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Lynchburg Daily Virginian
Lynchburg, Virginia
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The Richmond Enquirer declares the Whig party irreparably split between Southern Whigs and Northern abolitionists. The New York Express counters by likening it to the Democratic party's divisions during Pierce's election, with Southern secessionists and Northern Free Soilers, and mocks a similar path for Whigs.
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Upon which the New York Express remarks:
If this be so, it is in the exact condition the Democratic party was in, when it elected Pierce, going for Secession South, and Free Soil North.
The Whigs then have only to pick up a candidate that nobody knows anything about, as did the Democrats, and when elected, as on their precedents, he must be, he must give his principles to Southern Secessionists, and his spoils to Northern Abolitionists,—and then the Whig party will be just in the present condition of the Democratic party.
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whig party described as hopelessly broken up; satirical comparison to democratic party's divisions and strategy under pierce.
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Richmond Enquirer states Whig party split by Southern Whigs and Northern Whig Abolitionists. New York Express remarks it mirrors Democratic party during Pierce election with Southern Secession and Northern Free Soil, advising Whigs to select obscure candidate yielding principles to secessionists and spoils to abolitionists, resulting in Democratic party's current state.