The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-04-24
The "NationaI'' North again reprOaehlng
fhe Sectional south.

their strife to put down the Sectional" Wings
of the South.
We refer to the notice they have taken of the
anticipated action of the caucus, in regarding
the Compromise as "out Of order" in that body.
1t will be seen that the SEWARD, ScoTT, and
WEBSTER prints concur in condemnng, while
the FILLMORE Express shuflles from the defence
of the Southern indictments. The Herald Gn-
dependent alone justifes them.
The Commercial Advertiser (WEBsTER or
FILLMoRE) says:
"The Congressional Wing caucus will meet
this evening at Washington, by adjournment.
AS Wings, we cannot but look for the result
with deep interest; with anxiety, in fact. One
or two Southern Wings have evinced dispose
ton to make trouble, to seek occasion of dis
cord; but we trust that the firmness and discre-
ton of the sound Wing majority will override
any attempts at division in the ranks"
The Times (SooTT) says:
"The adjourned Wing Congressional caucus
is to be held to night The only business pro.
perly before it is to designate the time and
place of holding the Wing National convention.
Indications are not wanting, however, that other
matters will be pressed upon the caucus for ac-
ton. Iii apparent that portion Of the South.
ern Wings, impelled by various motives, are
anxiously seeking for a pretext for abandoning
the National Wing party, and organizing Sec
tional party, which will increase their local i'm
portance, and enable them to obtain indemnity
for past discomftures and some degree Of Sc
curity for future advancement. We presume,
therefore, that these dissatisfied Wings will
~. nlrtio IL.
compromise measures and the fugitive-slave
them upon the table, and that a portion of its
members will then recede. We may be mis-
taken in these anticipations, but appearances
Just now indicate such a result"
The Courier and Enquirer says:
"Nothing, in our judgment, can be more i'll
timed, and, NE may add, preposterous, than for
members of Congress from the North, South,
East, or West, assuming to fix a platform for
the Wing national convention. They are not
members Of that convention. The people have
not delegated to them the lightest power. And
what is more, the great majority of them are
not the persons TO whom the people would con
lide the delicate and important duty of selecting
the Wing candidates for President and Vice
President"
he Express (FILLMoRE) gays:
eff Southern Wings choose to divide upon
such an issue as the compromise measures, il il
not for us to complain Upon the merits of
these measures, our views are unalterably fixed,
and nei her time nor circumstances can change
them. 1t is, however, to Us source of deep
modification to see Wings douby dsagreeing
upon this queston,-first, as to lis utility and
justice; and secondly, upon the propriety Of
sustaining it publicly. The enemies of the
compromise, especially at the North are made
happy by this state of fact; and if this is any
source of qualification TO either of the Southern
Wing sections, we hope they will make much
of it. II has, however, been so long the fashion
for Northern Wings to be divided upon the
compromise questions, that perhaps we shall be
rebuked for arraigning those at the South who
now disagree rs TO their merits, and the propr
ETY. Of sustaining them. We of the North,
however, who have sustained these measures,
have been made the pack horses for all sorts of
freesoil abuse; and if there is party at the
South who prefer such alliances to Others, we
can have no sort of objection to the coalition.
The full freedom of such fellowship may teach
both sides more Of charity towards different Sec
tons Of the country.
The Herald unreduced by partisan alIinties,
speaks out thus:
TIE WING CONGRESSIONAL CAUCUS To
NlGHT-The action ofthe Wing caucus to night,
in the Capitol, at Washington, will probably be
decisive of the fate Of the Wing party. From
the programme Of its action, as laid down by
Mr.. Mangum, it must either be utterly demora.
lied or rent in twain. We are prepared for
either alternative. We are prepared to see the
Union constitutional Wings Of the South aban
don their ground, abandon their principles,
abandon their own section, and their safeguard
under the Constitution, for the paltry mess Of
pottage which is promised through the aid of
Seward and his allies When Esau sold his
birth-right for the mess Of pottage prepared by
his brother Jacob, il was under the pressure of
starvation and death. The dshonor and the
treachery Of that transaction rest, according TO
the rules of poor human reason, upon the
shoulders Of Jacob. The nobledman was sacri.
feed TO the baseness of his inferior But when
the South agree TO sell out their right and title
10 their inheritance, 10 Seward and Company,
the dishonor and the treachery of the compact
will recoil upon themselves. Yet we are pre-
pared TO learn that this Wing caucus have
agreed 10 be quiet upon principles, for the sake
Of concliatng the Northern Abolitiohists-that
they have simply appointed the time and place
for the Wing national convention ard that
there, too, principles are to be lodged, and that
the party are to enter the campaign 10 the empty
music Of the fife and drum, followed by a mother
rank and file than the ragged regiment of FalstafT
We are prepared for this-we expect il but
we are also prepared for better things. The
country is prepared, and We are prepared, 10
welcome the iniatiye Of an independent move
ment in President making. The crisis demands
il. The country needs IT, The publication of
the Augean stables at Washington calls for L.
The patry game Of the spoils calls for rebuke
The South can administer t. They can lay
down the basis for new party, which, like the
rod Of Aaron, will swallow up all the vermin Of
the old party magicians, and expose their dirty
tricks TO some purpose. Neither Of the old par.
ties promise any reformation, nor any acknowl.
edgment Of the living, active, momentous prin-
ciples which agitate the country. A new party
is demanded, upon platform which will cover
the exigencies Of the day, and the wants, and
spirit and progress Of the age. From the nature
Of things, and the necessity of things, il must
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