The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-13
PARTIES, NORTH AND SOUTH.

the wing PARTY.
The l. icof1co editors seem 10 have the most
unlimited faith in the credulity of the people.
They act as if they supposed that the masses
of their party are ready and willing TO believe
the most absurd talsehoods that can be invented
and applied 10 the Wings. Day after day they
fabrcate ISLANDERS on prominent Wings, and
utter them as unblushingly as if their fabrlca-
tiUns were truths.
The Washington Union. the great central organ
of L ,cofocoism, takes the lead in the bad business
of m inuracturing untruths. We confess ourselves
amazed the effrontery which enables the EDITORS
of that paper TO write and publish much that is
utterly groundl, 80, much that is strangely dis
torted by exagseration, and so much that is spe-
cious and yet false. AS we look over its columns,
we are frequently startled at the atrocous GOODNESS
with which the most unfair and unjust statements
are made. We do not believe that the writer's Of
the abusive articles to which we refer would or
could have the audacity to utter such statements
in the presence Of any Wings, even to the intel
ligent men of their own party.
IL is not uncommon TO men cit down at their
desks and deliberately write what they would not
assert orally to a neghb1r. Such persons sim
gulary orgctful of the fact that 10 write and pub
lish lie atrocious act than to utter it in
conversation. Among the readers Of every paper
are certain persons who greedily gulp down any
and all ialsehoods which editors may see fit TO
write. The minds Of such readers sadly dis
torted by editorial untru,hs and, believing that all
the ISLANDERS they read are strictly true, they
20 regard the Wings az pack of knaves and fools,
for whom the people ought to cherish none other
than feelings OF scorn aud hatred. We have met
with persons whose minds had been filled with in
ISLANDERS by Locofoco editors until they really
supposed that such combination honesty and
Wing principles impossibihty. Such per-
sons permanently injured by the maintenance
OF such false impressions. They refuse to have any
dealings with Wings, because they are so warped
by falsehood as to think that if man is a Wing he
will act dishonesty if opportunity lie afforded
him; and if a Wing makes statement in relation
to political matters they take it for granted that it
must be false and deny 1t without the least scrupe
or hesitation. The minds of many very ignorant,
though well disposed, Locoiocos thus poisoned
against their Wing neighbo to the disadvantage
OF all concerned.
Take, for instance, one statement which the
Warrington Union is very fond of publishing a
specimen of the reckless disregard of truth
which characterizes that organ. That paper has
declared very often that President Fillmore is an
'.aboitionist Now, il is utterly impossible that
any connected with the editorial department
of that paper believe that such a charge is
true. They all know that 1t is altogether false to
say that the President ia abolitionst They all
know that he has svmpathies with abolition
lists. They all know that there 10 not Abolition
or a Free coil newspaper which does not as habtu-
ally abuse the President as any Locofoco newspa-
per in the country Nobody be 40 very igno-
rant as not to know that all the abotionists are
violent in their luminosity toward the Compromise
measures, or that Mr.. Fillmore is most thoroughly
and unqualifiedly in their favor And yet the
Union newspaper has, on several recent occasions
declared that the President is an "abolitionist."
Further than this, the Union is everlastngy
taxing its ingenuity to prove that the Wing party
10 an Abot on party. 1t makes exceptions, but
proclams the broad statement that the influence
of Whgism is directly favorable to the views and
wishes of the abolitionists. IL also dwels with
peculiar JUNCTION on the assumption that to the
Democratic party is entrusted the maintenance of
the Compromise intact, and that the Wings desire
the repeal of that great and wise adjustment Now,
every Wing paper which is read by the editors Of
the Union is most cordial in is approval Of the
Compromise, and that ia fact that could not pos
siby exist were not the Wings generally resolved
TO sustain the Compromise; for can be 20
silly as to suppose that Wing papers would con-
stantly utter opinions which constantly re-
pudiated by the members of the party.
Now, if the Union declared that there ia some
difference of opinion in two or three States among
the Wings in relation TO the policy of repeating
the Fugitive Slave law we should not undertake
TO controvert what it then might say, for we have
often admitted that there Wings favorable to
amending, and it may be to repeating, that law.
Whether there many Wings in favor of tam
pering with that law there are Democrats, we
have means of ascertnining. This much how
ever, we do know-that the Locofocos in the States
of Vermont, Massachusetts,, New York, and Ohio
the only States in hich much hostility is exhibited
toward the execution of the Fugitive Slave law, are
in open coalition with the Free soilers, and that
the Wings have suffered, so far as office is con
cerned, by the Locoioco and Free soilers coalition
The Union finds it rather difficult to account for
the fact that, in those southern States in which
thereare enough secessonists to form party, the
Democratic party has lost its distinctiveness and
has become the Southern Rights party; that is to
say, the Seceeeionist party. The only argument
that the u ion can trump up is that Messrs Cobb
and Foote, the Union candidates in Georgia and
Mississippi, are Democrats. This argument is, we
fancy, pretty satsfact rily nullifed by the fact
that Mcdonald, in Georgia, and Quitman and
Davis, in Mississippi, also Democrats, and very
ardent advocates of the right of a State to secede.
Il is true that Cobb and Foote belonged to the De-
mocratic party, but it is also true that majority
of the Democratic party, and Democrat tic newspa-
traitors to Democracy and Wings in disguise
Such facts these cannot be controversies and the
great central organ of Locofocoism wisely lets them
alone.
30 long as the leading paper Of the party pur-
sues policy unfair, dsingenuous, and 80
false, cannot look for fairness among the dema-
gogues and editors generally Of the party. The
country is inundated with falsehoods and distor-
tons and perversons of truth, to the prejudice of
the whigs. Whether these falsehoods will sub
the views of the Locofocos and injure the
Wings, will be far more manifest after the Pres-
DENTAL election of next year.
From the Richmond Times, NoUeinber 10 Al MIN.
IsTRATIoN- VINO.
DisunIon In Virginia.
We have all along maintained that disunon
is only an abstract theoretical sentiment in Viz
ginia, and moreover, entertained by such small
number Of individuals, that open acknowledge