The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-09-12

gentleman who as our readers are aware, has been
elected to Congress from the Mobile district The oppo
si,ion made 10 him like that making to the Hon
Mr.. Millson Mr.. Meade, Mr.. Averett, and others in
Virginia 1t is alleged that their dissatisfaction with the
Compromise whilst pending before Congress-
now considered abslrac,y in the relative amount
of advantage acquired by the North and the South is
valid objection their election, committing them 10 the
designating projects OF Mr.. Seward and his abolition
allies The injustice Of opposition such grounds we
have again and again exposed the trick OF party
which, under the guise of superior love for the Union
and the Compromise, seeking TO install into power
men who can be trusted by the democratic party
We believe that the distinguished democrats mentioned
above would be far from disturbing the Compromise
that il is the law OF the land, they would be from
disavowng their respect for the memory OF Washington
and Jefferson, from turning traitor TO the cherished
doctrines of their lives The whole effort OF the wing
party at the North has been 10 make it appear that the
legislation of the past Congress was rejected by the
South and that to oppose the Compromise was only to
assert for the North the right of constitutional discretion
in amending repeating any legislative enactment II
was their policy 10 throw upon the democratic party Of
the South the responsibility OF reopening slavery agta
on that the anti slavery prejudice, in its various forms
of abolition and soism, might be used as the ad-
unct of whggery and thus give to the disciples OF Alex
ander Hamilton and the consoldatonists OF our system
opportunity mould the federal government as they
pleased
That such is the real intention Of the wing party Of
the North is manifest from the position it has assumed
in all the authoritative expressions has yet made OF its
opinions Highsr-iatc,s is still the flag under which il
decoys lis ranks that vast amount OF prejudice which
enlisted in the election OF ls4s TO prevent the APP
plcaon OF the doctrine OF intervention TO the ns-
tuition Of slavery, recognised and guaranteed by the
constitution. This hgher-lawism on all occasions
thanks MIR Fillmore for his promise to execute the laws
knowing that such promise is as the idle wind, II
Tappan or Pllsbury President, they would make
the promise and il would be worth about much,
as indication OF safely against the dangers of that
fanaticism which is undermining the foundations of
government, by the creation OF geographical parties and
the substitution of geographical power in the place OF
that constitutional power which is consistent with the
checks and balances OF system, and with that vital
principle which recognises the States TO be equal in the
sovereignty which they have yielded and in that which
they have retained.
That tired democrats in the South, understanding
they do the tricks Of their old enemy, should be ndg
nant at the idea OF having their fidelity to the Union
questioned because they wished 10 see the Compromise
measure, when pending varied in some OF lis details,
or because they referred after it had become adj
judioaI-a law of the land repealable from its very
nature in its most essential parswas not only natural
but unavoidable Yet the imputaon Of disunon seni
mens, or OF a policy which would favor the movement
towards southern congress and southern confederacy
projected by such men Messrs Rheit and Cheves of
South Carolina, was undeserved 1t evidently
contrary 10 all the doctrines OF the old republican party
Such democrats acquiesce in the Compromise now that
il is law, not because it is perfect work, bu, because
it is as good a could be finished at the time OF
its adoption, and because its maintenance in good faith
disarms abolltonism, at the time that it
the public opinion medium through which ii can bring
back the federal government to the sphere prescribed for
it by the authors OF the constitution. Such democrats
acquire by the Compromise that lever which Mr. Jeer-
referred TO when he said that error Of opinion may
be tolerated when truth IS free TO combat IT." and " that
aequeseent In the tr Of the mojoriiy oonstitutionay
oppressed, is the duty of all good citizens from phieh
there appeal but to force" Such democrats now
support the Compromise because it is substantially law
which tests the power of the federal government TO
carry out that provision of the constitution which
intended TO guarantee institution OF property-an in
siution against which forefathers foresaw there
would be auayed the spi, of fanacism and the iala
ces OF mistaken philanthropy institution. in hne
which cannot be Withdrawn from the basis on which il
has been placed by the compromises OF the constitution
without admission that the whole right of property in
this country is becoming Insecure by the which
producing the same effects France and other por-
tons Of Europe under the Of socialism and com
munism.
These observations, suggested by the position of Judge
Bragg, not at all in contradiction those which
late to that of democrats who voted for the Compromise
and who in it the only OF avertng civil war,
and OF restoring peace and tranquility to the country.
The who. like Messrs Cobb and Foo,e, bravely as
sumed the responsibility OF that measure, more to
be censured than the people who, througbon the
wide eren, Of our confederacy, acknowledge that a
crisis had arisen which would have terminated in the
disruption OF our Union If some such measure had not
been passed by Congress- and in point Of fact. all the
southern States, except South Carolina, admit tha,
this responsibility no, only patriotic. bu, wse ju
dcious, and successful For what else means the uni
form declaration OF that section OF the Union that the
execution OF the fugtve-s slave law must be maintained
and is now the tes-he vital test--of the power of the
federal government to carry plain provision OF the
constitution
II is therefore ttning with the dignity OF political
Issues for the advocates OF the wing party pretend