The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1851-08-21


Thompson district IN the sixth district,
Addison Whit IS probably elected. -
the seventh, Of louisville district, Humphrey
MARSHALL elected over MeriWether
(dem. Infhe ghth, Or Lexington district,
j. G. Brooke dge dem is elected over
Leslie Combs In TIC ninth .. O. Ma
son (dem) is pEobab reelected In The
tenth, r. 81 81 ton deIn) Is reelected over
w 9, Ma ~ Soar as heard from,
the wings have elected IL Senators and 20
Representative aud the democrats Sena-
sors and Is Representatives Thewhigs win
certainly have large majority in the Lcgis-
lature. We do not pretend that the above
is accurate, but 90 many inquiries have been
made Of US about the Kentucky elections
that we have made the best calculation we
could from the lights before us.
Ketsburg Wing, 14h inst.
Da The following article from the Au-
gusta ga Chronicle contains truths in re-
lation to the position of parties, as appropri-
ate to this State as any other.
The Principles Of the Union Party.
~
Some small wit, who loves ALTERATION bet
ter than truth, has said that 'the - par
lty has principles but no name-the Union
party, a name but no principles" He is
doubtless one of that class, of persons (by
Sidney, Smith feleitously denominated
.''Noodles,' y who have no idea that such
things can exist as.Principles, unless founded
upon the Bank or Tariff
The principles Of the Union Party are en-
bodied in the Georgia Platform of Deem
Der, 1850 That platform is eminently, an
fact, what the platform of the opposing par
ty is an name, only ga Southern Rights
Southern Rights party magnifed into pres
ent importance-the Anticipated issue of a
National Bank-the comparatively unimpor-
tant issues of Tariff and Internal Improves
ments-the Union Party entirely passed by.
Being IN earnest in It's effort 'fto unite the
South, for the sake of the Union" (the pre-
tended object of the other partly it waived
the issues calculated to divide her. She had
been for many years divided on them The
Union party had no hope to unite her upon
them in an hour. The folly of attempting
this was perpetrated by the Southern Rights
Convention. The result is that, while
Wings and Democrats may cordially and
consistently unite upon the ground of the
Georgia Platform, neither Wing nor Demo-
crat can endorse the Southern Rights plat
form without distinct Reputation of his
former political principles
Waving these either Anticipated, or COM
paratively unimportant issues-there was
another issue on which it expressed no opin-
ion. That issue was EFthe right of Secession !"
Convinced that there was no necessity of d.
viding the South and frittering away her
strength ON the settlement of verbal con-
troversy and adoption of name, she wisely
secured the substance by uniting her sup
porters in the pledge upon the occurrence of
certain contingencies, to resist the Federal
Government even Gas last resort) to dis
ruption of every tie which binds her to the
Union" Whether this disruption would be
properly entitled Secession or whether
revolution she did not take the pains to
decide. Those who desire to promote divis-
ion at the South instead of Union, may make
the name of right, party test Like the
| Lilliputians Of old, they may divide into 6ig
EadianS and little Enolidns What Gcor-
gia did, was simply to decide on what con-
tingency the egg must be broken.
So muchfor the issues on which the Geor-
gia Platform prescribed no tests
The tests which she did make, were upon
those very issues on which Southern Rights
men talk so much and act so little-''the
rights of the South. +" Nor did the Conven-
ton, in making tests upon these issues, there
4 by build up a.Sectional party. The tests
we're national. The party does not refuse co
Operation with northern men, The issues
it makes need offend no just man at the
north. 1t asserts principles, the violation of
which any Northern may see "nothing en-
riches him, but makes US poor indeed " The
constitutional rights and equality of the
ISouth-in a word, ono sectional aggression
forms the sum of her demand.
The chief fact set forth by the Convention
was the compatibility of the Compromise
measures with the honor of the South.
The principles set forth by the Georgia
Convention, and adopted by the Union party
as the basis of its origination, were the fol
lowing:
| I. The determination to maintain the ex-
listing Union, abiding by the Compromise
measures "as permanent adjustment Of this
sectional controversy"
4 IL. The principle set forth in the following
resolution, viz: ''That the State of Georgia,
J in the judgment of this Convention, sotU and
ought to resist even Gas last resort to dis
Eruption of every tie which binds her to the
Union
LIST. Any action of Congress upon the sub
lject Of slavery in the District Of Columbia,
or in places subject to the jurisdiction Of
Congress, incompatible with the safety, do.
nestle tranquility, the rights and the honor
of the slayeholding States.
I'd. Or any act suppressing the slave trade
between slayeholding States.
Il Sd. Or any refusal to admit as aState any
territory hereafter applying, because of the
Iexistence of SLATER flherein. -
4th. Or any act prohibiting the introduc
ton of slaves into the Territories of UtaI
and New Mexico
j 9th. Or any act repeating or materially
i modifying the laws nowgin force for the re
Icoyery of fugitive slaves.
III. The sovereignty of the States. Thi:
yiprinciple is involved by necessary implica
I tionin the following sentence: The Consti
81 tuition of the limited Statassis 3ls fol.3s3s