The Camden Weekly Journal

Fusion of Parties.
A curious circular has been issued from Massachusetts, under the caption of a "Patriotic Call of the Union Men of Massachusetts," for a State Union Party Convention at Newburyport on the 5th September, 1853.
The object of the Convention, "as stated in this document, is the total abandonment of all existing parties, and the organization, under entire new issues and measures, of an Independent State and National Union Party, upon a broad, deep, and lasting foundation."
We have long since ceased to regard the chief political organizations as of paramount importance in the proper administration of the affairs of the government. The cardinal doctrines of the Democratic party have been engrafted on the national policy, whilst those of an opposite character have been expunged, and are now generally deemed obsolete The doctrine of free trade has triumphed, not only in the United States, but in Europe; and indeed, is almost universally received as the settled policy of the nations of the earth. It would be vain, then, for any political organization in this country to base their existence on a creed embracing protection and high duties, or any kindred doctrines. We believe that the dissolution of the old parties is well-nigh completed, and that nothing remains for true Republicans to do but to exercise uninterrupted watchfulness, and steadily maintain and defend the constitution of the country
What the proposed new party, referred to above have to make a groundwork for organization we do not fully comprehend. Its prominent avowed object is devotion to the National Union and the upholding of the Constitution, the Union, and the laws, and to stand by the country and the National Government long after all other parties cease to have an existence and to withhold their support, in all other parties cease to have existence, and to withhold their support, in all future State and national elections, from every element of disunion, and from all candidates for office not pledged to carry out the principles, policy, and measures of this new party.
This is all very fine, but it is worth while to inquire on what basis they design to uphold the Union, or under what construction of that instrument they intend to sustain the Constitution? The locality of the originators of the proposition is suspicious, and Union men in the South may be pardoned in waiting for further developments before they render in their adherence to this organization. The rights of the individual States and the rigid exclusion in the National Legislature of all interference in their affairs, can alone lay a solid and lasting foundation for a Union party. The experience of the past, however, gives us but little hope that such a foundation will be shortly laid. There is a dearth of material, and the workmen, especially, in certain sections of the Eastern States, are far between. We are content, however, to await further developments.—South Carolinian.