The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-07-08
CITY OF WASHINGTON.


xshix party It's promises OF moderation and forbear.
.ncs in s4s were followed by the most bitter and vim
dctys prescription which witnessed in
our county, and its pledges OF no.partyism re.
deemed by the violent manifestations of party spirit
sad the most esolute attempts TO iasten upon the
try the discarded principles of the federal policy The
party in power is still pursuing the system of tao
tics which has always pursued Ii pirates OF harmo-
ny and sternal feeling II would persuade the people
that party lines shoad be obieraed for the benefit OF
party. 1t even vaunts IFS love OF the Union, while II
openly and shamelessly iaernzes with those dangerous
men who have brought the Union TO the very threshold
Of dissolution and the country TO the verge OF civil war
II unnecessary to specify the acts OF Mr. Fillmore and
other leading wings of the North, when we can call Mr.
Webster the witness stand TO prove that 10 the wing
party is due all the responsibility for the force and vol
of the anti slavery current which has shaken the
foundations OF the coniedeacy. No man can impeach
the testimony Of Mr. Webster on that point but any
southern wing should be so ignorant or houghless as to
try the experiment he would be utterly overwhelmed and
buried beneath the avalanche OF facts and arguments
which the Secretary OF State would pour down upon
him.
During the whole time that the wing party engaged
in giving strength and volume to the antisavery current
the wings Of the South acted with them and abored with
them in the political organization. The defeat OF
prominent democrat of the North, who had resisted the
current of anlisavery outrage, hailed with much
Joy by the federasts Of the savehodng States by the
enemies Of slavery themselves This southern sympathy
and alliance, which, for party purposes, gave that
power to the factionss of the North which enabled them
shake the very foundations Of the republic, is now
la.
are not upurned and over,hrown, and the confederay
shattered to pieces The wing party of the South
seems determined to learn nothing from the past. 1t
obstnately shuts its eyes to the teachings of exps-
rience. II it no, blind. it would see-if it
not deaf would hear and understand-how it has aided
and sustained and is now aiding and sustaining, tina,
spirit of wrongful aggression which has driven portion
Of the southern people well nigh TO madness and insan
ity as 10 shake the Union by reac,ive blow. 1t
forget the condition of the country-to lose
sight OF all proper purposes Party have
swallowed up all other considerations 1t pretends to
give hearty support to the Compromise and 10 claim
almost the exclusive privilege to sustain the Compromise
and uphold the Union while it gives by its acts, in
former times, all manner OF encouragement 10 the north
enemies OF the Compromise, whose policy would in
evitably shater the Union into fragments. Words
worthless in the face OF acts which have definite and
distinct meaning tending 10 produce definite and dstinc,
result
The dangerous tendencies OF northern whiggery have
been scarcely modified by the adoption OF the Compromise
Had the wing party OF the South acted with patriotic and
disnterested 6rmnesss-if ii would even now act with
patriotic and disinerested irmness-the northern wing
party would be forced abandon its present position. and
cease its efforts breed dscod and engender strife Had
Mr. Fillmore been as ready with deeds with words
had he put his foot down hrmly-had he given the dis
turbers OF the public peace in the North to understand
that they could expect avors from him. and promptly
and firmly Withdrawn from them the patronage which the
Taylor administration had bestowed on them-a would
have been WELL But be did just enough to irr,ate-not
enough 10 subdue; he hesta,ed-vaca,ed; he gave
triang patronage his fends-some of them, perhaps.
friends Of order-bu he stopped short; he showed
that he party man. he feared 10 risk the guberna
,oral election in New York and, by that fear
he left the bulk Of power and patronage the hands OF III
higher law friends OF VIM. Seward. VIVA, was the
sut twas the result which follows all the OF tmdi
. The friends Of moderate counses in New York-those
who wished to sustain the Compromisewere deserted,
and given over most dsgraceful defeat They who
had left the whg convention at Syracuse because of the
endorsement OF MIR. Seward sustained ultimately the
nominees Of that convention; and, remembering the
Of the organs Of the administration that
son. we feel no hesitation in saying that this suicidal
and dangerous policy met the hearty and entire concur.
renee OF the cabinet, il il induced by the cabinet
itself. To carry Seward wing ticket the interests of
the country were forgolten-dsregarded order to
cure party triumph in New York.
But this is not all The special organ of the admins
aton in this city has sustained the action of the wing
convention lately assembled at Harrisburg in Penn
sylvania The nomination OF Governor Johnston is
also sustained by the wing press Oflen-repeated and
uncontradiced statements authorize say that the
soicude 10 Mr. Fillmore himsel-so much 80 that Gov.
Johnston coerced the President into sustaining abo
ton friend by threats OF refusing to accept the nomna
ton We have before us sketch OF the speech deliv.
cred by Gov Johnston before the Harrisburg convention
II gives most unequivocal evidence that he opposed 10
the fugitive slave law it stands which is equivalent TO
thorough and entire hostility 10 the whole adjustment
Tor no fail TO perceive that repeal or
essential modification OF that law will leave friend 10
the Compromise in all The southern States Gov John
s'on aso justified himself for refusing 10 sign the act
repeating the law OF Pennsylvania denying the OF
ails 10 the claimants of fugtyes from service. He
denounced the act OF Congress providing for the capture
Of iugtives as The kidnapping law" He also s,imula.
ted the anti slavery sentiment, and urged it on n its rea
sspabe by hootng at the idea that the repeal Of
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