The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-26

the following suggestions to the Southern
Wings, touching the HuLIARp proposition o.
party Reorganization
"Mr. Hiard ha. written letter 10 the Ala
bama Journal in favor of Wing re organization
and urges many reasons why the party in this
State should send delegates to the N ,.ional con-
venton One is, that Mr. Fillmore deserves to
| be stained, aud Southern delegates must 60
there to aid in doing So The other, and doubt.
less the great reas on is, that it is sectional and
un American not to he represented there, and
that expansive patriotism and national views
require participation in the action of these ir.
responsible bodies On thi, congenial topic
the writer becomes warm, and INDUCES in his
accustomed eloquent strains, when deprecating
the evils Of sactionalsm When we first heard
these remarks from him some years ago, we
were not little alarmed, but we confess that
frequent repetition. has somewhat abated their
original force. The most extraordinary part OF
the matter, and that which will most puzzle
plain men, is, that both these reasons which ex.
listed in full force when the Union convention
met in Montgomery in January, and resolved to
/ have nothing TO do with national party conven.
tons, should ut that time have utterly escaped
Mr.. billiards. attention. If we are not greatly
mistaken. he participated in the proceedings of
that convention, and was understood to endorse
its action. If so, what change has since come
over the spirit of his dream? Mr. Fillmore need.
ed help then AS much as now, and sectionalism,
We happen to know, was especially odious TO
Mr.. billiard long before that time.
aided by the light of some little acquaintance
with Dir. billiards past career, we venture this
Interpretation of his course. Since the conven
ton IN January, 1t has become very apparent
that for all national purposes (ofiice) the Union
organization is likely to prove a failure and
they who adhere TO it will stand little or no
chance of participating in that famous distribu
ton ofspoils which always follows Presden
tial election, ,nd the hope of which is so potent
in stimulating broad national and expansive
patriotism in the breasts Of politicians Undcr
these circumstances, Mr.. billiard says to his
Union friends it may do very well for YOU who
have nothing particular in view to adhere to
sectional party, but AZ for me, have certain ma
tionai prospects and aspirations, which are not
to be lightly and unadvisedly sacrificed. To
stick to the Union party is to be sectional To
be sectional is to be odious to the powers that
be, and to be cut off from all hope of national
preierment. II pray you therefore excuse me-
"Mr. billiard qualities his determination to 90
into the Wing National convention BY saving
that he will insist on the nomination of a sound
man, and friendly to the compromise. or
course he wiIl--nobody doubts it, but then Mr..
billiards views of soundness are peculiar.
Being interpreted, they mean man whose
views are so little known, that with the aid of
some whitewashing and humbug he may be
palmed off upon the South as a pretty good
friend of its institutions Ofcoarse il he il so
glaringy unsound, that the task is hopeless.
Mr.. Hillinrd is too cute to have anything to do
with him--but if his position is only 80 equivo.
cal as to be capable by the iudicious use of
rumored private CONVEX sations and other sucl,
appliances of being made passably decent.
there will be no difficulty at all What mat
ters it whether Gen. Scott endorses the f.
nallty Of the compromise or not! Is he not
sound, conservative Union-loving man, and has
not MIR. Stanley said that somebody else init
mated that Gen. Scott was once understood to
say that he was for the Union and the compro
mise! Besides, did he not take Vera Cruz.
and the city of Mexico itself, and has he not
grown gray in the service of hs country! He
who requires more than this is. unreasonable; nav
more, he is n factonst an agitator and dis
unonist.
"We throw ont these suggestions for the be.
nefit of Mr. billiards faithful followers, in order
that they may begin to whet their appetites, for
that hasty plate of soupe, which all the omens
Indicate is in store for them. If we are not
mistaken, it will not be many months before
his voice will be heard from the stump. CRYING
aloud for the hero of Churubusco and Lundy's
Lane, and denouncing in moving strains tn at
ultraism whch persists with such candidate in
requiring an endorsement of the inality of the
compr omise."