Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1851-09-17
THE UN[ON-SAvING" PARTY.
The New York Herald sketches the condition o

The New York Herald sketches the condition of
the great ;" Union-saving' party as follows:
{" The statements have published of the recent
| elections and the political divisions of members of
Congress elect, show that the democratic party,
called. if we use old party names is largely in the
ascendency in both houses of Congress- and in the
several States. The condition of the whig party,
considering the fact that they hold the reins of power
IN the executive department of the national govern
ment, is most extraordinary, and worthy of particu
lar notice. Of the thryone governors of States, the
democrats have elected twenty and will probably,
In October next add Pennsylvania to the list leaving
the wings the four governors of New York, Vermont,
Florida and Tennessee. In the Legislatures of twen
majorities, the wings retaining only the Legislatures
OF the six States of New York, Vermont, Maryland,
Kentucky, Tennessee and California, while the free
so'lers held the balance of power in the Legislatures
OF Connecticut, Massachusetts and Ohio, and coa-
lltlon OF anti Benton democrats and wings were re-
qured in Missouri turn Colonel Benton out of the
United States Senate, and elect whig Senator in |
his place.
| This brief statement shows the melancholy condi-
ton to which the great whig party of the Union is
reduced. 1t forcibly reminds of what said of
the old federal party, in the 1871 At that ,ime
that unfortunate party only enabled to elect one
Governor inthe Union, viz, Roger Griswod, of Con
necticut, and he chosen against the regular fed
eral candidate, John Treadwel by the combined votes
of the democrats and disaected federaists. 1t was,
therefore, remarked by the democratic wags of the
day. that the federaIiss had only half Governor in
the then eighteen States of the Union. However,
the federalists temporarily recovered from this pros
tration, and during the of 1912 succeeded in
rying about half the States; partial triumph,
ceeded by defeats which only foreshadowed their f.
nal downfall. after the peace of 1915. In like
manner regarGhe fate of the whig party sealed
and their speedy dissolution certain Notwithstanding
they may meet with temporary triumphs in isolated
ses, as in this State and in Tennessee. As the gal
vanc shock produced by the appeal to arms in 1872
and the political effects caused thereby, failed to re-
store permanently the paralyzed nerves of the old
federal party, doubtless will the wings find that
no mesmerism or electricity Of measures of public
policy, the remnants of military glory, restore
the body of whiggery to life and activity, sufficient
to place the party again in the ascendency in the
nation.
Are we asked, where are the evidences Of the seeds
of dissolution planted which must destroy the Wing
party! Look at the free soilers of those formerly
reliable Whig States-Massachusetts. Connecticut
and Ohio Observe, also the irreconcilabe quarrels
in the Whg party in Rhode Island, New Jersey,
Delaware, Ohio and Kentucky, which have thrown
the executive branch of the State governments into
the hands of the Democrats, and in three of them
caused the elections of Democratic U. S. Senators
and also deprived the Wings of the votes of those
States in the House of Representatives, should the
ensuing Presidential election be brought before that
body for final decision. When Cassius Nj. Clay, by
his operations defeats the Whig candidate for Gov
in Kentucky, and the invncible Ashland dis
trie" elects Democrat to Congress in preference to
Leslie Coombs that long tried friend of s. Harry of
the West;'' when Whig Legislature in Rhode
island elects Democrat TO the 8. S. Senate when
all confidence is lost among the Wings of New Jer-
sey, and hope is fled from among them; when the
temperance Wings of Delaware refused to listen to
the voice of John NJ Clayton, and thereby the
election of Democratic U. S. Senator; when Mas.
sachusetts elects Democratic Governor, and free
soil U. S. Senator, and refuses to sustain Daniel
Webster where, oh where we ask, is the great hig
party to look for succor! Will they fall back on
N~. >L-s. cov% a.
slippery union Of the free soil and silver gray Wings
The disointed and dilapidaed condition of :he Dem
ocratc party, and the present possession of power,
political and financial, may indeed prolong the exist
rod, but the fate which attends them in other States
must even here overake them, as soon as the Demo-
Gratis become hungry enough for Office and power to
unite ther forces"
We ask the {" Union-savng'' Editor of the Raj
egh Register to read the above and ponder upon it,
'~MR. BUCHANAN AND THE SOUTH, number of
era members of Congress, have enclosed TO copies
of the Harrisburg Keystone, in this State-a sort of
Abolition paper belonging to that desperate but de-
feated dsorganizer, Simon Cameron-containng the
most infamous attacks upon Mr.. Buchanan, and sent
from Pennsylvania into the South, in order to weak
the strong hold he has upon the Southern people,
of all parties, ,>whether Whig or Democratic Union
State Rights. The worst part of the story is, that
these atrOclOuS calunnleS upon statesman WnOm
Pennsylvania has delighted honor for thirty years.
are franked by Richard Brodhead who ows his cleo
ton to the Senate of the United States to all
tions Of the Democratic party of the State, but to
nothing much as to the overthrow by the radical
Democracy of the arch intriguer whose desperate
schemes he is assisting. The unpruvoked char
acter of this movement is probably its most epulsive
feature, and will cause universal astonshment among
the con6ding Democracy of Pennsylvania. Our pres
object, however, is not to deal with the actors in
this affair, but to say few plain words to friends
in the South. We have important contest before
US, and when get through with that, we will pay
some attention to the men who have embarked in this
crusade. And singular expose it will be.
Every man in the North who has been constant
and consistent in his support Of the Constitution and
the rights of the South has been made the target of
faction and of sectionalism. Mr.. Buchanan has not
escaped the assaults of these desperate influences
but in defiance of them he has maintained his posi-
ton from the first without faltering AT this moment
he is stronger with masses than ever. Indeed,
his strength has strengthened with the great of
the Constitution. Whenever sectionalism has been
strong he has been comparatively weak; but as the
value of the services of himself and other patriotic
men in the country have been made to appear, with
every new victory against Abolition, so have he and
they been the more ardently cherished by the Demo-
, opened in this State, he has proven alike his own
3 popularity and the impotency of his opponents. In
Mr.. Brodhead's own vicinity, Mr.. Buchanan has
carried every county, and this, too, with enthusi
asm that shows how we'll the Democracy understand
their duties. Our Southern friends need hardly be
reminded of the necessity of turning deaf to the
ISLANDERS upon such man, when they must feel and
know that in nearly every instance they have been
suggested because Of his adherence the
of the Constitution and the rights of the States.
Pennsylvania has been beset by traitorous and un-
grateful foes at her own hearthstone tco long. and we
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