The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-06-20

Hhat look place an lne convention upon tue reading
OF the resolution thus changed is significant Every.
body seemed 10 feel that the ables adyoeacy was needed
for il, and there a simultaneous shout for Mr.
Choste lie sprang at to his feet iulerpose the
dazzling shield OF his eoguence between the ruins of
the resolution and The just and indignation Of the
southern wings, whom il was designed to betray And
what said MIR Choale Adroity reminding his audience
Ina, be had not heard the era terms OF the last resou
tion." he proceeded at aBse 10 claim for merit aRd
character to which its exact terms" present glazing
and humilating contrast. Here are his words:
Mr. Rufus ChoaIe rose, and said that he did clearly
appebsnd the sr4ci ts Of The Las recitation the read
ing of which yey anxious attention paid b he nader
S'Oad IA general that Gyasd The faulty Of The Ccnpro.
S aud hat deprecated any further political agitation
on the subject Of slavery and he rightly understood H.
he made haste 70 rise and hank God dat the cne
which e had contendsd In his measure and place. though
circumstances unpopitious, in Faneuil Hail. when
Faneu Hall was openedif he night Judge by the cheer
log Northumberland 10 BE- sustained by the highest
authority which as party man and whig he could
cognse in the convention Of Union wings OF the United
States"
" The Compromise !" "The fnaliiy of the Compro
niseP' There's no such ling! Any such description
OF the resolution is but the artice of master in the
ART to make the appear the better reasonw Be it
for patriotic of all parties in the South 10 show
that their maurest counsels" shall not be perpexed
and dashed -"
But the pleasing Illusions which Mr. Choate's genius
had flung round the resolution 10 be rudely
dispalled, Mr. Charles Anderson, OF Ohio surdly
up TO tell the plain truth about the whole business and
he spoke out the wing creed buntly. He said
"This Conpronse was, FER all, nothing but ia,o Ike
all othos s statIsbJok The fret mpromise Of Mr.
Clay was nothing Than regulating duties
imports. So with this C1mptomise-it is nothing
ynlt.r f.. l..
opposed the N,rrh who do So from any
passion the subject b From sectional pride The wings
Of free States have Witnessed the dmtnnton Of the r
bershave their friends go oft by account
Of forcing hIs Compromise upon fhfH I"
This is the true wAig creed. In this idea the Com
promise" cut clean of the resolution before ii
could pass, and then it did pass by great vote of men
who, in their Stale conventions, have always refused to
recognise The Compromise recan The doctrine of the
proViso.
But cunning will overeach ITSELF and il has done so
in this case. The resolution does acgtisSee' in the
fugi,ive.save law as statute 10 be maintained" and
i" strictly enforced" in its "present efficiency" This
recognition of the fugitive law the wings have put not
upon the ground OF the constitutional mandate, yet
upon the ground of covenant settlement; Tor neither
of these things does their resolution recognise But they
acqaiesce in the fugitive law they do in all the other
laws of the lhittyfrst Congress, and they agree to
maintain that law in its present efficiency upon the simple
ground OF approving lis provisions Lee, us see how
well they will get along that ground with the whig
masses the Ohio Reserve, in Allegany and Chester
and Lancaster counties, in Pennsy lvania in Western
New York. and in notification Vermont As they
stand, the wing parry 10 its convention has ignored
the Compromise and endorsed The fugitive law In SO
doing, time will show whether they have suited the
of their party, North or South,
To complete this record and 10 show that "hones,y is
their best policy" with this miserable Snuff ns
Of the Wing Convention the direct and straightforward
declarations of the Democratic Convention on the same
subject:
ResorSd, That the foregoing proposition covers aud
intended to embrace the whole subject Of slavery ag
taon in Congress- and therefore the democratic party
the Union, standing this national PLATFORM will abide
By and adhere faithful execution Of the kaown
the compromse settled by the last Congress- The
for reclaniing loglyes from service labor included
which ACT being designed carry express ptovis
ion Of the constitution, cannot with fidelity thereto be
peacd changed destroy impair is efficiency
Resoipsd, That the democratic party will resist all at
tempts ing, in Congress OF out Of IL the agitation
of the slavery question: under whatever shape color the
auempt may be made"
Here is, in plain words, the truth Of the whole mat.
terthe maintenance OF the Compromise in all It's parts
because il is a compromse-an obligatory covenant set.
Element and the maintenance and execution OF the iug
tive law in all its efficiency, because, part Of such
settlement, ii is designed TO carry express proyis.
ion Of the constitution and be repealed OF i'm.
paired without infdelity 10 that sacred instrument
lie, the country decide which is the true the honest
the reliable platform and party.