The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-05-20
IFom the lAla) Advertiser and GazetteI
Pronunciamento by the Northern Wings

EtOnunc1amenI0 py Cne 0OrGnern wings. o
Several communications having recently !,
made their appearance over the signatures i
Of such men as Humphrey Marshall, of i
Kentucky, E. G. Cabell, Of Florida, and Ed :
ward Stanly, Of North Carlina, deprecating !
the nomination Of Gen. Scott for the Presi- ]
dency by the Wing Convention without a =
a specific pledge to sustain the compromise, :
and urging the nomination of Mr.. Fillmore, :
the Northern wing of the Wing party, head !
ed by VIM. III. Seward, have deemed it their )
duty to lay down the law and the rule by :
which they are to be governed in the matter,
and by none other. This has been done BY
correspondent of the New York Tribune :
from Washington, over the signature of j.
! S. p, who is a gentleman, says the Union,
'justly supposed to represent the opinions Of
Senator Seward more accurately and nearly
than any other writer in the newspapers, and
because the programme of action which the
article lays down in advance for the Nor
thern wings has been thus far fully carried /
out by them in the late wing caucus. It
may be added that the spirit of the article
has been fully and recently responded to by
the most influential wing presses of the
North-the Alabama Evening Journal a
mong them-and that it is quite in harmony
with the position assumed by the Northern
wings of the House in the late vote on the
compromise resolutions, and by the Northern
wings of the Senate in the previous vote on
the petition presented by Mr.. Seward for
the repeal of the fugitive law. We regard
: the article, therefore, as being an accurate
e statement of the ultineatuno offered by the
! Northern wings to their Southern allies as
a basis of party union in the coming Presiden-
u tial canvass. In this sense it is worthy of
G attention.
n We subjoin few extracts from this let
u ter to the Tribune, and commend them espe-
g cially to the Wing Convention that is to as
u semble in this place or Selma, at some early
/ day;
''Now, we wish to ask our Southern whig
IS friends, in a spirit of candor, and in a spirit
), Of philosophy also, if there is any good rea-
l. son to suppose the wing party can be fused
IF and made one, upon this subject, on such a
S basis as this? We admit the simplicity of
9, the plan; and it is very easy for Mr.. exit"
he Williams, and Mr.. Humphrey Marshall, and
5, Mr.. E. Darlington Cabell, ct id genus omne,
ne to Insist that the wing party cannot contiu-
D. ue to endure upon any other basis Nothing
b. in the world is more easy. But, looking al
IL the nature of the demand, and of the plan
l. under the light Of the experience Of the last
Mt fifteen years on this question of slavery, and
regarding the ordinary laws of human ac
ton, we ask, if it be probable that such {
settlement, or adjustment, is likely to bt
ratified and sustained by the Northern divis
ion of the wing party2 The action of Civ
en- community, sustaining given relations
and furnishing given experience of NAM
." years duration, is problem to be solved il
y, respective of all political and party consider
ds ations, and in this case it does not seem t.
le- present any great difficulties of solution. /
can be solved as easy, in our estimation, a
any sum can be done in the rule of three.
MS seems to us just as plain as the stars in tn
he sky, or the nose on mans face. If we ar
Die not greatly at fault the solution is equal
Did plain and palpable to every man of sense, n
1t matter where he halls from-whether it b
lg, North or South. 1t seems to US that tn
TX, convictions of every sensible mans undel
OF standing, no matter what his works or hi
nd hopes, must be that the expectation is uttel
Ids " fallacious This conclusion is to be draw
I've from the very nature of the human mins
all our knowledge of the laws Of its operation
mes and our experience on this subject in parti
lch ular. Herein is to be found the basis of III
is Calhoun judgments on this question. I'll
ng. idea that Compromise" or a vote Of Coz
lIes gress on this question, altered the real rel
ton, or judgment, or would influence the a
the ton of the Northern mind in regard to
ana was transparent folly that his eagle glanC
OF always pierced in an instant. Oh, green an
hts Verdant gentlemen of the House of Repr
'om setatives!-y who vainly fancy that carr
nat ing the compromise measures through yo1
1t illustrious body is a great political strok
ner even triumph over an ever active princip
me, in the heart of man-it is time you were I
nes- solving that the sun shall stand still on a
lrks other Gideon. 1t is time you were erectil
lrlt, stage under the ends of the rainbow in {
him der to spike it on to the sky. Its time y
DC had resolved that the ocean shall cease
rust surge, the streams to flow, or the seasons
ON return. Vote winter to be eternal, th
a. darkness shall reign forever, but do no SUI
Tord folly as vote that the human heart shall n
lous throb in sympathy with the oppressed, a
give voice to its sympathies. Vote not ii
the mental volitions of free people shall
fl fettered and chained down; vote not I'll
ould the spirit of liberty shall be quenched.
like not attempt to betray freedom, do not ofe
J tri- humanity, do not provoke Heaven, do /
expose Congress to ridieule, do not do yol
ders selves injustice, by such monstrous folly
the this. You may compromise tariff gu
In ton, or a landor money question-for 81
! n are material in their nature, evaneses7I,tt
cen. . character, and limited in scove. But !
we cannot compromise a question of hum
. af- ffreedGn-fo its relations and Influences
ton. beyond the stars, and Its bearings and c
j ~ nections are eternal.
dias And now let us ask, in all moderation
+ to spirit, of what binding efficacy would be
the Unanimous declaration of the wings IN @
and gress, if such thing were possible, that
,aau- policy of this administration on the slav
wss question shall hereafter be the policy Of
! she wing party of the North Do the peopl
rich. the North or of the South, take their o.
,ro;t lions from Congress- Do the millions in
80 free States think for themselves, and de
mine for themselves or do they take Il
judgments and their convictions from w,
No ingtong Can anybody imagine or pref
Ru- that q resolution Of Congress on the sub
q for of slavery win alter any man opinion ii
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