The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-11-27
~" The spirit of old Virginia speaks in the
following editorial of the Lynchburg Republi

~" The spirit of old Virginia speaks in the
following editorial of the Lynchburg Republi-
can:
A "UNIoN PARTY."-The Richmond Times
comes out in favor of the formation of Il new
party, to be called the "Union party" without
regard to old party lines, and appeals to patri.
otto men, North and South, Wing and Democrat,
to rally around that platform. The Times is
altogether behind the times. There has been
such party all along, in the Free-soers of the
North and submissionists of the South While
the Times has been going for the Union, at al
hazards and to the asc extremity, the Nationa
Era, the organ of the abolition party of the
country, has been going for the same thing =
Can the Times point to prominent Abolitonist
or Free-soer who advocates a dissolution OF
the Union! Such an one would be a greater
curiosity than was ever in Barnum's Museum
Benton is for the Union-Giddings Root, Win.
throp, Mann, Wilmot and the whole host Of
Abolitionists are for the Union. Why, to de.
stroy the Union would be to destroy "Othello's
occupation" It's by the existence of the Union
that they are enabled to practice their stupen.
dous system of robbery upon the South. But
for the "Union," they could never have robbed
us of our teritories-abo ished the slave trade
in the District Of Columbia-or perpetrAted any
other of the long catalogue of wrongs upon us
which they have done, and were the Union now
dissolved, they could never hope to abolish
slavery Dissolve the Union, indeed Why
the Abolitionists laugh at the idea. Just listen
to the abolition organ published at Washington,
the Era:
"There may be more in these disunion move,
ments than we have mag ined, but it seems to us
that they are the work of few disallected NAL
ignants, who have certain Interior objects to ac-
complish, which they do not now avow. We do
not believe that they will be sustained in any
real dsunion project by the masses of the
people"
The Times, therefore, has able "Union" allies
in the National Er,l-in Benton, Van Buren,,
Winthrop, Giddings, Root, Wimot, et id omne
genus! With such forces, the Times can rally u
powerful "Union" platform. The entire North
will 60 with it, for We venture to say that there
are not as many disunioni''S north Of Mason 5
and Dixon's line as there ) the little State
of South Carolina We ! leave to sug-
gest, as an appropriate motto for this Union
part. :" the following: "1he Enon of The States
for The sake ofa general system of Congressional
plunaler"-Wil the Times accept it: Nothing
could be more expressive.
If the Times is really anxious, as we doubt
not it is, to see the Union preserved, we would
respectfully advise it to come out in support Of
a Southern States Rights party, for we can
assure that paper that it is only by an observanc"
of the rights of the Southern States that this
Union can be held together. 1t may sing PSALMS
to the "Union," from now until dooms'day,
without the desired effect, if the rights of the
State be not respected. 1t has been the con
duct Of the Southern Wing party, and a frag-
ment of the Southern Democratic party, Of ad-
herring to the Union al all hazards, without
regard to the rights of the State, that has
brought US to the brink of the awful precipice
which now yawns before us and threatens to
swallow up the Union. The rights of the
South frst-the Union atlerDards-shouid be
the motto Of every one who really loves the
Union, and desires or hopes for its preservation.