The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-06-02

the Wing party. the one in which
Harrison swept the country In 1910
being the first The slavery Essze
began 20 come up n q por1entozs
shape shortly after Taylor took once
CALIFORNIA; entrance IS 4 free state.
which broke the balance il the SER
ate between the North and the South
BY giving the North the preponder-
ance. was part OF the series Of deals
which are collectively called the
compromise OF 1850. and put he
slavery question az the front in such
menzcing form that the whig party
lost many Of its supporters in the
South Taylor showed that he wss
against the compromisers in his par
ty- and this not only weakened him
with the Southern Wings. but vas
one Of the causes why the Wing par
~ lost strength IN the South. Many
Of the Southern Wings, as an eifec-
tive means of combating the spirit
which they imagined TO be rising IN
the North against slavery, allied
themselves with the Democratic par
". and when the enactment Of the
Kansas-Nebraska Law OF 1854 sent
most Of the Northern Wings into the
new party, the Republican, formed in
that year 10 combat the extension Of
slavery into the territories. the Wing
party of the South virtually passed
away.
But all CT the Southern Wings did
not go Immediately into the Democra-
tic party In the election of 1852 the
Wing candidate. Scott, carried only
four states in the whole country
Vermont. Massachusetts. Kentucky
and Tennessee-but two OF these. as
shown, were in the South. Shortly
after that canvass a secret oath
bound organization, popularity known
as the Know-Nothing party because
of the 81 know nothing about il" au-
swers given by most of its members
when asked what their objects and
who their leaders were, arose in a
large part of the country TO lengthen
the period of probation for the natur-
aliZation of foreigners and TO pre-
vent them from getting any public
Offices. A large element of the Wings
and few OF the Democrats joined
this sect. This organization. after
dropping its secrecy and mystery,
adopted the name American party,
nominated ex-President Fillmore for
President in 1856, ana carried Mary
land, most of the other Southern
states going to Buchanan, the Demo-
cratic candidate. The contest in the
South in that canvass was between
Fillmore and Buchanan, none of them
giving any hospitality to the candi-
dacy of the Republican. Fremont. The
great bulk of Fillmore's supporters
were old Wings. In 1860 a Constitu-
tional Union party appeared, COM
posed chiefly of the members of Fill
more's American party, which began
to disintegrate soon after 1856. John
Bell, of Tennessee. its presidential
candidate, carried three states, all in
the South-yirginia, Kentucky and
Tennessee-and he came within a few
hundred votes of winning Missouri.
The war which began a few months
after the election of Lincoln in that
year sent most of the Southern Wings
into the Democratic party. and as
the Republicans could not get foot
hold in the South at that time, there
was only one party in that section.
In nearly all of the eleven states
which formed the Confederacy there
has been only one party almost to
today, for the reconstruction period
created conditions that disappeared
quickly. and the South in those years
soon vanished There are several
reasons. however-the appearance Of
a generation in that region which has
no recollection of the civil war or
reconstruction, the rise of national
expansion as a Republican policy
and the creation of manufactures
which seem to make the present time
favorable to the founding of Wig
orous Republicans party throughout
the South, which will divide the
white vote of that region as it was
divided in the era before the war of
secession.