The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-07-30
The Compromise at the South.

The Compromise at the South.
While large party at the South are
advocating disunion and secession. aud
reputiate the compromise measures as
an in,oerab!e oppression to the slave
holding portion Of the conredcracy, the
Wings Of that section are nearly or
quite unanimous in support of those
measures, as n settlement Of the agita-
ting subjects lately in controversy.
Their candidates, with scarcely an ex"
ception, stand on Union and compro-
ml,e ground. The Wing party at the
South is emphaticaly the Union party,
and, with the exception OF Mississippi,
where Democratic Union candidates are
supported by Wings, in opposition to
rabid secessionisis, who have the regu>
lar Democratic nomination, and in Geot-
gia, where Democrat is supported by
the Union party for Governor, the Union
candidates ARE almost invariably Wings
In Mississippi, the Wing party is in a
hopeless minority, and hence their sup
pert Of a Democratic candidate, upon
whom all the Union strength ofthe State
can best be concentrated. A similar
course is pursued in Georgia, as proms E
ing farer expression Of the Union
sentiment.
As general rule, a, the South, dsu-
nionisis and opponents of the compro-
mise are found among the Democrats,
while the Wings, with scarcely an ex-
ception, are for the compromise and the
Union. The only Wing secessionisi
we can call TO mind, who is candidate
for Congress, is Il. l.. Clingman, OF
North Carolua but he is not the regu-
lar Wing candidate, the nomination
having been given to B. S Gather, n
Union Wing, who, it is predicted, will
beat Clingman, by handsome MAORI.
".
In Alabama, the Democratic candi-
dates and leading men, like Hon. w. r.
King, President Of the U. s. Senate,
Yancey, &c, are opposed to the COM
promise. The Union candidate for Gov
ernor, on the other hand, Mr.. Shields
is Wing, and is for The compromise.
The Union candidate for Congress in
the Mobile district, G. c. Langdon, is n
compromise Wing, and his opponent,
Judge Bragg, is an anli>compromise
Democrat.
All the Wing candidates aud Wing
papers in North Carolina are for the
compromise-Stanly, Dockery, Outlaw,
Gather, &C., on the one side, and Ven
able aud the other Democratic candi-
dates on the other, the latter open oppo-
sers of the compromise, and advocates
of resistance.
In Louisiana, the Wings are equally
unanimous, on the same ground. So
Of Tennessee. Kentucky, Arkansas, and
Missouri.
We state these facts as matters Of POI
litical history which should be generally
understood. All parties at the South
regard the compromise as surrendering
what they deemed of importance to
maintain. Yet one class are willing to
acquiesce in those measures, now they
have been adopted. as necessary TO the
preservation Of the Union; while the
opposite class esteem them too oppres-
siye to the South to be tolerated. Dsu-
nionists ut the South, and Free Sollefs
at the North, unite, for exactly opposite
reasons, in opposing these measures
There is this difference, however, IN
the tactics Of these two factions at the
South, this settlement is regarded as f.
al, and its modification hopeless. and
hence they see no remedy for their fan-
cled grievances but in secession or dis,
union while the agitators at the North
still profess to labor for modification or
repeal and smear at all limitations Of dan
ger to the Union just as We should expect
them to do, if entirely Indifferent as to
IFS PerPeluity.