The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-09-18


lho Wing Party In Tennessee.
Some writer in the Republican Banner, Of Tennessee,
has spun out into fourth number a sort OF examination
into the past party history Of the Uaited States which
will be unimporant and without effect The writer is
evidently smartng under the conviction that the stand
ard of wing orthodoxy, interpreted in the late guber-
material canvass in Tennessee, has been epudiated in all
the suongholds of wing power in other portions OF the
Union II was painful to that writer to make the open
admission that Gov. Campbell on the Compromise was
only supporting democratic principles, 80 far as that
measure as party test enter into the next presden
ta canvass or can be referred in past political action to
party standard The leading feature of this measure
is as old as 1900, made permanent in democratic
organization by jefferson and Madison, and recog-
Missed by all their democratic followers. That feature
figured in the democratic platforms OF ls4o, 1874, and
lsls and will do again in 1852 1t is, that the com
pacts of the constitution must be executed that sacred
instrument literally construed, and all sectional agitation
sludiousy avoided-denying 10 Congress any right to
NEEDLE with the slavery question. The whole amount OF
that is that the slave institutions OF the South
shall be protected and the fugitive slave surrendered to
his owner
Under what party influence has this provision OF the
constitution been interrupted To suppose that there Is
any intelligent mind in the State OF Tennessee unable to
perceive that this question: whenever answered truly
condemns the WING party, would be to Islander the most
ordinary intelligence Mr. Webster told the whole story
in his Buffalo Speech when he admitted that it was the
whig party which had created the abolition and free soil
parties This great just returning from the mountains
of his nativity, can do nothing but depoe his inability to
redeem his party from the folly of pretending to be national
and constitutional, while it openly consigns him to
Punishment and hangs with more tenacity than ever
| to the Stewards Wnthrops, and Johnsons, whose al
lance with the anti Compromise men OF the North and
West the aboonists and free-soers, is as notorious
as the expedition OF Lopez TO Cuba. Any man in the
South who in the face Of the fact that Vinon, John
ston Seward, and Winthrop are the nominees OF the
wings in the great States OF Ohio, Pennsylvania, New
York. and Massachusetts, will pretend TO say that the
Compromise is wing measure, may as well deny that
General Jackson whipped the British at New Orleans
The whig conventions which nominated these men did
so expressly because they did not regard the Compo
mise as a final settlement of the slavery agitation
they did so because they affirmed their determination mol
to be precuded from repeal of the fugitive slave law and
in the South knows that this cannot be done
wi,hou, destroying the Union
n i, in view of these truths that the writer refer TO
in the Nashville Banner is founderng like the sailor al
sea who has fallen overheard and cngs 10 any plank that
he may find which will prevent him from sinking. de
talks against caucuses and conventions and lances that
he NAV save himself and his party by running Mr. Fill
more-no seeming to have found out that Mr. Fillmore
is like himself thrown overheard by the whg party. with
no pospec, of ever being heard OF again politician
unless he repents OF what he has recently DONE and back
slides Immediately to the Syracuse Anti-Slavery Society
which endorsed him into Congress- and then into the pres
idency But the most ludicrous part OF the vagares OF
this writer is the attack he makes Mr. Jefferson, the
grea, apostle OF democacythe great author Of that con-
sentative policy which has administered the federal gov
eminent for fifty years. and by whose expostons OF the
constitution the patriots oil the day are Obliged to stand IN
order 10 defend the Compromise and justice TO the
South The wing party in the North, in open alliance
with free negro fana,csm and runaway negro demands
for shelter and liberty, think and speak and write OF Mr.
Jefferson just as this writer in the Nashville Banner does,
part OF whose labor in this respect we subon for the
amusement Of our readers
"Mr. Jefferson voluntarily retired from the cabinet Of
Washington in the year 1793 having become dissatisfied
with some OF Of his adm nisration, and
culary with Of his associates in the cabinet, and
rhenceforward as told by himself, engaged
Monticello in the cultivation Of phosophy AND peas, being
thoroughly dsgnstcd with politics. and seeking forget
public affairs Bot find from his posthumous writings
that while pretended to be pursuing the delightful and
studies OF the porch and the academy and the health
fu and viruous upstions Of primitive husGandman,
he was in reality, carrying on the most extensive political
spondeuce all this country and in Europewh
ne wspaper editors with ambitious and restless men OF dis
appointed hopes with political adventuers seeking TO adj
their with fanaucal clubs and other associ
atoms In Paris that desecrang the name OF liberty
ing religion deamng characer-and endeavoring to
stir M society by every influence that he could put in
ration excite prejudice against the administration Of