The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-03-26
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The oisi1a OF tas Wings - Presidency.
10 leading article citing and commenting upon certain
passages Of the recent speech delivered by Col Wilcox
Of Mississippi in the House Of Representative. the Re
pubic Of yesterday has the following paragraph
Snow, would fain inquire IL any true friend Of tho
Union believes that presidential candidate elected by
such mon, acceptable such men--A candidate who
would be voted Tor by Qunan Davis Pickens, and men
Of that stampis TO conduct The executive affair OF This
county so much more wisely, and prudenty patri-
otcaly than the present that il is his duty
as such friend Of the Uaion to 20 into hot political con.
test Tor The sake Of oveunln that and la
aogoraung the pebald and specked Executive that oud
SUIT Inc secessionists and dsunioniss described by Mr.
Wilcox 70
lhe washington Union will not be charged by any,
body with having supported encouraged the efforts OF
portion OF the two parties at the South to unite as a
souhern-rghs organization upon extra constitutional
measures IN defence OF their section after the adopon
OF the Compromise and after the purpose OF the great bulk
Of the northern democracy faithfully sustain that meas
ure as final settlement became manifest But when the
wing party through IFS leading organ. thus puts in
claim to be ntrusted with the power OF the government
as the party whose mission il ia put down fanaticism
al the North and dsunion al the South becomes proper
to remember that II is mainly by the systematic action
and policy OF that party, from the accession of General
Harrison to the death of General Taylor. that these twin
spirits OF evfanatcism at the North and disunionism
at The South--have been evoked and nourshed into
whatsoever of power they have displayed.
Disunionism at The South was indsputaby the child of
the California policy OF Gen. Taylor. His unpledged
administration fell under the control Of that anti slavery
and agitation policy, the urus Of which had thoroughly
penetrated during series of years the wing system OF the
North, and thus betrayed the section which had put its
trust in him as southern The South thus hunted
turned ercaly to bay and the Nashville convention and
the soulhernrghts organization in the southern States
was the resulthe undoubted result-of that crisis Had
the democrats prevailed in the of 1885, there is no
reasonable pretence that any such movements would
have been set foot The capital error oil those move
mens was that in the natural Indignation of the hour
they did not recognise a, once what they have
since very generally recognised-that the adoption
of the Compromise was in its leading idea, an over
throw of the Taylor-whig policy. and restora-
ton OF the ascendency Of democratic principles OF ad.
justment in the sectional controversy This overthrow
and restoration had by democratic aid in the North
when, in the exgency Of the CRISIS the Committee of
Thirteen in the Senate and their associates snatched the
administration OF the government of the hands of
wing Executive which the fanaticsm OF the North had
smltten with deadly SPELL and fast urging madly on
to the destruction Of the Constitution and the Union
And now because-jnst bseauss-the wing administra-
ton prevented by the democracy from overthrow
ing the Union Of the States and did not refuse at the
South 10 give aid TO maintain the Compromise
which wing policy alone had made indispensable 10
the preservation of that Union the leading organ OF the
wings comes modesdy forward to demand that the wing
ascendency in the executive government shall be con-
nued, and not only continued, but absolutely placed in
the person of General Scott under the control of those
very leaders whose reckless fanatcsm plunged General
Taylor into his ancompromise policy. and has since
broken down Mr. Fillmore the North for not refusing
10 sanction departure from polcyn the adoption and
maintenance of the Compromise To understand the foil
audacity OF this claim of the whg party again to be trust
ed with the safety and the guidance OF the
must be remembered that the Wmot provso still stands
record and unrecanted, in the proceedings OF every
northern wing State convention, cardinal and un-
changeabe wing doctrine " and that the only alternative
now submitted by the majority wings of the North 10 the
minority wings Of the South is a choice between two
systems Of policy of which, represented in its can
didates the slavery wings Of the North claim to have
ruined and the other OF which they claim and expect ID
rule
II is of good omen TO the country. and the OF re-
publican freedom that the people OF the South and OF the
Union seem have evidenced little disposition TO accep,
either horn OF the dilemma. The ready and the natural
escape from both these pers is in the coming ascendency
OF the democratic party.