The southern press., 1852-04-13
SOUTHERN PRESS.
WASHINGTON CITY.
MONDAY, APRIL IL. 1861.
The state Of Parties.

The disruption of the Wing party seems al
length to be inevitable. The Southern wings
insist on ratification of the Compromise pS
the party, and the Northern Wings will not
acquiesce. The Wing caucus here last Friday
disclosed this discrepancy very clearly, and !
sppeays to be remediIess The Southern Wing;
have been making concessions so long to thei'
Northern brethren, as to have reduced them
selves to position in the South scarcely tenable
any longer. They are now compelled to make
a stand for selfpreservation, for political exist
ence at home.
The Compromise has been kicked and butfeted
good deal, ever since the deformed and ricketty
creature wriggled into being in 1850. But the
greatest indgnity it has yet suffered, was to be
pronounced out of order in Wing national
caucus. II is, perhaps, an appropriate iinaiity-
that an abortion, born of an unnatural alliance
of sections and parties, should die of point OF
order
In the Democratic party the case is not much
better. For that party is about as much infected
with Abolition as the Wing party was few
years ago, and is tending rapidly to the same
result
The Northern fanatics having formed coall-
ton with the lust for territorial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
in 1850, to despo the South, will not now
forego the opportunity ola coalition with the ad-
miration of military glory to carry on the work
To succeed in 1850, the Northern Democrats de-
serted their Southern brethren-to succeed in
1864, the Northern Wings will do the same
thing. Thus, by the division of the South, and
the successive immolation of its dssentients,
the destruction of the South goes on.
The prospect of division of both parties has
alarmed two Of the organs-the Union and the
Republic and, although denouncing each other
in public, they form an alliance and make rush
in fraternal unity for the spoils. The Printing
Committee, on the pretext of supplying def
ciencies in the public printing, virtually abrogate
an existing contract and, although having
Democratic majority of two-thirds, and repre-
senting two Houses with decided Democratic
msjorities, can do nothing else than to give the
favors of Congress to support Wing organ as
well as Democratic one. We are curious to
see how this thing will be treated by the two
Houses: whether they will do anything to arrest
it, whilst yet in their power, or only make afuss
and-do nothing.
There are, of course, several sinister and
Interior objects included and contemplated in
this arrangement of the printing, to which there
are more parties than meet the eye, but of which
we are perhaps much better aware than is sup
posed. We are for the present merely waiting
TO see whether the thing is consummated, and if
so, the precise manner.
For our own part, we rejoice that the end of
shutting draws near. Ii is true, the disposition
10 shuttle is as strong ever, but action OF some
sort is inevitable, and will be much more inteli-
gible than words. We may now claim some
credit for political sagacity, for our predictions
concerning the Compromise have been fulfilled.
IL has failed. Its reputation by the Wing
party is failure. For the Democratic party can
not sustain It, as il is doubtful whether that
party can sustain itself-eyen with the aid Of
all its elements Of opposition TO the Compro-
mise North and South