The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1850-11-20


les on the Fugitive Slave Law, are becoming
laily mole and more manifest, so that it is very
Easy to calculate the strength and numbers Of
hose who will be arraycd against the Union and
It's Constitution at the approaching session of
Congress.
1t would be too much to assert that either of
the great political parties, which have heretofore
within their opinions the whole body
of the people, has adopted the creed of either
faction Of disunionists of the North or South;
but it is undcniable that both parties have court
ed and coquetted these fanatics for their infu-
ence and support. We have said that both par
ties have done this, but we must qualify the re-
mark, lest VIC might be misunderstood. AS a
National party, the Democracy has taken diff
ferent ground at all of its great Conventions,
while in some of Its State Conventions, extreme
opinions held by the so.callcd Free Sellers on
one side, and the friends Of slavery extension,
on the other have been distinctly proclaimed
Acting in its national capacity, we behold the
Democratic party relying upon the Constitution,
and resolving to maintain i, in its full integrity;
and IT is in this capacity that it has acted in Con-
gress up to the present time, and that it will con-
tinuc to act while there remains question to be
decided, :-.
OnAhe other side. the Wing party has never
yet acted as National party upon this question
Of slavery, as TO be fairly understood. Its re.
solutions in Convention have been dcsgnedly
ambiguous; its votes in Congress have, in nu-
mcrous instances, been dictated by Northern
-Abolitionism, while holding to the South the
ou,stretchcd arms of support. Always ambitious
of being in power, always inscriptions as to the
means of accomplishing its designs, the Wing
party has consequently united itself with every
faction which could give it momentary strength
and, as the price Of its growth, it has made it.
self subscrvient to every dogma of Niggerism
Natvcism, Abolitionsm and Freesolism
Where the nggers vote, the Wing party is their
best friend; where the nggers are slaves, the
same party is their inveterate enemy. And 40
it is with all the factions of party, which can
boast of follower or a name Wherever they
exist, there will also be found the Wing party,
ready to embrace them with traternal fondness;
but where popular opinion is in antagonism to
these putresant factionists, there also will be
found the Wing party, in the pugnacious atti
tudc Of resistance to their opinions and their
growth
Such some Of the peculiar phases Of par
ties on the questions which have hitherto agita-
ted the country, and such will, in all probability,
L.. ~, -
gress.
AS party, the Democracy in Congress will be
found ready to abide by the compromises of the
Constitution, and willing to pass such laws, and
have them enforced, as will carry out its irten-
tons in good faith. The Wings, as n party, will
take different position, though many of its most
prominent members are known to be averse to
such course. With very few exceptions, then,
we may look for the Frecsoil and Wing Con-
gressmen coalescing for the repeal of the late
fugitive slave law, and for re-opening the ques-
tons, and re-cn,cting the exciting scenes of the
past session Of Congress. The union of the
Wings and Free Sellers during the recent cleo
ton compaign in Wisconsin, N. York, and else
this coalescing, what should be done to defeat or
Illustrate their designs' We think with our re-
spectacle wing contemporary the ST. Louis Intel
ligencer, that union of the Nationalist of both
political parties on the Democratic platform a.
dopted Mt Baltimore in Al, is the only position
which can be made tenable by the friends of the
Union; the only position from which the as
saults of its enemies, both North and South, can
be successfully resisted; the only impregnable
rock Of safety upon which the Ark of its future
hopes can rest beyond the reach of bowling ia
naticism, or the stormy pillows Of selfish Sec
tionalism. Let the men of both parties, who
love their country, lose no time in occupying
their postcrty, u country and name.