The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-02-25

in his constitutional Union eucibs some substitute for
party organization II both the old parties determine to lei
the Compromise remain the settled law then they are
like the equation which is unaersd whether you add 10
OF subtract from il equal quantities We cannot con.
ceiye therefore, that we have committed very serious
jury in designating as did, the honorable member from
Georgia a whig
But TIVE think the difficulty is moi in any wrong have
done in refusing TO expunge from the list OF democrats OF
wings those who had strayed OF from the old platforms
OF these parties much the fact that the return to
these platforms will carry with it indisputable evidence
that whggey has been all the time chiefly responsible Tor
the dangers which have threatened the country. Il was
wing thunder that made the Buffalo platform SO terrible
II was wing management and continuance that brought
sectional agitation into the presidential contest and in
duced the people to put confidence in General Taylors
election that was never TO be realized constitutional
Union party cannot promise than promised by
the no.party pledges of that day.
Instead OF claiming for the Washington Union the
difficult task OF publication undertaken by the honorable
member from Georgia. have been content to urge all
portions of our counuymen 10 bury the dssensons pro-
duced by the slavery question. To free-so democrats
we have said Come and commune in the days OF JEFF
erson and jackson, with those who agree with you in
the great principles OF government and do not permit a
mistaken philanthropy to keep you any longer in false
position to the constitutional rights OF the South To
the ultra in the South who supposed that the con-
stituton had lost its vitality, and who were ready
to fall back the great right OF the oppressed to take
Judgment into their own hands in the last resort,
we have addressed the language of orbearance. and
invoked reconsideration of those maxms which
guided the fathers OF democracy in other days. We
have insisted that they should throw away the Of
menace, and try those of fraternity and aec-
ton and that il would be time enough TO look to
extra. constitutional action when the public voice,
fairly warned, failed respond to the demands OF duty
and patriotism II, by such attempts to bring back
common platform those who had been led to form
tional organizations, we have mistaken either the true
spirit Of party. or the permanent interests of the
country, have the consolation at least to feel that
have inflicted wrong upon individuals, upon the
great principles Of that democracy in whose school
have been reared, and with which believe the peser-
walton OF the Constitution and the Union to be nseparaby
connected
There are other points of view in which il TO us
that the reasoning OF the honorable member from Georgia
is Objectionable. We other object in it thar
that of determination to strengthen the wing party b.
the unjust petenson that the Union democrats OF Geor
gia longer act with their brethren of the North
although these last have general rule recognised
the true democratic doctrine TO the question Of slavery
and the duty of acquiescing in the passed b.
Congress this subject This is the extraordinary
when we consider that the whg party of the North hav
u no single instance made successful effort to pu
themselves right these absorbing questions In desp
OF all such reasoning, however do not abandon th
belief that Mr. Cobb and all the Union democrats of tn
South viii adhere to their ancient party ties, and not Civ
up the faith in their tmehon creed for which
can never be made national.