The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-05-05
Letter from Mr.. White, or Alabama.
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ton have doubtless attracted your attention
and excited in your mind an unusual interest
The professed union Of Freesoilers, Union men
and Disunionisis in the Democratic party, and the
split in the Wing party, Q mean represent ted
in Congress,) account of the refusal Of the lats
Wing caucus 10 entertain the resolution of NJ
Marshall, OF Kentucky, endorsing the Compro-
mise arc most significant portents, and should
induce every man TO look we'll to the future.
There are exigencies in the life of every nation
which import coming danger, as the flashes of 81
lent lightning in the sky indicate the approaching
Storm In both the old parties to the observing eye,
these omens OF evil are now to be seen Presiden-
tiai election 10 approaching, which. under present
issues, is to result in comforting upon one of those
pnrues the disposal Of more than one hundred
! thousand offices, and the disbursement OF some
forty fifty millions of dollars per annum for
| four years
More than this: II is to minister to the ambition
OF inyrads, whose hopes Of preferment rest In
srcice done to party, and fill the mouths of that
host of office seekers from the people who base
| their claims to advancement upon their claims on
the purity to whom they belong.
With such powerful, numerous, and diversified
interests urging the preservation Of old parties
IL not to be wondered at that any effort to form a
| third party should meet with great difficulties.
indeed, nothing less than some great crsis
which arouses the people from their ordinary re.
pose can do t. Man ID paradox of confidence
and missrust, and il political affairs his disposition
Is TO conJrde in those whom he has been accus-
toned to follow. There are, however, occasions
IN which free people aroused to the perils Of
their situation, and take matters into their own
| hands, and adjust them according 10 their sovcr.
| cign pleasure.
Through such crisis as this we have lately
passed, and, terrible the ordeal it manifested
| In brilliant degree the admirable character Of our
Institutions, and the virtue and intelligence Of
| people.
When the Compromise measures of 1850 were
passed, there were arrayed against them two par
esthe Abolitionists at the North and the Southern
Rights party at the South. Both of these declared
that by them the original covenant of our Federal
Government (the Constituton) broken, and
| that rather than submit to them the Government
must be overturned, and our unity as q nation dc.
| stroycd 1t ID unnecessary for me, in writing to
you, to do more than allude 10 the scenes which we
IN Alabama passed through at that most trying pc.
| Rod
The cry OF disu'sion rung through The land. 1t
was declared by the Southern Rights party (the
same who now talk of falling back into the Demo
cratic pGriy) that in this contest they knew no
Wing or Democrat but recognised all as brethren
esntending for the rights Of the South This nat
| uray elected in the Union party a similar confu-
sion Of old party men; and thus together we fought
| Wing and Democrat, side by side, heart and hand,
the hardest and most fearful battle which has been
ever fought at the South. The Union men, plant
ing themselves upon the Constitution and the
rights Of the South, vowed eternal hostility to Dis
unionists ut the South and Abolitonists at the
North.
| banded ourselves O on
| hy and TO preserve the rights of the section in
which we lived The arbitramcnt Of the dread
iesue was submitted to the people, and resulted in
/ Che overthrow of the Southern Rights party. This
accomplished one object of the Union party. Bot
there was still another, and that the crushing
| Of that party at the North who declared that the
South should not have her constitutional rights in
the execution of the Fugitive Slave law. For this
and because there u want Of confidence in the
pretended submission of the Southern Right.
party, it was determined to keep up the Union or
ganisation. The necessity well as propriety Of
this admitted by nearly all Of those who had
acted with the Union party.
10 January last the Union party, in convention
at Montgomery, determined TO go into neither Of
the National Conventions, but recommended
Union Convention, independent Of old party lines
The following were among the resolutions adopted
by that body.
rs. Resoloed, That an epoch has commenced
which requires US 10 forget pact political offences
To- minister no longer TO sectional decord, TO con-
template in all its grandeur an individual and ba
mouious Union, and that, actuated by this spirit
VIC ncquicsce in the late Compromise adjustment
a. dehnitivc settlement Of the slavery question,
and will insist lite being adhered to in good faith
&c. Resoired. That We think it ineKpedient to
appoint delegates to represent in either the De-
mocratc or Wing National Conventions TO nomi.
nate candidates Tor President and Vice President
of the United States, and that this convention re-
commend 10 the friends OF the Compromise nea-
OF the late Congress the propricty Of holding
in the city OF sshington, on the second Monday
in June next, National Union Convention, ire
spective OF old party organizations, for the pur-
pose OF nominating candidates for President and
Vice President Of the United States pledged TO the
support and maintenance Of those measures a
final adjustment.
"lf. Re'oIoed, That we earnestly en,roat those
Who agree with US in sentiment TO run candidates
at the neI general election in this State for every
political Office"
This was the 'thon expressed opinion Of the
Union men Of Alabama. j. there any thing in the
course Of events in the few last months which
should induce TO depart from it, The great oh.
jet expressed in these resolutions is to secure an
scquesccnce in the Compromise as fnaty, that
the yoxed snd dangerous questions growing out Of
It might be settled, and that forever.
Al the beginning Of the present session Of Con-
grcssY IN the Democratic caucus resolution Of
fered by Major Polk of Tennessee in substance the
same with the fifth resolution Of tho Montgomery
convention, was very unceremoniously kicked out
by Preston King Co.
In the Wing caucus similar resolution was
then adopted; but in the late Wing caucus, met
with view to fixing the time and place OF holding
Wing National Convention, tho same resolution
in effect, offered by Mr.. Marshall. Of Kentucky
was ruled out Of order By the Chair; and upon ap.
peal taken from that decision it (thc decsion) was
sustained by vote Of forty.six TO twonty-one,
those sustaining the decision being by far the
greater part northern men. Again: on the 9th
ulumo vote was had upon resolution in the
House Of Representatives, by Mr.. Jackson a South
| ern Rights Democrat, and also up an amendment
TO Mr.. Jackson's resolution, introduced by his
colleague. MIR Hillyer, a Union Democrat
The resolution vague and unntoigible
| the amendment was direct and easily under.
stood, declaring the Compromise n final adjust.
ment and permanent settlement Of the question,
therein embraced. Upon this amendment or
| resolution, II il fnny be so termed the vote VA