Daily American telegraph., 1852-05-20
from the Republic Of this mornihsl
The Union Party IN Alabama

Portions Of the Union party In East Alabama
refuse to acquiesce In the movement Tor senuing
delegates to the National Convention, ana are
holding meetings in favor of maintaining the
Union platform as distinct organization Inc
resolutions adopted at Wing county ana district
conventions, recommending the election Oh uele-
gates to the National Convention, have already
been published in our columns. An adverse
meeting has since been held in Russell county,
when resolutions were ageeed to, declaring that
it is impossible to affiliate with the Wing or Dem
ocratic party as it now stands-opposng the
sending of delegates to the convention of either
recommending the holding of the pro-
posed Union Convention in Washington to nomi-
nate candidates pledged to sustain the Compro-
mise measures as final settlement of the slavery
question, and especially final determination
cordially approving of the course pursued by MI
Abercrombie, the district representative, in re
gard to the Wing caucus.
The Republic accompanies this statement with
no expression of disapprobation or regret. And
how could it, after having labored for full two
years in producing this very state of things
in giving Georgia to Cobb, and Mississippi to
Foote-n annihilating the Wing party to force
into existence Union party composed of the
projectors of the Compromise laws, and thereby
create necessity for the continued existence of
the parties opposed to those laws or to any one
Of them.
The Compromise laws consist of the following !:
1st An act admitting California rs a free
State.
I'd. The establishment of the boundary line be-
tween Texas and New Mexico, and the payment
of ten millions of dollars to the former
3d. The institution of Territorial governments
for New Mexico and Utah without prescribing the
exclusion Of slavery.
4th. The suppression Of the importation of
slaves into the District Of Columbia.
9Th. A law to recover fugitive slaves.
9th. A declaration that in future States may be
admitted into the Union with or without slavery.
We are in favor of the preservation of these
laws, and we rejoice in the conviction that they
will not and cannot be repealed; but shall we
therefore desire that every American citizen who
does not assent to each one Of them shall there
still more, shall it be our purpose to cxpel from
these parties, not only those who are now
averse to the enforcement Of any of these laws
but also all who will not acknowledge them to be
just such laws as they themselves would have
enacted? This is the effect of an organization
taking these laws for its platform.
AS the len loci of the Wings of Alabama we can
of course have little to say of this measure. If
there there exists party opposed to the Union,
and opposed to the enforcement of the Compro-
mise laws, the Wings there are the best judges
of the necessity or propriety of an organized OPP
position to that party upon the Compromise plat
form. But for ourselves we think now as we
have ever thought, that the preservation of the
Union can best be secured by the GUoidance of is
sues involving the question of its integrity.
In our opinion n majority of the citizens of
his republic would not in the first instance
md do not now, wholly approve of all the lars
embodied in the "omnibus bill, as above recapit-
ulated; yet few are now dissatisfied with them,
and still fewer would, if they had the power, dis
turb them. But the certain knowledge Of these
facts will not suffice; we must all declare be-
lief in the immaculacy per Of each law, whether
we really entertain such belief or not and the
central organ of Wing administration would
have our profession of faith in this immaculacy
the test of our political orthodoxy.
The only question for the Wing party to deter
mine in this eVentful year is that proposed to
himself by a certain distinguished Danish prince:
it is, "To BE- OR NOT TO BE !" If we resolve 10
be, we will continue to be ourselves if we resolve
not 10 be, we will then be changed into somebody
else, and there will be no hereafter for us-no
bourne for us to arrive at much less to return
from! The question is one Of eternal life or
eternal death, SO far as the idea of eternity can
apply to political parties
The Wing party can only exist as a national
party. If the counsels of the Republic prevail,
and all or any Of the Six Laws be made the Shi-
boleth of our party, there will be many slain who
cannot give it utterance!
Neutrals.
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