The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-09-11
CITY OF WASHINGTON.


The BALTIMORE AMERICAN is not well suited with our
conempuous rejection of its absurd proposition that the
democrats who rally upon the maintenance OF The Com
PROMISE as platform on which 10 carry out the ancient
aud time honored principles OF their great party should
Join the conservative wings" in a Union organiza
ton sustain and reelect President Fillmore The AmeI
begs TO spare il any further expression oil our ds-
PUNISHMENT" Thai we will do if the American will but
spare and The country any further persistence in such
monstrous fooeries For il not to the plain sense OF
every plain man. monstrous foolery 10 ask national
dcmocra, to sustain Mr.. Fillmore, merely because Mr.
Fillmore is rePudiated by twothirds OF his own
party as eleventh hour aposats from his "knoua abo
iituonisn OF s4s TO the old democratic doctrine of
Intervention as imbodied in the Compromise
Iniering--by what process OF logic know not-our
obliga 10 sustain Mr. Fillmore from declared de-
termination 10 sustain the Compromise the true and
inevitable rayng ground of the national democracy. the
American urges u.s. if do not like the inference, 10
stake back" the declaration Whenever we have any
thing TO "take back may well ask for few sugges
tions to the way of doing from the easy political
morality and the practical adoitness of the American
for ever since that journal took back" its independent
movement for General Taylor the candidate of "no
support him as the candidate of the wing party, has
borne a conspicuous reputation for skill IN such
"backngs," and even now, and day after day, it
shows its ingenuity in contriving how TO claim credit
and character public journal, while openly sus-
tanning and operating with party whose north
ern State organization and action upon question
"bearing with it the Union and its fortunes il yet
denounces as "eheaf' and snare" In such
predicamen-and it is the predcament substantially OF
every southern wing who declares purpose to sustain
the Compromise and yet acts in party alliance with the
wing party of the North now organized-the Amer
lean is forced truly enough, to back out either from its
declaration or its party. Many of the wings of Georgia
and Mississippi have met this very issue noby and man
fully. Holding the maintenance Of the Compromise as
the American holds far 10 transcend mere party meas.
ures and organizationsthey have rail- ed and are rally
ing to the support OF that under the banner OF
sound national democratic principles and policy, as repre-
sented by Messrs. Cobb and Foote The American may
well profit by their example As for ourselves we must
continue TO hold the fortunes of the Compromise TO be,
like its principles identified with those OF the national
democratic party, till we find other national
party able to make show Of sustaining it.
The American, following in the track of the Republic,
quotes against article from the Savannah Georgian
censurng us for supporting The Compromise, and aiming
apparently to show that the democracy OF the South do
not acquesce in that All such articles la
Dor lost The elections coming in from the South as
sure us that we have truly responded TO the So
Der conclusions of the South. Meantime well
bear the impatient tone OF those southern demo-
cratic journals which, like the " Georgian" did no,
at first accurately perceive the direction of the strong
rent OF democratic sentiment at the South Our recen,
reply to the Raleigh Standard embraces all that we
deem il necessary TO say in reply TO the Geor-
gan We believe that both these journals will before
long he found standing with the only ground on
which the national democratic party unite. 1t is
ground on which the wing party of the counry-as
Judged from all its past and present declarations of
poliey-never rally. Its preence to rally if it make
one, be-as the wing caucus preience in New York
is now proclaimed to be by the American and southern
whig press generally " and cheat" On this
ground-he faithful maintenance OF the Compromise
entertain doubt whatever that the undivided South
with the possible exception OF South Carolina will soon
take its stand Nor can we doubt that the South will
then aid powerfully 10 place the federal authority in the
hands OF that party which alone sustain the Adjust
ment final barrier 10 further anti slavery aggression