The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-08-24

Northern Whggery.
The New York Evening Express sensible that the AL
bany arrangement of its wing associates is too thin veil
to conceal the preponderance of higher in its fu
ture efforts to control the national administration, thus
philosophers upon the subject in leader of the 22d in
slant:
"Ifapy whig ever expects elect wing President upon
nny other than full fair. and explicit acquescence
in the fnaly OF the mpromse measures We are not that
whig. No wing national convention will ever be called
Blu, upon that express understanding beforehand The
wings OF Tennessee Kentucky. North Carolina, louisiana
Georgia and Virginia will never into convention with us
but upon express understanding we know full we'll But
we do not expect everybody TO agree with us instantly in
that opinion. We have opportunities for knowing public
opinion which the great body of citizens cannot have
at once but when facts brought home 10 hem we
have no doubt they will agree with u.s. We must, how.
ever give them time. The wing address at Albany is
great advance Next shall have yet greater one
The principles of address all national and sound
There IL exceptionabe sentiment in It, Hereafter,
we are sure, proper and better sime, the wings
will be explicit; and we are quite willing TO wait I'LL
their judgment is as well convinced as ours is'
In another part of the same article. ii is remarked
"Whsn now, we remember what was the state ofpub.
lie opinon in this State With all parties only nine months
since and when the Advance OF opinion there is in
this address, do think it quite comes up to what the
times demand. We cannot KICK people into thinking as
we do We first convince their judgments, and then
gradually give that better judgment expression such
a, il uas in this address"
II thus appears that this organ OF whggery has learned
something from higher awism The Albany address, it
thinks. is not what it ought to be, but at is great ad
rance Ne1t year shall haze greater one" "Hereaer.
zoe are sure al some proper and better time the ugs wat
be more explicit and trf quite wng 10 'oan hH their
Judgment is as well conuiaced as ours" This Interpreter
Of creeds for his party to have obtained from the
higher law regions OF Mr.. Seward sort OF ladder like
that used by Jacob OF old when the angels visited him.
From the various heights of this ladder this disciple
events before they happen and the wings OF the South
are dissatisfied with things they are, they assured
that things will alter and be better hereafter Translated
into palmer language, the sentiment preached from
this ladder OF hgher-law progressveness is this Do
not be uneasy, Messs Toombs, Stephens. Gentry, and
Campbell, Of the South. IL is indispensable 10 Us al
this time TO preserve the coalition nth abolition and free
soil Hereafter, at proper and better time zoe piH make
q different arrangement, # We can. This abolition
rangemeri all that Oe non Effect TO demand
Is 10 require s,oailow all that haze SAID and done
heretofore
No one that understands the issues involved in the
support Of the compromises OF the constitution fail
to see that wing effort at the North is directed less to
the triumph of principles than 10 the possession OF office
and power Were it otherwise, the organ Of the party
would proclaim from the housetops that no higher
lap" can override the constitution il would say
to Mr.. Seward and bis abolition allies that there
place for them in party that is in favor OF the efi-
Gent execution OF the fusve-slave law, and OF main
tanning it the fuhlment OF compact without which
there could have been no union OF the States, and
be none hereafter /, will not do to blink the question:
and say that the public opinion OF the North is not yet
sufficiently advanced and that time must be given TO the
anti slavery societies TO enable Mr. Seward to teach them
what is their duty to their country What abodonism
and free sosm comprehend by the terms progress and
Improvement, Of public opinion, is the very opposite
Of tha, advance upon which depends the durability
Of our institutions What is needed ia guarantee to
the South tina, the constitution, as fathers made it,
can be administered and that the spirit of anarchy and
disorder, under the guse of liberty and religion, will not
override all the restraints OF the constitution, and termi-
nate in giving irresponsible power to the general govern.
men, and nothing afford this guarantee but the
recognition OF the rights OF the saveowner TO his prop
ety-rgh,s az sacred those OF any citizen OF the
North to the fruits Of his labor. II was upon this
guarantee of rights that the southern States came
into the Union, and il cannot be Withdrawn with
out absolvng them from the obligation 10 remain
in the Union. Shall this guarantee be afforded Shall
the next presidential election be decided such prin
eipes ~ will disarm abol,ionism and -solism, and
will reassure the South that the federal shall
NOT be diverted from its original limited sphere and will
distribute equally 10 all sections aad classes OF our States
AID people an equality Of benefits and burdensi This ia
the great and vital issue involved in the present, political
sxeiteent and il is upon the relative capacity Of the
two parties TO vndcate and make h. principle
ina, the conservative and patriotic inquiry Of the people
NV awakened, and will decide which OF the two par
h.s--democra,ic or whig-ought TO be most trusted.
Tha, such il the momenious issue now about to be
tried by the American people is admitted from one ertrem-
y Of the Union to the oher and yet the leaders Of the
Wing party in the North unblushingy admit that their
rank and ale are deeply tainted with the Influences
which have endangered the compromises OF the const'tu-
hon that they must have tme-a better time than the
swnt-in order TO decide whether their action will be
Tor against that sacred instrument fathers made
il The New York Express, speaking for the Fill
more wing OF it, party, says, You must not ask ms
10 change too suddenly opinions, and swallow all
that we have said before The Evening Journal Tribune
and Others declare outright that the Albany address leaves
hipgs they were BEFORE and that as good wings
changed in their hostility TO the compromise measures