Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-01-23

dation an extract from an article in the Georgia
| (Macon) " Messenger urging the Union men OF
the South to send delegates TO Baltimore, upon
the ground that, by sending delegates the Union
men of the South could secure the nomination of
such candidates as will be acceptable to them.
The extract made by the Onion" concludes with
these words:
"We say, then, that the Union men at the
South ought to send delegates to the Baltimore
Convention. 1t is the most effectual way to ac-
complish their design Of saving and perpetual
ing the Union. Unless they do So that Convention
may lose It's conservative character and may bring
forward q candidate who will be obnoxious 10 the
South"
To this the Southern Press" replies that the
paper; that the purpose of the "Union" in
suppressing the concluding part of the quoted
article was to deceive and bctray the South. To
prove this, the Southern Press quotes further
from the same article, as follows:
"No,c, ae hope that the Union men Of the South
acU send delegates to Baltimore for the purpose OF
breahig up this infamous coalition betWeenthe 1bo-
htiontsts and fre-eaters. We hope they pW send
delegates there rho wW cooperate With the true
Jackson Democracy-reaffirm the doctrines of the
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the Compromise upon the Baltimore platform,
and bring out some such man as Mr.. Buchanan
for the Presidency"
Now, all must see that If the Baltimore Conyen-
ton shall acquiesce in the movement here pro-
posed, by adopting the Compromise as funda-
mental principle Of the reorganization Of the
Democratic party, it will be a triumph to that
small number of Democrats who by uniting with
the Wings elected Mr.. Cobb and Gen. Foote and
all must now see that their triumph was Wing
triumph. Can any one believe that the State
Rights party Of the South will give to the dele
gates of the Union party an equal weight with
themselves in the Baltimore Convention? If the
purpose of the Union Democrats be to unite and
harmonize-to "yeoygaaize" the Democratic par
ty on the basis of the fundamental principles of
the Democratic party-why do they seek to keep
up separate organization ut home? Why do
they wish to bring division and discord into the
Baltimore Convention? Why do they not seek
to harmonic at home and unite with the De-
mocracy of their own States in sending delegates
to the Convention who will truly represent ma
jority of the party? Why do they force upon
the Baltimore Convention the decision of a ques-
ton which they must know will be decided against
them? We do not believe that such is the pur-
pose of the great body of the seeding Demo-
Gratis; but their leaders cannot escape the con-
clusion which is patent on the face of all their
proceedings, that their purpose is to " divide and
conquer" the Republican party. And it is re-
markable fact, pregnant with considerations that
should arouse the fears of the Republican party
that Mr.. Buchanan is the favorite candidate OF
the partisans of Mr.. Cobb, who expect to secure
for him a nomination as Vice President on the
Wing ticket, if they cannot force him upon the
Convention at Baltimore! Who does not see,
conciliate and harmonic the Republican party, |
the movement of sending Union delegates to the
Baltimore Convention, thus approved by the
Washington Union" is Wing movement, in
tended to divide and weaken the Republican
party; and that they believe that, if it be not
we'll considered and disposed of before the meet
ing of the Convention at Baltimore, it will place
the control of the Presidential election in their
hands,
They find that the great body of Union Demo-
Gratis are in favor of reorganization of the Re-
publican party that the State Rights party,
strong in their integrity and their numbers, are
willing to receive such as come and act with
them in good faith. They see that this will soon
reduce them to the ranks, or leave them as subal-
terms in the Wing party, without power or in
fuence. Therefore, they have got up conventions
purpose of harmony-not for the purpose of reor-
ganizing the Republican party, but for the pur-
pose Of compelling that Convention to nominate
Mr. Buchanan with Mr.. Cobb for Vice President
and with deliberate purpose, if they should fail
in this of falling backupon the Wing nominations
If they are sincerely DESTROYS of harmonizing
the party, would they denounce the large ma
jority Of the party as unworthy of confidence
Would they seek to preserve separate organiza-
ton, for the avowed purpose of controlling the
action of the party? Do their numbers OF ante
cedents entitle them to control the nominations
Of the party?
Now, a word as to the Union" newspaper
We do not hold the editor Of that paper respon-
sible for the false position which he occupies
He is but the instrument in the hands of able
and experienced political managers. "His pop-
erty, and not his WILL consented;" and he was Sc
lected as the editor of the "Union" because it
was supposed that he could revive the old asso-
Citations pertaining to the name Of Gen. Jackson,
and could therefore do more than any other to
aid in reafiirming the "he doctrine Of The procla-
nation"
The leaders of both parties prepare issues on
which to divide the country, because it is only as
the leaders Of one party they can govern both.
Who can look back to the struggle on the Com