Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1858-08-18
FUSION VS.. CONFUSION.

FUSION VS.. CONFUSION.
The harmonious opposition" are al
ready beginning to discover in the Ian
.uage of the African ballad that Jordan
is hard to trabbel;" and that instead of
uniting the world and the rest of mankind"
IN one solid and unbroken phalanX to OPP
l,ose and, if practicable overthrow the dem
ocratic party, that they have really placed
themselves as "A target for several detach-
lnents of skirmshes which originally be-
'onged to different wings of the main body
whose antipathies to certain features Of
he new organization are too strong to be,
70 easily overcome or forgotten. Among
these the most prominent are the more
deeply dyed ofthe Republican party who
have boldly declared that "no more slave
vtates shall be admitted into the Union,"
on the one hand; and the intense Ameri-
cans who have become still more intensi'
fed by the constant calling from among
them Of all who have any affinity for the
sable party, on the other hand Some Of
the leading Republican papers of the state
have been firing random shots at the lead
ers and the platform of the fusionists since
Early in the campaign; and last week in
Philadelphia the straight-out Americans
met in convention to make a set of nomi-
nations for city officers. Upon which ocN
casion they repudated the so-called ''peo-
pies party" and declared that no one who
had solicited nomination from it," or
did not admit the necessity of keeping up
distinct American organization could have
his name placed denomination in that con-
vention. That lick spittle sheet, the Phil
adclphia Dailg Ne,cs in referring to the pro-
eeedngs of this convention says:-
ave regret to be obliged to say that the
proceedings were of such character as was
not by any means calculated to add any
thing to the success of the great and over
towering principles for which we are con-
tending as Americans. The American par
ty, however, must not be held responsible
for the doings of this body, as it does not
and cannot represent its sentiments or its
wishes"
A twelve month since, it occupied pre-
cisely the same position whether honora-
ble or dshonorable, we leave the public tc
determine that the numbers of this
straight" convention do now. And no
journal could be loouer or more fierce il
its denunciations of the then 'fusion'
movement. But alas; the great champion
prescription has secumbed to the over
powering influence of "sambo;' and It's
americanism now consists in talking about
foreign influence and the Roman IIierar
chy, and supporting the fusion candidates
How are the mighty fallen!
THAT LErrER.-Our neighbor of th
Journal attempts to grow facetious owe
certain extracts purporting to be made b.
Col. Forney from private letter to Mr.
Stanton of Kansas, by Senator Bigler, il
August. 1857. Whatever capital the enc
mics of Senator B. can make out of dishon
orable means of this kind they can enjoy
after She truth is known.
We happen to know something abou
the relations between Mr.. Stanton an,
Mr.. Bigler. They were friends, and whe>
Mr. Stanton requested Senator Bigler t.
travel five hundred miles to Washington
and back, TO appeal to the President t.
appoint him Superintendent of India
Affairs in the room of Gov. Cummins-h
having declared that the appointment c
Secretary of Kansas had nearly ruined hin
-.. Mr.. Bigler complied with this request, an
when he wrote Mr.. Stanton private note
giving him the gratifying news, that, Q
the proper tine, he would get the apoin
ment il was the beginning and the endin
ofthis correspondence.
A base betrayal of confidence is his r,
ward. Mr.. Bigler does not know whethC
nc wrote the extract or not; for regart
M ing the note as confidential, he kept n
copy. Mr.. Forney could have phblishe
any thing else with as much prophet!
But suppose Mr.. B. did writethe extracts
They convict him of no inconsistency o
the Lecompton question, for the Consiitl
tional convention had not even assemble
at the date of his letter; nor yet Of a wnr
Of friendship for the Administration, fc