North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-07-26
From the New Orleans Courier.
THE UNION PARTY.

In this country there but two there never can be,
while the present constitution endures, hut two great
parties. Minor divisions mere notifications or
fractions of these that merge into one or the other,
from time to time according to their respective ain-
ties. These two parties are separated on many qnes-
lions of constitutional construction, and on almost
every question of policy by broad and enduring lines
of demarcation. Portions Of them sometimes coalesce,
for sectional or selfish purpose, but always at the
expense of character, with loss of integrity and
sense CT shame, we'll never ceasing incompat-
Utility, dissolves the coparnershp, and they return,
sooner or later, to their old organizations.
Hence it is tina though the names of parties in
the United States have changed several times, and
we have had seeding factions processing to be in
dependent yet there have been and there prob
ably never be but two grand divisions Any at
tempt to project third party will never reach beyond
the dignity of an intrigue; a circumscrbed struggle
such as we now see going on in Mississippi and
Georgia, but which the nation will never tolerate.
Suppose, for argument, that fusion should take
place between the two great parties of the
country. How long would it endured They enter
tain antagonistical opinions every question that
has arisen, which is likely to arise from constitu
tiona construction. These questions have not been,
and cannot be permanently settled. The decisions
Of Congress merely temporary. The right of one
generation TO bind another is denied Even the adj
publications of the judiciary often reviewed and an
nulled Precedent here sinks before Progress. Hence
the questions that divided parties at the beginning of
the Government, continually liable to recur, to
break any union of the two that may be attempted
Take, for instance, the question of National Bank
1t is fashionable say that the Wings have abandon
ed that, and stand on the platform with the
Democrats. Not so. They still affirm the constitu-
tional power of Government to regulate the finances,
commerce and trade of the country by such Insti-
tution and they only hesitate press because for
the time it is unpopular. So with other great ques-
tions. Let union take place, and this and other
such questions would very soon dissolve it. These
political unions cannot be formed, as men enter into
a bond covenants stipuations can be entered
into by the multitude every thing must be taken upon
trust. 1t can neither be a Union party with Demo
tic DIo TTniop uxuifhE
ciples. Both divisions would form the organ-
cation with the hope of carrying into it their old prin
ciples; neither would surrender, could honestly
surrender what they believed to be right and hence
perpetual conflicts and dissensons and speedy dis
solution.
In a moral point of view such union would be
equally perncious. To last even through one CAM
paign, it must be based a surrender side,
or on both, a greater less extent of what has
been urged, and what is believd to be right Con-
science and conviction must be given up for expe-
dency or in other words, are bargained away to ac-
comPsh temporary Objects thus losing sight of the
maxim that lies at the base of political integrity,
- principles eternal" The struggle becomes
one of men, of faction, for selfish Pur-
poses instead of fair and honest combat for certain
principles of government.
And this is the attitude in which the attempt
making in certain quarters, to break down the old
lies, and form a organization, would place the
country. The Democracy will have to unite W it'll
political school, whose doctrines of implied powers,
md of federal concentrations and senatorial rrespon
sbity they consider without of the constitu
ion, and destructive 10 strictly defined and limited
republican government. And the wings would be
jailed surrender what they call their conservatism
or creed which they pronounce radical, disorganiz
ng, and with strong tendency to agrarianism.
This would be the coalition of fire and water. One
party the other suddenly and entirely abandon
heir long cherished convictions for the dangerous |
leresies of the other; and this would once throw
suspicion over all their antecedents, and deprive them
If the only solid groundwork of pary-public con-
idence
Hence every attempt to form new party out of the
wo great parties now existing will fail. Such COM
'ination may be got up in county, even, temper
riy in State. But on the arena of the nation it is
mpracticable the events of the last twelve months
hew. The masses cannot be seduced from their old
standards, and the few leaders that desert certain
o meet the fate of deserters.
We equally opposed 10 the formation of a party
pledged TO support the Union all hazards, under
ny circumstances; and to party organized for the
orpose of remodeing, seeding from, dissolving
he Union. Either organization would be fruitful of
vii. The first would, inevitably, by rendering the
ederal government tyranncal and ntolerable, bring
bout the dissolution it proposes to prevent. The
econd by alarming the loyalty of the country, would
lind the eyes of the people to the usurpations and
ncroachments OF government, and Increase that ten
ency to consolidation which has been observed from
ne very initiative of our political system. Either
tempt would be dangerous experiment
We must not expect perfection under any form of
overnment, exemption from draw backs even I'M s
the happy and prosperous circumstances in which
lake the best of what have. And there is no
of party under which these free institutions and
rivileges enjoy be safe, under the organi-
atoms that now exist. The boundaries that divide
higs anil Democrats palpable Time does and
annot obliterate them. They spring from the t.
tution, and while it exists they must. Whoever a
lcceeds in breaking down these two great parties,
lust first change break down the constitution.
his great, absorbing, controlling party would
Ut do. Processing loyalty to the Union, it would 4
Up the constitution. Collossus-ke it would stride r
Tcr the country, political Juggernaut, crushing
en- and Institutions. Under its rule the Union, in :
eed, might be preserved, but the constitution would
erish. h
Hon. JACOB THOMPSON. We publish in another {
'lumn the proceedings of the Southern rights con-
ention held Pontotoc, Miss, Monday last, from
hich it will be that Hon. Jacob Thompson has
zen nominated, by reclamation, for reelection to
oLgress. This intelligence will be received with
oicng by the friends of State rights throughout his
strict, and We indulge the hope that Mr.. Thompson y
i'll not feel himself at liberty to decline the nominal
on. His country has peculiar claims upon him at p
present time, and now than before, are ir
IS faithful services and long experience required in g
lie councils of the nation.
He has for ten years past been representative in d
ongress from the State of Mississippi and by his a
talents his unmpeachable integrity and Il
nswerying devotion to Democratic principles and ~
the constitutional rights of the South, has won -
putation co-extensve with the confederacy, and Oh
in fhn hoar fafa cip