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

The Southern Press is quite much afflicted as the
Republic the National Era at the indications of union
in the democratic party Its voice does not fail 10 be
heard in the chorus of the band whose hoarse sounds
nounce welcome TO all the pageants that proong the
play for the presidency which is to sacrifice the demo-
party When the National Era makes blast for
abolition, the Southern Press is ready e-echo
summons TO the Rhetts and Cheveses OF South Carolina
TO hold TO the banner of secession, and the Republic
raises its clarion voice above either as the signal to the
wing party to clamor for Mr. Fillmore, and, under the
mask Of superior zeal for the constitution to struggle for
the power he acquired by avowals OF parylsm Thus
the National Era extols Messrs, Wade and Sumner
when they eternal hostility 20 the Compromise,
the Southern Press defes anybody to prove that the
democratic party is willing TO stand by it, and the Re
public teens with auda,ions of President Fillmore be-
cause he says he will execute it.
There is very ready to each of these organs
of sectional and selfish ambition; and that is, that the
masses OF the people understand too well the motives
which govern them to be duped they in ls4s,
Mr. Webster, in his Abingdon speech in ls4s, declared
that the whg party and the freesoil party and
the same thing He said in many words that if Mr..
Van Buren, elected he would be The President of the
wings YETI with such high authority staring them in
the face the corps of disorganizers is constantly
ing that Mr. Van Buren, and his Buffalo seceders from the
democratic party not wings. The Southern Press
sezes with avidy the misrepresentation OF the wing
and abolition journals this subject and puts them
forth to its southern allies with all the gusto OF hun
cry man for fine dinner Mr. Websters language
was:
Suppose now, that Of us who wings should go
and Join the r. party De the resulil Why,
far, moth vould happen but that the WING party
would have changed its name. That would be all We
should be there exactly upon the same principles upon
which have already stood but then they propose 20
further and do tina, which agree would be great change
that is, to put Mr.. Van Buren, at the head of the whig
party"
Dare the Republic, the Southern Press the National
Era any respectable member Of either of the parties rep
resented by these organs deny that Mr. Webster used this
language in ls4s and they undertake TO say that he
did not speak the truth We have asked the question
repeatedly, and the only yet received silence.
consider il indsputable evidence that the assertions
often made that the democracy of Ohio represented
by Mr. Chase, that of New York by the barnbuners or
that of Massachusetts by Mr.. Sumner put forth as
clap traps to catch the unsuspecipg and proceed from
that principle which the federass acted in the old
days OF alien and sed,on lawsha is, that the people
are too ignorant for government We venture TO say
that not wing paper south of Mason Dixons line
will publish the quotation made from Mr. Webs,ers
speech during the present political contest, noiwith-
standing he is the great expounder oil the wing party,
and has been recently held forth the country being
indissoube in sentiment and policy with President Fill
more.
But not con,en, with the suppression Of the great truth
that the wings and free-soilers and the same
party in the Of Is4s, these organs affect to find in
the fact that the political sentiment OF the South has
abandoned for the moment the old party tests ground
for the allegation that the Compromise involves the de-
s,ruc,on OF the democratic party Because Union wings
and Union democrats acquesce and coalesce in meas
ure deemed by them both TO be essential TO the safety
Of the Unon it is alleged that they have received their
quietm as separate parties. This is absurd as TO say
tina, an equation to which you add equal quantities on
both sides of il is not an equation Passion and mis-
conception at given moment may subtract more or
less from these parties-enough, indeed, to make the
mass subtrac,ed more strong than what remains 10
these parties when combined but in the end the causes
which originally formed the two parties resume their
action and the terms democratic and wing restored
to their natural function in the designation and direc-
ton of political sentiment II, for example, we take
Tennessee the community in which this difference OF
opinion in respect TO the validity and necessity OF the
Compromise is about to be lesed that the wing
party POUNDS it's appeals to the confidence OF the people
mainly upon its Jealous support OF this
one Of entire justice all the parts Of The Unoninsstng
that to affirm the South loser is to unse,le the whole
measure and revive the controversy il intended to
end The democrats the other hand claim that their
patriotism is no, be mpeached when they the
conviction that injustice has been done them, II they de-
clare at the time their readiness acquesce in the
measure if it be faithfully executed Thus stating their
positions party may gain voters from the other,
there may be third party formed by subiractons from
both but the two original parties remain distinctly
organized in Tennessee they did before the passage
OF that Compromise II in Georgia and Mississippi the
third party made up of higher grade Of discomfort,
could only be couneraeted by the complete union of the
two original parties these last maintain this Union no
longer than the necessity in which il originated, and they
resume their natural platforms as inevitably that
the principles which create them founded in the
nature of things As surely liquids seek their level,
so do the principles which belong TO our system, and
which constitute parties, obey the law OF their action
Thomas Jefferson against the elder Adams, and General
Jackson agains, the younger Adams the exponents
of parties whose traces be oblerated because
they take their existence from the character OF pot
ca SYSTEM and form necessary condition OF the free
dom Of that opinion which subjects the policy and
duct of public men TO the control and correction OF the
people; and yet the parties which brought into power