Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-03-25

his energy, activity, zeal, and patriotism, in regard
I 10 these measures
! The passage ofthe Compromise measures was
! no. the close etthe contest. Having passed Con-
sresS, the issue ofthe statesmen was vet to pass
in review before the American people. The Pres
ident staked his political fame and the hope of his
Administration upon that issue. After Congress
adjourned, and the people were called upon to pass
! their Judgment on the compromises Of $50, what
action did each of the southern parties take upon
the question: We hear of the Union party and
the State Rights party. This was but change of
names, sir. The mass of the Wings were for s,is-
tanning the compromises; the mass of the Demo
Gratis We're opposed to them. Governor Mcdonald
was sustained by the great bulk of the Democracy
proper; the Wings voted for Governor Cobb
The representatives from Mississippi admit that
Qultman was sustained by the mass ofthe old De-
mocracy, while the mass of the Wing party sus-
tanned the Union candidates. They, too, claim
the Compromise measures as Democratic meas
aees. imagine, had they been left to the tender
mercieS Of the DamocratSof Mississippi, other ten
ants would occupy their places upon this floor
The southern people know full we'll that the
Wings with singular unanimity, sustained tho
Compromise measures, and everywhere endorsed
the action OF Congress in passing them. When
they heard complaint of the settlement, or saw
q man who threatened TO resist it, or who talked
Of secession, or about dsuniou or who branded
those who sustained the Compromise as submits
Slonists, or who carped at and cavilled with the
terms ofthe Adjustment, and tried to toment dis
content with the provisions Of those laws, the
chances were as thousand to one such person
was not Southern Wing.
| have never attempted to make party capital
tor eectioneering purposes out OF history of the
measures referred 10. | have not desired to APP
proprate to party uses great and noble effort of
patriotism which, by joint exertion and intlu-
enee of representatives of all parties aud Of
sections, snatched the Union from the very Jaws of
destruction, and gave renewed hope OF the stabil
" and permanenee of that Government under
which we have been blessed with so much of pro-
gress and prosperity But when gentlemen on
this floor and out Of doors undertake to claim for
the Democratic party the merit OF having either
devised the compromise of 1850, OF having pas
sed them by any peculiar influence Of their own
and commend modesty and silence fthe Southern
Wings upon the subject, then say that the party
of the South, which was the most united the firm
est. and the most steadtast in support of the meas
sures was the Southern Wing partg. They court
no comparisons but they shrink from no scrutiny.
Their political history will we'll compare with the
history of any party known in the annals of the
| Republic. Their ranks exhibit bright and
| shining examples of devoted patriotism of exalt-
ed talents, of wise statesmanship, and of eharac-
| tiers which through ages will form models for flu
ture imitation. Their political principles will
successfully pass the examination of history
whose province it is to the philosophy of ac-
ton, and to decide upon the good evil in its
dency.
To add proper and fair facilities to commerce ::
to improve the condition of our own country to
promote the development of its natural resources
by wise and bene6cient system of legislation;
a,neliorate the condition by increasing the COM
forts Of the American people; to nerve the arm to
labor; to encourage art; to protect the inventions
Of genius; to sustain the dignity of our own
country at home. by securing to every man his
personal and political rights; to perform scrupu-
lousy every national obligation, and to vindicate
promptly every right of our own country abroad,
to stand upon own, and not on foreign ground;
to cherish and protect the integrity of the Union,
and to trown upon the very dawning of any spirit
which would lead to its destruction These,
constitute the principles, the philosophy, and per-
nit me to say, the pride of the Southern Wing.