The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-11-21


We publish below. an interesting correspondence
between General Foois. one Of the distinguished dem
ocratc senator's from Mississippi, and the HONORABLE
T. L. Clingman. wing member OF Congress from
North Carolina The letters speak for themselves and
they need no comment at our hands. Coming they
do from democrat and wing. they may be considered
indicating the attitude which the people OF the slave
holding States will maintain il the Wmot Provso shall
be passed by Congress- that they me dangers into
Which they haze been led by the thig politicians among
them. For many years the northern fedeaists have been
assaing the institutions OF the South; and since they
the Missouri controversy, they have been
sedulously engaged in building up the abolition party
and in disseminating antsavery sentiments. in order to
break down the democratic party Of the North But still
the wing leaders of the southern States cherished their
alliance with these men. and gave them strength in
the South while they were warning against the South.
They made plausible apologies for their conduct.
and by falsely charging, in the face Of well-known
facts, that the democrats Of the North were also
hostile to southern interests, they duped and de-
ceived the rank and file Of the southern wing party,
and reacherousy betrayed il into strengthening the
OF the wings Of the North the very time that the wings
Of the North using their utmost exerons with the
cooperation and assistance Of the aboonss to break
down and destroy every northern democrat who dared to
raise his voice in favor OF the rights guaranteed to slave
holders by the constitution II is true. and cannot be
with truth denied, that southern wing leaders have hith
erto made the slavery question OF minor importance;
and that they have not allowed any difference on that ques
ton to weaken the political bonds which united them with
the wings of the North They have systematically endeav
ored to blind their followers to the true condition of THINGS
they have applanded whenever northern democrat has
been Frustrated by the abolition sentmen they support
ed stakeholder for President who would not give
the of the shareholders the benefit Of his
they supported aboonist for Vice President because
he tchg they maligned and abused an enemy to
The Wilmot Provso, when his name was submitted to
them for the presidency because he democrat and.
than all, they have left untried to be-
guile the people Of the South into the false and perous
belief that ee-soilism was only an organization con-
fined to The trainers Of the Buffalo platform, and
leading sentiment entertained by the whole wing party
Of the North without difference division. We are
not sufficiently informed to say. without reference to the
record what part Mr. Clingman bore in these things;
but we believe that be has uniformly acted with his par
ty We trust. however, that he has seen the errors
which have been committed and the fearful perls which
those errors have brought upon the coantry--perils
which threaten the peace and the pemanency OF the
Union The southern wings have, in great measure,
thrown of the trammels Of party The neficiency
and imbeciy Of this administration and the universal
which il has occasioned, have weakened
those ties When the excitement OF the last presidential
election died away, the southern wings were enabled to
that there something porentous and alarming in
the coalition of southern wing STAKEHOLDER and north
em wing aboitionist Their fears not QUOTED by
the criminal non-commalism OF the President but
rather confirmed by the composition of the cabinet which
exhibited slavehoding wings, free soil wings. and abo-
tonss hamonously united and the policy of the admin
istation under the control OF the Wilmot Provsoss
They saw, also, that even in the Virginia and North
Carolina legislatures there wing leaders who re-
sorted to every pitiful subeuge to prevent the passage
of resolutions against the Wmot Provso. and that every
where in the South there wing candidates for high
posts whose mouths were constantly filed with depreca
tons Of sectional parties. and who chung with tenaciy to
the abolition wings Of the North The eyes Of the people
were opened, and from Virginia to Texas the indignant
voice Of the people heard through the ballot.box
condemning these men. They were mostly Frustrated
and overhrown and the natural consequences, there is
now greater degree of real unanmiy in the South than
has ever before existed. We do not to say that
Mr. Clngman has been in any manner influenced by that
result or that he is in any swayed by personal
considerations for sincerely hope that his eyes have
been opened by events and that he sees the alarm
ing consequences which have flowed from the folly Of
southern whgs and the cold premedtaied reachery Of
southern wing leaders II soil his letter is any thing but
string Of words-if Il is not filed merely with empty
professions intended only gain confidence in order TO
betray -Mr. Ciingman cannot support this adminisira.
,ion He cannot aid the schemes OF coalition cabinet
ruled by the magn counsels Of Thomas Ewing OF Ohio.
and Jacob Collamer OF Vermont. And he cannot vote
for Robert C. Winthrop Speaker, or for any other ad
yocate OF the Wmot Proviso for that high and nhuen
iial position But all doubts will soon be dissipaied
Within couple Of weeks Congress will assemble, and
we will then see what course Mr. Cngman will pursue
II he is found making distinctions between free-sosm
and Wilmot Provsosm--if he is found voting for Mr..
Winthrop. a Thoroughbred Wilmot Provsoist, and
falsely alleging that Mr. Winthrop is not free soer,
will know where to place him. and that place will be
the front rank Of those who have acted falsely and
eacherously to the people OF the South, who, like Ed
ward Stany Of North Carolina, have held fair words to
their slaveholdng constituents, while they have acted in
concert and alliance with the very who made the
abolition party fomidabethe who for quarter Of
century have been nourishing and Strengthening the
anti. slavery feeling in the United States.
Letter fren Mr. Foofs Of Mi,s,spp TO Mr.. Cifagan NJ
North Carottaa