New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-02-03
a,asher1 Politics.

Measures supply the a!incht' Ni'ssis''pql
Alabama and Georgia appear t. be esPecils-
" exercised on this subject. Each has re-
certl, beer she scene oftwo formidable State
Conventions, representing the Union and
State Rights parties respeciige'y' aac
each Of these Conventions has a9pointed, or
provided for the appointment Of, Delegates
to the Democratic National Convection
at Baltimore, which Is to nominate caadi-
dates for President and Nice-Pfesident, and
reaf;rm the Baltimore Platform
OF course, they VII have a good time AZ
Baltimore, when these representatives. OF
antagonist parties the most actively, bitterly
hos tile of any that our country has recently
known, shall present their conflicting ere
dentisls and severally insist on being re-
ceived as the true and only representatives
of Georeia, Alabama and Mississippi Dem
ocracy. The signs of the times indicate
similar influx (KilkeBny- wise) from Mis-
souri,. where Benton and Anti. Bentonism
are fighting out their fead with desperate
ferocity. Wisconsin has once elected
Delegation, understood TO be mainly for
Cas-; but majority Of its members have
declined OF resigned, admitting that their
appointment seems TO have been condemned
by public sentiment; and 4 new Delegation
is soon to be chosen; but meantime one
Delegate 'front.' resign. and one more who
had done so repents of his repentance and
resolves to 90 ahead. Besides these, we
have one contested seat from this City, and
there will doubtless be others. Altogether,
they can scarcely fail to have good time
But the point to which we sought to
cali attention at this tine is the ingratitude
and treachery of the Union Party to Messrs.
WEBSTER aid FILLMORE. These gentle
men, as is perfectly well known, are both
candidates for the Presidency,-or, to speak
automatically, either of them would con-
sent to encounter the responsibilities and
burdens Of the Presidential Office, if that
sacrifice shall be deemed necessary to the
salvation of the Union. Messrs. Cobb,
Foote and other Patriot Statesmen, have
consented to make minor but corresponding
sacrifices to the same glorious end. Mean
while, Messrs. Webster and Fillmore have
ladled out the Offices right and left to sustain
and cherish this i'll cemented Union party
ofthe South, three fourths Of whose strength
was drawn from the Wing ranks. Is it any
more than faH and reasonable that they
should lock for reciprocity Is gratitude
obsolete Is there no virtue extsht' II
the President and Secretary are good
enough Union men when office is wanted
at their hands, why not when their porridge-
dish 80 hold mp for taste of the mamma Of
seif-sacTliice on the altar of the Union
ny may they not be inspired by the ex-
ample Of the devoted FoOte, who, for the
Unions sake, has surrendered enc office to
take another, but insists that he must have
the old one kept warm for him, that he may
sink back toto it SO soon as he shall have
dOre with the new.
But 'Unionism of the Southern stamp
hath no reverence for the past. Its graft
itude is lively sense of favors expected
1t has never word of commentator for the
President and his Premier, new that it has
so yearly done using them. 1t does not
even recognise either of them as among the
candidates whom it may by possibility be
obliged to support. 1t has no word Of APP
probation for their preeminent services to
the cause of Union-saving. 1t whistles
them down the wind without ceremony, and
rushes for the camp whence future Spolis
are to be dispensed, albeit hitherto regarded
by three fourths of its members with pro-
f ssions of adherence. But it has keen
nose for the flesh-Pots of Egypt and is
made willing thereby to excuse the dark
ness. Thus Southern Unionism deserts
its nursing fathers and pulls foot for the
Baltimore PLATFORM though doubtful of
permission to stand thereupon. So wags
this changing world.
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