The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-09-02


Tn. o.mpre.a,.s . Democratic Measure.
We have observed that for days past some few
Of the New York journals generally supposed to be hos
lille TO the national democratic party, have been stgmazng
the Compromise Whig The purpose OF this
strange Misrepresentation is manesy thrust the de-
oescy of from the compromise position which both its
sections assumed in its last years State convention and
thus 10 place the democratic organization OF the Empire
State in an attitude of hostility to the democracy Of
The rest Of the North, and indeed OF the whole
country.
brief summary Of facts will place this matter in its
true light 1t is denied that the whg administration,
up to the day Of the death OF General Taylor, openly OPP
posed the compromise measures. adopting and steadily
maintaining The counter policy recommended in his mes
sage, Of the immediate and unconditional admission OF
California, with her anti-savery constitution already
formed and OF New Mexico with her similar constitution,
then in the process OF formation. II will not be denied
that during all this period. while the compromise discus
sion raging in Congress- Mr. Fillmore, as Vice Pres
dent carefully absained from manfesng any purpose to
support the compromise policyhus leaving the country
to infer inevitably his disapproval OF the from
the long and consistent record OF his slavery decsra
tons and from the date OF his Erie letter in 1885,
and through all his terms in Congress- up to the close Of
the Taylor Indeed, all Mr. Fillmore's history
and his nomination with General Taylor avowedly TO
coucate the an-s slavery wings OF the North made the
very supposition that he better compromise
than General Taylor supremsy ridiculous Up 10 the
day OF General Tayor's death, dreamed could
dream that the Vice he the
aboliionists Of Ohio "knovn aboliionisf by Mr..
Corwn. speaking to them Msr faher, at Rdgely. in
the fall Of ls4s-could be hostile to Gen. Tayors anti
Compromise policy. on the ground that it policy too
hostile slavery and the rights of the South 1t is not
denied that when Mr.. Corwn. Mr.. Fmore's invita-
ton became Secretary OF the Treasury the friends Of the
Compromise, with voice, rejoced that their meas
urs had thereby escaped his adverse vote in the
Senate. It il not denied that Mr. Webster. when
he came out in his It'll Of March speech for some
sort Of compromise policy was at once denounced
by four-6f,bs Of the leading whig journals of
the North and Northeast having thereby abured
and repudiaed not only his own past doctrines but lhe
cardinal and Interchangeable principles" OF the wing party Of
the North the sectional issues. Nor do we perceive
how in view Of the northern wing record as it stands in
whg congressional votes, in the doings OF wing State
conventions and in the resolves Of wing Legislatures
since 1896 up the present ho1r this charge be de-
MED Indeed, does Mr. Webster himself deny it Does
he not on the contrary. in all his speeches, plainly
enough instead of denying. admit and justify III Certain
TO- At any rate that the men and the journals who
now denouncing the Compromise q measure OF tae
wing party, are at the same moment denouncing Mr..
Webster the great Whg Apostate for supporting the
Compromise So says Mr. John Van Buren, TO the Vermont
e.soilers. So say the Evening Post at New York
and the Atlas at Albany So thinks and chuckles Sena
tor Seward al Auburn and 80. in substance votes his
whig legislature throwing compromise resolutions under
the table time and again, at the Bidding OF Mr.. Thurow
Weed
The Compromise wing measured What was its
oryin When ii became apparen, tina, General Tayor's
administration altogether inadequate to the safe
conduct Of the government the great sectional conros
versy then agitating the whole land the Compromise
Committee of Thirteen composed of senators Of both
parties raised the instance Of Mr. Fooe, take
the whole subject out OF the hands OF the wing Exscu-
tve and % initiate and carry through the public pol
icy demanded by the crisis. The wing senators who,
with Mr. Clay. joined the democrats in this movement,
were plainly At issue with the wing administration and
Mr.. Clay in his place complained bitterly that the
administration 20 regarded them. Nor did the debate
and the progress OF events fail to show that those
whg senator's who opposed the compromise policy OF
me c0mmlttee-6nu tUOec OPPOHcnts Weio mdJoly VI
the wings OF the chamberplaced their opposition, either
expressly or implicitly, in small measure, upon the
ground that Mr. Clay and his friends had thus organized
sohsm in the whig ranks and to speak, boted from
III. policy Of the wing party. m foreshadowed in the
constitutional recommendations Of the President il
had placed in power Such the party aspect OF the
Compromise Committee The whig members were there
IN ,ehism from their party policy The democrats were
there on the democratic platform of the Baltimore esolu
dons to apply the then exgency Of the country the
constitutional principle OF Intervention. Naturally.
therefore, the committee raised democratic
notion
But, before the committee acted, the materials upon
which they were to act had taken democratic shape,
and were ready to their hands. Three out Of the
nix bills composing 1.-THE California bill, the New
Mexico bill, and the Utah bill-were Mr.. Senator
DOUGLAS tells us in his speech at Chicago, drawn by
his own hand, in his place chairman OF the Com
m,,ee on Territories, and were adopted reported,
with rnnateral amendments, which assented to by
HE committee The Texas Boundary bill was also origi-
aly reported by the committee, and preserved in
u whole principle. though varied in the line proposed,
y The substitute bill introduced by Mr. Pearce. who
rave the measure the form in which it adopted.
The fugitive bill was reported by Mr. Mason, of Yir-
knia The bill 10 abolish the slave mart in this Dis
] ici was reported by the Compromise Committee II the
Compromise was wing measure, ii had, then, mos,