English political experience repeats itself in America.
A taking label is as valuable to a party as it is to a nostrum.

It becomes in time an asset.

We are told that a fool is born every minute, and, the average man being something of a fool, the label easily catches him.

Hence the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.
The old Whig Party went to pieces on the rocks of sectionalism.

The institution of African slavery arrived upon the scene at length as the paramount political issue.