The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-03-20

II will be recollected that an attempt wa
made among the Washington politicians not long
ago TO get up what Is called Union party II
was to be inaugurated on Washington's birth.
day, and the memory of that good man was to
be invoked a. its capital in purity The object
however, failed, and nothing was heard Of the
thing on the day fixed for its accouchment
The convention Of Georgia started the idea
and provided for a grand Union exhibition at
Macon, on Washington's birthday, for the pur-
pose Of organizing State Union party. Itaso
was failure. Very few persons attended it, and
these, it is stated were mostly politicians.
I.aborious efforts were made in New York
city for similar purpose, the grand rallying
point of the preliminares being, as in the other
cases, Washington's birthday. This was like
wise failure-athough, taken altogether, it
was a rather imposing occasion, but its defect
was that it had no moral strength II had its
origin in mercenary and trading spirit. TWAS
got up and controlled by men who live by keep
ing the South in subserviency to the mercantile
interest of the North--for no one believes that
if this selfish motive had been absent or mac
tive, we should have had any Of the labotous
'meetings-the preparation Of costly circulars,
&c, &c. which the men who had it in charge
resorted to-many OF whom have been all their
lives opposed to slayery--have baited the South
on all sides, and only become patriotic for the
Union, when they found their notions were like
ly to end in its dissolution and the consequent
humiliation of the rich harvests they have all
their lives been reapng in the South.
These grovelng motives have defeated them
selves. The New York meeting met with no
sympathy outside Of that city, and it is no more
an exposition of the opinion of the people of the
Ia h, o.,
propagated by Rynders and his crew.
There was another defect in these meetings
They proposed no definite plan to effect their
end, and no one could fail to observe that under
the vague cry ofunion which they adopted, every
sort of fraudulent party purpose might be readily
achieved, it the people were creduous enough
to fall into the trap. What is good Union doe
trine in New York, is not so here. What is
good doctrine in New York is not good in Bos.
ton. In the former place it isconsdered justice
to the South to deprive it of all share in the ter
ritOries. In Boston this is also the platform
with the privilege of multiplying or adopting
means to repeal the laws which Congress may
impose for the extradtion of fugitive slaves. In
the interior Of New York, the sentiment is gen
orally the same rs that of Boston. 1t is very
plain, therefore, that there could be no such
bond OF union such as was proposed between
these different sections.
The whole plan consequently failed, and the
labor of those who devised it has been entirely
lost
We desire above all things to see the Union
preserved in its fundamental purity, and the only
way to effect this object is to rally party on
distinct and definitve principles, so worded that
every man can read and understand them Less
than this will not accomplish the purpose Sub
terfuges and CONGRATULATIONS can only defer not
prevent confusion aud dsunion.