The daily union., 1852-04-15

ions OF law, all is wrong All was right as long as Mr.
Borand continued TO put his veto on the Washington
Union.
II but the other day ihs honorable member from
Mississippi understood to say that there were no
secessonisls in his State Now he does not hesitate TO
maintain that there hundred thousand men in the
South who standing by the Southern Press, which is
not merely a secessonisi organ in the abstract but
practical dsunionst consading that the South has been
disgaced by The Compromise and ought 10 treat that
measure iorefabers did the tax on tea We think
the honorable member does injustice to himself We
thlnk there never was man mistaken in the feel
ing Of the South. The South is faithful to the Union II
hardly contains regiment OF men in favor OF the doc
trines OF the Southern Press, which the organ
OF State rights party than il is OF the abolilionss
This plainly illustrated in the debate yesterday,
when j was acknowledged by the honorable member
that he operating with the member from Massa-
chusstts-the one maintaining that the South cannot be
reconced to acquiesee in the Compromise because the
fugitive slave law will not be executed. and the other
maintaining that that law if executed will destroy the
democratic party. and with it the Constitution and the
Union We cannot conceive OF a coalition, on such
principles, ndefensibe, more humiatng to the
pride of true patriot
the extraordinary statements OF the honorable member
from Mississippi which. trust, made in the heat
OF debate, and not with the deliberate purpose of dividing
the democratic party He does great injustice if he
supposes that not State-ghts men, or would pro-
scribe State-rights men, would introduce any new
tests into the creed of this party He may suppose that
State rights permit the wild and exayagan projects of
the Nashville convention 1t is against that supposion
that h,yo AZ. ~. r.
secession in the abstract defined in the Virginia reso-
ulions nor claiming "a make it test in any OF the
cent elections In Tennessee advocated the election
Of General Trousdae in Alabama. that Of Gov Coller
in Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi and
elsewhere, that of every democrat who took ground
against the extreme doctrines Of the Nashville conven-
on and expressed willingness to resort to uncon-
sutional action against the Compromise as settlement
Of the slavery question.
Is not this the position Of the democratic party in the
Soath' We certainly have so read the proceedings Of
all the conventions which have spoken on the subject
This is the language OF the Columbus (Georgia)
Times, whose editor recently here. and whose
testimony on the subject OF coalitions would advise
the honorable member from Mississippi take before he
undertakes to read anybody out of the democratic church
for sustaining the Washington Union. Is not this the
pOSltlOn Ol lass, houston,
Marcy, Butler, Lane. Dickinson King, and every other
individual whose has been suggested as likely to
receive the nomination of the democratic party
II has been our purpose to conduct journal in good
faith to the sentiment which has been respected by the
democratic party in its past struggles, looking to prnc
plies and not to To underslad this sentiment, we
have examined carefully the conduct OF the patriots and
statesmen who have done most to found, reform, and
preserve syspm; and we have not hesitated 10 60
where their maxims have carried u.s. We have made no
coali,ions-we intend TO make none and know OF none
il we except that which has been acknowledged 10 ex-
isl between those ultrasts OF the North and OF the South
who wish TO break up our Union if the Compromise is
Observation-Disclosures The side who urge secession
because slavery has constitutional protection and The
other because slavery has not constitutional protection
Il is for the democratic party TO do il pleases with
patronage and TO take what steps may Judge necessary
to advance its cause and to make permanent its claims
upon the confidence and love OF the people.