The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-08-26
From the New York Evening Post July 20,
THE ANTI-REPUBLICAN CONSPIRACY.

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as the responsible leader of one of the great
parties into which the people of this State have
been divided. From the organization to the
extinction of the Wing party, he was pre-emi.
nently its political and editorial exponent.
Upon the accession of Mr.. Fillmore to the Pres.
idency by the decease of President TAYLOR, an
attempt Wa made to seduce the New York
Wings to surrendering their Northern princi-
Piles, and to assist in reconciling the country to
the passage of the fugitive slave law. The at.
tempt resulted in q schism of the Wing party,
and its Redistribution into two new political
organizations-one termed the Native Ameri.
can, and the other the Republican. The Ma.
tive American treated race and religion as par
amount questions, and tolerated the widest di.
versity of opinion upon the subject of Slavery.
Mr.. Fillmore's partisans, North and South, en-.
rolled themselves in its ranks, and he himself
became its candidate for the Presidency. The
Republicans treated Freedom in the Terrific
ries, and especially in that Territory which was
covered by the Missouri compromise, as the
paramount question, and supported Fremont
for the Presidency. =
exerted as much influence perhaps, as any
other person, in forming the political combina.
ton which resulted in the comparative triumph
of the cause of Freedom, though net quite in
the election of its candidate, in 1856. Al the
last Presidential election, the Republican prin-
ciples and the Republican candidates eneoun-
tered from no quarter such malignant and des-
perate opposition as from the supporters of Mr..
Fillmore. The Republican candidate, how.
ever, then received vote in this State nearly
az large as both the rival candidates together,
and carried States enough, within one, to have
elected him, while Mr.. Fillmore carried but q
single State, and that slave State. That cleo.
ton was the end of the Native American or
Know Nothing party, and it was the end of
Mr.. Fillmore, politically. From that time
forth, it was apparent to any intelligent OBJ
server, that there were but two live political or
CARNATIONS in the country-one the so-called
Democratic, and the other the Republican
and the Americans as a body have since been
gradually merging into one or the other
of these organizations, according to their re-
spective affiuities on the Slavery question. A
few of their more prominent leaders, however,
who have failed to get from President Buchan-
an what they regard as a suitable reward for
the services they rendered him in 1856 by their
support of Fillmore, and who are unwilling to
take their place in the ranks of the Republican
party during period of reasonable probation,
have been trying for some months past to con-
vince the Republicans of the necessity of ia
king new name, and adopting new set of
principles, as the only conditions upon which
the opponents of the Federal Administration
can be united.
To remove what they properly consider one
of the principal obstacles to this political re-
organization, its advocates have made gene
raj and combined assault upon Mr. Weed, as the
embodiment Of all that is corrupt and mischiev-
GUS and disorganizing in the politics of the
State. Everything that has gone wrong in all
the parties with which he was ever connected
is laid at his door, and the Republicans are
frankly assured that, if they will only make
away with him, there will be no further diff
Guilty in uniting the opposition under the name
of The Peoples Party" or the Crittenden-
Amendme mt Party" or some other trumpery
name of that sort, and all dissensions between
them and the Republicans will end, like an
old-fashioned novel, in shooting the villain of
the plot, and in the happiness of all the survi-
vora.
1t is not without modification that we have
occasionally found these appeals in Republican
journals, and have seen men whom we know to
be sincere in their devotion to Republican prin-
ciples lending them patient ear. We will not
be accused of too great Partially for Mr.. Weed
as an editor or politician, for no two journals
have, until comparatively recent period, been
more constantly in conflict upon party issues,
than the Euening Journal and the Erening
Post; but we cannot permit ourselves, by our
silence, to become indirectly parties to a move
ment which aims at anything rather than to
promote the true interests of the Republican
party, and which contemplates the grossest in.
justice to one who has placed the Republican
party in this State under infinite obligations
We cannot forget that when Mr.. Fillmore tried
to sell ont his party to the South for nomina
ton to the Presidency, and even went 80 far as
to sign the fugitive slave bill, it was Mr.. Weed
to whom the credit belongs of having prevent
ed the State of New York from approving tie
ignominious transaction. We cannot forget
that Mr.. Weed was the only Wing in the State
who had sagacity enough to discern the neces-
slty and the practicability of forming Repub-
ican party out of the FreeSoil elements of the
old political organizations in 1866, and political
influence and ability enough to bring his own
psrtisans into that combination. We cannot
forget that, in spite of Mr.. FiIlmores treachery,
and with the whole Federal Administration "a.
voring the extension of Slavery, constantly
against him. the party with which Mr. Weed
has acted has been almost constantly in the as.
cendant, and always faithful to the cause of
Freedom. Neither the Wing nor the Republi
can parties in this State ever faltered on that
question; and for that steadfastness of his
party, no member of it was responsible to 40
great an extent as Mr.. Weed.
We will say, farther, that while we have diff
fersd occasionally from the Eueninq Journal
upon questions of party policy, and upon ques.
tons OF principle, since the Republican party
was organized, we have never had the slightest
ground for doubling his perfect loyalty to the
compact upon which that organization was
based, or for suspecting him of any disposition
to take advantage of his political strength in
the State, to impose illiberal or ungenerous
terms upon his allies. On the contrary, though
exerting an unbounded influence over By far
the largest fragment which entered into the
composition of the Republican party, no one
can say that Mr.. Weed ever gave the minority
the slightest cause to complain of any UNEQUAL
distribution of party favors. he has done all
that he could, we believe, to obliterate past DO
.itcal distinctions, and to make of all who cher.
lsh the great principles of Republicanism. a
united, homogeneous and irresistible party.
NOR can we name an instance in which II 40.
peared to US that, in the prosecution of person.
al ends, he had lost sight of this great purpose.
Such man the Republican party cannot afford
to spare, and if it could, we will not stand
quietly by and see him stricken down by men
who are not worthy to unloose the latchsts of
bis shoes. We think we discern very clearly.
In this movement against Mr. Weed, a combin.
ed attack upon the great principles of Freedom
which he has 80 long and 80 successfully repre-.
scented, and against the Republican party, of
which he was one of the most efficient archi.
tects. 1t is egged on by men who advocated
and vlndicated the fugitive slave by