 Complete the following phrase:  In 1853, with the party increasingly divided over the slavery issue, Greeley printed an editorial disclaiming the papers identity as Whig and declaring it to be nonpartisan. He was confident that the paper would not suffer ficially, trusting in reader loyalty. Some in the party were not sorry to see him go: the Republic, a Whig organ, mocked Greeley and his beliefs: If a party is to be built up and maintained on Fourierism, Mesmerism, Maine Liquor laws, Spiritual Rappings, Kossuthism, Socialism, Abolitionism, and forty other isms, we have no disposition to mix with any such companions. When, in 1854, Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas introduced his KansasNebraska Bill, allowing residents of each territory to decide whether it would be slave or free, Greeley strongly fought the legislation in his newspaper. After it passed, and the 