The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-27

and review this number ut an early day. What
ever faults the Repie,o may have it is not dull
and repays reading-which is more than can be
truly said of some Democratic organs.
Whose Organ Ii Il? or Budget Of Blum.
dcrs.
The course of the pretended organ Of the
Democracy in this city is utterly unaccountab!e.
Its bigotry and blindness amount almost to in
sanity. With harmony on its lips and hatred at
its heart, it persists in tearing open the wounds
inflicted on the party by the Compromise con
fiict, and revives the nvdous distinctions and
unpleasant memories which, it was hoped, would
not be revived under its new direction.
Why such gratuitous assaults as this this on
the men whom it pretends to desire to propili-
ate! Why, at this hour, renew its old game of
decrying the State Rights Democrats, and in
terfering in the local differences of the Democ-
racy to their prejudice. Thus speaks the
Union:
"The sentiment which acquiesces in the
Compromise as bar to sectional agitation is
stronger LudH any ludii. DUoo airy Oho uUuo' ~
Let him look about him let him look to the
people let him examine the records # crery
popular contest ,chich has taken place wilhin The
last toelue months, and see ho,o almost universally
those ,cho have auo,oed themselves in apor Of The
policy of pacifcatio, conciliation and cesSion Of
agitation, haze been carried triumphanty through
the canpass by virtue Of the Intrinsic meri, and
innate strength of that side of the controversy
sohich they had maintained. The compromise
the Embodiment of this great pacificatory policy;
it is founded upon and embraces those cardinal
principles which rest secure in the support OF
universal popular sentiment, which in one per-
son or another are avowed and will be asserted
by the entire Democratic party"
If the Union really desires reorganization
of the Democratic party, irrespective OF the trl'
umph of particular man and his clique, its
faulty, in making such invidious comparisons,
is unparalleled. a
But bad M this is, it is not the worst speGi
men of laundering perpetrated by yesterdays
organ, which, "a the convention approaches,
seems in its anxiety to 60 "clean daft" Not
content with firing into the ranks of the Demo-
cratic party, the Union gives aid and comfort to
the enemy, by most CLOWN eulogium and em-
phatic endorsement of two out of the only three
Wing candidates. The aid and countenance
which it gave to the administration last summer
was notorious, and cause of just omplaint with
its own party, one of the causes of its decline
and fall to its present state. Yet, at this most
critical crisis, it repeats the same folly, and thus
lends its strength to the strong movement now
making at the South to oppose the Democratic
candidate there by Fillmore or Webster.
Hear the Democratic organ, pealing out an
thems in Qualification of Mr.. Webster and Mr..
Fillmore! in higher strains than even his own
especial organ-the coalition friend of the
Union--dare do:
"These leaders and champions in the Wing
ranks-both, either by position or character,
emnently representative men-have been ruth
lessly struck down by the fell demon of Wing
anti.slavery agitation! Precisely the same OPP
portnnity, and the same course of action upon
the sectional questions-which, if they had been
Northern Democrats, instead of being Wings
if they had been right, instead of being ire
trievably in the wrong in their ideas of general
public policy-would have commended them to
new favor and power in the Democratic ranks
have now sealed their doom in the Wing Or
ganization. 1t has cast them out without scru-
pie, regret, or mercy, because, and simply be
cause, they had dared to rebuke its sectional
ism. Their condemnation by their own party
has been only the more summary and sweeping
by reason of the fact that their own past histo-
~ had identified them with that sectionalism.
Their newborn nationality on the sectional is
sues was regeneration. 1t was more-it was
a bolt from the principles and policy of the
Wing organization. That organization, true to
its sectional history, instincts, and lead has held
on its course, and has crushed them both be-
meath its juggernaut wheels
"Behold the fearful completeness and srin
gency of this penal proceeding-say rather of
this political murder-on the part of the North
ern Wings! The whole Wing South has inter
posed its protest in vain. For the first time in
our political annals, the entire Wing party of
foultsen Southern States has lifted up its hands
in prayers that have now swelled into impreca
tons, to beg or to demand from the Wing party
of tho North pardon reprieve for the only
two conspicuous Northern Wing men who have
dared apparently to turn deaf ear TO the clam.
ORE of Wing anti-savery agitation organizing
now onslaughts on the institutions and inter.
ests Of the South BY the Wings of the North
the protest and the prayer have been heard and
scorned In speaking out, however, guardedly
and Intellectually, against the sectional prejudice
and passion of their party, Mr.. Fillmore spoke
from the pedestal of the Presidential chair in
which that very sectiopaism had aided to place
him, and MIR. Webster spoke from the higher
pedestal Of lieslong warfare waged through
good report and evil report, through bright days
and dark days, in the Wing cause. But in the
stern judgment of the Northern Wing orgsniza-
ton even such speech in favor Of the South was
treason against partisan allegiance and desertion
from the partisan standard; and from afar and
at m early day the rulers of that organization
discerned and seized in the victorious sword of
General Scott the only fit weapon of their ven.
gsance on these two towering but devoted
heads"