The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-10-15


We therefore return 10 the subject.
In Virginia the wing leaders making despens, II
fort to smother all the old issues, and make newt
sue on the abstract ghi OF secession The foremost -.
most violent men in this attempt those who aav.
Gated notification in 1881, and those who. like the viii.
candidate for lieutenant governor deserted the dsno,
party because OF General Jackson's proclamation n.
most violent State rights men, after deserving the demo,
racy, have become The most bigoed consultations.
the southern delegates to the Philadelphia free,,,I.
convention the heTcest proteclionisls now on.
times change, and we change with them"
But TO return to our point. In Virginia the viii,
leaders making desperate effort to smother all III,
old issues, and to make new issue the absta,
right of secession Why do they make this endeayo,,
They know full well that the wing party OF the Souh
has become thoroughly contaminated by its Ioor
association with the wing party OF the North III,
wing party of the North wishes to strong goven.
ment II knows that the wing party of the South is III
servant and slave, hewing its wood and drawing 4.
water with all imaginable docility and obedience tn,
wing leaders OF Virginia. therefore. believe that they nav
pass over the old issues and, emboldened by successful
deceit, and prompted by an utter contempt Of popular
intelligence, they think that they may msead the people
now as easily as they have duped them heretofore Ii
order carry out this scheme they pretend to be Union
men, while they act in the same political organization
with Seward, OF New York-and TO be compromise men,
while they maintain their party affiliations with the worst
! foes of the Compromise.
"Quousque tandem abutere, Catalina, nosra patisnar
These words of the Roman orator continually force them
selves upon Us when think Of the OF the wh
party, and more especially when think OF the con.
duct of the wing leaders of the South. In Virginia
not in the entire South the wing leaders pretend love
the Union yet they make their beds and sleep quietly
with the worst enemies of the Union. They pretend 10
hate secession, yet they hug their bosoms The very
men who have forced the South to speak Of secession
They pretend to love the Compromise, yes they chain
themselves to its worst enemies. Is this right lsh
fair. Is it common honesty!
Blu, we will be specific. For mere party purposes
the whig pary of Virginia has cas-, oil the mask Of nc.
paryism which was assumed in ls4s for party purposes
Knowing full well that no one in Virginia advocates seee.
sion, it pelends to believe that the Union is in jeopardy
amongst the people of Virginia. The leaders OF this party
are the very men who deserted the democracy ls32h
old nulfers whose conscences have been destroyed
deseron and who are the berest foes Of the pn.
cipes they formerly worshipped These men. who w.r,
eighteen years ago ultra State rights, now ultra con.
their disappointed passions These pretend to besv.
that the Union is in danger They have made scare.
crow with which 10 alright the good people Of Virginia
They pretend to believe tina, ideas OF secession rife
Virginia to a dangerous extent Yet every one knsw
that such IDEAS entertained there There is not
} a handful of men in the Old Dominion who advocate
secession or revolution, anything else to avoid lhs
present condition of the national legislature Iwers.
member rightly, Mr.. John @. Adams and some thirteen
other northern wing members of Congress published
paper declaring the annexation of Texas dssolu.
ton OF The Union. Yet, if memory is not u.aAr
erous, Mr. John Minor Bolts, the wing candidate or
Congress in the metropolitan district of Virginia, selected
that John G. Adams to present his petition Con-
gress denying the right of the lanened John Winston
Jones to a seat in the House OF Representatives. Yet
now Mr.. John Minor Bolts sees, pretends to and
all the followers of Mr. Bolts see, pretend to that
secessioh has accomplished a faint, when
cession is insisted defended by any in Viz.
GINA.
The wbg party striving to play disreputabe trick en-
the patriotic impulses OF the Virginia people 1t attempts
to alright them by sheet spread on pole Mr.. Bolts
and the other whg candidates (sone of whom werslks
Mr.. Watts. of Norfolk county, straight for The
proclama,ion) wish to create dsunion panic hey
wish 10 make the people of Virginia believe that there
a disunion party in that gallant Stale.
But we take up another point The in Virgins
who wish TO make ew idea on the abstract principle
of secession wish TO do only TO themselves
from the practical realities Of the present hour With
them it is Help me, Cassus sink = and they gasp
a Cassius in every bu-ru on the shore. The men IN
Virginia who denounce secession, and who strain tnsi
lungs in favor OF the Union, the very who ior
fifteen years have affiliated with that spirit Of agsresr
sion which has forced upon the southern people the con-
sderaon of the abstract right OF secession.
Nor is this all The wings Of Virginia and the wings
of the whole South attempting to use, OF Ta'ha
abuse the patriotic impulses of the people They pre-
tend to abhor secession, while for years they have
acted in concert with those northern fanatics WHOSE
assaults have mbtered southern feeling. Even nov
thsy are attempting to claim all the credit Of ,hs
Compromise, in The face OF The fact that they are
the bilterest foes OF the northern friends Of the
Compromise. The strength Of the wing party ~
the North, and but three OF all the northern wings
voted for the Compromise-most OF the northern Wigs
being the bitter enemies OF the fugtve-slave law
many of them urging lis repeal Yet il is too true oa
southern wings claim all the merit OF the CompromS
while they adhere party majority opposed to 'sa
Compromise. Can audaciiy 20 furhers Can the human
face hold itself erect under these overwhelming proofs
Every wing candidate is firmly welded by political ties
TO Johnston and Seward They cannot be separated o
they have not the courage to disune themselves bu