Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-06-29
The whig-Abolition Partv.

Already the most conservative and infuen-
tial wing papers are protesting against the
partnership whig-abolition party now forming
in the northern states The Baltimore Ameri-
can, one of the ablest wing journals in the
Union, says -
Whatever. of the ancient sympathy we
may have had with the gallant northern wings
who stood by Webster and Fillmore when
they stood by the Union and the rights of the
south, we, can feel little regret at parting with
faction whose leaders are mercenary, and
whose masses mad. If that faction would
rather see the fugitive negro protected than
the manufacturer; if it likes better the friend
ship of Garrison and Frederick Douglas than
that of ] . P Benjamin, or Alexander Stephens
or Meredith z. Gentry if it prefers a naked
and superogatory decree excluding the south
from territory which she never expected to
occupy, to cordial interchange of products
and liberal cession of commercial advanta-
ges; if it would swap the sister states of the
south for monarchical Canada-for Canada,
whose population was driven from the repub-
lican colonies because they would not defend
their liberties-but repeat the traditions of con-
fiscation and exile sneer at our institutions, and
laud with obsequious loyalty those which they
have derived from the crown If the north
ern wings prefer an alliance with such peo-
pie, to one with those who quilted their south
ern homes to lie on Boston Heights, confront
ing a powerful foe without the ammunition to
haze repulsed Mm-who endured the trials of
Valley Forge+who met the confident foe at
Monmouth, and crossed the wintry Delaware
to strike blowssfor Freedom when she almost
despaired of exdstence-who bled in the tren-
ches of Yorktown, and saw the humbled bat
talions of the naughty invader pile their weap-
ons at their fees: If the northern wings are
willing, as tiseF have protested, to exchange
American freemen for British subjects, and
republican wings for renegades, fanatics, and
fugitive slaves, we cannot under such circum-
stances withhold our approval. Self respect,
the protection Of our firesides demands it, and
it is DONE"
The National Intelligencer says of the re-
cent address of the anti-Nebraska members of
Congress -
"The purpose which it ayows is one which
the gentlemen had perfect right to form and
to announce, as they have done but whether
it is expedient at the present moment, if at
any time, to make that issue a test at the pop
ular elections shortly TO be held in many of
the states of the Union, is what we are not
prepared to yield our assent to. We are
weary of agitati0n-sick and tired of seeing
the energies of the representatives of the peo-
pie wasted in conflicts, the protraction of
which, at one and the other end of the linton,
might eventuate in that most awful of all ca
tastrophes, its final dissolution"
Here at the north the single, one idea raj
ly, is to be the slavery issue. To repeal the
fugitive slave law, to re-enact the Missouri
compromise, to put the Wilmot proviso on all
territory, is tobe the basis of the new party.
The Baltimore Patriot deals as follows with
the re-enactme ut Of the Missouri compromise
That proposition is simply impossible.
The condition imposed upon the admission of
future states was never considered OF any le-
gal obligation as any extra-constltutional act.
1t was made between parties who could have
had no control over the rights of others not
then in political existence. 1t assumed 20
bind the rights Of the future citizens of future
states. 1t has been set aside, not upon the
application of the south, but upon the demand
Of northern men who were unwilling that such
a restriction should disgrace the sovereign
people and the sovereign states. Many south
ern wings may have regretted the introduction
Of the subject. Some might have voted against
the repeat Of the compromise, but none can
advocate its restoration"