Daily American telegraph., 1852-05-25
mThe Finality OF the Compromise !"

GThe inc
1t is our Southern Democratic friends who
contend with greatest pertinacity for a declara-
ton of the inality of the Compromise" and
it is their stentorian voice the Southern Wings
in terror echo. We marvel not that they should
take up any cry they may think discordant TO the
ears of Wings; but that the Wings should IN folly
echo them, is sad. exemplfcation of human
frailty and degrading folly.
In the elevation OF Governors Cobb and Foote
may be perceived the fruits of their intatuanon.
Perhaps we should add the election OF Mr..
Toombs to the Senate; but Mr.. Toombs is nom
inally Wing eve have seen the day in which
we felt proud to call him an out-and-out Wing
de Jacto y
The Paulding (Miss.) Clarion refers to the
present position of Governor Foote, and says:
s.Our present governor is truly in melancholy
and distressed condition. The Wings IN every
part of the State are throwing him off, and his Ex-
cellency is left even without the sembance Of
party for the Union Democrats are also coaleGcang
qoith the main body of their old political triends
:. Foote's effort to Democratize the old Wing
party. and tumble them into the Baltimore Con-
yention, nolens Uolens, was decidedly the most
Quixotic undertaking of modern times"
It is said that the effort in Georgia and Alabama
to an Wing the Wing party has been more success
full and some of the Democratic papers tell US
that the only parties known there are the Demo-
cratic and the Union parties. We do not credit
the story; but whether true or false the design
is apparent A portion of the Democratic party
come over to the Wings to seduce them from their
party to enter as recruits into the new Union
party of Messrs Fillmore, Cobb and Foote; the
MAN body Of the Democrats assume the atti-
tude of disunionists, and the main body OF the
Whigparty are called upon by dtsun'on Democra-
cy, in the name Of the Union, to come over to the
fragmentary Union party-to relnquisL their
original integrity-to part from the firm platform
upon which they have ever stood and for what
Simply that they may no longer have a national
existence; simply that, IN the name ofMe Union,
the Union may be given over to the madness of
sectional chques and cabals
What we have often said we here repeat-that
two national parties, running pari passu from the
extreme North to the extreme South, can alone
save this Union I'VE believe this most conscien-
tously and religiousy and it is surprising to US
that there is any citizen of country, through
out its whole extent who does not see and APP
preciatc it, The mutual dependence Of the diff
ferent ends Of each line upon each other in every
national election-the agreement at such a time
to silence all sectional differences-the assem-
bling in National Convention for the purpose OF
consulting about the means of keeping down all
ebullitions of feeling by means of which the
harmony of the Union can be disturbed will ever
produce more good than the formal recognition
of thousand compacts.
And yet are we called upon to wantonly and
unnecessarily excite anew in our Convention the
topics of oar only difference; and there are even
those of our party who declare their unwilling |
ness to cooperate as Wings with those who do
not think as they do upon both the practical and
the abstract propositions respecting the institu-
ton Of slavery
Win not our friends look at this question in its
true light, unterrifed by the threats and menaces
Of their opponents, and uninfuenced even by |
their own unconscious prejudices? The Wing |
party, true to itself as a national party, at this
moment is as truly NOBLE dignifed, and power
full party as our country has ever seen; but
the Wing party, frightened from its propriety by
the enemy without, or dscontents within, must
fall and expire in the isolated helplessness of its
constituent parts
Our opponents have predicted for us this fate. |
May vein the fuhlment of our duty, at once
falsify their predictions, and preserve the peace
and welfare of our whole Union The choice is
before us, as a party: Schism and death, or
unity and bright and prosperous future
Hon. Israel washburn, jr.
Upon entering the House of Representatives