The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-10-12

the party, from the days OF Jefferson 10 tbo..
Polk Ii was democratic, also. in another ..,.
that is in maintaining national platform UPON .,,
democratic party Of the North could unite with a.,
ocralic party OF the South IN making common wa,
the abolitionsls and in yindicating the great n;.
OF the constitution which have been ILLUSTRATED h.
patriots as Jefferson. Madison. and jackson. Ii o.,
indeed, singular phenomenon if the language Of e.
Of New York. and Johnston. OF Pennsylvania, ....
against the Compromise. should be abolition i
States, and the same language used by Gov Quinn,
his allies in the South should be good democr,ey
Col Bigler, nominated by democratic couy.o,..
Pennsy vania in order to carry out the proyision,
Compton, Use, should be deemed by us here noll.
triot and that men affecting 10 be democrats sbo,p
up men in the South TO defeat the provisions Of mi.
Compromise.
We charge no such Inconsistency and folly IA q.
Trousdae. or to the democratic party Of Tennis.
but we maintain that this party would have been =
successful in the last contest If those who claimed
its leaders had talked less about fighting at 80 a.
,uhesling into line Nth South Carolina in red...
the wrongs OF the South, and had done more in ~,
sing the caami,ies which would have befallea our m
try if the Compromise had not been passed. or il ii.
sistance measures, produced by Remuneration Of /, !,
cheat and fraud, had not been arrested by ,h,, h
Jackson democracy which is still alive in the Sou,h \
as true as ever to the Constitution and the Union
This idea of the Washington Union has shocked 4.
sensiblties of the Fayetteville Observer and leave
without apology in the estimation Of that Journal uni
il may be that we would have understood much b.,r
the causes that led to our defeat if had been b,
acquainted with the State" The explanation Of ,ba
journal, founded on this better acquaintance with Do
tics, and put forward after six weeks delberatou II,
with what il terms leading Organs il in III
following words;
For the last eight years victory has psrchsd aero,,
on the banner of both pares and each successive III
umph has fallen within the range of thousand or hie,
hundred votes Tho party last beaten comes 10 the pol
with exasperaed feelings and in State nearly BAL
anced as this ten per cent Of greater zeal viii always CAM
the election. This 10 enough 10 account for Gov To
daIe's defeat We thosght had the zeal from slr
CAUSES, side. The whig party were unmoved BY er
thing transporting around them, and their viii
their accustomed unanimity on their own candidau I'D
SO the election was lost"
There is sn-per.eent. principle, it seems, which ~
more operative than any other cause in the last elections,
that it, there is sort of alternate right to success ys
by the people Of Tennessee to the two parties and n
this alternate law which operated, and not clearly /
fined political opinion, in putting out Gov Trousak
and putting in Gsv. Campbell. The ten-per.c.M nj
enabled the democrats 10 turn out Neil S. Brown and a.
abled the wings to turn out Gov Trousdale. Whaa
does now for the wings it will do next time for ,s
democrats. How almighty is this new political tod,
If the 10 per cent OF it puts up and puts down psru
in Tennessee 1t is far potent than Bddlss bank
So much for what the Observer says Of the caas d
Gov Trousdales defeat Let US now see what i, ID. ~
luton OF the democratic defeat in the Legislature. II,
language of this journal is follows, in speaking Of III
facility with which democrats were managed BY d,
wings:
"one says, WELL will provoke them to ~ sSsin,t
me : another says, II will be mild a. he and %
both OF the lie close up under the hig Shore leaving d.
mocracy buffet the storm the beat way it may Now
look several OF the large dem counties Of the STATE
where candidates compounded with advessariss BY
selfish policy like this and need be no loss about n
suits.
Besides this eagerness to election there will
be other high offices be bestowed by the Leisatw,
where it would be very undesirable to have the Whole
wing party to against In such the ssp.
their friends easily persuade themselves thai
don't make much difference whether candidate ns wig
or democrat provided he rta gre hspisg kssi hs
desired office In this way the bave hoaed and dsvcst
democrat who stakes thing his zeal and dsvsDa
to his prnci ples-who will advocate and Sustain hem
all times and in all paceswill oitenme find hmssls md
his party deserted and sacrificed by the mid and slAA
policy Of pretended advocates"
Now, we mus, confess that we were unaequia>sl
hos h>ra III
controlling in Tennessee politics. We nse hsa
totally as the Characteristic OF any portion Of the dsnoe
racy with which we have ever acted. and AZ coaf
dent that there is no wing organ that will require III
weeks consultation with other wing organs tosna0k 4
TO say that such principles disowned BY the wing parry
Also in Tennessee. No, no you are mistaken, MI
Editor There 10 no such party in Tennessee; and ID
article which appears in your paper was not writs' 10
any other purpose than TO bring unfounded chag
against "Major Donelson" You bad better leave ID
assault upon Major Donelson' 10 those al Nashville I'd
know better than you do that he is real friend OF 'o
Trousdale, and could consent TO any polucA "
which, under the guise of State rights. involved an
sault upon the memory OF General Jackson. lhenl
nothing which you can say that will ever remove ID
impression from the public mind of Tennessee that ho'
who were so anxious to fight at the line Of % .
were more anxious for the success OF Mcdonald an
Qui,man than they were for the election oil t'o'
Trousdale or the vindcaion OF the doctrines maintains
by Gen. Jackson during his presidency. Il is better
you to wait even longer than six weeks for some one
write your af,cles--beer that you should wait oIsv'
than look for one 10 the Nash vile America, who's
al the fayorite oryan of Messrs Cbeves An
Rheu will be married by any attempt to make the man
tenance Of the Compromise, as final settlement oil ID
slavery question, patriotic.