Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1851-09-24
THE WASHINGTON UNION.

The Washington Unicn, in its Issues of the 9Th and
18th of this month, has failed to do that justice
which one political friend has the rgh, to expect from
another. In our paper Of the Sd. we distinctly in.
formed the Union that we had acquiesced. from the
hst in the &" compromise measures that VIC had
no, sought TO discuss them, but that discussion had
been forced upon US by Southern Whig journals
and ,ha, We not only regretted this {" unhappy slave
ry controversy, but deprecated and deplored. most
sincerely, the results to which it likely to lead
in the neighboring State of South Carolina We al
so declared that this was neither Secession
Disunion journal; that were for the Union as long
as the Constitution remained unbroken; and that we
should be for seeding Withdrawing from the Union
only in the last resort the final and most extreme
measure for the protection Of the sacred rights and
vital interests of The slaveholding States. We also
stated, in reply to that paper Of the 22d August that
the Southern rights men Of this State held no such
doctrine as that of IS Constuton0l right TO Sc
cede; but, on the contrary, regarded It as reserred
right, be exercised when all other means and rem
edies had failed. We INDUCED the hope that the
Union would set right before its readers on these
points. 1t has declined to do SO, however; and not
only this, but still leaves the inference that were
favorable to Mcdonald and Qui,man, because, that
paper alleges, they were for dsorganizing the
Democratic party and dissolving the Union. Now.
what we lave TO rereat is, that We preferred these
gentlemen TO Cobb and Foote, because, as We be-
leved, they were for both Southern rights and the
Gnon and because they had been brought forward for
ofce by the great bulk of the Democratic party in
their respective States and confess, in addition
10 this. that we did not like the company in which
d.
not imPeached their Democracy, as the Union itself
must remember and what We asked of that paper
was assuming that all four Of these gentlemen
were good Democrats NOT to take part in the
test going on between them. Had we regarded
either Mcdonald or Qutman hostile to the Union
on account Of what has been done and seeking to
destroy it and establish on its ruins Southern Con-
ederacy, we should have denounced them and warned
the people of their respective States, far our
feeble voice could have reached them Of the danger
involved in endorsing such views and such policy
BY aiding in their election.
The Union sets II down as " a notorious fact -
that the Conventions which nominated Messrs Cobb,
Mcdonald, Foote, and Quiman, were neither Whip
nor Democratic Conventions; and expresses surprise
that We should not have known this to be SO. We
know that there were Democrats in the Foote and
Cobb Conventions, and Wings in the Mcdonald and
Quitman Conventions, and remember the names Civ.
en- to these bodies but know, also, that three.
f0ur'hs of the papers which support Messrs Cobb
and Foote are Wing papers, and nne.tenths q those
which support Mcdonald and Quitman are Democrat.
iepapers. Where a;c you find the old and tried Dem.
oc'atic organs in Geo,sia-the M;.!edgville Union,
'he Savannah Georgian, and the like1 For McDon-
a'd' and against Cobb and the same remark will
nod s1 good as to the Mississippi Democratic organs.
""efe 90 you find Toombs and Stephensl On the
''oe Of Cobb-but we forbear. We have no wish
"p'''oe 'hl' matter any further. -
Du' me Union has profted somewhat, We hope, by
-. looked more attentive'y Of late into The posi-.
~" occupied by those Southern Democrats who ac-
ae''e '0' out cannot approve. the compromise and
reason for this opinion 10 founded upon an article
"d' paper OF the 18th instant. in relation to Judge
o,aes' OF the Mobile District The Editor publishe.
e"e' from that gentleman, in which he repes the
."afge Of being disunonist, avows his warm a.
a'"%ens to the Union according to the CONSTITUTION
a"u plants himself on the Resolutions of go and 'se
a'0 In laying this letter before its readers the Ed,o
''"Sse' Judge Bragg with Me.srs. MiIlsou, Meade