The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-02-05

psrs-ths RsPub1ioan (submIssion,) and the
FEDERAL Uries Estate hehta,) - fair types OF
the tone and temper Of the parties Of which
they are exponeots. We will give first the APP
peal Of the Republican to its friends at WASH
ington. A wolf at bay could not. snap and
snarl more savagsly than this disappointed mouth.
piece Of bafied faction.
Iiark from the tombs' this woeful voice
and mark Well the admissions of this Wing
Compromise print, regarding the soundness"
of its Northern brethren
WoRD TO PoLITicIAHs AT WASHINGTON
We regret to observe growing indisposition,
among the politicians about Washington, 10
unite in the formation of Constitutional Union
Party. The Washington Union--after beating
the bush for s0me dsys--has taken ground
against it; and even General Cass, whose course
In relation to the Compromise measures has
drawn 80 largely upon the admiration of the
South, has addressed letter to some friends in
Baltimore, in which he shows preference for
the Democratic platform. Mr. Cobb aud Mr.
Foote, however, are committed to Union party,
and We trust they will remain fixed in their pres
ent position. If the desire to revive the old party
organizations has reference TO the Presidency it
would be we'll for all asprants for that office to
remember that no Northern Democrat can sue
coed to it without the support and cooperation
Of the gentlemen last mentioned, nor any North
ern Wing, without the help Of the Union Wings
Of the South.
It's q matter deeply to be regretted by the
whole country, that any serious opposition
should be made to the formation Of a Union
party. With faction at tho North seeking to
override and nullify the Constitution, and another
at the South seeking to destroy the Union and
erect upon its ruins Southern Confederacy,"
the organization Of such party, upon the basis
Of the Constitution, seems to to be called for,
not less by the exigencies Of the present than
the dangers of the future. Let the ancient
order OF things be revived at the North--let
Wing and Democrat be made the rallying cry as
in days of yore and what will be the conse-
quenceg The t1o parties, as heretofore, ,ciu seek
% out6id each other for The abolition role. The
t'ree-soers, now in the dust, will be caressed
by aspirants for 0fhce-thsy will hold the bal
ance Of power in the free States-thcy will give
the casting vote, the decisive rote, in all closely
contested elections, whether before the people
or the legislatures-and finally the old parties
will become demoralzcd, and the whole North
ern mind tainted with notification and Abolition
ism. IT will be too late then to save the coun-
try by the formation of Union party The
people, excited by success and fanatical zeal,
will laugh at you when You invoke them to
stand by the Compromise and the Constitution.
Like the Vandals who sacked Rome, they will
not stop at the gates. They will enter and cor
rupt the Government, tear up the Constitution,
and destroy the Union. Doubtless they would
seek to overrun tho South, in imitation of their
Industrious predecessors but it would remain
to be seen whether the South would succumb
as Rome did, and whether the civilization and
happiness at present enjoyed throughout the
Republic would be succeeded by barbarism and
bloodshed, such as cursed that unhappy land
during its medieval darkness
| We have only to look to the legislatures of
Massachusetts and Ohio, now in session, for IT,
illustrations of the fact to which we have ad-
verified. In both Of those States, and especially
in the former, We find the Democrats and Free
soilers in open collusion, buying and selling
themselves and their principles like g sheep in
the shambles." The same thing will be done in
the other Northern States, if the old parties are
revived. Wings as well as Democrats will put
themselves up for sale, and in short time the
whole North will be sold to the molly tribe
made up of Abolitionists, Anti renters, Fourier
ties and Red-repubcans
Doubtless q similar policy will, to some OK
tent, be adopted at the South. If the old par
ties are exhumed from the tomb of the Capulets,
to which we had hoped they had been consigned,
for the present at least, there will still be dis
union faction amongst us, whose support and
influence they will court Wings and Demo-
Gratis will vie with each other in loud professions
of devotion to the South, and of indifference to
the Union. They will yield the balance of power
to the agiators, 80 recently shorn of their
strength great " Sectional Party" will rise
up-and ere the country is aware of it, the whole
South will be hurrying on the downward road
to revolution and disunion.
In CONCLUSION, we beg leave to remind the
politicians at Washington, that they are not
omnipotent A breath can unmake as breath
has made them. They are now placing them
selves in the way Of the people, who are ripe
for Union association. The people are nau
seated with agitation and fanaticism---they will
'have none Of it." They are not ready to sacri-
fee their prace or to sell the Union to CRAFTY
the selfish ambition of wire pullers and political
stock Sbbers, and we trust that neither the Pre-
sident, Mr. Webster, Gen. Cass, nor Mr.. Bucha
nan, will allow themselves to be used by such
men. If we understand anything Of public OPT
Mon at the South, they will rally around that
man who places himself at the head of the Union
movement, whatever be the section whence he
halls, or his former political affini,ies. But if
party il to "ruie the hour"-if the country is to
be led off into discussions upon tariffs and inter
nal improvements, while the Union is falling
beneath the united blows of Northern fanatics
and Southern administration indeed, is party
stronger than patriotism and spoils m re vaua-
bic than the priceless heritage Of glory which
our fathers left us.
Most unfortunate of organs! most bewildered
of editors why could not "rHosE ADvrcEs'
from Washington, which served thy brother of
the Macon Messenger as an inclined plane to
slide gently down, without catching too hard a
fall-console thy bruised spirit! If crumbs of
spos cannot be had, console myself with such
crumbs Of comfort as may be thrown out by the
Great Central Union Committee of New York
who, having determined to "save the Union, "at
all hazards and to the last extremity"-wilI eff
feet it, by COMMANDING THE CELEBRATION OF
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