Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-09-02
SECTIONAL PARTIES.

We have some rare instances of the non-confor-
nifty of practice with preccpt. Many Of tho news
papers are quoting with great appreciation the warn
ings of President WASHINGTON to his countrymen
against sectional parties, and yet many Of them are
intoxicating by their own writings exactly the re-
verse For instance, several prominent Democratic
papers are earnestly appealing to Southern Wings
to abandon their old party associations and join the
Democrats, and thereby make the whole South g
compact sectional organization to oppose the Free
sellers of the North.
What is this but notice to all the anti-slavery
elements Of the North to combine in the same way,
but with the advantage Of outnumbering the South
ern organization? What would be the inevitable
consequences of this advice if followed If all
spirit Of compromise be destroyed-and we fear it
is already greatly weakened-what possible result
is to follow this antagonistca banding together Of
sections but dsunion and all its dire concomitants
There are, doubtless, extremists irrational men
both North and South, who seem rather to desire
than to dread such result but they have scarcely
fathomed their own hearts and their own under
standings It is true that Mr.. Brooks, Of South
Carolina in his Nebraska speech deprecatory
Of the agitation suddenly, and he almost admitted
needlessy thrust upon the country said Gas report
ed) sfthere are thousands in the South who thirst
for disuaion the hart pants for the water-brook
But he did not give us both sides Of the canvass.
He did not say that there were tens Of thousands,
hundreds Of thousands, yea, millions, who looked
upon the picture Of dissolution Of this great and
powerful Confederacy with absolute and shuddering
horror who cannot believe in any possible necessi-
ty for such q wilful wreck national hopes and
prospects, and who will not sectionalze themselves
upon the suggestion of any body, be he saint OF
sage So there are also, in the North, individuals
who, in the phrenzy Of the moment, pretend to laugh
at all the possible consequences Of such evil Yet
there are good citizens with deep-rooted anti
slavery sentiment, infamed and strengthened by
recent events, but of whom we may safely say
neither their hearts nor their cool judgments will
be found in concert with the fratricides, there OF
elsewhere.
Away, then, with all attempts to rally sectional
parties; with all vain efforts to persuade rational
men, North or South, that slavery antislavery
the only elements Of cohesion for political organza
ton The Wing party has broader and more ma
fional basis It is true that feeling outraged by Q
breach Of faith in the late needless agitation after
considering both sections Of the country pledged to
a strict observance Of the adjustments Of 1920
and 1850, many Of the party, like the Democrats
Of Massachusetts, in l849, may seem to be at pre-
sent party Of but one idea, and that an impract
cable one, yet we feel they will eventually be
found on the side Of peace and harmony, and will
like rood citizens acnuiesce in the laws of the LAND
and in all the measures which are calculated te
maintain the different sections in one indissoluble
brotherhood to the end of time.