North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-10-15
81 From the Louisana Courier, Sept. 26.l
WHIGS THE ENEMIES 10 sTHE 11ssSe ar.

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WINGS THE ENEMIES aTosTHE UNION.
from the moment the Compromise was proposed
mere mas been difference every where in the pubo
no as TO ITS and its effects on the
RSaee, prosperity, and Institutions of the country.
Inc bulk Of the democratic party, including ali ia
most eminent leaders. have, with some mseivinrs.
out rom patriotic motives, supported the measnre
no party has been SO much divided in relation to
IL as Lne wings. Their former idol, General TAYLOR
then President, exerted all his great influence against
1t, andswould have crushed it had he lived. His
whole cablnet-oomPrsing the most celebrated lead
ers OF the wing partyopposed it; and in the Senate
their three most powerful men-Mr. Seward Of New
ork, the Warwick of their party, Mr. Corwin, the
wagon boy and popular orator of the great COON
skln campaign, and now Secretary of the Treasury,
and MIR. Winthrop, their model statesman, whom
Mr. Conrad, as the representative of New Orleans
had voted into the Speakers chair, and who is now
the wing nominee for governor, with an eye to the
Presldency-these three whig leaders, with almost
every man of note among them, opposed the Com
promise on account of the fngitive-siave law.
In the South, the whigs-6nding the democratic
party In this quarter divided the subec and hop
ing to profit by the division-declared themselves
for the Compromise, Union measure, Having
In all times past opposed whatever intended to
strengthen and perpetuate the Union, to add lustre
to its flag, to extend its protection and its bless
ings-having opposed every war in defence of it's
honor and its rightsand having by this ilbera and
antl-American course been driven of office by
the PeopIe-the wings eagerly seized this pretext
to reinstate themselves in the confidence of the
country.
They knew the deep attachment of the people for
the Union they remembered how often federal whig-
gerry, In assaling that Union, or seeking nsidiously
to undermine it, had been driven back in disgrace
and hence they resolved to shout Union Union 20
and thus wipe out the record of their past transgres
sions.
They could not assert that the effects of the Com:
promise were certain to be beneficia-for that woud
be to condemn General Taylor and his cabinet. They
could not affirm that it was reasonable to oppose it
for that would be to arraign their dead hero, and
his advisers and several of the present cabinet and
maj ority of their leaders, TRAITORS But they
everywhere argued that there doubt of the
efficacy and sautary influence of the Compromise !;
that 1t was indispensable to the Union and that,
therefore, it was the duty of every patriot to sup
port it.
This was plausible argument, especially when
addressed to democrats-in all cases. under all cir
cumstances, now and heretofore, the friends of the
cracy, North and South, supporting the Com
promise, either from conviction hope of its eff
hcacy; and those shat opposing it here did so,
many OF them, and mainly, because, knowing the
proverbia dsloyalty of the wings, they were afraid
to touch anything that they suppored-to unite upon
anything they protested to approve:
Timeo Danaos ct dona ferentes
But the democracy-those that originally approved
and those who originally disapproved the Compro-
mise-acquiesce in it. They say try it. They bid
it God speed. They earnestly hope it may be fruit
full of blessings to every part Of our country, and
vert every danger that threatens the Union.
lana supporting the Compromise-.hat agitation
would cease. But not This acquescence is the
last event that the wings hoped for. Ideprves them
of their leverage. They can no longer cry out, dis
Unionists! They can no longer insolently claim to
be the exclusive guardians of the Union. They
driven from the intrenchments into which they insid
ousy crept, and the bastions of the constitution and
the flag of the Union now in the hands of the old
democratic guard.
We say the wings have been completely uptripped.
1t is bitter pill 10 see the democracy everywhere
giving up their scruples, yielding their apprehensions
and their prejudices, and acquiescing in the Compro
mise, for the sake Of the OniOn-' their rst love and
their last"
The Bee of this morning-the organ of Fillmore
ISM manifests the bitter disappointment of its party
We advise every democrat to read its leading article.
If the Bee will reprint it tomorrow, every democrat
in the city will purchase copy of it. Read tread
it-and see how deceitful those prayers that Fill
moresm utters for peace and harmony and Union.
Their love of peace is exhibited by perpetual wrang
ling and agitation-ther love of Union by their APP
petite for the spos of oice-ther spirit Of harmony
by denouncing their fellow citizens disunionists
and traitors!