Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-04-29
The New Coalition.

from theSshadows fitting before US and
the political horizon, that in lieu of the
now already defunct Republican party,
a new political monster is to discover it
self to the world to futter, like the ep-
hemera, for a day, to dazzle for a time
the simple and unsuspecting, and like
its great and illustrious predecessor, to
vanish in thin air before tn. onward
progress of Democracy. This has been
the doom of all parties hitherto opposed
to the Democratic party, and this will be
the doom of the present illigitimate off
spring of all the discordant elements
that are and have been from the incep-
ton of the govern nent its enemies and
tradncers.
The Philadelphia Press, Forney's pa
per, after speaking of the formation Of
what he is pleased to term a National
Democratic organizations" composed of
the anti Lecompton wing of the Demo-
cratic party, says: Then suppose the
Republican party should approve the &C
ton of their Representatives in Con
gress on this question, in uniting with
the nti-Lecompton Democrats in their
determination to carry out the comprom-
Uses of 1850, honestly and faithfully, and
should thus withdraw the whole ques-
ton of slavery from any further action
of the General Government, what re-
mains to hinder them from joining the
nti-Lecompton wing of the Democratic
party 2"
Here we have it plainly stated. The
whole programme is laid before US, and
as if to make the matter more emphatic
and for fear the invitation is not sufic-
iently explicit, Forney again extends
an invitation, not only to the Republi-
can party, but to the remnant of the
American party" as we'll. He says in
reference to this coalition
"Why might this not be done? and
why should it not be done? If the re-
publican party is willing to give up or
lay aside its opposition to the Kansas
Nebraska act, fairly carried out, and
thus end the whole controversy in re-
gard to the slavery question, what
reasons are there why the republicans,
everywhere spread over the whole north
ern States, who were once in good
standing in the Democratic party. and
who only left it on this slavery question,
might not return to their first love, and
act with the Democratic party again?
Suppose too, that the remnant of
the American party, who once belonged
to the Democratic party, and remain in
opposition to it, should yield their one
idea-which may now be said to be an
'obsolete idea and join their old
friends again, as most of their organi-
cation has done. Who can object to it?'
These f~eelers, together with sundry
others from the Press at divers times, as
we'll as from other of the disaffected
Democratic sheets throughoutthe Union,
have resulted in circumstances more
favorable than the most sanguine could
have hoped for, as the following from
the New York Times will show:
alt is true that the Republicans have
voted in favor of admitting Kansas as a
slave State provided that the people
vote to nave it so. x X X X X x
No great party will plant itself hereaf-
ter upon the opposition that slave States
seeking admission shall be excluded,
because they are slave States, from the
Union. Both parties-for there will be
but two for three or four years to come
will agree that the people of each new
State shall decide the question for them
selves, and that their decision shall be
respected by Congress ard the country?
We have here, first an acknowledge
ment that the Republicans voted in ia
vor of admitting a slave state, and are
made acquainted with the fact that nc
great party (the coalition party included
of course) will plant itself hereafter up.
on an opposition to the admission Of
new slave States. Thus it will be seen
that the Republican party has fulfilled
the necessary perquisites preparatory tc
the coalition. They have abandoned
their opposition to the Nebraska bill
they have abandoned their adherence tc
the Missouri Compromise, and the Viii
mot Proviso, and now embrace the COM
promise measures of 1850. The line Of
policy marked out by Forney has been
strictly followed, and all that remain:
now to be done is to call a convention
get up some article of faith and entel
the political arena undcr a ne,o name
All this can be reconciled to their for
mer position the New York Tribune
says. That paper sees no conflict be
tween the Republican party now an,
that of 1856. 1t is true, no more slav,
States was their war cry then, and nov
they vote to admit a slave State, AM
what is more cite us to the Philadelphia
Platform to show us that it is and ha
! been Just as good a pro slavery instru
ment as it was assumed the Democrat
Platform was during the last campaign
J The Tribune triumphantly says by wa,
of reconciling their endorsement of tn
Crittenden = Montgomery Amendment
with their former proclivites on tn