Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-03-30

" endangered lis existeuce-but whose ill-reprcs-
sed affnties and instincts will iniaRbly place it
with the enemies of peace in the ranks of any
similar agitation which may hereafter CON
vuse the country. 1t is his leprous spot in its
bosom which the Democracy of Virginia seeks
not to cleanse, but to hide. Hence, this spectacle
of callous Indifference TO interests the most mo-
mentous-this creed only for the spoils of u coun-
try threatened with ruiu--like the sacriegious
pilteriug of the altar when the holy templc itself
is on fire. In such view of the subject the lit
tie and patry exhibition we have lust witnessed
here, becomes a grave public oflence1aud the
sense of ridicue it might provoke, is lost in the
sterner sentiment of indignation and scorn.
- A Convention ofthe Union party of Gcor-
gia is to be held in Nilledgeville on the ped day
of April, 20 take into consideration the course
which ii bchoovcs that party to pursue in the mp
preaching Presidential canvass. This Conyen-
ton was called as our readers will perhaps reeol-
lect, by n caucus ofthe Union party in the Geor-
gia Legislature a few weeks ago, aud the resoq-
tons accompanying the call We're construed by
should abandon their separate organization and
merge themselves in the Democratic party. It
was against this suggestion that the Hon. Mr. Ste
phens energotically demonstrated in his late
letter.
The action of the Union party of Georgia and
other Southern States, where this new oreaniza-
ton exists, is a matter of considerable interest
inasmuch as it will in all probability determine
the electoral vote of these States. We learn from
the Georgia Journal and Messenger, a leading
Union organ, that several counties have already
appointed delegates, and from the resolutions
adopted by the primary meetings of these couu-
ties. there Is every to believe that the Con-
vention will De united in its purpose of udhering
to the Union organization. .'From no county,
(says the Journal have we heard response to
the recommendation ofthe Legislative caucus
from no county have we heard an endorsement of
the idea, that the Union party of Georgia must
necessarily so to Baltimore TO maintain its prinei-
pies or its power. Resolutions have been adopt
ed by the majority of the primary meetings Which
have been held declaring their determination TO
maintain the principles of the Union organization:
and delegates have been appointed under these
resolutions, and instructed upon nothing, except
TO carry out the objects of that organization. The
necessity which called the Union party into exis-
tence, is urgent to-day as it was eighteen
months ago. 70 abandon that organization now,
is to abandon the fruits of all our labor and toll
and to leave incomplete the work which we have
undertaken. The mission of the constitutional
Union Party has not yet been fulfilled. The next
Presidential election must determine whether the
principles of that party shall triumph, or whether
the formation otthat party has had any influence
III checking ultraism and sectionaism at the
North and at the South. If we abandon in adj
vance our position of isolated independence of any
National Party-if the lures of office and of par
ty patronage stronger than our devotion to
principle-the strength of the Union Party, to-
gether with its identity, is gone. The Union par
ty is formidable whilst it maintains its separate
organization. and holds its strength and its intiu-
ence in reserve for the National Party which
SHALL in its candidate and its platform. acknow-
| ledge its principles. In that position, it may
be balance of power party--it may exert
strong and controlling influence upon the Conven-
tons of the Wing and Democratic parties, and
cause them to bid for its support by recognition
of the finaity of the Compromise In no other
position has the Union party formidableness or
the prevailing sentiment of the masses of the par
ty.'