The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-06-17
The Position Of Parties on the Com promise.


The Position Parties n the Com promise.
The special organ of the administration seems to be al
loss 10 comprehend how it is that the democratic party
in the South and particularly in Tennessee tolerate
any expression of dstrust Of the future policy of the
wing party in respect TO the execution OF the fugitive
slave law This is not at all remark able in presence of
the notorious fact that the wings party in all other
portions of the Union but the South produce evidence
of their intention to cooperate with the democratic party
in maintaining the fugitive slave law We have over and
again pointed the grounds for this disus but
in proportion the democrats in the North and North
west bring forward noble evidences of good faith and Of
party power to maintain those evidences and here
after, the organs OF the administration express special
wonder that such democratic leaders Gov Troufdae
in Tennessee should be disposed to manifest hope that
all the fears formerly entertained by the South may be
suspended if not entirely abandoned.
Now, we put il to the candor and good sense of both
the organs OF the administration in this city if the excl
ted feeling originating in the South by the apprehension
that the fugitive-save law could not be executed
as long as there was probability that the wing
party would be in the ascendency in the North was not
reasonable and natural and it be equally reasona-
bic and NATURAL that that apprehension should cease
to manifest itself when that probability yields circum-
stances almost amounting to certainty that the execution
OF this law will be in the hands Of the democratic
party, with whose feelings, policy, and conduct past and
future, it perfectly harmonizes.
The platforms on which Messrs Cobb, Collier, Foote,
and Trousdale placed in the present agitation in the
South, acknowledge that acquescence in the fugitive.
slave law is the duty of all good and law abiding citi-
What they may say of the amount OF sacrifice or
concession contained in the Compromise-wheher too
much yielded TO the other of the sections
excited by the subjects not material The great fact
is acquescence in the law-the demonstration on the
part OF the South that political power there will CO.
operate with political power in all the other portions
Of the Union in maintaining the compacts OF the Union
and in dsbanding those sectional organizations which
array one portion Of the people against another, and
menace the tranquility and safety Of the whole of
our institutions, State and national When this admins
tation obtain from the stronghold OF it's power in
the North and West pledges like those which the demo-
cratic party offer in New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode
Island. Connecticut. Pennsylvania, Delaware. New Jer-
sey, and the great West, it will be time enough to
consider what injury is likely follow the expression
OF an honest southern heart when be sees such men as
Johnston, Seward, Sumner and Wade, not only in pos
session of the present political action of the four great
States OF Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, and
Ohio but intriguing and chaering with all the elements
of make that action available in disturb
ing measures necessary to the salvation of the Union
That our readers may tina, we do not speak beyond
the record we call attention to the following. which is
but among the hundred extracts that might be taken
from the leading organs of the wing party. showing their
determination no, only to cooperate with the abolition
ists but TO make their influence kill off all the wings
who have dared TO declare that the fugitive slave law
must be executed:
1t is brazen efronery that Mr. Webster is
this the preferred candidate Of the wing party in
This State. Anything be asserted but is impossible
show by any respectable evidence that Mr. Webster 10
the choice OF maority Of the wings of this State for
presidential candidate. But IL that he
could command the general support of the whig party
is not at all true that he could obtain any considerable
number OF electoral Hi. course upon the avery
question: however well intended renders hi. defeat certain
in such New York and Ohio without whose vote
he stands chance whatever Pennsylvania wings are
already committed in favor Of Scott and If that State be
carried by whig all, 1t DO by such wing as
the hero Of Mexico The State is naturally against us BY
large majority, and Mr. Webster would hardly obtain more
than the regular wbig When hear of any loco
loco State he carry shall be prepared further to
speculate on his chance but we know Of such.
N@ EU. tNtr Bedford Mercury, Jx~s IA
Now, what has Mr. Webster done to make him lose
the support of the whg party that Mr. Fillmore has no,
done Are they not as nseparaby linked together a.
Siamese twins on the slavery question and have they
not made all the apologies which reason and conscience
would permit to minds fraught with one particle Of re-
spect for their constitutional duty The head OF the whg
administration Have they not reiterated over and over
again. to the antsaves prejudces Of the North the as
surance that their sympaihies now, they have
always been, with northern people; that. true a. the
needle 10 the poe they have fought anst slavery from
the admission of Louisiana TO the present day and that
they desire to give the largest liberty the people Of ev
cry color But these apologies not enough. The
wing party is not to be satisfied with apologies II wants
the ofces-these il must have; and il hesates not to
declare that il will bargain with aboonists for them
What else is meant by the declaration, that if Mr. Web
ser could command the vote Of all the whg party he
could not thereby gain any considerable number OF slec
tora votes and hence the necessity OF taking gun
powder hero who can get abolition well whiK votes
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