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

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them one and the same party. In every great nauonai
crisis whether in peace this union oil parties
10 some extent takes place but their fusion ih'o
permanent new party has never been admitted. Just
soldiers. in time OF foreign war, strive Tor the pain
OF glory in repeling the common enemy. without mink
ing Of former differences Of political opinion, 20 1t has
been with the position OF parties IN the gtea civu
crises which have put in jeopardy the preservation
Of the Union against interior foes. Did MIR Clay and
Mr.. Webster with Gen. Jackson IN 1882, ihey
goried in it honorable not less to theI individual
fame than TO their character wings Instead OF con-
sidering such fact dissolution Of their party, they
founded upon claims public trust phigs, and
portion OF the democratic party, which had sus
tanned its administration in important national question
SO has been in all and great national dan
gers; and must be, as long the interests OF
the country higher that those OF party or rather, as
long is the real object Of parties 10 advance the pub
lie good and make republican system perpetual.
II these views correct, there is difficulty in say
ing that local organizations in the South which have
tested the acquescence of the people in the Compromise
as final settlement Of the slavery question, instead OF
producing fusion Of the wing and democratic
parties will produce the contrary effect It is under demo
cratic banners chiefly that this great victory will have
been gained and the South placed unit on the old
platform Of the Constitution and the Union occupied by
jefferson and jackson, and made able TO cooperate with
the similar movement at the North and Northwest,
where Biger and other aag-bearers are accomplish
ing precisely the same results that have attended the
labors OF Cobb Foote, Hubbard. Dinsmore, and Sey.
mour, and the great mass of national democrats.
When the battle is over-as we trust it will soon
be-the political atmosphere viii become clear, and
/ I. ii lDoL JOx.yn ,vpcp tha 6olH If
their common exerons. may congratulate each other
upon their in disamng that sectional element
OF discord which abolition and higher-lawism had
fostered until it became dangerous 10 the common
good But the parties will not be the less distinct
and national than they BEFORE and will naturally
assume their distinctive divisions OF opinion upon The
administrative policy Of the government they did in
1900 or 1882 Each will be purged Of uraism but which
Of the two will have lost the mos, by that uitraism will
be fact no more within the control Of the present political
leaders OF the parties than the sacrifices OF the men
and the treasure lost in battles that have been fought
This is fact depending on the political circumstances
involved in the support Of the Compromise. and their
bearing on the previous action and responsibility OF
parties If, for example. Sescardism in New York has
taken larger hold the wing than on the democratic
sentiment and has thereby made the whg party more
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will be TO that extent loss the wing party So it is in
Pennsylvania, and so it must be in every other State
Mr.. Fillmore or Mr. Webster may suppose that their
determination TO maintain the Compromise ought to
title them 10 the support OF all who will do like
wise but if the organization which placed them hereto.
fore a. wings on the same platform with Mr. Seward ia
that which the people decide to put down, IT will be i'm
possible for those gentlemen escape the responsibility
a.. raeo hov
may aspire to lead the wing party This is but the law
of paries-as Interchangeable now as it has ever BEEN
But this reasoning be correct regards that portion
OF our Union in which anti slavery, political element
had it's origin, and the support OF the Compromise have
inevitable effect Of dsang that dangerous sectiona
organization in the North the same reasoning is far more
papable and conclusive upon the state OF parties in the
South No one be blind not to that the ces
saion OF aggression the South is the cessation OF
ssance its part, and that acquiescence in the Compro
mise fails to- be practical party test from the very mo
ment that is known to have the constitutions
support OF the northern States The position Of tn.
South has always been democratic in this respect and ha
ever been in accord with that provision of the consti,u
ton which guarantees the STAKEHOLDER bis right OF prop
erty Practically, them all minor party questions hav
been merged in the general effort OF the southern peop
to act as a unit with that northern sentiment which
should be uppermost in putting down abolition an,
higher lawism and this sentiment 10 already demon
sated to be democratic, and that alone which will rail-
the people OF the North 10 the defence OF the constu
tonal duty Of the federal government this question o
slavery it results that the organization in Georgia ant
other southern States which has controlled the late cleo
TONS must give the political hand Of fellowship TO tn
national democratic partyihe party that heade
by jefferson and Jackson, and is true il ha
ever been to the Constitution and the Union.
How far these views accord with those of the enght
sned public thought which is now speaking through TIL
public press Of Georgia, readers will by the ai
cles which we suboin from the Southern Banner, th'
Savannah Republican, and the Macon Journal and Mes
senger A few days since gave extract from III,
Montgomery Advertiser the same subject But th'
article which enters most thoroughly into the discussion
of the party effect OF the late divisions in Georgia is tina
from The Southern Banner, published at Athens in tina
State It will be seen that that able journal arrives a
the same conclusion which we have long since ex
pressed-,he result OF which is that the Union part,
cannot be rallied any wing platform, but must &C
with the national democratic party. On the bank
currency, tariff, and nternal.inprovemen topics. III,
democratic doctrine is admitted to be that OF Georgia
We comm end the whole article readers for its
prehensve views and satisfactory indication that The
party divisions to which il refers will have power ic
prevent the gradual reunion Of democrats on their old