Daily American telegraph., 1852-06-22
The Desperation of Despair!

The Union of this morning labors to prove that
50 in the bosom of the Wing party the struggle
for the Presidency has already come to be
cleary-defned hostile array-a sectional civil
war between the North and the South
The whole country can bear witness that the
utmost energies Of the Union have for long
period of time been earnestly devoted to the pro-
motion not only of such state of things as it
describes, but to the separation and alienation
of the different members of the Wing party from
each other on sectional grounds At period of
time in which it has been the manifest duty of
every patriot to soothe and subdue the asperities
of sectionalism-to induce the forgiving and for
getting of the angry jealousies that have unfor-
tunately to an equal degree crept into both par
ties-that journal, apparently moved by the
most unworthy motives that can actuate
the INSCRIPTIONS demagogue hos labored
increasingly to promote anger and strife. 1t
has profaned the name Of Uaionism by prostitu-
ting it to its base purposes, and endeavored to
force US into the adoption of parties test declara-
tons as Unnecessary and impracticable in the
eyes of true patriots as ever disgraced the
statute books of England in the days Of its most
bitter and relentless religious and civil persecu-
TONS
In the hour in which the Wings of the Union
have demonstrated by every possible concession
to each other their willingness and desire to
unite as one national famy-when no tangible
basis of disagreement between its members can
be found--when the North and the South have
clasped hands and mutually plighted their faith
IN pledge to labor together in amity and con-
cord-in such an hour, neither the overheated
party zeal of an honorable adversary nor the
cupidity Of such as may have staked their all
upon the defeat of the Wings can apologize for
the pursuit of practices so discreditable in their
design, or so pernicious in their possible tenden-
cies.
That the Union is guilty of this disreputable
course will be denied by few indeed of those who
have been attentive readers of lis columns. An
answer to all its accusations, and an antidote to
the gangrene of its venom, might perhaps be
found by one disposed to retaliation and revenge.
But, for ourselves, we prefer that just rebuke
should come from discerning public, composed
of all parties, who cannot fail to discern the
baseness of the actions we describe and the I'M
worthiness of the motives in which they orig-
nate. To this end we append a quotation from
the Union of single sentence, which forms the
climax and conclusion of its leader this morning |
1t is speaking of Gen. Scott and says:
HIS nomination is, and is universally felt 10 BE-
THEDEFLNITIVET TRIUMPH OF SECTION |
ALISM OVER NATIONALTSN-Of THE DE- |
SIRE FOR AGI7ATION o YER TIE DESIRE |
FOR PEACE, in the Wing ranks"
1t is seldom that so well-condensed compound
of malignant feeling and perverted statement has
ever been offered for public acceptance and Gre
dence and the partisan who can resort to it
must indeed feel the desperation and weakness
of his cause and the urgent necessity for the
adoption of desperate remedy to sustain it,