The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-05-13
CITY OF WASHINGTON.


,...I or Modification the rss,uvs-slay. Law
the uisi@~ts dssix. or the wnix..
We we're struck on opening The Vermont Journal.
there the editor undertakes 10 correct the statement Of
i, Montpelier Waichmaa respecting the unanimity of
l, vLg journals in that State in csndemnng The fupi
slave law 10 find that better defence can be made
!, The wing party this subject than what follows
uksn from that paper;
uThe Union Wing makes the following reply, which we
sye is entirely correct the position OF the Viii.
80, if We except the 81 Johnsbury Caledonan which /,
aher inclined TO keep up tempest about the proscrp
don Of whigsi'
"srhs Middlebay register. Windsor journal, Braule.
horo PbGnix Bfatteboro Eagle. Bellows Falls Gazette,
NE and the Union Whig all stand firmly and openly on
Constitutional ground, generously sustaining the wing ad.
baoinp the obgaop posed by the constitutions TO de-
liver up fugitive slaves To these we believe might be
sdded the ST. Adams Messenger Bennington Banner, and
CedoDan but we prefer TO make our statement more safe
than large MOI ons n these papers approves aH The features
n The present fgiipe fap or hesstahs 20 demand lis modfcG
Oa al safe and suitable PERIOD bal spry Of iha.
heartily sustains the law tc, 50 long a. it may
Press, alone among the wing press OF Vermont have
defaken vindcaie the socaied habsas OF
fall and 70 dispaage lnalossy lwhe protesting entire
oyay) power and authority OF the laws OF the United
States within our borders.
1.-The impotence of talking abon' the uaion Wing and
papers named with it as neutral ~ Well as OF new
lest Of wing character being urged in this particular United
States law concerning fugitive slaves, is TOO need
exposure. The only persons we have hear OF rs intro.
daces OF new test are the editors OF The Vermont
Watcbmsn These modest gentlemen having med 10
b the oracle Of the WING party Of Vermont and ny ex
communicated all who venture to utter independent and
sentiments, including nine wing
pfess dls osed with the aid OF the Burlington Free
Press, what they can make OF It, We invite them
Try IT.
This is the delence,he best. we suppose, which the
Union branch OF the wing party can make-against the
fact, plainly stated by the Montpelier Walchman,
,ha, 'lhsre but solitary newspaper in Vermon,
that uas euer whig ,ohieh takes open ground to sup
port The Compromise and abide the netc test That paper
is the Bslio,rs Falls Gazette"
One of the most reliable OF these organs makes
this statements and another. anxious to prop up
the vain effort OF the special organ here to ope-
ne the South by the assertion that the wings, as
party, maintain with great unanimy the Compromise, is
obliged to admit 'a. moi of these papers approves
all features Of tie present fugitive iac or hss,atss to
dftat Us mod.fcaiion al safe and suitable period"
The Vermont PhGnx-another of the wing organs OF
that Sateof the sh inst says cannot see tie Justice
mgood policy of approving and sustaining he a,c IN lis
present. form"
But the special organ OF the administration expects the
true friends OF the country to absolve lis party from
such conclusive evidence Of its abolition gull, by the allie
CATION that Mr. Fan Buren, brcame The esnd.daie of that
party for The presidency; a the united abolition and free
Da party became under demoerse auspices The formula
BE poicer that turned out to be Tie last presidential
tefton" This is the logic which is consistent with
the dignity and honor of great party, If il wishes the
country to reward il for the il has taken in arrest
ing the spirit OF fanalicsm The country already knows
hat Mr.. Van Burea had deserted the democratic party,
and the platform OF the party he stood upon when
be candidate in 1886 and 1910. The country
knows that this old platform, defended by Silas Wright
still the basis of organization on which Mr. Polk
elected, and General Cass nominated and run in
lS4s To show TO the world that the whig party was
equally sincere in its opposition to the doctrines and
power Of the abolltlonsts, the special organ OF the ad
mnistraion must bring forward the national platform
Of its party in 1896, 1910. 1871, and ISIS, and show
that there desire the part OF the wings 10
prevent the agitation Of the slavery question To
assign to Mr. Van Buren, the right to dissolve the
democratic party, is to make the create. than the
principle Of party; il is 10 sink the national sen,i-
to the standard Of private and individual feel
ing IT is to do that, in fact, which the democratic
party has done. and never will do, whatever may
be the effect OF the combinations which, in few in
stances in history have succeeded in gaining posi-
ion from which IDS true character could be temporarily
aspersed nowis by the tricks of the wing party
This government has been in operation more than
sixty years, during four hhs Of which period it has been
conducted by the democratic republican party The rrn
epes OF This patty have never changed-its name has
never changed. Its advocates remain now as proud in
their confidence in the wisdom and necessity OF those
principles they in the days OF Washington and
Jefferson, in those OF General Jackson Clouds
the proprley OF the which the sages and pa
trots Of this party have pursued but me the grea,
seareher Of public events, has uniformly confirmed the
wisdom OF such measures. Like the emerging from
The eclpses by which the laws OF Nature intercept for
moment vision OF tina, source OF light, SO have the
invariably risen above the influences momcnary assai
Ing them and the people-advancing with unexampled
qulekness to greatness, happiness, and renown-have
uniformly acknowledged the claims OF The consistent and
steady friends OF these principles TO their respect, love,
md gratitude Let not the special organ OF this admins
ration deceive ITSELF that it make this great party
lssove itself because Mr. Van Buren, abandoned it in
1913. and enabled The wings elect Gen Taylor, since,
party they could brin his support the abolition sla
ery societies OF the North, supported by Mr. Fillmore and
be dssec,ion which had been produced by the Wimot
roviso in portion OF The democratic ranks Ii suits the
dissolve itself The democracy reproaches itself with no
uch tendency The wings have successfully been federal
st. federal republicans minority men, conservatives and