The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-04-06

wing party in Congress out OF Congress can ay To ,h
maintenance OF the Compromise is fast presenting itself II
its true colors as the biggest political sham OF the day
To no intelligent observer OF political events can hi.
disclosure have come unexpected The entire northern
wing party in both houses OF Congress- with lust hres
exceptions, recorded its votes against the fugit;vs
law The whole unbroken series of northern wb;v s,,
conventions. in the elections which followed, ab,ou,lv
refused to recognise the adjustment acts as settlement
OF the questions involved in Them and, with the single
and partial exception OF the last wing conventions il
Connecticut and Iowa. have persisted through a second
State canvass and still persist in such refusal In The
same spirit. every Of these wing conventions
without exception, refused even The form OF renom
nation TO Mr.. Fillmore. who was presented distinctly bv
the whole South as the compromise wing candidate In
the same spirit OF ayowed hostility TO the Compromise,
the wing party put in nomination Tor the highest State
Office in all the northern States where the wings have
any hope such avowed icompromise and Free
soil wings as Williams OF Vermont, Winthrop of Mas
sachusets, Hunt of New York. Johnston of Pennsyl-
vania, iinton OF Ohio, and Farwell OF Wisconsin.
OF these men, thus formally presented as the heads and
representatives Of the wing party their several States
Williams had openly nullifed the fugitive law; Wnthrop
had fought against its passage 10 the last, and had de-
nounced it as dead letter the statute book If il
should pass ; Hunt in his message had recommended
it's repeal or modification; Johnston had proclaimed il
to be open TO repeal as the tariff OF 1916, and,
against the will of his legislature had by his veto
power, continued in force the State law 10 obs,ruct
its execution Vinon, by the showing OF the record as
deliberately cited in his organ was quite az stauncb
an anti compromise man Gddngs himself and stood
planted, by the convention which nominated him. on an
open Reputation Of all obligation Of the Compromise
and Farwell was in avowed and undspu,ed coalition
with the pofessed aboonists of his State and 10 them
owed his election And throughout the whig States Of
the North, and the States OF that section claimed a.
doubtful BY the wings. the wing party 10 the STATE Lg
laures has followed the lead of their conventions and
gubenatoral candidates in taking strong ground agsns,
the Compromise. including the fugitive law In yer.
mont the legislature, after nulfying that law sent Mr.
Senator Foot avowed enemy OF The Compromise, 10
the Senate In Rhode island the wings rallied on
an anti-compromise candidate 10 defea, the election
of Senator James 10 Connecticut the whig party in
the legislature srove TO the last 10 re-elect 10 The
Senate Governor Baldwin, avowedly and always an
anti compromise man. In Massachusetts The same
party chung to the last 10 Mr.. Winthrop on the same
ground In New York the wings OF the Legislature
threw under the table compromise resolutions, and
elected Senator Fish, the preferred candidate OF Mes
Seward and Hunt. and, like them utterly refusing
recognise the fnaliiy Of the Compromise In Pennsy.
vana the whole wing party vote in the Legislature was
given against the bill TO repeal the State obstruction law
which bill, after had been forced through by demo-
Gratis, destroyed by Governor Johnston In Ohio the
wings OF the legislature voted almost four 10 one for The
immediate repeal OF the fugitive law and elected Senator
Wade while he was hercely dsnouncing that law. Ia
Michigan the wing party in the legislature gave solid
party in favor OF repor, for the purpose and
in Wisconsin, under the lead OF Governor Farwell,
similar proposition is foot in the Legislature BY
the wing majority.
Such then, by recorded congressional votes BY the
ton Of its State conventions and State legislatures, and
by the character and declarations Of its gubernaora
leaders, the aseerlaned position OF the wing party OF
The North in regard TO the maintenance OF the ComPo.
mise, including the fugitive law ,chen The present Congress
assembled and ichen It's members pers elected And, as i
10 demonstrate 10 The county the scope OF that position
and the whole force OF its bearing upon the federal govern
men, the very wing leaders, who in Congress and
home had thus arrayed the wing party agains, the adj
us,ment measures, brought forward General Scott as
their preferred candidate by special nomination in hall
dozen OF the largest northern States, and By manifest
preference in the rest upon ME erpres condition that be
should remain, he has remained, wholly uncommiied
upon the only OF those which is open 70
dispute or disturbance So universally this non
eomlai condition insisted by these wing leaders, that
even in States where the wing party have no hope OIL
power--as Indiana and Name for instance the leading
wing organs one and all did not hesitate 10 accompany
General Scotts nomination with peremp.ory demand
that he should give no pledge FOR the COMPROMISE
including OF course the fugitive law. Thus TAT DC
has obeyed the mandate His sure fate, il be shan
dare TO dsobey it, may be read in the doom which al we
North has been pronounced by the wing parry against
President Fillmore.
Prior the assembling Of Congress. the South reeos
Missed this state of things ia the northern wing oganna
ton, and took the alarm. In Georgia, Alabama ana
Mississippi the whg!pary defniively dsbanded, and Or
vded itself under democratic lead between the two tenn
porary organizations, rallyng each upon it's own chosen
method OF resisting further anslavery aggression ana
each planting itself upon platform Numerically opposed
10 the whole position OF the northern wing party. Inc
same eveniiul canvass opening with democratic rump'
in Virginia Kentucky. and in the congressional election
Of Tennessee has announced the faithful maintenance
the Compromise by the North TO be the unanimous de
mand Of the people OF the whole South and in the hIes
great southern States above named has turned The eyes
OF both the temporary organizations, between when ns
hig vote was thus divided. to the Baltimore Convention
a. The onlv national organization which holds out ne