The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-04-27
From the Dyaton Empire.
The New Coalition.


Coming events cast their shadows be.
fore them; and=it does not take half an
Eeye to see from the shadows fitting be
fore us and the political horizon, that iD
lieu of the now already defunct Repub-
liean party, a new political monster is
to discover itself to the werld to hutter,
like the ephemera, for a day, to dazzle
for a time the simple and transporting,
and like it's great AID illustrious prede.
cessor, to vanish in thin air before the
onward progress of Democracy. This
has been the doom of all parties hither-
to opposed to the Democratic party,
a d this will be the doom of the present
ifligetimate offspring of all the discord-
ant elements that are aud have been
from the inception of the government
its enemies and traducers-
The Philadelphia Press, Forney's pa
per, after speaking of The formation of
what he is pleased to term q National
Democratic organization,n composed of
the anti Lecompton wing of tho Demo
cratic party, says: Then suppose The
Republican party should approve the
action of tLeir Representatives in Con
gress on this question, in rritiDg with
rho anti.Lecompton Democrats in their
determination 10 carry out the compro
misses of 1850, Honestly and faithfully,
and should thus withdraw the whole
question of slavery from any further ac,
ton Of the General Government, what
remains to hinder them from joining the
anti. Lccomptop wing of the Democratic
partyp'
Hero 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 iaritatiou is not sufi
cientiy explicit, Forney again extends
an invitation, not ouly to the Republi-
can party, but the remnant of the
American parry" as we'll. He says in
reference to this coalition:
"Why might this not be done /? aud
why should it not be done2 If the re
publican party is willing to give up or
lay aside its opposition TO the Kansas
Nebraska act, fatrty carried out, aud
thus end the wholecontroversy IN regard
to the slavery question, whatreasoBs are
there why the republicans, everywhere
spread ever the whole northern States,
who were once ia good standing in the
Democratic party, aud who only left it
on this slavery question, might not :e-
turn to their FIRST love, and act with the
Democrats 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
tsobsolete idea"-and join their old
friends again, as most of that organiza-
tion has done. " no can object to it p
These f~eclers, together with sundry
others from the Press at divers times,
as we'll as from other of the d safectcd
Democratic etsthroughout the Union,
have resulted in circumstances more ia
refable- tbaafhsrmes. ssaseinc could
have hoped for, as the following from
the New York Times will show
at is true that the Republicans have
voted in favor of admitting Kansas as q
slave State provided the people vote tc
have it SO.
mo great party viii plant itself here,
after upon the position that SLAVE
States seeking admission shall be exclu.
ded, because they are slave States, from
the Union. Both partics-for there
will be bat two for three or four year.
to, come-will agree that the people O
each new State shall decide the question
for themselves, and that their dicisior
shall be respected By Congress and thu
country
We have here, FIST an acknowledge
meat that the Republicans voted in ia.
yor of admitting a slave State, and are
made acquainted with the facts that ut
great party 1.-THE coalition party iuclu
ded of c%ou,se) viii plant itself hereafter
upon an opposition to the admission o.
new slave States. Thus it will be seer
the Republican party has fulfilled the
necessary Prerequisites preparatory tt
the coalition. they have abandoned
their opposition to the Nebraska bill
they have abandoned their adherence Il
the Missouri Compromise, and the vii
mot Proviso, and DOW embrace the com
promise measures Of 1850. The line o
policy marked cut by Forney has beer
strictly followed, and all that remains
now to be done is to call a convention
get up some, articles of faith and entei
the political arena under the new name
All this can beteconciled to their form
err POSITION, the New York Tribune says
That paper sees no conflict between the
Republican party now and that of 1856
1t is true, no more slave States wa
their war cry then, and now they vot,
, to admit a slave State. and what is NOR
cite US to the Philadelphia Platform t,
show us that it is ana has been just a
good a pro slavery instrument as it wa
assumed the Democratic Platform wal
: during the last cam paign. The Triaun,
!, triumphantly says by way Of rccouciliu!
their endorsement of the C%rittenden
Montgomery Amendment with tn
former proclivities on the slavery ques
; ton, that should Kansasscome into tn
: Union as a slave State by aid of Reppb
lican votes, "The Republicans would vi
: olate zone of their cherished principle
of allowing it. Turn to the Philadel
phia Platform. (see Tribune Amnana
: for SO, p. 33) scan it carefully, and 20,
: will find there no declaration. no. pro
test, against the admission of q bona id
slaye State, as such.
All these concessions are steps in til
: march towards that fual desideratun
the organization of a new party to ever
> throw the Democracy. But what party
a composed of the tag, rag and bobtail Q
: evefy ism and faction in the Union, ca
e hope to- find favor with the America
peapie?, What confidence can be pu
in men who one day may be found siren
uous advocates of the Wilmot p.oviso