The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-06-26

Wing T~osios-Ag.ia.
In our paper OF yeste day mentioned few OF many
leading facts connected with the slavery agitation which
tx and fasten on the whig party the responsibility OF that
agitation The facts brought forward are plainly
written in the history OF the last few years, that any un-
peIudiced eye may them at glance Yet, strange
to say. find the wings of the South already forgetting
or for party purposes pretending 10 have forgotten even
the lessons OF the last Congress They and were
forced TO admit by their actions that they did that
the only way TO preserve the Union from the dangers
which fanaticism had aragned against ii TO aban.
don the northern alliance and fall back the democratic
ground OF non.inlervenion The direct practical issue
presented allowed equiyocaiion, and southern wings
rallied on democratic principles Mr.. Webster saw the
dangers the wing party, and he too. insisted that his
own opinions should not be regarded his advice Needed
but that the storm which he had assisted to raise should
be quelled.
Under these circumstances it is passing strange that
the southern wings should attempt appropriate 10 the
use and enjoyment of the wing party all the credit for
the beneficial results which may flow from the Adjustment
of the last Congress But this is not the only fact which
excites our astonishmsnt While the southern wings
make this claim for the wing party, they have renewed
their alliance with those dangerous men in the North
who made compromise necessary in order to preserve
the Union from disruption Governor Johnston, of Penn
sylvana--a notorious and acknowledged abolitlonist,
who practically vetoed the law OF the Pennsylvania
legislature repeating the former law which denied the
use of State prisons for the safekeeping OF fugitive
sIayes-has been renominaed II has also been stated on
high wing authority and the fact Denied that Mr.
Fillmore secured the assent of Governor Johnston TO be-
come candidate second time by submitting TO John
ston's dctaon in the matter Of certain abolition office
holding friend Of Governor Johnston
With all these facts staring in the face we must be
permitted say that cannot the wisdom OF the
course pursued by some OF democratic friends Do
they not understand the position OF the northern wing
party? DO they not perceive that il is still thoroughly
imbued with the an-slayery sentiment! Do they not
perceive even from Mr. Websers conduct that the anti
slavery sentiment is be humored and attered if not
cherished! Surely they cannot fail to that the wings
OF the South, having escaped from direct practical
before the country, ready again to make common
cause with northern federalism. 1t seems to that,
under such circumstances, sheer folly for southern
democrats to leave the democratic organization. No mat
ter how much they may be dissatisfied with the terms OF
the Adjustment, it to that requires great
gacity to oresee that the distraction of the democracy
will be still worse, inasmuch its tendency TO give
the wing party every advantage in the approaching
elections The wing party will not be divided II val
ues its unity higher than its principles Its object is to
retain power and do that is ready resort to any
of the means which enabled it to smuggle itself into
the high places of the government In the South
the wings will claim the honor and glory OF the
Compromise in the North the wings will charge the
Compromise on the democratic party. In the South
the wings will laud the Executive for sustaining the
Compromise in the North the wings will apoog ze for
the Executive, the ground that wing principles forbade
the use of the veo and the oath of office compelled the
President to execute the fugitive law against his wishes
and against his cherished sympathies
Already the wings in the northern States have united
with the hgheraw advocates of repeal in order TO defeat
the re election Of compromise large portion of
the federal members OF the next Congress of the
peal school. Even the known supporters Of Mr. Fill
more in New York, after brief show Of dissatisfaction
sustained the nominations OF convention which
phatically endorsed the conduc, Of William H. Seward
in the Senate of the United States, and thereby de-
nounced the only feature OF the Compromise which
acceptable the South As to Mr. Fillmore himself, he
can only claim that credit which may win by de-
caring his determination to adhere TO his oath Of Office
As the he adopted TO carry out that determine
ton, in it neither wisdom nor efficiency
Had he promptly dismissed the officer for neglect OF duty
in the Crafts case and shown the same willingness TO
employ the army against Massachusetts, mobocracy
against the sovereign State Of Texas, he might have been
spared his wordy proclamaions, filled with enconiums
upon the law.lovng and law abiding character of a city
which had permitted handful of blacks practise
cessfu defiance TO the laws in its very midst, and in
open daylight the law would have been enforced
without difficulty and the country would have been
spared the lamentabe picture which Mr. Webster re
Gently exhibited in his labored apology abolitonism in
the western part OF New York.