Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1852-05-19
miscellaneous.
.USNEcEssa ANXIETY"

The Richmond Republican says, our DEM
ocratic brethren manifest much sympathy
with the difficulties which the Wing party
suffer from the disturbing element of Free
Soil; and advise Southern Wings to take ref
uge under their banner. The prospect of
harmony upon constitutional grounds, is how
ever. not so fattering in their own ranks as
to entice Wings into Democratic associations.
All the trouble from whichboth parties suf
fer, was brought upon then and upon the
country by Democrats police and il is only
through Wing administration that the coan
try has escaped those troubles Wings will
still follow the flag which has saved the Re-
public, satisfied that ''in that sign" their
party can conquer.
The n Y Express, referring to the "un-
necessary anxiety of our Democratic breth-
rem. says:
Some Of our amiable Democratic brethren
off South, we remark, are jubiaDt over the
somewhat unharmonious results of the late
Whig Caucus, affecting never for moment
to be conscious that the same caucus, which
worked so violently there, are just as potent
for mischief, in their own as in the Wing fam
lily. And the truth of what We say, we sus-
pect, will meet with many melancholy man.
Hesitation before the Baltimore Convention
disposes of the work committed to its hands.
1t is true, nevertheless, that the divisions in
the Democratic camp, upon the slavery ques
ton, are just now lying comparatively dor
mant. The clamor in the Wing ranks browns
the noise in the ranks of their opponents !;
but anon the storm will break out over and
above the din at our own doors. Meanwhile,
we submit that it is needless anxiety, in
dulged by certain democratic contemporaries,
in reference to the discussions aud differences
among the Wings at Washington. To the
soicitous enquiry of the Petersburg (Va.)
Democrat, for example Where will the
Seceders from the Wing Caucus go, if they
don't join the Democratic party I" we would
re.ort--how much better off would they be
there Are the Northern and Southern De-
mocracy a unit, pray, upon the issue made
in the Wing Caucus, the issue which led to
the secession of Messrs Marshall, Gentry,
and Others Is there no Free Soil in New
York, in Ohio, in all New England Look
at the Massachusetts wing of the party--the
Chairman of its Central Committee, Mr. Ben
jamiu f. Hallet, only the other day, getting
up and giving endorsement to such declara-
rations as this
"Resolued, That we are opposed to slave
ry in any form and color, and in favor OF
freedom and Free Soil wherever man lives
throughout Gods heritage"
Virginia Democracy sees double when
"Sewardism'' comes in its way, but it is prone
to a wonderful obliquity of vision, when Free
Soil Loco Focoism, like this, stalks across
its path Yet it is into such company that
the Virginia editor invites those Wing mem
bers who left, or refused, to attend the Wing
Caucus If there is abolition in our own
family, how much more is there with the
Cleyelands. the Townsends. the Chases. the
Van Burcns, the Preston Kings. and the
Rantouls who make up the leadership of the
Northern Democracy.
There are some people in the world, who
seek to forget their own griefs in contempla-
ting the miseries of their neighbors. 1t is a
poor consolation at best, and one that never
lasts long, as in this particular case, we think
the Southern Democracy will ere long dis
cover"