Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-05-08
UNION OF THE WINGS.

The Enquirer of yesterday INDUCES in the ex-
preston of some afectionate apprehensons lest
the Wing party be disunited in the approach
ing Presidential election. Its own Democratic
house is admirably set in ORDER Its betrav
al of the South in its recent organization here has
been duly followed by contemptuous overslaueb
of all that concerns her peace and honor in every
successive Convention of locofocoism that has oc-
Cured since, ending with Florida the other day.
where the same ignomnious and concerted
silence was observed. No fear that apy thouobt
of homes, of fresides, of affairs, will perplex the
counsels of men whose supreme desire is the COM
mand of the United States Treasury There will
be union at Baltimore on the day of June,
complete and thoroug h-that union which will be
brought about by apurposed exclusion of every to-
pic which might be supposed to occasion honest
difference of opinion and that union will be pro-
claimed in the desecrated name of principle
Should the Democracy perchance divide, it will
not be about principles, about disunon or abolition
ism, about currency, about labor, about improve
ments, about lands, about foreign policy. No! 1t
will be about office, spos, pelf; about the hand
that shall take and give these, about the treasury
its sack and waste. These things may make ira
vail in its patriotic labor Looking at the mate
rial of those who have the party in charge, and
make profit OF it, there are elements of quarrel
which may be summed up in this way: There
are the remnants of the Polk dynasty-a pisaller,
a make shift-the accident of 1874, which has
served its turn and is now cast away-Buchanan,
Marcy, ct cetera. Then comes what the
Democratic Review, with euphonious elegance
calls 'Old Fogiedom' meaning the Cass party pro-
per, what 'erst rejoiced in the name of Old Hun
kerry, from which the Barnburners are an exfolia-
ton under the lead of the Van Burens. Next.
plebeian iusurrectionary element, Young Democ-
racy, impatient of its seniors, and intent on seiz-
ing the spois with the strong ARMAND then the
wings freesoilers and disunionists ready to league
in any mischief that will promote disorder It
were idle to predicate any unity of principle or
any principle of such strange galh-mantry. ex-
cept that which Mr.. Calhoun distinguished with
such marked felicity of phrase, 1.-THE cohesive
power of the public plumber" Yet, it is in favor
ofthis prohgate medley ofcontrarities that the En-
quirer invokes the attention of the country to the
probable diseords to arise from the differences of
opinion, honestly entertained and expressed
among the Wings, North and South, in regard to
Lie poHCy vi Tic SUBJECT OF the Com
promise upon the doctrines of her national creed
Of the policy of such measure, very sincere
doubt may be honestly entertained by the best dis
posed and most conscientious minds There
will be no disposition, trust evade the subject
to withhold fromit dispassionate consideration
in the Wing nominating Convention. For our
selves we desire to see its fnality recognized
We think it would tend not only to heal, but even
to obhterate the scars of the recent dssenson,-
\ ct 1t should be remembered that portion of
1t, was naturally distasteful to some whose patriot
Ism yielded its enactment to the demands of the
constitution. There is now no agitations of the
subject practised or seriously threatened, where
agitation was most to be feared. No Legislature
IN what are called the free States-no Conven-
tion-no embodiment of opinion-of any sort
demands its repeal. Even politicians find that
nothing can be made of the dead carcass of seq
tional agitation, and at least for time thew have
abandoned it, and We have northern Exernt;ve
-resolutely and dutifully bent upon the faitbfn,
execution of the measure in all its parts Then
as regards the Wings of the South, they have spo-
ken out upon the subject, wherever and wheneg
they have gathered together, in language not to
be mistaken. They will support no candidate
whose orthodoxy they have any reason to doubt