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been aspersed with equal venom; Mr..
WINTHROP with like audacity. Indeed,
if single Northern Wing has escaped
the stereotyped detraction Of the Southern
Locofoco press, we do not remember the
case. To prevent the possibility of an ac-
cidental exception to the rule, it has be-
come habit to denounce the Northern
Wing party as composed of Abolitionists,
root and branch; at the very moment,
too, when they were undergoing like
denunciation from the Abolitionists, who
have always been their fiercest foes at
home.
Wings have been belabored in the choic-
est rhetoric of these adopts in libel, for
entertaining the opinions which their own
candidates for the Presidency avowed.
We will give an illustration of the profit
gacy with which this system has been
pursued.
From the Union Of the 9th inst.
"Thc plan of the Administration is now fully and
entirely developed; so that no one who has paid
attention to passing events can possibly mistake
it. We know not in whose brain it originated,
and We know not which Of the corrupt and I'M
scrupulous men that have the ear of General Tay-
lor has induced him to adventure on the perilous
path he has taken. But we believe that the trea-
sonable scheme on which the Administration rests
its last desperate hope to retain power and the
Z spoils of Office first set on foot by Thomas
Ewing, the Secretary of the Interior, and VIM H.
rd one az the go f-nr NJ
What scheme is this which the Union
denounces as reasonable? We shall quote
the Union, to ascertain precisely what it
regards as reasonable in Wing to pro-
pose or adopt:
From the Union Of the sth Of february.
''The plan proposed by General Taylor, or moro
truly by the Cabinet in his name-General Taylor
being but nose of wax in their hands-for the
disposition of the territorial question, is to leave
them without governments, and permit the peo-
pie inhabiting them to form constitutions and ap-
ply for admission into the Union. This is simply
= the doctrine of non-intervention forced upon the
Territories by non-action. IL u the adoption of
General Casss principle of non intervention leav-
ing the people of the Territories without govern
ment until they are admitted into the Union.''
1t is the plan Of General CAss that is
now reasonable. When the Union first
uttered this sentiment, we regarded it
merely as hint to its party to whistle
the Senator from Michigan down the
wind. The cue was taken up in the SEN
ate and House, and old Belisarius was
roundly. rated by the very men who
worked hardest for his election to the
Presidency. Some of the members pro-
fessed to have misunderstood the purport
of General CAss's celebrated Nicholson
letter but there was no such misconcep-
ton on the part of the Union. That
journal, and its echoes throughout the
South, held up General CAss's plan,
pending the last election, panacea
for all the ills thsF }ouih is herto. Every
one who opposedfhe Senator from Michi-.
CAMS election was denounced as an Abo-
litioniss, or willing or duped abettor of
that abominable faction. The Union was
under strain of prolonged and prophetic
rhapsody and Southern Locofocoism was
wrapt in congenial ecstacy.
! Now, the Union denounces Gen. CAss's
scheme as reasonable. The scheme it
supported with its noisiest garulity, and
the plan its Southern friends adopted with
wonderful unanimity.
Could there be devised surer mode
OF producing sectional excitement and
dangerous public issues than thisl Here
we see the sole organ Of the Democracy
accusing itself with having supported trea-
son during the last presidential election for
the advantage of its party. The motto of
the Union may well be-Give us Loco
foco President and treason, or a Wing Pre-
sident and dissolution.
Oft-repeated assertions, however wick
ed or improbable in themselves, will event
ually find believers. This is the theory
upon which the Locofoco press of the
South has based its clamor against North
ern Wings. II has made its profit in
time. Look, for example, at the Missis-
sippi river, rolling its mighty tribute to
the ocean, distance Of two thousand two
hundred miles, and washing navigable
coast of four thousand four hundred--not a
square foot Of which is represented by
Wing in either branchof Congress, il we ex-
cept Mr.. BELL, Of the Senate, and Mr.. Con-
RAD and Col. BAKER, of the House. Lou
isiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee,
Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin--all
Locofoco. Here we have the stake for
which this desperate game was Played
and which the same parties are willing to
play for ever.
We have seen one Of the Senators from
Louisiana already opposing the admission
Of California for adopting substantially the
same boundaries for which he himself pro-