The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-04-01
NO. 274.

cannot be done True he opposed the Com
promise measures so called and for which the
Democracy of Ohio will ever honor him A
more essentially Wing measure never received
the sanction Of Congress albeit many professed
Democrats gave it their support. Clay and
Webster were the authors Of this Infamous
measure, and whoever heard of their origina-
ting anything that did not smack of Whiggery1
The Union may take what position it chooses,
hut we object to It's dictaton to or prescription
of others.
From the Toledo (O) Commert,al-d Democratic
paper.
SCHEMES TO DEFEAT THE DEMOCRACY.
A new political organization has been form
ed in nearly all of the slavehoding States, and
this organization claims to hold in Missouri,
Mississippi, &cr the political power Of those
States, giving evidence of their strength in the
late elections, by defeating the Democratic can
didates for Senator'S and State officers Flushed
with their recent triumphs in States that have
heretofore been regarded as most reliably DEM
ocratic, the organs of this new party ayow their
purpose to control the action of the next Bati-
more Convention, or, failing in this TO defeat
the candidates which that convention NAV nut
in nomination. The terms on which they Of
fer their support to the Democratic party are
the most insolent that could he made They
are that resolutions shall be adopted in the Ma
tional Convention, making slave labor the para
mount object of protection by the great Ma
tional Democratic party, and that the Fugitive
Slave Law and the other Compromise measures
shall hereafter be made test of membership
to that party When it is recollected that these
measures originated with the present Federal
Administration, and that they are opposed 10y
the great body of the Democrats in Mississippi
Georgia, &c. as well ~ in Ohio New York
and New England it will be apparent that the
insolence. and arrogance df the proposition pro
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measures which it is proposed to interpolate
into the Democratic creed
We are compelled to speak plain upon this
subject, rs we see in these movements of the
falsely styled Union party deep laid plot to
overthrow the Democracy in the next Pres-
Dental election.
While the Fillmore Union party in the
States where they have oyerthrown Democratic
ascendency, are occupying the position of "arm-
ed neutrals,' threatening an open alliance with
the Federalists, if a surrender is not made
to them and the Democratic platform lowered
to their standard-while these movements arc
going on in the States which have been before
this new organization sprung into existence
the most reliably Democratic the Federalists in
such States AZ kentucky, Tennessee, and Mary
land maintain the old Wing organization, and
are now with great unanimity, presenting Mr..
Fillmore, ~ their Presidential candidate If
events shall prove him to be the most ayaila-
bic candidate, he is and will be the first choice
of the Fillmore Union party and the Fillmore
Wing party OF the South. These two parties
are pursuing one and the same object and are
shaping their movements to have one and the
same candidate for President. His election can
be insured, if new tests can be forced upon the
Democracy. through which agency the party
will be divided and defeated If they fail in
their cunnngly laid schemes to divide the
Democracy, then the slave States, by the union
of the two political parties which now control
them, are to be made to give united vote
against the Democratic candidate In carry
ing out this plan, it has become essential that
the position and principles Of the Democracy
of Ohio should be assailed The Washington
| Union, which has from the outset, encouraged
and sustained the Union organization of tho
| South, Is conspicuous in these assaults. A Sa-
vannah (Georgia) paper, more open and frank
| in its opposition to the policy of the Ohio De-
mocracy, but not less hostile than the Union,
| says:
Ohio Fee-SoiliSm IN The Baltimore Conuen-
| tt0n.-lt will be seen by the following state
ment that the Free Soil Democracy of Ohio cx-
| pect to have n vote in the Baltimore Conyen-
| ton:
"The Ohio Democratic State Convention, ut
its session on the 9th of January passed rcso-
lutons denouncing slavery as an evil which
ought to be eradicated, and its extension pre-
vented by all lawful means, and at the same
time appointed delegates to attend the Nation
al Democratic Convention"
Is any party at the South willing TO co-ope-
rate with men making such professions, and yet
exact from them no guarantee that our rights
shall be respected Would not such co-opera-
ton falsfy our own professions, and give i'm
punity to abolitonism!
The exclusion OF the Democratic delegates
from Ohio to the Baltimore Convention will
hardly be resorted to, though this policy is
recommended by an influential Southern Jour
nal
But there is great danger that the new party
movement at the South, relying upon the uni
ted support OF that section, on account of it's
devotion to the slave interest will he able by
effectng divisions at the North, and assertions
ut the South, to defeat the Democratic cand-
dates in the next, as it did in the last Presi-
dential election.
Nothing short of bold and fearless exposi-
ton of the corrupt but formidable combination
now going on TO secure the perpetuation and
ascendency Of the Federal party in the Nation
al Government for another four years, can pre-
vent such calamity.
From the Wyoming (New York) Mirror