Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1852-07-29
The Wings and the Compromise.

| The following IS from the Genlus
of Liberty-an excellent paper pub
lished at Uniontown, Pa.--and the
positiontherein assumed is subscribed
to by the great body of the demo-
cratic party throughout the North.
Notice the extract, from q whig pa
pei in the body of the article, and
seq the difference:
| THE Wines AGAINST THE COMPTON,
tIsR. We some time ago reminded
Mr.. Shaw, Editor of the Brownsville
Free Press, that he had declared in
his paper, that Gen. Scott would be
defeated if he endorsed the Fugitive
Slave Law as a finally to the slavery
agitation, and Mr.. Shaw acknowledges
the corn in the following frank man
ner:.
| 1--WE did say SO, and had Gen.
Scott made finality of the odious
Law alluded to, we would have reit-
Grated ii. But when We wrote the
article, we we're we'll aware that the
old hero would do no such thing, and
the Wing Platform leaves the q es-
tion just where it ought to be-dpen
for discussion, repeal or amendment.
Does that satisfy you, Mr.. Searight?''
Yes, We are altogether satisfied
Satisfied that whiggery will hang on
to itionism, and promote agita-
ton on the slavery question. Let
US ask what was the design of the
compromise, including the Fugitive
law; was not the grand object to put
q stop to that miserable and danger
Gus agitation which shook the pillars
Of our U Mon? Did not Lewis Cass,
Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster
say so in their speeches? If the
wing party are still. to agitate the
Slavery question, what is the use Of
the compromise? Why, in that case
iii is nothing but a dead letter. The
Fugitive law is the only measure of
the compromise that needs to be
Iacquiesced in. The other measures,
which we re. mere questions of boun-
dairy, meet the appreciation Of the
whole people, and are settled. Then.
/ the Fugitive law, the only measure
of the compromise, about which
There is any difference of opinion, is
the very measure the wings desire to
see discussed, repealed or amended.
/ Ehey call it an odIOus law-the very
language Of Abolitioaists-and yet
claim to be the friends of the Union
Were the Fugitive law repealed,
through the influence of Abolition
agitation, we believe this Union
would be dissolved in less than three
months thereafter This is the epin-
lion of the great men we before cited
I-Cass, Clay, and Webster. The
South would unquestionably sece
because it has said so. The South
would have just grounds for seeding,
were the Fugitive law repealed, be-
cause the constitution would be vio-
lated, and without the constitution
the Union could not stand. Fugi-
tives from labor shall be delivered
up to the person to whom such labor
is due, is the language of the con.
stitdtion, and those who are in favor
of discussing, rePealing or amending
the Fugitive law, are in favor of dis
cussing, repeating or amending tbs
constitution. Let it be understood,
then, that the wings are in favor of
bringing the slavery agitation back
into Congress, and are consequently
against the compromise.
This slavery agitation has been a
severe and dangerous test Of the sta
bility of our Union. Patriots Of both
parties, but mostly of the democratic
party, saw the danger and sprang to
the rescue. They proposed COM
promise, which Gained the raging
pillows, and was acquiesced in by the
lovers of the Union, North and South.
Fanatics opposed this compromise
and still oppose it. They are to be
found in the whig ranks, indeed they
pretend to nothing else but whiggery.
The democratic party, then, is fight
ing for the Union, the constitution,
and the compromise, and against
sectionalism and fanaticism. Wing
papers tell US that their platform
does not endorse the compromise as
a fna1tfy, and it is true it does not.
Why, then, should any man hesitate
where to go' The ranks Of the
demo cracy, is the place in which to-
battle for the Union and the Com
promise.
"Onward, then, to the conflict