American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-11-15

fishers.
An Important Political Movement.
We learn with great pleasure that on the
18th instant the legislature of Georgia elected
the Hon. ROBERT TooMBs to represent that
State in the United States Senate for the period
Of six years, from the 4th day of March, 1853
On the evening Of the day of his election Mr.
Toombs delivered public address at Milledge-
vile, in which, according to the Geographic
report we have received, he announced that
sthe Constitutional Union party of Georgia
adhere for the present to an isolated and in
dependent organization and name; that it
will not send delegates to or be represented
in either of the National Wing or Democratic
conventions next year that it will wait until
those conventions have assembled and set
forth their principles and candidates before
the country, before determining which side it
will array itself on"
Mr.. Toombs also asserted that
GAS an indispensable condition for the sup
sport Of the Union party Of Georgia, the Ma
tional Convention, whether Wing or Demo-
cratic, with which it may coalesce, must adopt
the Compromise platform; that this condition
compiled with, the Constitutional Union party
of Georgia win hold itself free to unite in the
support Of the candidate for the Presidency
OF either the National Democratic or National
Wing Convention"
1t will here be perceived that Mr.. Toombs,
just elected by the great Union party, under
takes to speak for that party, and to proclaim
its plan Of future action; and that this plan
contemplates its holding the position of bal
ance- of-power party, and exercising no other
function than simply to affirm or dissent from
tho doings Of national convention, whether
Wing or Democratic.
Mr.. Toombs is Wing, and in full sympathy
with the present Administration. With Gov
ernor Cobb and the talented Stephens, he has
been an efficient co-operator in the creation of
the great Union party; and the victories achieved
by that party in Georgia have all been pro-
claimed triumphantly through the columns of
the special organ of the Government in this
city, and the journals in the interest of the
Executive throughout the Union. When, also,
we compare the present revelation with the
proclamation of Mr.. STUART at Richmond, made
in the hearing of the President and the Post
master General, that he, as the chief Of de-
partment Of the federal government, knew no
distinction between Wings and Democrats, but
looked alone to the Union sentiment Of the men
he selected for public service, we have ample
evidence of the designs of the Administration
to dissolve the Wing party, to obliterate it's
name, and to depend for support upon newly
organized party, having but one principle and
one idea for its bond Of union, and these, in the
absence Of an antagonistic principle, of no prac-
teal bearing upon the policy of the nation.
We need not argue this proposition. The
discontinue of the disunion party, and the phys
ical and political impossibility of efecting their
designs, were they more influential in numbers,
would manifest to every mind their non-exist-
ence as an efficient organization, if they had not
already, as soon as defeated, thrown down their
arms and declared the contest ended
We honor the patriotism of all men who have
faithfully defended the laws and Constitution of
our country; and we especially honor those
Wings and Democrats who have for the time
slenced their party strife and walked side by side
under the glorious banner of the Union; but if
there ever were principles at issue between the
great Wing and Democratic parties worthy the
strife they have in past times accustomed those
principles still exist, and the true patriot on
either side will still contend for them The
question of finance has ever separated these
parties; the arrangement Of the tariff the inter
nal improvement Of the country, and many other
topics Of great moment, have ever been prolific Of
earnest and sanguine conflicts in the halls Of the
National Legislature. Has a temporary excite
ment upon another issue been sufficient to pro-
duce perfect millennium upon all these? Have
they sunk into insignifcance? Is the truce be-
tween parties to be perfect that upon all these
matters men will forget their former convictions,
or silence the promptings Of conscience? If so,
the new party is to mark wonderful but not q
glorious era in this nation, and men will stultify
themselves for meagre recompense.
There have been times when the opinions of
men upon the policy of certain measures Of
Government have caused them to forget other
and even more radical principles of affinity, and
we have hence seen perfect commingling Of
the democratic and aristocratic feeling in each
party; but stormy commotions--if words arc
indeed the only missiles thrown-tend to the
separation of such homogeneous particles, which,
by the universal laws Of affinity, form into more
harmonious combinations in their new bonds Of
cohesion. We are now Witnessing the subsi-
dence Of an irruption Of this character, and it
viii no doubt tend, not to the extinction, but to
the publication Of both parties. The conserva-
tive party will DO reduced in numbers, but more
united in sentiment; the progressive party will
be numerically stronger, and will be freed from
the checks, restraints, and membranes Of