The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17
NORTHERN WINGS AND DEMOCRATS

NORTHERN WINGS AND DEMOCRATS.
The Baltimore Patriot administers vigor-
Gus rebuke to Northern Whigs-such Wings
as have controlled the party counsels in New
York and Observation-Disclosures their inexcusa-
bic completely with Free soil fanaticism; and
then gives Pierce Democracy n hearty rap
over the knuckles, as follows:
"But how is il with Democracy! il is even
worse. The American cites the current evil
dences that the Northern Democracy are un-
sound upon this subject, and adds this signi6-
cant fact Senator Shields (Dem) re-echoes
the diving defence Of Congressman Olds, when
he affirms that the Nebraska act will enable
the North to exclude all Slave States in fu.
ture, and the Union sanctions this view BY a
general approval of Senator Shields speeches.
Then when the Democrats of the South are
told that Senator Shields advocates a law ex-
punging an odious disqualification, the Demo.
Gratis of the North are assured that the same
act deserves their support, because it will
enable them more effectually to stop the pre-
gress of an obnoxious Institution. If there
were no newspapers, or If blinded by the
venom of party, men would not hear or be-
lieve any thing which emanated from their
antagonists, this game might be played with
success-but never in land of free speech
and free intercourse. Two administration
missionaries depart from Washington-one
defends the Nebraska law before Southern
auditory as n measure of tardy but conclusive
justice. The other boasts before Northern
assemblage that the last barrier which re-
strained the free States, has been levelled,
and they may now complete their work OF
intolerance unrestrained Gy faith or feeling.
Is this a just system of policy? The South
always understood eefiect of repeating the
Missouri restriction. 1t knew it could prac
ticaly gain no territory by it. The law of
1921 intcrdlcted the South fiom common
property north of given line. 1t did not
guarantee the possession of the territory south
Of the line. The repeal gives to the South
an abstract and perhaps an impracticable right.
But the North was held on by the slender
shreds OF a compromise, not TO exclude Slave
States South of the line; ard these, according
TO those Democratic luminaries, Odds and
Shields, have now been shorn away by the
Nebraska act Now, if it were allowable to
entertain plea of mitigation in favor of one
of two accomplices under trial upon the same
charge, we would ask our readers to note the
superior niquity of the Democratic conspira-
tors. Shields Northern Democrat) knew
that the North was restrained by compro-
mise from refusing admission to new Slave
States. He voted to repeal that compromise.
He now claims the merit of having strength
ened the power of the Free States by setting
them free from the chief restrictions which
bound them! The Northern Wings admitted
that their sympathies were with the Free
sellers, and gave notice that the passage OF
the Nebraska bill would absolye them from
all obligations to compromise. The two con-
spirators then differ in this degree-one has
inveigled the victim into an alley; the other
has at least given him notice of the joint
murder TO be perpetrated upon him if he
came there.
"For ourselves, we compromise with no
such politicians. Power and spoils has been
their object. They avail themselves of any
excuse TO carry il out. II is glorious to have |
a giants strength, but it is Infamous to EN-.
ploy it in oppression. We have condemned |
both these cunspirators against the Union.-
Their hostility to the South we despise-
The South can live and prosper without them
but the Union cannot exist without harmoni- |
GUS equality.
ave are very glad TO find that the political
press of Baltimore is united in the opinion |
that Northern politicians, Wings and Demo-
Gratis, are unsound and unreliable upon this |
question. The re organization of old parties |
except on old principles, will he impossible. |
They must purge themselves of sectionallsm
before they can receive the support of any
national journal whatever"