The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-03-03

The Charleston Mercury paper that is known the
organ of Mr.. Calhoun threatens many things on account
of the articles in the Union in regard to the dongs
of that Senator We several grave hints d,sunion
in the same paper Although very far from APP
proving of the introduction of the Wimot provso and
while now as ever we are ready to stand by the south
have done whenever she is assailed BY the
ultras of abolition, confess we have patience with
those whichever extreme of opinion they may sustain
who constantly prating of "d,sunion" The whole
thing is humbug- "a wicked and shameless imposture-
and will be realized about the time that navigate the
air, or pay visits IN person the magnetic telegraph
Those who talk about it either do not believe Them
selves else they afflicted with the diosyncrasy that
often grows from inatuaon upon single subject Long
after Mr. Calhoun has passed away-long after his doc
rnes and his speeches have been forgotten allow
ing to him and to them all the Immortality claimed by
his especial frends-the Union will exist in all that
less purity and impregnabe power, which distinguish it
at present Those who rail at it now, who predict its
DOWNFALL will no doubt have their mtators and
sors then; but they will be compelled to
postpone the realization either of their hopes their fears
to future quite as remote that which lies between
the abotionsts slave advocates now, and the fulfil
ment OF their prophecies.
Mr. Calhoun is great man in many respects We be-
eve him to be sincere But he is the victim of
mfatuation always. Processing to belong to the demo-
cratic party and enabled to refer to many acts of the past
in which he has rendered that party distinguished service
he is yet so unsafe, when not Immediately in the lead
to be willing openly to deny his opinions and to rdi-
Guile the undenabe results of his own policy Mr. Cal
houn s not true to himself His Inconsistencies are
numerous as they are uncomfortable, and confess
that il requires all his remarkable powers of logical
his characteristic pausiby-to save many of his favor
lite dogmas from unqualified ridcule The line recently
marked out by him between Mexico and the United
States and the manner in which he proposed to defend
it, las General Cass satricaly remarked, with an eve to
geography and arithmetic, by placing single soldier TO
each mie would have made any other the object of
universal laughter And confess that his position in
regard to the ITSELF is infinitely more to be commits
Grated than commended.
These facts, so full Of point and truth cannot and do
not fail OF their proper effect in the south Mr. Calhoun
will not, we believe, carry any of that portion of
the Union with him. in his present designs than he did
in his notification business in 1892 He may even find
it difficult TO keep South Carolina in the position of soil
ary. isolated, sectional provincial mpractcabity Her
noble sons may not rest easy under the rule which
would exclude them from the democratic party They
would not certainly submit to a decree that might drive
them from the Union. In other southern States there is
no doubt of the result Mr. Calhoun will have friends but
from the Indications they have to us they will be
few and far between The mass OF the southern democ-
racy opposed to his conduct and will be found
also to be opposed to his future plans whether they look
to the dissolution of the Union the dissolution of the
democratic party Weprint to-day the admirable resou
tons OF the republicans in the Virginia legislature and
observe by the proceedings OF meetings and by the voice
of the press in Georgia, Alabama Louisiana. North Car
DINA, Mississippi, and Tennessee that the democracy in
those States resolved to maintain their brotherhood in
the ranks both of the friends of the Union and the
friends of democracy.