The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-05-27
New lork and NOrihtra Whig Pulilln-EI
NrnateF Dickinson.

IL tncEt ever was Statc ln tue l mon u
; which local considerations aud party ascen
dcncy were always made the basis Of poll
tics, it is the Empire State" In all tho
partizan struggles of New York the conn
try at large is forgotten, while the popular
fanaticism which rules the hour, from Anti
Masonry down TO Abolitionism, or Seward.
ism and Filimoreism. is only made use Of as
a ladder or stepping stone to reach the
summit Of political power. The nation at
large have no more real interest in the re.
spcctive struggles Of the Seward and Fill.
more factions than they have in the almost
forgotten struggles of the houses Of York
and Lancaster IN English history of the old
en- times. Let whichever party triumph
and carry the state the result will bc alike
disastrous TO the cause of Southern Rights
and equality in the. Union. Hear the cm.
, phatic declaration of the New York Cour.
lcr adm Enquirer Of the Sd instant; speak.
ing OF the Wing party at large, Col Webb
says;
Whenever slavery III any way is per.
! mlttCd to become 4 test in the Wing party
that party will cease to exist. The Wing
party stands now where it has ever stood
upon this subject
The preservation of the peculiar rights
OF the So"ll, therefore. is not an anxom Of
"hlggery and never was Elsewhere must
we look for defender and defence.
On another point at issue, and of serious
moment to our Southern fellow citizens
who valnly trust to the compromise meas.
urcs rs the oil which will alloy the turbu.
lent waves of disunion, we have important
information MS TO the real intentions of the
Wing party 1t is so embodied in the fol-
lowing:
Correspondence of the Journal Commerce.
WASHINGTON, Saturday April 26.
"Now that is determined ard announced
in high and influential quarters, that the
Wings, as party, cannot hold together, il
they make the Compromise Measures and
the support of the Fugitive Law the ties,
question in the party, it becomes very i'm.
portant TO know whether the converse oI
the proposition is also true II is to be con.
sdered that Mr. Stewards doctrines, rs laid
down in his letter to the Boston agita,ors,
are the party test in the whig raaks Sen
ator Wade. OF Ono, frankly admits tina, the
whig party in that State will not unite, and
cannot be kept together. uron the policy
adopted by Mr.. Fillmore and Mr. Webster,
that is, the maintenance of the spirit and
principles Of the Compromise of 1850, and
the faithful execution of the fugitive slave
law. Every one who has consulted the
Southern mind and temper on the subject,
,kak 81 a., .In =,
this moment, the bond of the Union II
cannot be repealed without the hazard ci
disunion and civil war. Any man who de.
mics this, must be ignorant or reckless OF
the state Of the question. 1t is very evident
that the time is at hand when the whig par.
ty, when the democratic party, when the
people, are to meet this qnesiion,-whether
the system of Compromise measures shall
be maintained or not. 1t is the test ques.
ton before the country, and no political
ingenuity can cvade it.
! To this view of the case, as far as the
whig party arc concerned, the Courier and
Enquirer gives fiat denial in the following
words
I'VE do not believe that the repeal OF
any law can dissolve the Union. Nor
will this question be made a party test
among the wings, who have the good Of
! the country and their party at heart. Some
wings are in favor of the fugitive slave law
/ Just as it stands. Others think it could be
made better. and others think that it ought
to be repealed and new one enacted in its
place. Cannot difference OF opinion on this
subject be tolerated! Or must our formula
I of faith be prescribed for all -! Every man
must be left to his own Judgment upon this
matter, unless the wing party is to be dis
solved
There has all along for trcacherous and
base purposes, been most strenuous efforts
made by the whig press in the South. to
make the slavc-holdng community believe
that tic wings of the country were safe
and conservative on the sui ject Of Southern
rights This, the great leading whig organs
in the North now, as we know they would
be compelled to do, deny in the most en-.
pliatic terms.
That excellent and clcar.hcadcd democrat
| ic journal in Philadelphia, "Thc Pennsyl-
vanian" most sorcly cxcoriates the New
Orleans Bulletin and tbe Richmond Times,
for their atrocious duplicity and treason to
the South, in misreprcscnting the true state
of whig feeling Oh this point. The Penn
syIvanian introduces quotations showing the
utter falaciousncss Of these two journals by
the following pungcnt remarks
The Wnrcs OF TIE SouTn-We have
watched with no small interest, the attempt
of the wing papers Of the Southern States
to hide from their party the course which
the great body of the wings of the North
now take and have taken on the great ques
ton OF the day. There can be nothing hon
est in these efforts. II is impossible tha
men Of ordinary intelligence land many o
the Southern editors or men Of extraordina
nv abilities---should not feel the shame the.
: are putting upon themselves, by Trying Il
make the worse appear tue better reason
They might as well attempt 70 show tina
! the Northern people are Indians, as try 4