Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-08-16
slander-a foul aspersion. A few fanatics

their number at the South-ldle dream
ers, to well-nigh to monomaniac hallucina-
tion-have been, and perhaps continue to
be, in favor of a dissolution. None OF
them, however, or at least not half
dozen such, from first to last, have been
in public life. Those who sought to ex-
clude slavery from the newly-acqulred
territories of the United States were.
nine-tenths of them, not willing to pay
the price of the destruction Of the Union
for success. Those at the South, on the
other hand, who originally fought the
compromise measures, comprising all the
Southern Democrats were equally indis-
posed to sacrifice the Union to bring
about their defeat. All the Southern
Democracy were originally against them.
The minority wing promptly accepted the
compromises as settlement of the recent
agitating slavery issues. The majority
wing struggled against them longer: not
in order to dissolve the Union, though
few hot-heads, by their outcrieS, gave
designing men an opportunity of trump
ing up such charge. They fought the
compromises only in the hope of obtain
ing, in the end, the better terms for the
South, for which the Southern Union men
originally aided them to contend. Being
defeated, did they dissolve the Union!
Or are they now, each and every one of
them, doing their duty to their country,
according to the commands of the Consti-
tuition and the Laws? If they are not,
will some one please point out to us where
and how any Southern contemporaries
public man is now laboring against the
continuance of the Union? None are so
engaged. They have ocJuiesced in the
compromise measures. Nowhere are they
now attacking them. We may say as
much for the great body of their original
opponents at the North. The Abolition
faction continue, as before, opposed to the
Union as made by our fathers. But they
number hardly one in a hundred of the
original Wing and Democratic Northern
opponents of the compromise measures,
who also ocguiesce in them, as a general
thing.
Yet agitation still continues. The agi-
tators are, for the most part, men who not
long since protested to believe that longer
agitation of the slavery question was
surely fraught with certain destruction of
the Union. Their plea in justification Of
tleir present course is, that they, as
class, have failed to be poll enough for
their former anti-agitation labors. We
here refer not to the honest original COM
promise men, but to those who joined the
compromise cohort, as their present con-
duct shows-.for the sake Of plunder.
There were too many such of both parties.
Among them are thousands of the Wings
who, abandoning their principles, pro-
claim themselves, through their newspa-
pers, to be willing to sustain the present
Democratic Administration, for consld-
Grafton and about as many Democrats
who are, after the same fashion, avowing
their determination to abandon the Adj
ministration Of their choice, not because
of it's want of devotion to cld-fashioned de-
moc,atic principles, but on account of its
failure to give them the choice and pick of
the fat places, to the exclusion Of all others
aiding to elect General Pierce. It will
be fortunate indeed, if the two great par
ties get rid Of these Pandours-of these
partizans of their respective principles
only for pay. The Native American fac
ton proclaim their readiness to receive
them. Why don't they 90 at once Just
now, they will find emblazoned on the
Native American flag, an issue suitable
for the labors Of such patriots. The issue
of a war of races in this country-Ameri-
can against European. We quote the con-
Guiding paragraph of this Native Ameri-
can address, that all the world may see
the atrocious purpose for which they are
invited to take service under the Native
American flag, and forwhich also base and
foul ISLANDERS are heaped on the President,
his constitutional advisers, and those he
has called into the public seryice-as fol-
lows, viz:
Tho darkest hour of night precedes the
glorious orb of day; and flashes of public con-
,iction are penetrating the moral darkness of