The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1858-06-11
A NEW FUSION PARTY.

NEW FUSION PARTY.
The leaders oflhe various factions that COM
pose the opposition to the Democratic party in
this State, are once more manGuvering to fuse
their different fag-ends together, in the vain
hope that by 50 doing they will be able to sue
ceed at the coming Fall election. The patriot
ism ofSwoopE and others Of the "Straight A
mericans' who 50 vehemenly denounced the
Black Republicans last year, has oozed out at
their fingers ends and they are just now busiIy
engaged in selling out the ''Straight American
organization to the very party whose creed they
proirssed to hold in utter abhorrence. Their
appetite for the loayes and fishes has ovcrcome
their respect for principle and they do not hesi-
tate 10 array themselves under the black banner
at which they have so often pointed the finger
Of scorn, How can they ask then who have
hitherto acted with them, believing them honest
in their leadership, to 60 with them to the ranks
Of The Black Republicans, whom they have for
years opposed as enemies to the Constitution and
the MON How can they call upon their
followers in Bedford county TO join the men
who sacrificed Fillmore in order to secure lbe
election Of Fremont? They cannot doit, unless
they are lost to every feeling Of shame and
every sense oil honor and self respect. They
cannot do it unless they believe their party 10
be composed Of men who will blindly follow
wherever they may lead.
If SwooPE and the other sStraight Ameri-
can leaders, imagine that they can transfer
their organization to the ranks Of the Black Re
pubicans without any trouble, we can tell
them that their imaginations are grievously at
fuuIt There are hundreds OF men-Hationa.
Union-loving men-in the sSnaght Ameri-
can" organization, who Will never act with any
such sectional party as the BIacl, Republican,
and who are ready to come into the Democratic
ranks whenever the issue shalt be between
Black Republicanism and Democracy. There
are Straight Americans" ofihis sort in Bedford
county-men who once We're the flower OF the
Wing party-men who never viii unite with
any political organization that like the Black
Republican, ignores the PrIncrPle Of noiionaii-
~ "iltCI always Was tIiE BdSls Vi w nl5 tiidl-
forms. The four hundred men who last Fall
voted for Isaac HazIehurst, in opposition to the
Black Republican Wilmot, have thus far shown
themselves to be men Of principle, and we do
not believe thatthey will follow any leader 10
the ranks Of the Black Republicans and thus
acknowledge that they did wrong in supporting
Mr.. HazIehurst. Such men as JoHN McVicE-
EE, Of Harrison, JonN BLAcKEUEN, Of St Clair,
Charles STuckEy and JAMES CAnNELL of
Monroe, MICHAEL LUTz, of Snake Spring, think
and act for themselves and Will not change their
political coat with every idle party breeze.
The same trick which the .sStraight Ameri-
can" leaders are about performing now, was
tried by En-. JORDAN s, Co., in 1886, and yet
there vas respectable number Of Straight
it was tried again but with worse success than
before. In 1888 II is to be tried once more,
but by different operators, and it remains to be
seen whether this last effort Of the Black Re
publicans TO force the "Strajght Americans
into their ranks, will terminate successfully.