The southern press., 1851-11-06
SOUTHERN PRESS.
WASHINGTON CITY.
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER s, 1901
The rws great Parties.

JHUhSDAfs NOVEMbEh o, le0l.
"Ths I've great Psrtios."
We publish the address Of the Union Safety
COMMITTEES" of New York, recommending cer-
tain candidates for State officers, who If elected,
will carry out the principles of the committee
by opposing further agitation of the slavery
question"
The establishment of this committee, soon af-
ter the passage Of the compromise" measures
was sign of the times. 1t was an admission
that the integrity of the compact Of Union wa,
threatened, and that fidelity to its true spirit wa,
less prevalent than II was. But now, after
years trial Of that healing compromise" BY
the committee, we hive their open declarations
that neither Of the great parties, organized as
they are at present, can be called entirely ma
tional." That, in fact. at I" the Wing convention
at Syracuse, the Abolition Wings were in a ma.
jority," and in the Democratic convention al
the same place, the Freesoil Democrats acquired
predominating influence" and that each "shaped
their proceedings accordingly" Hence the CON-
mittee recommend the election Of their nominees,
in order thatthe State may stand upon national
ground-the abolition tendencies of both the
political parties be rebuked and checked" as
The only ,cay in which the honor of the State
may be preserved and its fidelity to the Union
proved" The extent Of the popularity of these
q national" candidates we shall best know after
the election.
Now that the sdisunion" shadow, which the
compromisers have painted at the South, is, by
them, admitted to be quiescent, we have their
declaration that the majority of neither of the
two great parties" in the largest Northern State
can be relied on for fidelity to the true spirit of
the Union. They open their eyes to the fact
that the hydra, which even they have perhaps
been instrumental in raising, will not I" down at
their bidding" We believe that one of their
candidates-Mr. RANDALL-affiliated with the
Freesoilers at period certainly not remote.
These political charlatans who wished to make
capital Of Abolitonism, and risked the ity
of the confederacy, have become aware of dan
ger to themselves in persevering in their insane
course. The pledge of their candidates of, :" op-
posing further agitation of the slavery ques
tion," embodies their apprehension, and is a
confession that their own acts have caused the
alienation of the feelings of very large number
Of the Southern people.
It is q confession, too, of the possibility Of
accession. an acknowledgment by their own pro-
ceedings of the existence Of such right in the
sovereign States. Or why the apprehension
What the necessity for taking such measures
and getting up Union safety committees fo'
uniting fractions of parties to elect men favor
able to the maintenance Of the law!
They know that no disunion sentiment ha
been uttered at the South, but AS consequence
Of what is here confessed, and in asserting thei
right to secede to avoid its effects. The Sout
has but made known that It can calculate tn
value of the Union, and retire from it when il
injuries may be felt to be greater than it's ber
e6ts. And for thus falling back on its ow
ercion! As if governments founded on tn
consent Of the governed" were, at this day, T.
be forced, al the peril of war, with power the
have themselves delegated for other purpose,
to submit TO its unconstitutional acts, and rema
partner in league whose conditions are thu
violated. The supposition that the federal gov
ernment is all powerful, is but the re-animatio
of the old folly of the "right divine"