The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-06-13

OF the one hundred wing presses, which the Albany
Evening" Journal claims part OF Stewards ralyins
Witness too the ominous election of Senator Fish, the
recommend atoms OF Governor Hunt 10 the fugitive
law and the significant silence OF the wing Legislature on
the whole subject OF the Compromise ytr4
Where. also, is the wing party OF Pennsylvania! AT
the back of Gov Johnston already virtually renominstsd
by reclamation, with his strangely ndecorous address TO
Mr. Webster yet green in memory. and with the bill to
repeal the obstruction law OF s47 still unsigned in his
pocket II the compromise wing administration
find consolation hope OF help the aspect OF lis party
in Pennsylvania. its power OF hoping must SAVIOR Of the
miraculous.
And lastly, where is the wing party of Ohos Voting
Muty-sir tsa--amost four to one--in the combined
wing vote OF both houses OF the legislature. for the
date repeal of The fugitive law and then sending Senator
Wade the Senate with the erces denuncison Of that
law hot on his lips as he speaks from the stump. and
flowing freshly and fuently from his pen when he sits
down write his letter OF open and pledged hostility
to the compromise measures
Such is the predcament OF the wing administration.
standing falling the Compromise. in all tho strong
holds Of northern wing power. The "houss divided
against itself" must 20 down. 1t needs not the hoarse
and ever augmentng whisper Of ''new wing candi.
on dhu-COmpIoWioc BtOuhue alu III Tue A6Auh VI
anti compromise men. to warn us Of the result. The
Compromise was not made by the wing party, and the
wing administration cannot carry its own party to
maintain it.
''Non tall arrilio defensoribus iss !"
Nor, when we look carefully at the natter this
clash and conflict upon the Compromise between the
wing administration and the bulk and organization Of its
party at the North be wondered at Mr. Fillmore and
Compromise creed carry with them in their adherence
the Of that wing party by which, under their
lead the old anti slavery sectional policy and faith have
been long and openly cherished The frank admis
sons Of the administration, in Mr. Websers late Buffalo
speech the sectional and exclusive policy OF the whg
party upon the slavery issues and the territorial questions
connected with those issues, may well perplex and be-
wilder those oldfashoned wings at the North who find
themselves summoned from the cabinet Of the Ex.
ecu,ve and the Office OF the Republic to forget the old
doctrines and the old deeds Of their party, and stand up
10 the faith and the test of the Compromise.
These wings, unlike Mr.. Webster. failed to nsv
lights the 7h Of March. 1850; and they repudiate
the Compromise, and adhere TO the old party ground on
which they and Mr.. Webster had stood and baed to.
gether up TO the dawn Of that evenful day. These
wings, unlike Mr.. Fillmore see reason to repu-
date the doctrines which they and Mr. Fillmore held
together from the publication of the letter to the Erie
aboonists in 1888 up TO the day when General Taylor
laid in his grave II is but natural them that these
should be slow, al the call of Mr. Fillmore, to shout
"Long live the Compromised The task Of maintain
ing the great Adjustment is task beyond the power
OF an admin straton and party thus bewdered, dis
traced and vexed. That work must be done-if done
at abby the democracy of the country from whose
principles that emanated, with whose policy i,
harmonzes in lis nationality Of design and purpose, and
by the aid of whose votes, Compromise, il was
called into being