locofoco party,
90. which was so much distressed about the per-
scouting spirit of Known thingism, which set
tsef up as the only friend aud defender OF the
tizens, and which distinguished
tsa!f in eliminating and reyiling the men
whose theory it was that 'AmcTicani should
ule Arnc.ica," how naturally it opens its arms
0 receive to its embrace the men whom 1t has
,rofcssed to oppose so bitterly, without once
skiing them to abiure or renounce their pecu-
lar political views! The world has rarely pre-
ented such spectacle.
In New York things seem to be tending in the
anne direction. Fillmoreism had u stronger
old in that state than any other, and the party |
as maintained its identity there longer than
lsewherc, but the work Of disntegration is !
Ding on there too. The anti-slayery Ameri- |
ans are forming coalitions throughput 'nS
tatc on local nn,ninaiia.--I with the hepuDu-
-, ,riitte the pTu.slaVcry ones unite readily |
18th the locofocos. In some places the three
arties remain distinct; but very generally the
Americans" are coalcscing with either one or
he other, party, according as their sympathies
nn. The bitter and reckless ones, such as
Brooks aud Scroggs, will find natural home
nth the Niger Democracy; while those who
ave more honesty TO boast of aud have no pri- |
ate gricfs tn nurse will merge themselves in the
Republican party.