The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-02-23

was true. that Gov. Mcdonald was not adherin:
to tie project of the Nashville convention, TIN
Union is without apology, upon its own show
ing, for opposing his election; and as it did d.
so. it must have been prompted by desire 4
place the Wing party Of Georgia in power
II will be remembered that the only distinc
issue between Gov Mcdonald and Mr.. Cobb
was made upon the abstract right Of secession
The Union Processes to have acted irrespective
of this ISSUE 1t says 80 in the paragraphs We
have copied Then Gov. McDonad's advocacy
of that right, was not made ground of objec
ton to him on the part of the Union. Indeed
it declares, that it supported Gov. Collier, dsre-
garding his maintenance OF that right, and yet
It did, not only not support Gov Mcdonald, but
was actively engaged, side by side, with Mr..
Cobb, Toombs, Stephens, and the great body OF
the Wing party of Georgia, in the crusade
against him.
| Will the Union now seek to escape, under
the pretence that it supported Mr. Cobb, with
the desire to engraft upon the Baltimore con-
| veniion, the peculiar and sectional creed of the
Constitutional Union party of Georgia! Does
it expect that the Baltimore convention will
make acquiescence in the compromise part Of
its platform! Suppose this should be demanded
and rejected, will the Union take ground against
the nominee of the convention! No. NO. This
ia our understanding of the Union. 1t has no
principles of its own, which the great body OF
the Wings could not endorse. Its arguments
and its efforts are directed to one point, that is
the maintenance of two, and only two, great
national parties and it will fight up Whiggery
and fight down Democracy--fight up Democracy
and fight down Whiggery-fght down South
ern or Northern rights to accomplish its object,
and for what! For the PRINTlNG-the immense
profits on printing. In sight of the public, the
Union fights on one side, the Republic and Nd
ional Inielligencer on the other. Division and
warfare betweenth these selected champions in the
open day, and in the open feld-division Of the
spoils at night. The Express comes to III this
moment with statement that the Republic has
not yet denied charge, lately made against it,
of being in secret partnership with the Union, in
an attempt before the Senate, to get an immense
and immensely profitable job of printing. Keep
up two, and but two national parties, and let the
Union be at the head Of one, and the printing
profits will result rs matter of course.
To establish what we have asserted, that the
Union knew its statement that Gov Mcdonald,
when candidate for governor against Mr.. Cobb,
adhered to the project of the Nashville conven
ton, to be untrue, we copy below extracts from
his letter, accepting the nomination conferred
upon him, and with which the Union is known
to have been familiar.
A greater source of corruption does not exist
in this government, than the public printing.
We expect to pursue this subject farther, as
occasion may suggest.
Georgia, in the advance of her sisters, has
met in her sovereign capacity, and her people
have determined TO pretermit the outrage COM
mitted on her rights by the admission of Cali
fornia into the Union as State with her highly
Objectionable constitution. This they have
done, not for any affection they have for the
measure, or policy which dictated it, but from
their extraordinary forbearance and encourage
ment to hope from the agreeable proclamations
of some of their sentinels on duty, that alPs
WE'LL Their decision ought not to be disturbed
ho,oeper much il may conflict with individual
opinions. In government of law and order,
such decisions must be considered authoritative.
They are the will of the people. If the people
have authority to say they will resist, and to de-
termine the extent of that resistance, they have
the like authority to say they will not resist
This principle hold to be uncontrovertible, and
necessary to the safety and happiness of man.
kind"
Again" The Constitution is the compact of
union. and our safety depends on strict con
struction of it. 1t is to our country what the
Bible is to the Christian, and departure from it
will be fatal to our political security. But we can
not be- blind to the fact that little respect of late
has been paid to it, and that the tendency of the
government is to consolidation"