Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1851-08-21
From the Harrisburg Pa. State Journal.
Parties and the Compromise.

of the democracy" to the compromise meas
ures of the last Congress. And this absurd
claim is set up in the very face of the fact
that the disunion movement at the South is
confined almost entirely to Democrats,
whilst the Wings to man have planted them
selves upon the broad national platform, and
are nobly battling for the success of the Union
and the Compromise candidates. The Dem
ocratic papers in the North, with scarcely
an exception, takes sides with Gen. Quit
man, of Mississippi, and Gov. Mcdonald,
of Georgia, both of whom are anti-Compro-
mise candidates. They prefer Democrats
opposedto the Compromise to Democrats
who are in favor of that measure, and vet
they assume to be the peculiar and exclusive
| friends of the Union!
The Wing party do not arrogate any ex-
elusive claim to the credit of the passage of
the Compromise. Had the friends of that
measure depended solely for support upon
the votes of either of the two great national
parties they would have been defeated in
Congress. 1t is absurd, therefore, for any
party to claim the whole credit of passing
the adjustment measures. If they were
supported by more democrats than Wings
comparatively at the North, it is no less true
that they were supported by more Wings
than Democrats comparatively at the South.
1t is not, properly speaking, therefore, a
measure or system of measures for the pas
sage of which either party can appropriate
the credit in any exclusive sense to itself.
But the main question is not who uoted for
the compromise; it is rather who now sustains
it-and whose policy and tone of discussion
is best calculated to give it the prestige of
moral pouer throughout the country. In
this State, and in the country generally,
North and South, there can be no plausible
question that the WHIG PARTY is the party
most friendly to the Compromise. What
ever course politicians may pursue, the
great mass of THE PEOPLE ARE FOR THE
COMPROMISE, and will vote for no man who
is not sound upon this question. Under the
lead of President Fillmore's conservative
Administration, even those of the Wings
who were originally opposed to the Compro-
mise are fast wheeling into its support.
The Washington Republic, alluding to
this subject, thus frankly defines its position;
awe consider the series of measures known
as the Compromise as settlement, in prin-
ciple and substance, a final settlement of the
difficulties growing out of the agitation Of
the slavery question. We plant ourselves
upon this broad Union national platform, moi
alphabetically, but positively, categorically
whether this or that party is destroyed by
it. The union of these States we view as
far transcending all party triumphs and party
alliances, and believing their safety depends
upon the faithful acquiesence in the Com.
=, promise measures, we are for them uncon.
ditionally."
The language of President Fillmore i,
also clear and unequivocal. He regards the
compromise measures as a settlement, il
principle and substance-a final settlement
of the dangerous and exciting subjects tha
they embrace" He says: ''By that adjust
ment we have been rescued from the wide
| and boundlcss agitation that surrounded us
J and have firm, distinct, and legal groumc
to rest upon. And the occasion, trust, vii
justify me IN EXPORTING MY coUNTRyME,
TO RALLY UPON AND MAINTAIN THAT GRoUNI
J ! as the best, if not the only means of restor
. ing peace and quiet to the country, ant
| maintaining inviolate the integrity of tn
: Union" And this is the broad, the nationa
and patriotic policy pursued by the wings
North and South. They are for the Uniol
as it is, and for the Compromise as it is
=, not that they originally approved of it in al
its details, but they regard it as settlemer
=. Gf ycxed, angry, and disturbing questions
and therefore essential, under existing cir
cumstances, to the well-being safety an
, perpetuity of the Union.
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