The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-03-04
Mr. Rhett and the AboIitloniss

mr Rhstt the Aboiitionis.s.
Since Mr.. Rhet ia DESTROYS to break up the Union be-
cause OF the anti slavery agitation which has already
taken place in the country, he hardly be surprised to
find cooperating with him those fanatics of the North
who insist that the agitation shall be kept up,
whatever pens to the Union it may involve. Thus the
New York Tribune mentions Mr., Rhers name with
honor and to the conclusion that he had quite the
best OF the argument in his recent encounter with Mr.
Clemens.
1t is unquestionable fact that the aboltoniss OF
the North. who proclaim the constitution TO be COW
enant OF HE'LL" the natural allies of dsunionss else
where The ground of the northern fanatic is, that the
constitution violates all "hisher law" by giving per-
feet legal protection to the institution of slavery the
ground of the opposite extremist is that TO that nsu-
ton the constitution gives real protection at all The
meeting OF the two extremesas manestly they do meet
and aid each other-implies plain standardization.
The strongest conceivable rebuke TO Mr. Garrison is
that Mr. Rhett is aborng to the end of disunion
with himself The strongest conceivable argument to
turn Mr. Rhett from his madness is the fact that Mr.
Garrison is his ally.
But all such udtraism trust is disappearing from
land. That at the North originated in perverson OF
the Jeersonan ordinance OF 1877, and the location upon
it of the Wmoi proviso that at the South by pever-
sion, equally erroneous of the resolutions of l7979s,
when they made TO sanction the so-called State
rights doctrines Of the Nashville southern convention As
the people began consider and analyze the fruits
of such errors they failed not apply the proper
tive
The truth OF the whole matter is the democratic party,
national organization, to stand upon the great
doctrines OF Jefferson they illustrated and put in
practice by Madison Jackson, and Polk and they
have been recently expounded and perverted by
either of the two sectional conventions at Nashville
and Buffalo The people have decided this matter II
the democracy puts itself under the guidance of the south
uaism, il will be beaten at the South fthe democ
acy puts itself under the guidance of the northern ultra
ism, will be beaten at the North By the very law OF
its existence, the democracy is national party or il is
no party all Hence ultraism in its ranks-sectiona
OF all shadesineviiably inures TO the benefit Of its
opponents SO always has been. Since 1916 the wing
party has fed on sectonalisms. So il always will be-
Hence the union OF the democracy in that sense in
which union is victory, the prevalence and as
tendency OF moderate counsels and wise men in the
democratic ranksguided by the wel-iested and time
honored doctrines and principles OF the party The al
traist OF any shade who comes 10 the BALTIMORE Con-
venlion TO fost his pet notion into the democratic creed
will be disappointed Ii this be not so, the democracy
would be doomed TO a shameful defeat But il is so
The people have had too much sectionalism OF late
years, and too much OF sectional organizations They
want rest and cessation Of sectional conro
yersy; and they determined at the North and a,
the South TO put the power OF the government into the
hands Of who, in regard 10 the sectional issues
will maintain for them The quiet which they desire The
strength OF the democratic party to-day in The fact that
the people look il, and the wings, accomplish
this result The peril OF the democratic party day it,
that OF its leaders may forget this truth and the
course OF conduct which il involves for, il the de.
mocracy fogets this truth may be well assured that
the wing convention and the wing candidate will avail
themselves OF the blunder and plainly enough, no
democratic statesman be elected the presidency
who does not fully recognise his mission and the
mission OF his party this time to be avoid The reopen
ing the encouragement OF sectional CONTROVERSY, no
matter how specious delusve at the North the
South may be the under which the demon OF that
dseord shall seek mask either his purposes or his in
s,ruments.
In this state Of things, il is most fortunate that the
task of avoiding, withsanding, and REFRESHING the
slavery agitation is at this day than il has been
before for twenty years To do is, in fact, only to
bow TO the aScfrtnined will OF the people.