The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-12
PARTIES, NORTH AND SOUTH.
E,om The Baltimore AnsTiGGn, November ll-LAD.
MINIsTRATIoS- WHis.l
Results OF Recent Elections.

generally
arrangement and action of parties are concerned,
the recent elections are significant of nothing,
if they are to be regarded in their develop
ments according to the designations OF Wing
OF Democratic. Nor do they furnish any lndi-
cations at all conclusive as to the mex Presl
dency, in connexion with the combinations
which NAV be formed in reference 10 that
office.
The result OF the election in New York
shows triumph of no party as such. The
Abolitionists have gained more than any other
faction-fouf of the State canal board elected
on the Democratic ticket being Aboltioniss
who supported Martin Van Buren, as the Buf
falo nominee in lS4S. The diverse and dis
cordant elements aggregated together of the
TWO sides previous 10 the election, flew into
strife so soon as that event released them from
a forced and i'll assorted union for the tempo
Tary purpose of the election. The jour
nails lately regarded as being on the same
side, are now arrayed in fierce hostility
against each other, and the contentious of Hun
ker and Barnburner are not like TO be more
fatal theunity of the Democratic party than arc
the conflicts now raging between the Silver Grays
and the Woolly Heads, as they are called, to the
unity Of the Wing party. The Express charges
upon the Tribune, and the Albany Euening Journal,
and the factions which those journals lead, the de-
sign Of bringing about, by traitorous contrivanccs,
the defeat Of the Wing ticket, for the purpose of
having il appear that MIR. Fillmore and his Admin
istration not sustained in New York. This
was To prevent the nomination of MIR. Fillmore for
the next Presidential term the indications OF which,
from the South and Northwest and indeed from
nearly every quarter. were daily becoming more
and more favorable.
"It is clear" says the Express, 'self evident
hat pdarc Sta NJ thPu a re
persisted in, the old New York Wing party ia to
be rent in twain. We, Union Wings. cannot be
made Abo itionists or We, New York Union
Wings, cannot be separated from the Wings in
other States of the Union " II goes on 10 declare
that the abolitonism which has chung to the Wing
party, threatening death TO it, must be sloughed
off, and that, thus purified, it will take its ground
upon the principle of acquiescence in the Compro-
mise, and unite with the Union men Of the South,
who warning against Secessionists as the Union
Of the North must against Aboltionsts
in whatever form attitude they may present
themselves.
fthe South is expected to go into convention for
the nomination of a candidate for the Presidency,
il must be upon such conditions these, and upon
no other. ''The southern yote,' says the Savannah
Republican,, "will not be given to any candidate
for the Presidency unless the contention ,cich pre-
sents that candidate shall come out openly ,oh a
pLdge ttat The tphole Compromise shall be honestly
maintained" 1t would be TO encourage delusiop
to allow any doubt to the absolute and unaltcr
able fxedness Of this determination. Let the
Wings of the North choose. Thcee of them who
cannot come up to this standard of fealty to the
Constitution may find platform at Buffalo where
they would not be ntruders The New York Tn.
bins has inkling ofthis approaching purgation,
30 necessary, so inevitable "Have we arrived
them" it asks, "at the parting of the ways? Do
those Wings who uphold the Fugitive Slave law
propose to make it their Shibboleh and strike
down every Wing candidate who may be pointed
at as Seward man., or who deems that enact
Inent unworthy of free people? These are ques
fions which demand unequivocal answers"
They will get such answers, no doubt. The law
in question is in accordance with what the Iri6u
calls an Gill considered compact made when our
fathers were themselves virtually shareholders -
but that journal should remember that the Consti-
tuition is not addressed 10 shareholders or to non
slaveholders, but citizens OF the United States,
who are bound to observe ts compacts no matter
who their fathers 10 the force of an obliga
ton to be impaired because Of the contracting
parties has ceased to hold slaves An cxtraordina
ny specimen OF logical deduction
The most forlorn party at the South, just now, Is
the Democratic. In that quarter it is arrayed
journals in this region, the Washington Union, for
example, and the PennsyIuanian, are making great
efforts to make the public believe that the Democ-
racy stands by the Compromise and claims it Hs
it's own 'We candidly tell such presses as the
Union and the PennsylrGnian,' says the Milledge
Vile Federal Union, 'lhat union of the southern
wing of the Democracy lie out of the question
Howell Cobb" it adds, 'will support Willard Fill
more for the Presidency" The same journal dc
clares that Fillmore ia the first choice of the Union
party of Georgia for the next term OF the Presl
dency; and il informs those Democrats who have
followed Howell Cobb that they tcan never wor-
ship more at the same altar with the great body Of
the Democratic party, who have stood firm and
stcadfastly adhered to the old faith" A mon
strous outrage Mr. Cobb ia declared TO be guilty
of-being no lees than that of "procaiming every
where in Georgia that the Democratic party is
dead and that no other party claims his considera
tion save the Constitution and Union party-G
party composed almost entirely Of old Wbigs."
Thus are the elements confused, and thus ia il
seen that the terms Wing and Democratic have no
specific meaning as applied to the great issue OF
the day: neither Democratic triumphs nor Wing
victories imply any thing at all in reference to the
peace and integrity of the Union, the supremacy
of the Constitution, and the due enforcement OF the
law The Constitution has its supporters in the
ranks Of both of the parties designated as above,
and in both Of them its enemies are to be found
When Seward claims to be Wing, and John Van
Buren, Democrat, it does not make either OF them
iess an nboitonist or less the foe of the Constitu
lion and its compact0. The twain ought to belong
10 the same party, and no doubt they will find
themselves side by side before long. There must
be union, firm and true, among the Constitu-
tionalists throughout the country, and from all
onarters for the purpose of making head against
political fanaticism at the North, and of putting
down the dangerous uprisng of secessionsm, az it
now appears, among southern nullifers. in ali
ominous aspect more formidable than 1t ever were
hitherto under any name.
From The Pittsbtrg PG.) Chronicle, November g.
observation-disclosures
The Next Presidency.
Buchanan and Cass seem TO be regarded al
the most prominent candidates for the Presl
dency in the Democratic party but where tn
delegates for the latter gentleman arc 10 come
from no one pretends 10 say. In Pennsylvania
ne has Int little strength and in New Ork, l