The Yazoo Democrat., 1854-03-08
IS there a xyhsg Partyl

1t is Colonel Dumas, In the play, who declares
tkat he likes man amazingly after he has fought
with him; and if this be true of indivuals, ii
must also be true of parties. We confess to an
earnest admiration of a persevering and undaun-
ted opponent; and we can recall periods in our
history when the whig party. if not because OF
It's measures, then on account Of the bold bitter
ness of its warfare, was an adversary worthy oil
the ponderous blows of democratic champions.
Bat time spoils all. Gradually the pillars of the
lofty ediice known as the whig party have crum-
bled down. When the Bank of the Unit
Statss, the bankrupt law, and the tariff of 1912
gave way, the days Of the wings party, as ma
tional organization, were numbered.
There was, indeed, memorable occasion up
on which the wings could have renewed their
claims upon popular support; and that was
when the abolitionists sought to impair the
guarantees of the constitution of the United
States But the question was TO vast-the duty
too perlous; and in the clamor Of the hour the
northern wing of the whig party sank back into
the arms of the enemies of that noble instrument.
and became the merest subordinate of the anti
southern organization. From that moment the
At present it is no longer party, unless that
portion of it which lives south of Mason and
Dixon's line, and disowns and discards the other
and the greater section in the free States, may so
be called. It is cut in twain, and between the
two division there Is gulf of hostile opinion
Indeed, at tins moment, most of the wings in the
southern States do not hesitate to say that their
only reliance is upon the great and growing par
ty of the democracy. To all practical intents
and proposes, the whig party is both demofalized
and divided.
What are facts that now pass before our eyes?
The wings have lost their organ at the seat of the
federal government The old National IlteHi-
gencer-with all its hold upon the affection of
the whig party with all its connexions with the
men and the traditions of the past, with all its
consistant conservatism, and with all its friends
in Congress, who have adhered to ii, through
good report and through evil repot for years-has
finally and peremptorily declared itself in favor
of the views against the Nebraska bill advanced
by the northern abolition agitators, now repre-
sented by Messrs. Giddings, Chase, Seward and
Sumner. Either, therefore, the whig party has
been translated into the abolition party, or the
National Intezligencer is against the whig par
ty
But more than all this. No man can name
a single wing senator or representative in Con-
gress from free State who is ready or willing to
vote for the bill 10 organize the Territories of Ne
btaska and Kansas, based as it is upon the en-
during principle of popular sovereignty. There
is not one. few months ago we could count
some nor bern gentleman who were called ma
t5oeat aehfgs; but they, too, seem to have disap-
peared. There is not voice from the ranks
once eloquence with professions for "national
principles" There is not sign of hope or Of
cooperation to southern wings in the whole ho-
rizon of northern whiggery.
Is there whig porty among us - Washing
ton Union.