Daily American telegraph., 1852-05-07

gesuons as they have come up from hundred
sources:
To the Editor ofHe Republic:
Sin: In your paper of yesterday is an able,
dgnfed, well written letter from the pen of the
Hon. Alexander White, of Alabama, urging a
separate organization of the Union men of that
State, irrespective of the Whig and Democratic
parties A prominent Union man himself, and
an actor in the recent struggle between the Union
and Southern Rights parties in Alabama greater
weight Will OF course be given to the positions
he assumes than if he were mere speculator on
political economy.
| Without doubling his patriotic motives, and
cheerfuy bearing witness to his candor and
frankness, | desire, nevertheless, to controvert
some of his positions, and to call in question the
fairness of some of his deductions
| The honorable genteman's premises are, that
both the Wing and Democratic parties are uu-
| sound upon the question of the Compromise, and
| hence the necessity of third party to save the
Union. To prove the correctness of this position,
he has gone into an analysis of the vote of Con-
gress in the passage of those measures, and the
vote of Congress recently upon Mr.. Jackson's
resolution and Mr.. Hillyer's amendment as well
as the votes in the Whig and Democratic eau
cuses So far at least the votes of Congress
are concerned, in the passage of those measures
and their late Reimbursement, / do not think the
honorable gentleman is well sustained, as it was
by the votes of Wings and Democrats that those
results were contaminated AS to the vote in the
Democratic caucus, refusing to recognise the
Compromise as finality, have nothing to say;
that is a matter that belongs peculiarly to the
Democratic party, and leave it in their own
hands. But in regard to the vote in the late
Wing caucus upon Mr.. Marshalls resolution,
maintain that he has done great injustice to those
who voted the resolution out of order. l will
quote his language:
4 But in the late Whig caucus, met with view
to fixing the time and place of holding Wing
National Convention, the same resolution in effect
offered by Mr.. Marshall, of Kentucky, was ruled
out of order by the Chair and upon appeal taken
from that decision, it (the decison) was sustained
by vote of 46 to 2l-those sustaining the de-
cision being by far the greater part Northern
men"
Now, agreeable to his own statement, the eau
Gus met to fix the time and place of holding the
convention, and not for the purpose of making
platform for the Wing party nor for any other
purpose.
Therefore the Chair decided rightly and was
sustained rightly by Southern men and by North
ern men, no matter in what proportion.
If that caucus had entertained that resolution,
it would have been an assumption of power which
was never delegated to it, and would have been
where 1t is not fair to infer, therefore, that
those who opposed that resolution are opposed
to the Compromise and the honorable gentle
man will see upon reflection that he has, unin-
tentionay no doubt, done injustice, not only to
Mr.. Mangum but to those who sustained his de-
cision
His effort to identify those who voted against
Mr.. Jackson s resolution and Mr.. Hillyer's amend
ment with the " Southern Seceder and Northern
Abolitionist' common disturbers of the peace
and consprators against the liberties of the coun-
try-is almost equally disingenuous. He as
cribes to them tie language: " Though defeated,
we are not subdued; and so soon as an oppor
tunity presents ITSELF we will again attempt to
destroy the constitution, and overturn the gov.
ernment under which we live" We submit if
this is not pretty severe? But | will not COM
plain of the severity if his construction is the
proper one.
| Let us see. Those resolutions were in the ma
ture of q declaratory act in reaffirmance of the
| law. Before we condemn those who voted against
them, let us inquire whether or not their passage
was necessary If the Compromise was not a
innlity before the passage Of the resolutions, did
they, by virtue of their passage, become so after
wards? If they were inality before the passage
of the resolutions there any necessity for ag-
tatng the subject, and exciting the country merely
to minister to the ambition of demagogues and
uselessly consume the time of Congress in still
more useless discussion? Ifneither of the above
propositions can be answered affirmatvely, were
Wing members of Congress, who are in favor of
the fnality of the Compromise measures, under
any obligation to crafty Mr.. Jackson, who is n
Southern Rights Democrat" and Mr.. Hiyer
who is n " Union Democrat" by supporting reso-
lutons offered by them merely to manufacture
Democratic capitol out Of, and for no other pur-
pose? / know Of at least one Whig member of
| hn on
! ground that such action was uncalled for, and
was nugatory in itself 1t is quite reasonable to
| suppose that many others were actuated by
similar motives, especially when we remember
thht those same men have never agtated either
the repeal or modification Of the Compromise in
any of its parts, but express willing acquies-
cence in all of the included in the series
Having now, as conceive met the arguments
of the honorable gentleman, l wish to suggest to
him and to his constituents the impropriety of
forming a sectional party for the purpose of op-
Grating upon the result of a Presidential election
The consequence nationally to he expected is the
formation Of antagonstic sectional party, which
must lead, sooner or later, to dissolution of the
Union. No matter by what names those parties
may be known-Union or Disunion-the tendency
will be the same. Geographical parties, if ever
formed in this country, will be the certain augury
of ruin. The Father. Of his Country foresaw,
and warned his countrymen, in all coming time, to
beware of this danger. Let not his teaching be in
vain. The Wing party have now before the
country three distinguished individuals whose
names are spoken of in connexion with the Presi-
dency. All of them are known to be Compro-
mise men, and men of undoubted frmness All
of them are Americans in the true sense of the
term, and Union men.
The Union party in Alabama, Georgia, and Mis-
sissippi, it is admitted on all hands, is the Wing
party. The gentleman himself is Whig' Now
ask, in all candor, does he and the Union party
wish to secede from the Whig party and form a
sectional party, and finally seccdeJ from the Unton !
pnndnr thnsa thinps well