Year: 1870

Editors Appedi' regret very much


to see an effort made by some of the
journals of the country to get up a


third political party. Why or upon


what ground l am at a loss to see,


l am sorry, too, especially to see my
old friend Gates, of the West Te1neS-


see Wing, employed in the mad
scheme, B fore pressing this enter
prise too far it would be well for the


gentlemen to think while and cal


cnlate the herculean nature of the


task which they propose. The


formation of a political party is not


the work of a day. 1t requires years


of toll and a combination of talent


and perseverance, that do not often
1 meet in the history OF our race. The
! present Republican party began its


work nearly forty years before they
| gathered sufficient strength to


make headway, and that,
too, with all the natural


passions of the human heart enlisted


in their favor and supported by both


moral and material aid from abroad.
Nor did they succeed until they had


worked hard enough and long enough
to educate generation to hate the
South. Various other examples might


be given of a similar character if the
limits of newspaper article would
allow. To lay aside the Democratic
organization and erect a new party
upon the ruins of both the old parties
strong enough to control this coun-
try would require far more time than
the veteran editor of the WHig could
reasonably hope to give ii, even if he
were a youth of less years than his
youngest son instead of the veteran ed
itor OF at least third OF a century, o
no, sir, no. 1t is all folly, bordering on
madness. Not the least singular fea- |
ture in this strange conception is the |
total absence of any announcement |
of great national doctrines to bring |
men together, or the adoption of a
single distinctive measure bearing |
upon the business Interests of the |
masses, to move them to common
purpose. 1t is literally going to sea
without a chart or compass" with
no fixed destined port ahead, but a
simple floating out with seemingly no
other purpose than "put to swim"
What do these men want? is it a
repeal of the odious measures forced
upon the country by the Radicals
Then, why not say soy they say
they are Conservatives. Conserve
what? The laws already enacted by
the Radicals and placed upon
the statute book for all time
unless repealed. Surely gentlemen do
not mean that. DO YOU wish to re-
store the Constitution of'Sf minus the
slavery clause? Then say so. Do
YOU Wish 10 restore the States TO their
rights, and the people 10 their liber-
t!e5g Then say so, and perhaps we
shall not quarrel about the name.
wish some of the active movers in the
cause of the new party would take the
resolutions of the Ohio Democracy,
lately passed in convention, and say
what objection they have to it except
the name.


Gentlemen, am an Old-time Whig,
and have acted with no political party
IN thirty years, except that old Whig
party so long as it was a party in
existence. But at the same time 1
EEL fully satisfied that the only (
nope of the country is found
n the coming together of our people
IpOn the doctrines embodied in the
ohio resolutions referred to. The or
,anizatiOn known as the Democratic
party is the only one in existence that
IffOrds any hope to the country, and S
o throw it away and undertake to
Construct new party is pretty much
IKE the conduct of a wrecked mari
Ter who abandOns the only plank in
lis reach and boldly puts out to sea
0 construct a new vessel, without
materials. Better lay aside our dis
Ike for names and come together at
nee under a common banner, and
ee if we can restore thee Government
nd the liberties of the people.


AN OLD WHIG. q