The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-06-29
THE CONDITION OF THE TWO OLD PARTIES.

II is no longer debatable question whether the whig
party continues exist distinct and united national
organization The point is yielded by the Louisville
Journal and all who know the devotion OF that journal
to whiggery in all its phases will at concede that the
wing party is really dead when the Journal is forced to
give up the question. The following is the announcement
Of that paper the present condition Of the wing party
"Unquestionably the wing party is for the present at
least severed at the dividing line between the North and the
South, and do not know that party cut in in the
middle, properly be considered live party STILL the
southern section Of the party alive and united and the north
section also alive and united and hardly know how
two live sections make dead whole But suppose
that in this case the two cannot be regarded constituting
whole of any SORT either alive or dead"
The editor of the Journal gives encouragement the
proposition to consolidate the wings of the North and OF the
South upon the issue OF restoration of the Missouri Com
promise He says that for his part he should be very
willing to a reunion Of the wing party Of the nation
upon the basis Of the Missouri Compromise = but he
mo for believing that the wings Of the South
be prevailed to go a body in very
siderable numbers for the restoration of that compromise
The objections the southern wings TO that are
stated with concseness and force by the Journal fol-
lows:
In the first place, they think it abstrscy and manesty
right that the people north Of any parallel of latitude should
choose their Institutions and in the second place. they
would feel good deal OF reluctance IL not anp ahy to
uniting upon any basis relating TO slavery with party
violent and ultra upon the subject Of slavery the great
of the northern wings appear be this time The
southern wings would probably feel that in uniting with the
northern wings upon the ground of restoring the Missouri
Compromise they would also be uniting with number
of abolition fanatics who, in the OF success would be
for going TO the utmost extremes And yet II should be
membered that the aboonss themselves for the
restoration OF the Missouri Compromise without sacrificing
very important and essential portion of their principles
for everybody knows they have always conended that the
Missouri Compromise should be treated nullity that
slavery should be extended territory south
the line Of hirys thirty than territory of
line"
We shall not stop 70 inquire how the editor Of the Jour
nal can be willing TO the wing party reuuiting on
the basis Of restoration OF the Missouri Compromise
after stating these insupcrable objections to that PROPOSE
ton.
The Journal is not without comfort however Although
II despars Of reunion Of its party il seeks to
reason itself into the belief that the democratic party in
worse condition than the wing party and on that iu-
sorry conviction II relies for consolation The editor saws
that III the whg party is severed in two along Mason and
Dxons line the democratic party very nearly severed in
two right along the line He adds "To be sure
there are north Of Mason and Dixons line good many
Neoraskabi democrats and yet he is comfored with the
belief that the whig party is in the better condition lie
assumes that although there good many Nebraska
bill democrats in the free States yet lin all probability
not enough to control single nonaveholding State
Hence for all practical purposes he concludes that the
democratic party is electualy severed as the whig
party In This reasoning the Journal assumes two import
ant facts, which far from being oonccdedirs that
the Nebraskabil democrats strong enough to
troll single non-slaveholdng State and second that
upon the proposition TO repeal the Nebraska act all The Ne
braskab democrats viii unite with the wings and abo
toniss These are assumptions which we shall confidently
controyert and deny until convinced Of our
by the popular elections hereafter to take place in the free
States.
But the Journal Is not sufficiently comfored by
ing itself into the belief that the democratic party is in
as bad condition as ts BY process Of reasoning
not less falacou concudes that the wings OF the
North are all opposed TO the Nebraska act they are in
better condition than the democrats who are divided Aud
what does the reader imagine be the ground Of
aton found by the Journal in this view the case We
win let the editor for himself He says: