The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-07-09
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
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showing how the wing party OF the North had given
force and volume TO that antsavery current which so
lately shook the very foundations OF the Union. We
also commented the extraordinary fact that the wing
PARTY OF the South had continued its alliance with the
northern ederass while they engaged in this I'M
holy work and the still extraordinary fact that the
southern whgs while claiming TO be the exclusive
friends Of the Compromise, euntlng the Pollt
cal bonds which bind them to the factonss OF the North
We purpose now give sketch. by way OF contrast OF
the course which the democratic party has pursued
In the first place, is worthy OF note that the demo-
cratic party when assembled in convention, has frankly
sold the people the doctrines would adhere to and sus
tain If nrusted with power Even on the slavery question
Il has fully and freely expressed its determination In the
most plain and explicit terms. Not so with the wings
They have looked upon the people as silly dupes Know
ing that their principles unpopular, they have re-
sorted to every d.reputabe expedent to conceal their
real intentions trusting only deception for success
In their national conventions they have refused to tell
the people the objects they aimed at, the principles
they would sustain that in each State they might ap-
PEAL 10 the preudces which prevailed In Ohio they
affiliate with aboonism and sustain the doctrines OF
the liberty party In Virginia they denounce abolition
ism and the aims and objects Of the liberty party know
ing full well all the time that there is recognised wing
creed which can be quoted against them either in Ohio
or Virginia So with the bank, tariff, and all other
questions which have divided parties in the coun-
try This system of tactics pursued in 1910. In
1874 the thorough commttals Of Mr. Clay prevented it
for few months. Then it was adopted again. and has
been adhered to up to the present hour.
The democratic party has, as we have said before,
been always open and disingenuous. 1t has carefully
fraul and mis- ntatin IN
every occasion has forth its creed. that no man
who sought Office because of his party attachments could
pander to the passions Of locality section. 1t has
always taken national grounds; it has always frowned
on sectional issues it has always preserved its national
ity, and kept itself free from sectionasm by OF
conduct which gave the world to know the posi-
ton of the democratic party, its aims, its pur
poses. and its principles. We the rankest abo-
litionists high in the confidence OF the wing party
The very men who have done most to stimulate
fanatcism the chief men of whig cabnet-the lead
ing spirits Of wing dynasty But in the democratic
ranks find such thing When political abolition
ism attempted gain foothold in the ranks OF the de-
mocracy it brought to the test of the demo-
cratic creed That creed read to it, twas tried by
it and having been found wanting when weighed in the
balance, il was discarded-drven out OF the fold
fects. 1t has created great degree Of homogeneous
ness-if we may use the expresson-in the demo.
cratic ranks II has prevented individuals who aspred
to Office from shaping their sentiments TO suit the
localities or the sections in which they were cand
dates for popular favor and it has also driven of the
wolves in Sleeps clothing. who breed mischief and
perpetra,e wrong. Under this honest, upright SYSTEM
the democracy of the North have proved themselves to
be the true and tried friends OF the democracy OF the
South. Through all the trying in which southern
rights have been involved, there has always been strong
phalanx of northern democrats ready to rally in favor Of
the compromises OF the constitution, which secure the
rights OF the southern States During the last ten years
we may say during the last fifteen or twenty years
there has been decisive vote in Congress on the
slavery question in which e South has not been saved
by the votes Of northern democrats, against the almost
unanimous vote Of The northern wing party: We make
the assertion broadly We defy the organs to contradict
il; for il they do, will bring facts which they are
afraid 10 see.
Since the adoption OF the Compromise the whole DEM
ocrahc party OF the North has fully and entirely sus-
tanned it, II has fully and entirely sustained the fu-
gtive slave act Every democratic convention from
Maine to Nebraska which has assembled has fully
tanned it, We defy the organs OF the administration in this
city to point TO a single instance in which the wings in
convention assembled, in any non-slavehotng State,
have sanctioned the entire Compromise
Whatever MIR Flmore's sentiments may be now, no
honest deny that at the time OF his nomination
for the vice presidency, he fully, thoroughly and
entirely committed to abolitonism General Taylor had
avoided all commals, except that which refers 10 the
veto That exception gave strength abolitionism,
represented by Mr. Fillmore the Philadelphia amalga
nation ticket In the South, General Taylor, having
refused, according to wing usage, 10 set forth his
principles was supported upon purely sectional grounds
The southern wings said that 1--WE ask no professions
from him-we demand promises from him. He is
southern mamie is a stakeholder As a southern man
and Shareholder will for him, we will trust
him, and we will sustain him" Here we find the first
suicidal blow struck by the southern whigs-the first
effort sustain candidate purely geographical
sderations. The success OF such attempt well
calculated to mber that portion Of the northern people
who had for quarter OF century stood by the compro
mises of the constitution and sustained the rights OF the
southern States guaranteed by that constitution Not
withdrawing all this the great body Of the northern
democracy has remained firm With singular consancy
1t has sustained the great principle OF non intervention
TIE great democratic prncpe-and by that constancy il
has preserved the Union The doctrine OF non-nteryen.
ton is entirely and essentially democratic doctkpe
and in our next issue we will endeayor 10 show bv