The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1850-08-17

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article upon the same subject, which
accords SO fully with our views, and is
expressed in so much better terms than
we could do it, that We COPY it instead.
THE WING PARTY AND THE UNION.
Most Of our readers are aware th,t the som.
promise bill of Mr.. Clay has been defeated,
with the exception Of that part which related
to a teriitOrial governmental Utah. Believing
that this bill would have crushed at one blow
fanatacism at the North, and ull-arim at the
South, thus giving peace and tranquility to the
whole county, we feel not q little mortified at
the result. We knew it had perils TO encoun-
ter: we knew that the most remarkable legal
subtlety and the most Persevering Obstinacy
were playing their parts with admirable cOol~
ness and skill, but when we saw such men as
Webster, Cass and Clay, t row themselves into
the breach, we could not rid ourselves Of the
impression, that they would resist the torrents
Of opposition, and come out triumphant.
The compromise being defeated, the question
now IS, what is to be done; what measures will
bring a soothing influence to the excited state
Of the public mind? No one will deny that
unless something is done-and this done soon
Ito settle the great controversy Of the day,
and bring back into confraternity the generous
impulses which both the North and the SOnth
have heretofore felt toward each other, there
will be a most dangerous state Of affairs: the
nation will be convulsed still more severely /;
d"isunion may follow. And should disuniOn
open its flood gates, no pen could sketch the
terrible disasters which would soon happen to
this now happy people. The common lan-
guage we hold would increase our horrors.
Taunts or exa'perating remarks in one state
would go like wild fire into the limits Of anoth-
er, and instantly produce retaliation. No
two confederacies would remain, but the
whole country would be split up into numer.
Gus divisions. Philosophy, experience, COM
mon sense-all teach that a people highly civ
llized and intelligent, if once kindIed with a
passion for civiI disCord, become the most
deadly in their mutual hoslilities and the most
impIacable in their r%esentments! The greater
the skill, the more striking the ingenuity, and
the more ambitious a nation is, the more dam
gerOus and fatal will it be when It directs its
formidable engines Of art and war against a foe
Old friendships which now exist between dis
ferent States, aud different persons Of the sew
eral States, would be broken up, and in their
place substituted the most relentless fueds.-
That happy interchange Of commodities, VI
inventions and discoveries, Of literary and
social advantages, and Of all those refining
benefits Of religious instruction, which now
nnita the iHhNbis~~to &c all svCIions Of .ho
Union in one harmonious whole, once severed
by madness, would conlound mems intellects.
make'them abandon the entire theory Of self
government, and finally Overwhelm US with
the dessOlatIng effects off civil war more fright
full in lis consequences than the wars Of SyIla
and Marius in heather Rome. Poverty in all
It's features, vice in all is lOathsOmeness, would
stalk forth-a fearful commentary upon the
Jolly of uncontrolled passion and sectional ha.
lred.
What, then, we repeat, must be done to stay
the hand of anarchy and make the constitution
the supreme rule and law Of our action? All
patriots, all good men, must rally at their COun-
Iry's call and especially the Wing party, The
hopes oil union and constitutional liberty are in
the keeping Of the Wing party. The Wing
party, however, is by no means responsible for
the present difficulties. In the attempted con-
summation Of the Texas annexation, it saw
The long train Of fearful events which would
follow, and taking the gallant and patriotic
Clay for its leader, it bodily but unsu ccessiulIy
waFred against the advocates Of that measure.
And altho' many, very many, thought the act
unconstitutional, and therefore, of no binding
force, yet in the spirit Of harmony and love fol
the Union, no open hostility was attempted OF
even threatened. And when the Mexican wal
broke out, the Wings, although they had strug.
gled with the efforts Of a giant to avert the
threatened calamity, and though they believed
that far different motives than those assigned
had prompted Polk to PreciPita'e the coun,r,
into a contest with a sister repulic-a matte
which has been most clearly oxemplifed since
yet moved by that noble principle Of action
to stand by the Government at all times ant
at all hazards, the Wings remained firm in theit
allegiance to the constitution. Though CD
posed TO the war as an act Of policy, as an &C
Of justice, and as a bold usurpation on the par
OF the President Of unwarrunted powers, We
they tntimated no resort to extra judicial meas
u%res,for redress. And when The din Of arm
was heard no more-when our glorious cam,
| Paigns were closed, and officers and men cam,
back covered with the trophies Of victory
Wings as well as Democrats were found in Ii,
, ranks. Wings were as eager as Democrats /,
show their esteem, their reverence, and thei
! profound appreciation for the gallant service
. OF those who had fought in their country