The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-09-05
New ORLEANS. Sent. g.
The Party Aspect OF the Compromise.

OHaTa Is IN the west
H. B. TAYLOR
The Party Aspect of the Compromise.
We shall not deny the merit of considerable ingenuity
the elaborate article in which the Republic ct yesterday
attempts to rescue the wing party from the odum OF It's
plainly expressed determination, as party, to disturb
the adjustment of the sectional controversy as settled in
the Compromise Forced the Republic now is to de-
iend an administration which is at ISSUE on this very
question: a, with the pledges which il elected
with its clearly defined policy during the first eight
months of its existence, and with the dominant
OF the party which placed it power, indulgen
for dsngenuousness and Misrepresentation is doubtless
due to the difficulties OF that journals p,si,ion-es-
peciay when we remember how suddenly it stopped
about year ago in its consistent and Jealous advocacy
Of President Taylors contemporaries policy, and COM
peled the Especial organ OF Presiaen, Fillmore, not
only to take compromise ground itself, at very short no.
.ce, but also to maintain, 10 the establishment OF the
whole country and the CONSERVATION of the great
ot the whgs that the anti-proviso, non intervention
principle OF the Compromise was good and sound whig
party doctrine
In this dilemma the Republic very naturally betakes
itself to the South for aid aud comfort, nasmuch the
Presidents adherence to the Compromise has eectualy
and most undenaby lost 10 him the confidence and
enance of his party at the North, where its main
strength is to be found But be it observed tina, il is
pny in the North, general fact, that the democratic
ind whg parties, preserving their old party lines, have
parties, taken ground for and agans, the maintenance
I The Compromise. The unbroken tenor of the State
Inventions OF both parties in the North, both the past
md present years. shows that in that section the question
standing by the Compromise in all its parts, in good
ath final dusment, party question and on this
uestion so stated every single wing State convention of
be North directly issue with the wing President 1t
true that some OF these conventions seek to smooth
be matter over by approving the Presidents measures
Ia, rcaat are President Fmore's melsures7 Certainly
be Compromise is not among them; for the Republics
n. proposition in this very article, is that the Compro
Use is not party measure all, though the whg admin
aton now that the has passed against Presi
ent Taylor and without aid from President Fillmore.
xhorts the country to let alone President Fllmores
measures" which the northern wings approve, are up
date alone to be looked for far we are informed in
srtan proslamations- OF them too mournuly and
hers too ludcousy known 10 the country at this time by
conseq they have aided TO bring about, at home
Id abroad II remains to be seen how long The popular
hg approval OF these measures will stand. As TO The
ompromse Mr. Fillmore has no organized wing support
the North In that section that belongs incon-
,aby 10 the democratic party. which made its passage
Congress possible. and which, party, throughout
NORTH has rallied upon it, either expressly or by mani
implication, in every democratic State convention.
cllnch the cogency OF these facts as to which party
onV, the faithful maintenance OF the Adjustment
rtv QUESTION, il il Only necessary add that from the
h alone is any serious practical disturbance of the
mpromse 10 be dreaded In the only section where II
practically assailedin the quarter where the organ.
wing assault upon utterly overrides and prosraies
feeble whig Executive inteposi,ion IN It's iavor-ju
e-,he unbroken State organization Of the democratic
nv in fifteen States forms its imprsgnable rock Of de-
bee
but the article OF the Republic entirely missates the
ude of the southern democracy upon the compromise
.s,ion. Compelled to admit that acquiescence in the
npromse as final adjustment is the doctrine OF the
mocra,c party in maryland. Kentucky, Missouri and
xa. the Republic afirms that throughout the rest OF
South the democracy now organized asa" Southern
Tits" party is pledged vith entire unnninity 10 dis
il Surely such an assertion is desperate-wIld-ut-
without plausibllity Can the Republic be ignorant
the TACT tina, IN Tsnnsuee the democratic State con-
ton, in March last, planted ITSELF without one dissent
voice, epecncAliy upon Tue k'ouhu vi Ae9u'esSenee
be Compromise as a final settlement, to be maintained
GOD faith by both sections Of the country, and that
that ground seven democratic members OF Congress
of eleven have now been ehosen-every one OF them
s.d 10 such a,quiescence' Gov. Trousdale, in hiscan
while not refusing to acquesce in the Compromise,
much assaIed by the wings for his declarations as
he character OF that measure, and, notwithstand-
his great personal and political popularity was
a,sd by small majority; and this IL fact which
be taken with the congressional elections, and the
a,ions OF the democratic State convention, as show
the position Of the democracy of Tennessee upon
question OF the maintenance Of the Compromise
u, upon what grounds, we should be glad to know,
the Republic proclaim the identity OF the Southern
hts party and the democratic party in the South, and
Identity OF the Union party and the wing party there
leads the Union party in Georgia and mississippi
)ssrs. Cobb and Foo,e And has the Republic the
aihood TO intimate that these gentlemen are wings
hold them to be good democrats and all the better
ocrau because they stand upon the faithful mante-
:. OF the Comprehensive only ground on which
national democratic party can unite. On the other
Mr. Senator Berrien, in the Republics Judgment,
mocrat' He has heretofore been understood to speak
som. authority for large rch'g constituency in
rva He is not. we believe claimed Compro
man, and we have understood that he il with the
Pa'hern Rights" party in the present canvass IL Mr.
A,or Clemens, in Alabama, a wing He sustains the
womae a. final adjustment, and belongs the dem