Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-03-25
The Taco Great Parties and the IsmS.

The Union of Thursday last, has very Gu
rious article, in which it argues that the counte-
nance given by the administration to Mr.. Web
ster's position, will have the effect to bring
the great body of the Wings over to his views and
policy' This is made to result from the assump-
tons, first, that Mr.. Webster himself " undoubt-
eddy represents the wealthy, substantial and mo-
derate portion of his pa rty, which may be regard
ed as the controlling power of the Wing party, %
and secondly, that now the administration steps
in with the powerful inducements of patronage to
operate upon the mere mercenary portion of the
Wing party, who will go for the Wilmot Proviso
| or against it, as their course will best promote
their prospects of obtaining Office and government
patronage" Then the Union reasons that Sc
wards policy and course "will rally the ultra
cliques and factions of the North, and the dema-
gogues who live upon them, to his support; it will
rally the Garrisons, the Greeleys, the Van Burens,
the Bryants, the Preston Kings, and the Wilmots,
ultimately to his aid and cooperation" And this
"motley group" is to be aided, it seems, by the
New York Courier and Enquirer, which is said to
be incensed at Webbs rejection, and by the Bos-
ton Atlas, which, we are told, is the organ of Abb
bolt Lawrence, the mere man of money and
cotton spindles.
From these premises, the Union deduces the
following characteristic conclusions:
The certain event is the disruption the Wing par
ty in the Northern Statesthe majority including four
fhs of its wealth, intelligence, and influence, going
with Mr. Webster and the administration and the re-
naming portion recruited by the cques and factions Of
iree-soism and abolitonism, with their various COM
manders and lieutenants, including John P Hale Pres
ton King, Mr.. Wilmot, &C., &c, going with MIR. Sc
| ward.
"In view of these movements, going in the ranks
of the federal party, the o1he Democratic party
appears be obvious and straightforward. II should
North and South East and West, rid itself OF all ultra
isrns inconsistent with national and catholic creed.
Now is the favorable time for efecng this salutary
form its ranks 1t is triumphant in every section OF
| the Union.
"The Wing party u.s. and will be, weakened by the
severe intestine commotion which must inevitably take
place in its corporal organization Now, then, we re-
peat is the time for the great Democratic party OF the
country to throw off its ultrasms, and to
tablish its old national faith and creed And while it is
efecting this sautary reform its own faith and disc
pne it should stand ready to aid even the adminstra-
ton and Mr. Webster in settling the present controversy
which agates the republic upon principles OF justice and
equality towards all parts OF the Conederacy and in
the spirit Of the constitution. Such the course which
patriotism dictates and wisdom approves We trust that
our suggestions will be tav oraby received by De-
mocrac brethren in every section OF widely-ex-
tended republic"
Now we beg the reader to note we'll the full
admission here made by the Union, that the ad-
mnstration and the majority of the Wing party
in the North, are going for what it applauds as an
equitable settlement of the slavery question. We
can hardly credit the fact that this admission pro-
ceeds from Journal which has heretofore been
crying out increasingly that Gen. Taylor's admi-
nisration wanonly stimulating the slavery agi-
tation and laudng the Democratic party as the only
thing that could save the Union. As to the coun-
sci so kindly rendered that party, in view of the
anticipated Wing disruption, we have only to say
that we are perfectly willing to see the slough
ing process begin. Let each party get rid of its
ultraisms, and we are willing to be judged by the
relative strength which zach will show at the end
of the operation. Weventure to predict that the
Wing President will not sustain any greater in
jury from the third party organization, than the
Wing candidate sustained in 1848.