The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-11-20
THE CONSTITUTIONAL UNION PARTY.

THE CONSTITUTIONAL UNION PARTY.
The Washington Union few days since
published the Inaugural Address of Governor
Cobb of Georgia and after complimenting it
highly remarked as follows
1t thus appears that the position of the great
mass of the people of that State is defined with
the utmost distlnctness rs being hereafter in
harmony and cooperation with that great
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of the country, whose action, us IA national or
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embodied in the Adjustment, and to whose or
gained force alone the country must hereafter
look for political element broad and potent
enough to put down further anti-slavery aggres-
sion and agitation, upon the recognition of that
measure AZ fixed fact, to which the good faith
Of all sections is pledged and the faithful main
tenance and execution of which have now be-
come in form and expression AZ they have here
tofore been in substance and principle, a part
Of the faith Of the national Democracy
Stripped of its verbage this paragraph con-
tains the announcement that hereafter, the con-
stitutional party of Georgia which elected Gov
ernOr Cobb, will act with the great Demo-
cratic party of the country. Examining the
address Of the Governor, we could find nothing
to warrant this statement 1t makes no refer
ence to old party issues or distinctions not the
slightest allusion to Wings or Democrats 1t
simply congratulates the country that Georgia
has placed herself on the platform of the com
promise and fugitive law which she regards as
finally dispensing of the slavery question; that
she in this way deyOtes herself to the main
tenance of the Constitution and Union, an object
worthy of the united and uatiring efforts of
patriotic men, North and South East and West
Bat, the telegraph brings intelligence from
fond hopes of the Union Mr.. 1oombs the
associate of Messrs Cobb and Stephens in the or
ganizatOn Of the Constitutional Union party,
was elected United States Senator on the / 9th.
in the place of Judge Berricn, and in the even.
defining the position and purposes of his party.
Recollect, this party carried the State, secured
a majority i'll the Legislature elected Mr. Cobb,
Governor, and has made Mr. Toombs Senator
He must be supposed to understand the views
and purposes of the party that he represents
Tclegraphic dispatches thus report him:
% He addressed a large concOursc of citizens
in the evening ut the State House and an
nOunccd that the Constitutional Union party
will adhere for the present to an isolated and
independent organization and name that it will
not send delegates to or be represented in either
of the National Wing or Democratic Conven-
tons next year; that it will wait until those
Conventions have assembled and set forth their
principles and candidates before the country.
before determining which side it will array it.
self on
Mr. TOombs also asserted that. as an inds-
pensabc condition for the support of the Union
party of Georgia, the National Convention,
whether Wing or Democratic, with which it
may coaIesce, must adopt the Compromise plat
form; that this condition complied with, the
Constitutional Union party of Georgia will hold
itself free to unite iii the support of the candi-
date for the Presidency Of either the National
Democratic or National Wing Convention
1t is not improbable that this example may
be followed by the Constitutional Union party
Of M.--i--ippi, which has just elected Mr. Foote,
Governor Of that State. 1t is the position that
South Carolina has generally occupied and we
presume she will not change it. 1t is easy to
fore-ce the effect Of such movements upon Ma
t0nal Conventions protesting to represent the
two old political organizations. They will DELHI
crate aud act with constant reference to these
States, whose votes will depend entirely upon
the nature of their action ON the slavery ques-
ton The policy Of these States and the course
of the Union Safety Committee at New York
are decisive rs to the issues of the next Presi-
Dental contest--or rather the issue There will
be but one issue one test the Compromise and
Fugitive Law and thatparty will command the
votes of the Union Constitutional party, which
shall present in its resolutions and candidates
the strongest guarantees for the support of these
measures and the most conclusive evidence of
seryility generally to the slave power.
We shall expect now to see stronger efforts
than ever on the part of Wing and Demo
cratic leaders, to prepare the way for total
submission to whatever demands Slavery may
make upon them The Philadelphia North
Amcr,cda, which, during the Wilmot Proviso
agitation, was one of the loudcst DISCLAIMERS
against slavery thinks il high time that the
question should he banishcd from the Ma
tional Councils and cease to form the staple
of dscord on the hastings and in the press >
True, projects for extending Slavery by divi-
ding California, by cyading the ancient law
Of Mexico in the Territories lately acquired
from her, by invading Cuba and revolutioni-
zng the northern provinces of Mexico may
be openly agitatcd and encouraged among
shareholders but what of all this! Is it not
necessary to have our National Conventions,
and can these be held with any prospect of
uniting the scattered forces of the Wing and
Democratic parties, respectively, unless the
agitation of the Slavery question should termi-
natc?' Lot the Slavery Extcnsionists push
their schemes-true patriotism requires that
we should shut our eyes stop our ears to their
movements and seal our lips-clse, how can
we secure u party triumph
Ths,is the position of the North Amciodn,
and of the majority of the old party journals;
but more than this, il comsels the adoption |
by n National Convention Of the Compromise
md Fugitive law
80 far it says as the Compromise
are concerned they have met with |
general acquiescence in the North and the
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