Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-01-22


ring the past summer in the States OF Missis-
sippi, Alabama, and Georgia, was composed OF
the Wings in these States and very small mi
nority of the Republican party. That minority
was, however, sufficient in Mississippi and Geor-
gia to elect their candidates for Governor and
several members of Congress. 1t is now manifest
that the effect of the new organization has been
to encourage the Wing party and endanger the
Democratic ascendancy in the Union, unless
the Convention in Baltimore shall make nomina-
tions which can command the entire Republican
vote.
The conflict waged during the past summer in
Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, was so bitter
and personal--the issues under discussioninvolved
questions Of such vital importance-thatd deep per-
sonal feelings were necessarily excited Nothing
but sense of mutual interests and of mutual
danger can bring those who were SO bitterly OPP
posed to each other into harmonious concert.
Seeing this, and that he would be compelled to
60 over to the Whigs-to 60 into q very small mi
nority in his own State-or fall back into the ranks
Of the Republican party, Gen. Foote endeavored
to maintain the Union organization. Such was his
purpose in Mississippi; such was his purpose at
Montgomery, in Alabama; and such was the pur-
pose of his Compromise resolutions introduced
into Congress.
AS time progresses, two facts are fully deyel-
oped The first is, that the Compromise measures
are not final adjustment of the slavery question,
and that, therefore, the effect of Gen. Foote'S re-
solution, if adopted, and accepted as a yfnal adj
justment, will be to ull the South into false Sc
curity leaving the Abolitonists in the North and
elsewhere free to exert their influence and
strengthen their political organization which,
under such circumstances, would so far control
the government as to elect an anti-slavery Presi-
dent and Congress.
Does it require argument to prove that the eff
feet of this would be, that those who were last
summer the loudest in denouncing disunion will
themselves become its most clamorous advocates
Such is the nature of man. He is driven from
one extreme to the other; and those who now
stand charged with want Of loyalty to their own
section, will endeavor to regain public confidence
by exhibiting extraordinary zeal in the cause of
the South
Does any one doubt this We refer such to
adopted by the conventions of the
Union party, in which they declare that, if Con-
gress violates what they believe to be the rights
Of the South, they will dissolve the Union.
Secondly, that if the Compromise resolutions
md the principles asserted by the Union party
be adopted by the Baltimore Convention as a final
of the slavery question, and made
fundamental element of their party organization.
t must inure to the benefit of the Wing party:
because, although the Republican party of the
South believe that the Democracy of the North
ire less controlled by fanaticism than Wings,
md therefore desire to restore the Democracy to
power, they will not relinquish the fundamental
principles of their political faith, nor will they
submit to such censure as the adoption of such
resolutions as are suggested by the Union con-
ventions in Mississippi and Georgia would sub
ject them to, it, after their adoption, they sustain
the nominees of the Convention.
Why then should these elements of discord be
thrown into the Baltimore Convention? Is there
any good reason why the issues Of the last sum
mer shall thus be brought into the Baltimore Con-
vention? If the purpose be harmony and concert,
let the past be past except as it gives lessons
of forbearance and concession. Let us endeavor
to find candidate whose nomination will unite
and concliate all parties-whose present position
and antecedents are such that his nomination will
be no cause of humiliation to any, but of triumph
and congratulation to all. Let us then hear no
more of the inality of the Compromise. Let us
then hear no more of disunion, secession, or null
LITIGATION. But let us all unite in support of the
constitutional rights of the South as the best and
only means Of preserving the Union.