The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-10-20
From the Lexington (Va) Gazette.
accession, alias Disunion and the Locofoco
Party,


Party.
1t has been announced by Mr. Hallett a lead
ing Democrat, that /" the Democracy of Massa-
chusetts is about disbanded and merged in
Free soilism." IL may be said with equal
truth that the Democracy of Virginia is about
dsbanded and merged in Secessionism or Dis
unonism. Democracy and Disuti0IiSm are
becoming synonymous terms, not only in Virginia.
but in the whole South. We know that the term
Disunon is repudiated by them, and that they have
adopted the milder term of Secession But we are
in favor of calling things by their right names, and
Secession is Disunion, cloak it up you will. IF
you acknowledge the right of any State consttu-
tonaIly to secede from this Union you at once dis
soioe the Union. If South Carolina has the right
peaccaby to secede because of her opposition to the
Compromise, or Vermont because ofthe passage of
the Fugitive slave law, the obligations of the Con-
stitution are mere rope of sand and the Union is
at end. The secession of one State is dsso-
luton Of the compact for has been aptly illus
trated:
-"W hatever link you strike,
Tenth or ten thousandth. breaks the chain alike"
Now, we ASSERT it, without the fear of successful
contradiction, that the Democracy of Virginia have
been swallowed up by the dsunion party former
ly known "Ihe Chivairy,' with the exception of
the tail probably that isn't quite down yet If
not, WncTe Is the NallOnal democracy OF Oldcn
times? They have certainly disappeared very
mysteriously, and those who now occupy their
places and personate them are known the dis
unlonists OF modern days. The truth is, the dis
union wing have always been, to all intents and
purposes, the Democratic party of the day.
Though without the name, they have held the
rens OF power and appropriated the emoluments
of office in this State. They have now both the
United States Senators and the Governor, and, for
the purpose of pacfying the quondam Democracy,
have hitherto Indignantly conferred upon them
some worthless petty Offices. The history of the
past shows that the Democracy, by name, have
been but the mere vassals of the called "chival
ry." And now, how was 1t in the late convention
for the nomination OF State otiicerss First the
chivalry secured the nomination for Governor to a
man who had the previous winter, in the Democratic
caucus at Richmond, avowed his hostility to the
Compromise. Next, they secured the nomination for
Lieutenant Governor to man who advocates the
docrines of DisuniOn under the cloak Of Secession
And the only remaining Office to be Appropriated
that of the nomination for attorney general, they
secure to a wool-dycd diHunionist What means
the fact that at this critical period, when il be
hooves the friends of the Union to speak out for its
preservation-when tho demon disunion stalks UNI
dsmayed throughout the land-that convention
OF Democrats studlously suppress the passage of a
single resolution, the utterance of single word
in behalf of the Union? We know there we're some
friends Of the Union that convention, but did
they dare speak out? No. And whyI Because the
predominant material Of which that body was COM
posed of such character that such an act
would have been frebrand that would have blown
the body into thousand pieces There was no
such material in the Wing Convention assembled
at the same time. Compromise, Union resolutions
passed unanimously; ay, with reclamation
IL was no place for DismiOnist there. And ia il
not significant fact that the few Isolated dsunion
Wings we have hitherto had are, with all possible
speed, making tracks for the ranks of Locoiocoism?
They find no kindred spirits in the ranks of the
Wing party. Such we believe TO be a correct
view of the Democracy Of modern days.