The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-05-12
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
THURSDAY MORNING. MAY is, 1858.
Cross psrposss OF the Opposition.

We alluded yesterday The fact that the wing jour
nails al Louisville and Nashville are hed with pFades
against the administration for appointing TO office some
Aen who at one time were opposed 10 the compromise
measures. These journals admit that the men a%ointed
willing aud fer the future TO stand with the ad.
ministraon its national plafarm, and 10 oppose any
renewal OF the sectional agitation. Still. they urge that
the administration has dose inexcasable wrong ~
failing 10 subject such TO wholesale and nexora-
BILE prescription.
Now. before touching the ments of this wing
accusation agains, the policy OF the administration,
we observe that il is directly eonfradicted by the
leading organs OF the aboii,ionlsts and the aboli-
ZIONIST wings They, with voice, cry out against the
President because he appoints many pro-slavery"
nen--meaRing so many of the original friends OF the
compromise measures. II plain that both these charges
cannot be well founded 1t is plain, TOO, that both are
urged by bitter and INSCRIPTIONS enemies Of the PIesi
dent, who can find, in all his programme of pol
icy, nothing 10 object 10 his appointments, and
who in Directing these, utterly falsfy each others
alleg cations. We incliRe think that the people, re-
jecng both the conflicting accusations, or suffering
the one TO neutraze The other. will consider the Presi-
dent 10 have done well in uniting all sections OF the
democratic party in the maintenance OF sound national
policy IT, in addition ,his he shall be found to have
filled the Offices OF the country with capable and faithful
men, we think they will regard him having wisely full
filled his pledges to The people.
But aside from all this. what right have such jour-
nails as The Louisville Journal and the Nashville Banner
10 censure the administration for appointing to Office
who five six years ago were in favor OF the
Wilmoi Proviso Al that time every northern whig OF
any ofcial standing stood in jus, that pIedica nent You
coald not catch wing north OF Mason and Dixon's
line who in ls47 and ls4s was not just much Of a
proviso man as he was whig. Yet at that time the
Louisville Journal and The Nashville Banner fought the
battle of the northern wings with might and main, and
would gladly have pu, the whole power Of the coua,y
into their hands And now behold these very jour
nails turn round and abuse the President because be ap
points to office some proyiso-mcn who have far re-
nounced their former opinions to be willing stand firm
been had The force of plain and palpabe sei-contra
dclion 60 further In the prcyiso times provso
ism was cardinal Wing doctrine" What was demo-
cratic schism wing orthodoxy. The country has
pudiaed The schsm Democrats have Eenounced il in
favor of the adjustment and now the whig journals,
which accepted the whole heresy orthodox, are fu
ous because OF the converted schsnalics are ap
pointed 10 Office !
the whg journals OF the South 10 which we have refer
red estopped from their accusation agains, President
Pierce For years and months they held up Mr. Fill
more model oil statesman and their candidate of all
Others far re election. Now he-,akng the very best
version OF his posIiion-was than a conv.red
proviso He record aholilionis and the
whole claim OF his southern admirers that he had re
nounced the errors of his ways. This Remuneration
A. -.
men, he worthy of all they could give him. because
after the adjustment passed he was willing to abstain
from any further anu.savery aggression Now, how
can journals which held this view OF MIR Fillmore pre-
sumo TO censure President Pierce for putting in Office
democrats who having once been anti slavery ag.
taors as Dir. Fillmore was, renounced such agitation
he enounced il alter the adjustment measures
were passed
We observe that ia his late speech a, Nashville SEN
ator Bell, perceiVng this difficulty, aud making an al
temp, il with his accustomed adroitness alleges
that 1851, and down to the lime OF President Pierce's
election, the democrats denounced MIR. Fillmore and Mr.
Webster, notwithstanding their support OF the Compro-
mise, for having been free-solers Mr. Bell mis-
tax the fact. Those gentlemen were disrused and
opposed by democrats not because their position on The
sectional question wrong, bu, because they could
not cohuol the WING parry 10 support slT Fillmore was,
in democratic Judgment support organization which
wing abolitonists would control, they did control
ii at Baltimore. The proved tina, the democratic
opposition to Mr. Fillmore right for The proved
that neither under his lead under any other lead could
The whig organization be trusted with the domestic peace
Of the country
Aud this brings TO the capital point Of The whole
matter. his not pretended that the administration of
Pfesden, Pierce will counenance or will fail 10 dscou
age a renewal Of the anti-slavery agitation The men
who, having been wrong the sectional issues,
yet take Office under il, DO with the full knowledge OF
the fact that is pledged to national policy To unite
all sections of the democratic party in the maintenance OF
that policy, 10 scheme OF action BETTING the
times, and worthy Of wise and comprehensive palre,.
ism The country may indeed look with confidence 10
democratic administration when its biilerst opponents
arragn such policy constituting the only accusation
which partisan malirnity devise against il
Re o als.-The whig Press.
The Repub.a begins to complain of removals from