The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-09-09
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NE W YORK WIG POLITICS.

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Seward, Weed, abolition and Co, aud the
l"Silver Greys," or Conservative National
Wings, represented by Fillmore aud Co, has
been completed. Like all the compromises
that are ever made in this country, where
the interests of the South are concerned, it
has resulted in giving up the the rights of
the South. The Silver Greys who main.
tanned (rather feebly to be spre) thot the
South has some rights, have by this treaty
surrendered to the dominant and more VIC.
lent faction of the "Woolly heads" And
now where is the South left by this compro.
mise Where she always has been by eve.
ry preceding onc-in the lurch-sacriiced,
cut off from sympathy and even the promise
of support-her institutions, her rights aud
liberties opened to renewed assault, through
all the channels of the press, the (orumsthe
pulpit, and the halls of Congress which
have heretofore been the media Of agitation
While these are facts. the South is left
by these "high-contracting powers" to such
satisfaction as they derive from declaration
in general terms, that the New York whiC
party thus united will respect thc conStitu.
ton and the idtcS' Just to think of the
higher law" mcu making such decara.
ton They have shown what they mean
by respect for the constitution, when they
have asserted that the law of abolition con.
sciences is paramount to the law Of the con.
stitntion. The Independent Press of New
York, regard this treaty asa disgraceful sur.
render of National wings or Fillmorines to
the abolition section OF the party.
The New York Day Book, an indepeud.
cnt paper in politics, and Southern in lis
feelings, says:
UNION AND HARMONY IN THE wHIG PARTY.
The wooly heads have succeeded at last
in bringing about their long desired union
and harmony in the whig party-or in other
words have coaxed the silver greys to let
them harness their wheel horses again to
the old Weed coach and put on Seward lea.
ders and woody head drivers. The truth is,
men sometimes and indeed quite often, get
taken IN with their own ideas The silver
gfays have sung compromise so long and
become SO much absorbed with the one idea,
that they are at last caught by it and have
surrendered to the woody heads under the
pretense OF "compromise, Just at the time
when they had their enemies under their
feet
During all our experience in the world
and IN politics. we do not remember OF ever
having heard political question discussed
with more certain prospects of bringing all
the sensible portion of the community over
TO one way of thinking than has been the
question OF slavery and the fugitive slave
law. In open, frank, energetic discussion,
the abolitonists and wooly heads lose
ground as rapidly as their opponents could
expect or desire,-The cogs in their great
wheel break off one after another, like cobs
every time they turn it and now, seeing
that they are no longer able to move the
+ machinery, they call out for "compromise.
c which the silver grays blindly and fooishy
catch at and 60 over it body and soul to the
wooliy heads. There never was coming
II event more plainly foreshadowed than tha
y the woody heads would knock under. The
v underplning was all gone and they knew it
, The material for further operations wa
" wanting, and it was impossible for them t.
Il go under the flag they had hoisted. IN y
!. Day Book.
> The following is an extract from an artc
y in the ". Y, Herald on the subject, unde
he caption of Bargain bettoeen the Se,c
n ard Wigs and SiIver Grays-Swyende
n ofthe latter"
u From the New York Herrald.l
u The policy of the abolition Wings wa.
this They wanted union-they wished
the disjointed factions Of the Wing party re
united. as much, and more, than the SlIve
grays did for, although they may attemp
to despise the Silver Gray force in the legis
lature where they did not particularly neet
it, they would be glad to have it on the dal
of election, so as to present united front Il
the disjointed democracy. But, in order 4
effect such union,- they wanted the Sllve
grays to abandon their platform--to consen
to union, without any reference to the com
promise measure of last Congress, whicI
constitute the great question of the day, s.
that they might be able, when the prope
time arrived, to renew the slavery agitation
and recommence the war against the South
s. by proposing repeal Of the Fugitive slav
e law, or such modification OF It's provision
as wonId renderit nugatory to all inlents an
| purposes. tso .. t...
This was the kind OF union which the al
clifton Seward Wings wished TO form wit
70 tie Silver Grays, and one which the latte
"a could never enter into without a sacrifice
te honor and principle. The compromise me;
n. sures were intended by their authors as
final settlement Of the slavery question, G