The Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1850-1852, 1851-05-01
Washington Correspondence.
TIE UNION ABOLiDIONlSM-
PRESIDENT MAKING. &c.
WAsuixc1ox Anril 2l. 1851,
WA,niSeIox, April u. ISL

her Richie" who has long been the
1oioi ious editor of this paper. has now
retired IA he himself asserts. destitute .
Df a fortune for which we are heart.
lily sorry. as The old man has laborcd 50
lcns. and so ass'duou,ly for his party,
nnd now TO leave The ranks of The op-
position, a, this trying and critical peri.
cd, and sink into oblivion, "unhoDored
and nnsung' = But, the real cause Of
the change at lcas, it is SO in our mind
may be at once and easily unraveled.
Tie may get money and sympathy
and perhaps more--at the hands Ut his
party, 10y raising one of his accustomed
cries tina, the public printing has ruin
ed him." and ",hnt Congress will not
give him relief" Bat let this matter
as it will, the "cIange has come" and
tte new editor, ANDRw j. DoHLrsoN.
has commenced his laburs. and his
debut no doubt, meets the approba-
ton of his ofIicious, untcrriicd, and
magislerial party - lie wil!--if the
past foreshadows the iuturc-fll the
vacancy assigned him, and the post rs
an opposer, and fmposcr, of the Wing
party, with even more ability and dog
malical severity than did his i'lustrious
predecessor but it is certain that if lie.
Ohe new cditor) pursues the erroneous
course which an editorial of consiJcra
ble lengt hin yesterdays paper predicts,
which placed the Wing party on the
records as a factious one--a party from
whence springs all abolition doctrines
and sectionallics-a party that is like
ly to break up the Union, and itself
he is false and blind preacher, and
will eventually become more notorious
and obnoxious than ever were the lam
cntations and fnlsifcations of Father
Richie.
But TO the text.--This leading elito-
rial in the Union Of yesterday, puts the
Wing party down in rather bad posi-
tion-as do many other locofoco prints
asserting that the SO styled FreesoH
party in the North originated with the
Wings. and that the fac,ious spirit which
now exists between the North and the
South is also caused by Wing dealings;
as if the Union and its allies were call
righ national and consistent. The
Union says
''In our Judgment. the true cause of
this sSil (mtanins the factions at the
North) lies deeper, and is TO be found
in the mistaken views of the Wing par
ty for long series Of years; and it
can never be entirely eradicated, until
thi, party retraces its steps, and falls
back on principles which are natural to
our federal system, in so far at least as
they should be national, and not local
and SECTIONAL"
This is not only an insult to the Wing
party, but it is placing us in an utterly
false position. The new editor must
have been absent from the Uuion for
the two years last past. or else he did
not take the newspapers" Who are
the agitaiors and the agitated! We
fully know, as does also the whole coun-
try, that the '.tac'ious" FrecsoH party
grew wholly ont Of the Democratic
ranks-was got up by a Democratic ex-
President, who was then leader aud
candidate for the Presidency in ls4S,
and that the Wings stood firm and true
TO their avowed principles; thereby e.
lected their President over all opposi.
ton; and the result is known to the
country. Was Gen. TAYLOR's admin
istra,ion ''local' and sectional" one
Has no the country yet known the ma
tional and popular course whic h Gen.
TAYLOR pursued in relation to all ex-
citing and important measures We
trust, nay, we know it has been ack-
nowledged, and has received the favor
of all sections OF the country; and even
those. who, at first, made up wry faces ;
and sII~af'erwards saw that
Gen. Taylor was the Peoples Prcsi-
dent, gave him their supper, and
doubtless thought him "ft for Fresi-
dent" But the locofocos now say
(>hort sighted fellows local and Sec
tional administration this Wing ad.
minlstraton.
The locofocos also allegc that the
Compromise measures which passed
last Congress are Wig measures--pas-
sc1 by Tie Wings and sanctioned by
Wing President. Among these meas
ures was the Fugitive Stare Bill, which