The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-19
PARTIES NORTH AND SOUTH.
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National ConventfOn.

OF flOTl0d, recently WIOlc lcAicl pun tiC SUI
iect of the Wing nomination for the Presiden-
CIV. in which he expressed the opinion that the
Southern Wings ought 10 take measures 10 be
represented therein that they should submit
resolution requiring the nominee to pledge HIM
self to the support of the Compromise act, and
especially TO the Fugitive Slave law; and TO
the misunderstanding of any repeal or modlhca-
ton of it; that, if such resolution should be re-
jected the Southern Wings should withdraw In a
body. The views of Governor Brown-a warm
Wing and Union man-will be apt to meet the
concurrence of majority of the Wings of the
slaveholdng States. The latter have stood by the
Compromise, and have nobIy battled against the
Secession and State Rights party; but any infer
ence from this course that would initiate against
their entire devotion to the cause of the South,
when engaged in the defence of her constitutional
guarantees, would be most fallacious. The posi-
ton Of the Wing party of the South is simply this:
They have sustained the Adjustment" from its
introduction into Congress TO it's passage. They
regard il full and final settlement of the slave
ry question7-to be left untouched, unaltered, and
immutabe on the statute book. 1t must so remain.
The Southern Wings insist that its perpetuation
shall be secured by the formal adhesion of their
political associates.
That this will be the attitude of the Wings of the
South in the next National Convention seems al
most inevitable. The signs of the times point UNI
erringly TO such platform. II is beyond the
power of any National Convention to endorse
Presidential candidate to the satisfaction of the
South if he be destitute of the greatest of all posi-
bic claims to our conhdence-soundness on the
Compromise. Ten thousand conventions cannot
INDUCE southern Wings tovote for a Wilmot pro
visoist, an abohtionist, or mum candidate. The
day when those things might have been accom-
plished is gone by. We will even do the Demo
Gratis of the South the justice to say that they too
will stand aioof from the nominee OF their conycn-
ton unless he is free from all faint of pollution
We do not, however, imagine that, under all cir
Cumstances whatever, pledge like that proposed
by Governor Brown will be exacted. The South
requires to be satisfied, feel safe in supporting
the Presidential candidate. There are gentlemen
who have been put forward nspirants for the
Presidency, from whom formal pledge would be
wholly unnecessary, because their past and pre-
sent conduct proves that they are the prominent
defenders of southern rights. Who, for instance,
would insist upon Willard Fillmore's solemn assu
rance TO respect the Compromise. when he bimsef
has told the nation that he looked upon it final
settlement, and would finally and iniexiby main
tain il in all its integrity? Who would extort
pledges from Daniel Webster, when it is known
that the illustrous statesman has already hazard
ed reputation, popularity, political power, and
every thing that ambition crave, rather than
desert the Constitution and abandon the South
when claiming her rights under that sacred instru
menR Pledges from Fillmore and Webster would be
absurd. From General Scott, indeed, that dis
tinguished officer TO obtain the nomination, can
readily conceive that the most serious and binding
pledge should be required; for General Scotts po-
sition on the slavery question is wholly uncertain
He has never defined it, and his political fellowship
with Free-soilers and Wilmot provisoists involve
il in suspicion and mistrust. But we have ex-
pectation that General Scott will be the nominee.
Pennsylvania and Ohio have extngushed the
hopes Of his partisans.
Some speculation has been INDUCED in to the
prospect OF the Wings without the southern vote
All we can say is, that with the aid of Kentucky,
Maryland North Carolina, Louisiana, Tennessee,
and probably Georgia and Florida, the North
would stand fair chance of making Wing Pre-
sident. Without them Whggery would be beaten
out of sight 1t is for our Wing brethren of the
North to determine whether they can get along
without US, whether il will not be to their ad
vantage to retain political organization in the
South, which they can secure merely by resolving |
to let us alone.
Most of our remarks apply also to the Demo |
Gratis They have their troubles They will be
called on in probably the same style the Wings |
and they must answer categorically, or Alabama |
Mississippi, Arkansas Missouri, &c, will spurn
their nominee. With Democratic difficulties. how
ever, we have nothing to do That party is pro-
verbally sharp in cutting Gordian knots, and will |
very likely continue to do SO on this occasion.
From the Ne,obern IN c. observation-disclosures
IsTRATIoN WING.
The Southern Democracy and DiSunion.
Now that it is seen that the disunion move
ment Is failure, and that no present danger is |
To be apprehended from that reasonable scheme, |
we hope, for the sake of a salutary lesson TO as
piring politicians in the future if for no other
iONoohJ 'hot PCOPiC VI OOLH pOIltiCdl |
will bear in mind, and act accordingly, that this
dlsunion scheme, which at one time threatened |
such serious evils to the country, was mainly |
Matched. fostered and sustained by aspiring poll |
ucians IN the Democratic party. The truth of this
charge rests upon recorded and we'll established |
facts, and is beyond successful contradiction 1t is
true that there were individuals in the Wing party
who favored this movement, and who especially at
the time Of its first inception less iden
hhed with 1t Themselves, and who labored assidu-
ously to indoctrinate the Wings generally at the
South with their disunion sentiments; but these in
stances were comparatively few and unimportant, |
and they produced very little impression upon the
wing party at the South. We made good this !
charge 80 frequently during the canvass for mem
bers OF Congress in this district that it hardly
cessary to do than remind our readers of it's
truth In abiding to the result in the more recent
elections In the southern States. How overwhem-
ing that result has been to the former disunionists
is well known.
But it is amusing TO those who remember the |
course OF the Democratic party in the early stages
OF the slavery controversy to notice the efforts that
have been more recently made by the Democratic |
prcss, and that are now making to disprove that |
any considerable portion of their leaders ever ia
vored diaunon.
State, the truth is too palpable for denial The Dor
ton OF the party, aided by the Wings that has |
there killed disunion, has done it only under the |
nag OF opposition TO immediate and separate seces
sion The leaders of the movement a0ainst dis |
union professed, during the late canvass TO be in
favor whenever the other Southern States
could be brought to cooperate with South Caro- |
lima. They are in fact profess to be- disunion- |
lists still.
But in Georgia, under the lead OF Governor
Mcdonald; in Alabama, under the lead Of Collier;
and in Mississippi, under the lead of Quitman,
strong wing of the Democratic party, which had
In fact at one time planted themselves upon the
same platform as the South Carolina cooperation
Ists, namely, disunion, whenever the South could
be brought 10 unite, have been compelled by the |
force OF public sentiment 10 deny that they ever /
favored dlsunion, and TO electioneer under the |
guso OF warm attachment to the Union whilst
Mt the same time they took the very ground of the
south Carolina dsunionists, Of bitter opposition to
the Compromise measures In Virginia in North
Carolina, IN Louisiana, kentucky, Tennessee &c,
opposition TO the Compromise, that at one time
were marked positions Of the Democratic leaders
has nearly ceased, and the leading organs of the
Democracy are now engaged in the ludicrous I'M
dertaking OF softening down and explaining away
all the dIsuniou doctrines and sentiments they ut
tered few months since. But they must be held
TO the record, and the people must not be permit
ted TO be quite oblivouB Of certain secession and