The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-09-16

doxy OF our course in regard TO the interests oil The dem
ocrale party but deem duty, not so much TO our
selves TO the rights OF this party to permit no mlscon
cepon 10 pass unobseryed, where il springs from no
spirit of hostility and is within the held oil legitimate ex
animation as opinion or sentiment We claim tor
ourselves no infalliby, nor any authority beyond
what may be accorded 10 any other press sincerely anx
ious for the union and of the democratic party
Hence we felt constrained 10 show that the Raleigh
Standard, ascrbng to US neglect OF democratic IN
teress, because dissented widely from The ultra
grounds occupied by the politicians who stand on the
platform of the Nashville southern convention, had itself
committed the mistake which charged against as That
paper designated Messrs. Mcdonald and Quman as dem
ocrats. and Messs Cobb and Foote wings in the pre-
sent political canvass in Georgia and Mississippi state
ment remote from the notorious acknowledgements OF all
the parties in the South though certainly not intended
the Raleigh Standard Declares to subject the democratic
party TO the impuaton OF disunlon, could have other
effect, and it was therefore promptly exposed by us. Mr.
Mcdonald the president and active member OF the
Nashville southern convention whose proceedings
openly at war with all hope OF preserving present
federal system So far from acquiescing in the Compro
mise, that convention recommended the organization of
party to resist IT, So far from submitting 10 that
adjustment of existing differences between the
North and the South, that convention proposed south
congress in opposition 10 the Congress OF the const
tuition. That convention proposed TO upset not merely
the Compromise, but to dictate compromise, which,
not accepted to be the basis OF southern confed
eracy. That convention The organization OF south
Stafe-rights party, the prominent feature of which
opposition TO the Compromise not to be
submitted and proposed, also, the the right
OF secession legal and constitutional mode of effect
ing a change in that Compromise--not secession
remedy for future wrongs when they become intoerable
in the OF the Virginia resolutions OF '9s and &c.
but secession for redressng wrongs already committed
and imbodied in the Compromise.
We are thus particular in marking the characteristics
Of the political objects attributable to Messrs Mcdonald
and Qui,man in order that readers may clearly
ideas when used the following language in to
the Raleigh Standard, which claimed those gentlemen
democrats:
From the Washington Union of the oh inst
1t is ridiculous to assert that the crisis which we afe
passing has been aggravated by the conduct OF those
sou hem politicians who denonnce the Compromise at the
time that they declare their acquiescence in il for
the sake Of the Union The best proof of the political nhu
OF such sentiment is the it receives
FROM uvowed disunionists, in whatever quarter OF
country they may be found II the acquescence of Cover
nor Mcdonald, Of Georgia, and Governor Quitman, Of
Mississippi, calculated aid tho sentiment which
accepts the Compromise final settlement of the sa-
very question, why is it that the parlisan gents.
in and out of South Carolina ugng that State TO
put into practice her threat Of secession Why II tha,
Southern Press here and its rights allies else
where, teemng day with in favor of DIS
union look the election OF these gentlemen only
step gained towards eeceson but towards the erhrow
of the democratic party which they denounce bite rlv
do the anti slavery societies of Syracuse and Boston
This language the South-Side Democrat in an article
an extract from which is transferred to our columns
to-day, seems TO consider not sufficiently guarded
nasmuch il may be construed as censure of those
members of Congress who voted against the Com
premise but yet submit il, and abide by in good
faith. law. Perhaps the justice of the criticism
may be admitted, if that single paragraph be con.
sdered without reference TO its context, and to the
numerous and leading exposions OF our views on this
very point which have again and again appeared in our
columns We therefore thankful for the opportunity
afforded by this friendly adnonition Of showing that il
proceeds from great conrareiy OF views between its
author and ourselves bu, is in almost exact accordance
with the ground we have uniformly maintained.
Leaving out OF view what appears in our Introductory
address last April where acquiescence in the Compro
mise is insisted measure around which all true
democrats rally matter what may have been their
votes members Of Congress- or wha, may be the con
vcton 10 the greater less benefit Of the to
the North or 10 the South, have repeated the same
sentiment on every occasion which has arisen where its
application could be tested For this purpose we repro
duce the following extracts from paper on this point
marking the dates, which, can have no doubt, will
sufficiently prove how careful have been TO protect
ourselves from the mpustion OF desire to draw an I'M
favorable contrast between those democrats who accept
the Compromise, and voted for it as final adjustment,
and those who acquiesce in it, Notwithstanding their op
position TO it when legislative measure or their con-
vclion that question OF sacrifice, is an advantage
to the North at the expense OF the South.
We trust that readers will object TO the cop
BUSINESS OF these extracts, inasmuch we deem il i'm
por,ant not to be misunderstood point Of SO much in
erest to all who anxious the democratic par,y
once more united on the basis OF its ancient and time
honored doctrines. We for the missatements of
enemies but the misconceptions OF friends originating
from points Of view that do not survey all that is neces
say to the OF the democratic party its southern
northern EASTERN and western aspects, ought not TO be
circulated without receiving the examination necessary TO
prevent injury and 10 advance the cause OF truth
Ia ORDER also that readers may see under one gen
eral article all that pertinent the course we have pur
sued in reference to the parsans OF the Nashville south
convention, append to the extracts referred to
from paper the resolutions adopted by that con-
ventioR That not mistaken in having ated the
present contest in the South mainly an effort, on the