Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-02-03
Owned it-Eh ?

In an article upon the . Nebraska Bill, audatory
oil President Pierce of course for his great attachment
to the institutions of the South the Wilmington
Journal says:
Evem Mr. PoLEs fryamcss yeded M The matter of Ore
and everybody knows that the policy proposed by Gen
Taylor would have been equivalent to the Wmot roySo
The present President Notthem man, and Mr. Douglas
also Northern boldly meet from which
even Southern Presidents draw back Will the South listen
to senseess camor raised against it's best friends ?!
The italics are our own and we use them tor the
purpose of making this precious confession of the
Journal When Mr., Polk, President of the Uni
ted States, signed the Oregon Bill with the Wilmot
Provso in it, we charged that he had yielded to the
Freesoers, and sacrificed the rights of the South to
the spirit of fanaticism The whole Democratic press
of the State, from the Standard down TO the smallest
ycperin the pack, was down upon us like thousand
ihreshing machines. Mr.. Polk had done such
thing MIR. Polk had Observed the Missouri Compro-
mise line. 1t was in vain that quoted the author
ity of MIR CalhOun-it was in vain that we told them
the Missouri Compromise related only to the territory
of Louisiana acquired from France-and that the
WilmOt Proviso inserted in the Oregon Bill for
The express purpose of MroWngd 1UantOn insult into
the teeth of the South, MIR. Polk the model
President: :" and he was much bepraised for sign
ing the Oregon Bill Mr. Pierce now IS for his Free
soil and Secession appointments. But President Polk
is now out IF power-gone to his long homeland
his " frmneSs yielded IN the matter Of Oregon"
Van Buren, was once the " sweetest little fellow
that ever was born' with the North Carolina Democ
racy His frmness yielded too, and he accepted a
nomination LOT the IreSlQeIhy Ghe
and he and his hopeful son, Prince John, are now
cheek by fowl with Gen'l Pierce, the best friend fhe
South Ohone Ohone Well if it were not for
these Democratic editors how agoud the South ever
know " its best friends! 2"
The above from the Fayetteville Argus ofthe 25th,
is not, we hope fair sample of the party warfare
which Mr.. Cameron means to wage during the com
ing campaign since it is unjust not only to us, but
to the departed ex- President.
We repeat, and let the Argus make the most OF It,
Mr. Folks frmness did yield in the matter of Ore
CON- to what that gentleman believed to be an impe
rious necessity imposed upon him by the Wing par
tn. In order to prevent total Reorganization of So
cety and untold of caamites arising from the want
of an organized Government in Oregon, he did hnal'
" YIELD and sign this Oregon Territorial Bill prohb
iting slavery, because he could get none else-be
cause the party friends of the Argus would allo"
none other to pass He yielded an abstraction IL
Il absolute necessities of the case; and that, too
under protest against the duress which obliged him
so to do. He yielded, aso as he conceived, more IN
name than in fact because the Territory actual
" North of sc 80, and the Missouri Compromise
might then be considered as in force If the Argus
be so fond of this discussion, have no objection
against return to the history of the times referred
to- save the single one of space 1t will then be seen
what party capital the party OF the Argus can make
out IF