The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-02
THE NEBRASKA BILL IN THE SEN.
ANN

ATE.
We copy the following extract in relation
to the passage Of the Nebraska Bill in til,
Senate, from the New York Herald, of tn,
27th. twill be seen the Herald argues tina
the closing scene in the Senate will prov,
fatal to tho Wing party. We have seen ne
statement in any print in relation to the spar
ring which the Herald ntimates took pac,
between Mr.. Bell and other Southern Sena
tors, on the passage of tho Bill. The flu
ture OF tho Wing party is very gloomy nc
cording to the Herald, but the statements .
that paper must be taken with many grain.
OF allowance. 1t Says
The closing scenes in the Senate of tn,
United States upon the Nebraska bill, con
firm the dissolution Of the wing party. Tht
violent controversy upon the floor, between
Mr.. Bell, OF Tennessee, on the one side, ant
Mr. Toombs, OF Georgia, and other Southern
wings who supported the bill, on the othcl
side, was only terminated in the formal sepa
ration OF MIR. Bell and the Missouri compro
mise wings, even of the South, from those
wings cooperating in the repeal. 1t is diff
cult to read the closing debates upon the
final ratification of the House bill in the Sen.
ate, without arriving at the fixed conclusion
that between the free soil wings of the North
and the Nebraska wings of the South there
is now an impossible barrie, and that in the
reorganization Of political parties for the
campaign Of '56, the mass Of the wings of the
North will be arrayed in hostility against
their late brethren of th9 South. There is
no visible or probable contingency upon
which they can ever be re'ussited-none in
Here, then, we have the first fruits of the
Nebraska bill. 1t utterly demolishcs the last
vestige of u chance for the Reconstruction OF
the materials of the latt great wing party
upon the same general Hatiorm. The die is
cast-the RubicOn is crossed; and the unani-
nous vote of the Northern wings in Congress
against the Nebraska bill, and the exciting
closing scenes in the Senate, significantly
warn us Of the meaning of this ''throwing Of
| all party considerations to the Winds" 1t
admOnishcs the Union men Of the country of
the speedy mastering, upon the basis Of Sew
ardism, and the anti-savery debris of the late
Northern whig party, of a grand combined
anti slavery organization throughout the
Northern States, in open hostility to the in.
situations Of the South, until Southern slave
ry is put down, or until the Southern States
are driven to secession-till the two sections
Of our present Union are hurried into civil
war, and the two races OF Our population are
exasperated into the horrors of another st.
Domingo rebellion. Such is the drift of the
new party programme as laid down by the
confidential oracle Of Sewardism, which SIM
ply means junction of abolitionism with all
the other reasonable denominations of the day,
against the good order of society and the
peace of the Union.
The pronunciament! has gone forth-the
wing party is cxtinct--its materials in the
North are to be made the nucleus of great
ovcrshadowing abolition party, while the con-
sentative wings of the South may 90 over to
the new democratic party, to the administra-
ton, or to the devil, us soon as they like
Clayton, Badger, Pcarec, Dawson, and even
Crittcnden, have been given their walking
tickets; they are at liberty to go and shift for
themselves, wherever they please, and rs soon
as they please. The controlling Seward d.
vision Of the late national wing party has for
mally excommunicated them in the lump,and
in detail. They are adriit upon the high
seas, and legal prizes to such political wreck
ers MS may choose to pick them up. The re-
union between the wings Of the North and
the wings of South is now utterly hopeless.
Tho party is d;aLasss3 for good and fDraver.
The Northern branch is to be made the basis
of an overwhelming Northern anti-slavery
party. But where are the Southern wings
to 90? When Mr.. Webster was left alone
in John Tylcr's Cabinet, he asked "Where
am to go!' And we repeat the inquiry in
behalf of the Southern whigs-Wherc are
they to go!
Who can answer this question? Weven-
turc the opinion that the section of the late
wing party with which Messrs. Clayton, Bad
ger, Dawson and Others are associated, will
find n refuge in some constitutional Union
party, perhaps in the democratic party, when
it shall have been reorganized upon Union,
national and homogeneous principles, and
thoroughly cleanscd Of free sellers and free
soilism, and lumigatcd and made wholesome.
Who knows!