The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-10-14
THE COALITION.

ter 10 the snaues OF opinloh WhhSh P'N~' -
the republicans. Ii forgets the variety OF names
which his own party has assumed an" 'h'
multiplicity of eliques whose support IL ha'
solicited. It's true name is federalist-the fed
erallst of 'gS-with the ultra constitution houohi
of that school, with It's alien ana Seoi'iol
laws-with a large national bank, national
system Of internal Improvements, a national pro-
tectiys tariff, distribution Of the proceeds Of the
pube lands, disregard Of the rights Of the States
and an extension Of the powers OF the federal gov
eminent Yet il has sought 10 disguise Us true fed
s,a character, under variety Of petty names, such
ss federal republicans, national republieans-hnally
ubiss, &c. There is also another peculiar charae'
terstic about il. IL has attempted to enlist every
aIy in its cause, which promised II any support
and TO form coalitions in different places and tunes
Here, federalism sought alliance with anti-masonry'
la one quarter il does mot disdain aunon WIN ma
tiyism--in another, with abolitionism.
This last is the phasis which they have recently
affected 10 the norh'
"one day (ssys the Augusta Maine Age these
federalists have been bank men-the next, INTERNAL
Improvement mon--the next, tafii men IN gne
Mace thew are native Americans, lin another abo-
itionists.-in another, independent democratic New
er did men more emphatically become all things 10
ali men than have lhose who have controlled the
wing party since the days of john Quincy AdamsS
administration.
but unfortunately for those men, their success
has not been equal their labors nor their hopes
Every scheme 10 which they have resorted has only
brought with il defeat and disappointment They
have seen one plan after another on when thelr
hopes have been founded vanish and disappear lesV'
ing nothing behind, blasted ambition, disgrace
and disappointment -
themselves, and from which they have anticipated
entire success was that Of organizing great northern
pavtl based ON the strong antI-slavery feeling whlch
thew supposed existed throughout the entire NORTH
To put themselves fairly at the head OF TINS move
ment, they have been for some time past The most
slreuuous and yindiciye conlemners OF the south,
and ali the shareholders who dwell therein. They
have preached abolition in language so strong, as IN
many instances TO distance even the abolItionlsIs
themselves. They have seized upon the resolutions
OF abolition conventions and adopted them, apparent,
ly with the highest relsh-and as the sweetest ana
most dainty morsels OF political almenL The
H,Iss and -Ciiddingses who have wandered through
the country preaching hostility to the south, AZ
cardinal virtue and the support Of shareholders under
any circumstances, as crime, greater Than disco
luton of the Union, have been taken up and lion
ized by these men, as the only true apostles OF
American freedom.
..The present democratic administration, and ev
ery democratic southern statesman, have been held up
as beings in
(Which any print Of goodness will not take,
Being capable OF all III"
"Arer aboIiienizing the wing party. so as to
make it, in their estimation, the fit and proper re-
ceptacr Of abolIdonis, and such other ias as they
supposed could be made subservient to their pur-
poses, they have set themselves at work to CONSOLE
date the Heterogeneous material which they have
thur collected, into one consistent mass. To effect
this our neighbor Of the Journal, the eve Of the
late election IN article which he denominates the
great question, after recapitulatng all the supposed
enormties Of slavery, thus addresses his friends IN
Maine:
"'Whigs, liberty men, and Independent demo-
Gratis Of Msine This [slaveryl has become prom
inent, a vital political question. Compromise your
differences where you hold the power-send free
to Congress, and send men 10 the legislature
who will sleef an incorporating opponent OF sla-
very to the United States Senate -...
"Ths language was designed to operate here, in
the then coming elections, upon abotonists and M
dependent democrats. Men of tender cODscIences,
and men with no conscleuces at ali, were 10 be
drawn together, and arrayed IN the line of what
they called the great northern party That these
appeals had their effect in quarters Ia not to be
doubted. That they bad the effect to convince some
ofther own party that these mounting professions
of their leaders were honestly made and that these
southern shareholders, is also true"
The "Age' states, that since the election was
oyer, and the southern wings have begun to take
some alarm from aboIitionism, the same journal
begins to modify It's expression, and to speak of the
southern wings as marvellous proper men, and ''as
patriotic men as any in the world" These northern
abolition wings, however, must not deceive u.s.
Their design to seek coalition, on the most ac-
commodating terms, with the abolitioniss-to draw
them off from their notion Of an independent third
party, as Mr. Webster zealously attempted to do in
1874. The scheme now is to get the votes of the
abolitionsts for the federal candidate at the next
election, without alarming too much, in the mean
time, the fears Of the southern wings. The designs
and the measures of this foul coalition well
explained in the following article from that capital
democratic journal, the "Boston Post" that we can
not forbear laying il before our readers
From the Boston Post
THE MASSACHUSETTS WING STATE CONvEN-
TIoN-ITs DOCTRINES AND DOINGs.
The whig convention assembled at Faneuil Hall,
adopted an extraordinarily voluminous series of
resolutions, and rejected Others to which we are 10
look for the political doctrines and measures Of both
sections of that party, and the grounds on which
they rest their opposition to the national administra
ton and their claims to the confidence of the people OF
Massachusetts and the Union. We propose, at our
LEISURE to examine the prominent topics presented
in these resolutions. And first and most prominent
among them, even beyond the tariff, are the terms
on which the wings of Massachusetts propose to
unite with the abolitionists, or to compel the abo-
lltionists to unite with them, in carrying on sec
tiona war with the south, the ultimate purpose and
end OF which If there is not enough patriotism IN
the north to avert III must be dissolution Of the