New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-04-30
What Course shall the Southern Wings take in the
Wing National Convention!

Messrs Editors CreceThe position and prospects Of
the whg well the democratic party at the present
moment seem indicate little dssention and warmth
If feeling in the future. to making the Compromise
questions fnality" And becomes every good whig-
who deems that the of his party in the coming
Presidential is all important to the welfare peace
and prosperity of countryto be exceedingly
crcumspect the positions he may the party
taking reference to these any other agitating
tons that looked upon differently in different parts
the country If ever there period when mutual for
between the North and the South should be
exercised and when liberal concessions of peculiar and
sectional views certain exciting questions should be
made. that moment is Especially should it be
with the Southern wings We have but recently passed
through the most exciting period of history a
nation The storms of fanaticsm, and sectonasm, and
disunionism have ragged with fearful fury around and
threatened to overwhem dash Union of States
to pieces.
But thanks to the patriotism of such Northern as
Webster, Fillmore, Cass and others. uniting with the
South series of measures adopted by which the
South relieved of her fears and the country queted-
the South gained all she asked These are now
ed facts and all the demagogusm fanatcsm of the
whole country combined cannot reverse them. The
North itself this pey day if left to her would repeal
any portion of these acts for there would arise in
midst enough pure patriots of the Fillmore and Webster
stamp to prevent it, because they believe them Cos-
oao and best adapted to carry out the spirit of that
Instrument and preserve the peace and best interests
the oe country But there is large portion it appears
of the Northern people. always acting with and being
strenuous supporters of the wing party who not in
love with part of these opposed them on
their passage but their becoming laws acquiesced
in them Now it wise for the Southern portion of the
wing party to revive definitely settled questions that have
been of great irritation and division in the past
All of he
their points, and insisting them being enacted and
reenacted again. thereby driving from the support
and cooperation of great body of good and true wings
whose support shall be compelled to have in order
carry the election?
1t generally by the truest friends of the
Compromise measures that Foote'S resolutions, intro
duced into the Senate declaring those final
ty, very iladvised and unnecessary-more ter
rble mistake. Does not the action of Mr. Marshall of
Kentucky and his friends in the Congressional caucus
partake of the same characterized by arraying the
South against the North in party matters when there
should be agreement throw the whole action las far as
determining questions the National Convention
into the hands solely of the Northern portion of the
party thereby giving it the very character the true
friends of the South anxious to avoid Would not
be potcwould it not be right and courteous to avoid
insisting that the Northern portion Of the party should
declare again that the Fugitive Slave Law is final
ityn? Would hundred such declarations make it so
When any effort is made to repeal that law meet it
in Congress But should not the South be satisfied with
declaration on their part that but unqualified
Compromise should be the choice of the
Convention receive their votes if candidate-as
other uH be- General Scott himself will have to be
kon to be sound this question: he get the
nomination Why compel the North to swallow over
again bitter pill, which will physic them out of the
party, and render it inconsistent and impossible them
to act for and with the wing party y If have but
such Fillmore Webster as our candidate and
take sectional action and insist passing sectional
resolutions in the Convention the condition our act
ing with Northern wings the nomination of
one OF these glorious and can without such sec
tona resolutions, his election By he md of Northern
otes- and thus make aty of the Compromise measures