The daily union., 1852-05-15
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 1861.
Congress Friday.

Congress-Friday.
SKsArR-Mr Smith presented the credentials OF the
Hon Isaac Toucsy recently elected senator from Con-
nsclicut for the period OF six years from the 4h OF March
1851. He was qualified and took his seat
After the presentation Of petitions, and other business
the Senate resumed the consideration of the deficiency
bill, which debated until the hour of adjournment
a The Breach, Wide and Deep,'' In the whig
Party
The leading article in the Republic Of yesterday gives
the most significant indication we have yet seen Of the
deadly eua now existing between that minority of the
whg party which desires 10 the anti slavery agitation
cease, and that controlling majority OF the same party
which seeks elevate General Scott to the presidency
through canvass substantially sectional in lis character.
and looking directly speedy renewal Of the sectional
strife
The Republic quotes from late speech Of Wendell
Phillips the abolitionis column OF furious declama
ton against the maintenance and execution OF the
fugitive law introducing the extract thus quoted with the
following seAtentious comment:
"It Is probable that OF readers 1t will be
novelty; but think 1t contains matters with which
they ought be familiar They ought understand the
extremes to which the anti slavery Jaaaticm OF the North
runs, in order that they may fully comprehend the folly.
saknss and Uicedness Of the 0ho countsnance, aiDu
late, and taper Nth it. We wish northern
their conscences hop long they safely play into the
hands Of such aRdticsm and souhsrn say how long
government last If such spirit is suffered to
riot through the country and prosrafs the agirates and
statesmen Uho ,cithstand it,"
At the conclusion OF its extracts the Republic comments
again in the following pointed terms:
Eve have culed specimens enough for to-day. They
sufficient that ocian ,cho seeks Nth
personal adUaag to enter into associations inspred by
such Mr. Phillips, gully Of great scrong to his
country They moro than sufficient to show that the
party phich makes ith pho hold these senti
| ments-which bargains with them ruckLss to them-
which eoAudss with them is bied by them--ought to
defeated and o be dreatsd whenever they make ap
peal to the American people,"
This is just and patriotic language and though, save
upon this point alone, the Republic is all wrong in its
politics. and will doubtless continue TO be SO to the
end yet these are sentiments which, in our Judgment
every organ OF the national democratic party as now
ganized may without hesitation accept and approve
But in the columns of the Rspubeone OF the central
organs Of the present whg organzationhe above dec
lara,ions strike strangely and impmdenty bold. 1t
is plain at ohom they epeed It is plain that the
shaft is let fly at the great central column of the whg
strength of the North, 1t stands organized and
emballed for the nomination and election OF General
| Scott under the lead Of Messrs Seward Johnston,
and Wade, and their allies all through the northern
| States. The mortal hatred which these men and
their followers bear against the fugitive law Is OF
public record in every form Of expression and action
And that these men and their counses rule The whg or.
ganzaon Of the North with absolute sway, shown by
the recent congressional record and the still more recent
record of the whg party well by The earlier
policy of that party imbodied in the action OF its
northern State conventions In this state of facts the
language Of the Republic be regarded nothing
shor, OF formal and determined protest by the central
organ of the whig administration agans, the policy, the
purposes, the position, and the political ainites Of the
majority Of the whig party led and organized.
| To show that not wrong in conclusion as
to the men and organization at which the above cited
denunciations OF the Republic mainly aimed, and
which they iit, we cite from the New York Tribune re-
ceived by the last mail, the following passages:
But the Express urges that the constitutional provision
surrender OF fugtves from labor has been assaed
therefore this law ought be endorsed by Wing National
Convention Is the Express willing follow out this logic
to its inevitable concusonsi There Is constitutional
/ provision that
sThe citizens OF each State shall be entitled to all priv.
leges and immunss Of citizens In the several States
Yet In oseutatious defiance thereof colored citizens Of
northern States now exposed to imprisonment and
sale into bondage by the laws OF South Carolina
and several slavs States. Here ebu ition
pugnance oiious requirement, but doberate and
persistent enactment In defiance Of the constitution by
sovsregn States When the Express helps procure
carries into Whg National Convention and insists that
IL shall bere be affirmed and declared interchangeable, we
will about agreeing like endorsement Of its favor.
| ito"
| And again in the same article
The Express declares itself opposed cheating
another the country On that very ground protest
against any national whig endorsement OF the fugitive
slave law hnaity, because IL wonid be eAsating"
To understand the force and bearing OF these extracts
indications OF the prevalent feeling oil the whg party
OF the North in regard to the maintenance OF the fugitive
law, II must be borne in mind that the Tribune" with
its seventy e thousand subscribers altogether the most
influential organ Of the whig party OF the North In the
light OF this fact. and remembering how strenuousy the
Tribune urged the reelection OF Governor Johnston
| In Pennsylvania, we can understand why the Republic
utterly refused 10 support Governor Johnston six months
ago, and also may who j, is that the Republic al
udes TO when IT denounces any party organization which
''makes terms witb,r bargains WITH" or "coludes
with" ruckles to- the agtaors who determined
to put down the fugitive law and renew the strife be-
, tween the two sections OF the country.
Bot we not left to northern whg testimony alone
on this subject Leading whig journals of the South are
fully as explicit in their declarations and they show that
they fully concur in the Republics view OF the matter
tls put few days since the Petersburg Intelligencer
well known Of the most influential wbg journals