The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-11-05

WEDNESDAY MORNING, nov. s, 1861.

WEDNESDAY MORNING, nov. 8, 1861.
Tho Unioa Party An Georgia aud tAs DsmocI~iic
Party Usioo.
II manifest 10 the most OF observing minds, when
the compromise had become laws that the ques-
ton OF the constitutional power OF the government TO en-
force and maintain them. il made party test would be
fatal 10 the whig organization, and necessarily strengthen
the democratic organization. This was inevitable, unless
opposition TO those could be made strong enough
10 break up our Union. and found governments on
the two divisions OF sectional hostility which had oTgl-
mated the movements tending to the overthrow OF the
constitution as made by fathers Those compromise
were fact nothing hut reahrmalon OF The
necessity OF adherng strictly to the compacs OF the
constitution in the sense in which they had been
understood by the original members OF our conled-
eracy, and in which they had been insisted upon by
the democratic party since the commencement OF the
federal government The claim TO arrest the extern
sion OF the institution OF slavery by any act OF Con-
gress, 10 subject II TO any supervision calcutta
ted 10 lessen its security in the States Territories OF
the United States where the people in their political
discretion chose to recognise 1t, was manifest de-
parture from the principles on which our federal
Union was formed, and had been resisted on this
ground invariably by the democratic party Proof OF
this fact abounds in numerous authentic documents,
which can be easily quoted under any administration
since the time OF Mr. Jeerson but il is unnecessary on
this occasion to refer any other than that afforded by
the celebrated speech Of Sas Wright OF New York, in
1885 Speaking the voice Of this party. that wonderful
man imbodied with force which has never been sur
passed all that the Union OF this day have been urging
in behalf OF the compacls of the constitution He claimed
az primary democratic principle, that which is now
Invoked for the safety Of the country and he predicted
that The abandonment Of this principle would terminate
ID the dissolution OF our Union He warned the anti
slavery societies that they sappng the foundation
on which rested institutions. and he gave his cordial
support to the elevation Of those only whose nfu
nce was pledged to disarm such societies Of their bale
full influence In uniform concurrence with such sen.
the democratic party has acted and can point to
s national resolutions in $780, 1884, and ls4s. as the evil
lence Of its fidelity to Them and it will furnish another
| example in 1852
On the other hand. the wing party disregarded this
preserving and elementary principle. until finally
i made open opposition to it, and installed President
into power whose prominent friends boastfuly said that
the Wilmot proviso the legitimate fruit OF wing
opinions Instances may be found in which individuals
protesting belong 10 the democratic party made com
mon with the wings in the assertion OF this nnova-
ton upon the spirit OF the constitution but these instances
only prove the nconestaby the fact that the wings
as party, did make this innovation, and that the demo-
cras as party, did oppose it. We advert to the circum
stance in no spirit OF nvdious comparison. and certainly
with no wish dspaage the patriotic agency OF many
of these eminent wings in <epang the injury the coun
try has sustained from the OF their party, but from
the necessity imposed by the duty of laying before ou
readers the causes of those phenomena which pre-
sented by the recent elections and which signalling
so conspcuousy the OF the democratic party
The solution OF this in the fact that the
crisis produced by slavery agitation the error manl,
of the wing party, and that It's acknowledgment and cor
recton are impossible without surrender Of power TO III,
party which foresaw this error and which has taker
from the means of breaking up Union. II we ool
at the North and West, where this agitation had its or
gin and its most dangerous extension as political ee
men we see that its subsistence restores 10 view the doc
trnes and the that were momenarly submerged by
and would have prevented it. II we 90 to The Souh thu
same result 10 disclosed the that have stood upon ht
old maxms Of democracy preaching the same truths ha
Jefferson and Jackson did, those alone that have
vved the Storm and allowed by the people 10 guild.
the ship OF State The uraism put motion there in thu
attitude OF defence. has disappeared with the draism,
the attitude OF aggression, which began at the North
Both ultrdsns were alike inconsistent with the consli
tution and both obliged TO fall before the power
the people, when they resolved to put force
ures based on that sense Of justice and equality which
pervsdes all the compac,s OF the Union OF the Staesh
same compacts that the democratic party maintained il
all their national pla,forms-the that SiIas Wrgh
20 eoquently defended in 1898.
But is not our wish this occasion to enlarge upol
the instructive lessons afforded by the recent elections
We advert to them only for the purpose Of showing how
they oblge us to consider the political meaning of h
combinations which operated in Georgia, and the South
generally
II has been supposed that the organization formed il
that quarter prevent resistance TO the Compromise hat
produced permanent third party. and that the natona
democratic party thereby weakened Nothing, W,
think can be more irrational than such conclusion
This organization in Georgia took the of Constlu
tional Union but was in reality the organization
as to object which took place everywhere else. wher
the Mirasm previously spoken OF had party or
kanization. The organization which elected Bgle
in Pennsylvania against Johnston, the ulraia, wal
the same that prevailed in Georgia. and elected Cobt
against Mcdonald, the uiraia. The maintenance
OF the Compromise as a settlement of the slavery
agitation was the principle involved, and the Of thu
organization by which this principle protected
not material Whether the democrats or wings are mos
entitled TO the credit Of contributing TO the
that organization is an inquiry which already conside
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