Washington sentinel., 1854-07-20
THE BLIND FAITH OF PARTIsANs-
LOUISVILLE JOURNAL AND THE
NORTHERN WINGS.


The high estimate placed on northern whig.
ism by the Louisville Journal is, in the present
critical condition of that party, matter Of
some astonishment. The Journal has, for
many long years, been connected wiar the
whig party. 1t has been an able, faithful,
a fearless, and an intolerant whig. 1t is
thoroughly imbued with the spirit of whigism.
All Of its struggles, all of its labors, all Of its
anxieties, and all of its eloquent, pungent,
witty and bitter editorial articles have been in
behalf of that party. AS it learned to love the
whig party, so it learned 10 hate the democratic
party. 1t believed that the first embodied all
that was good, the last all that was bad, in
politics. 1t believed that if the FIRST did wrong
it was through inadvertence; if the last did
right, it was by accident. There was un-
bounded confidence in the one, and entire dis.
trust of the other.
The Journal is 10th to give up the idol of
its early years--the object of its young
and fresh affections. 1t is, like faithful hus
band, determined to see no wrinkles and no
defects in face once fair and faultless.
The Louisville Journal will find but few of
its whig brethren of the south to agree with it
in the sentiments it expresses in a late number.
1t says:
{" SO far as slavery is concerned, we have in
comparably more confidence in northern whig
ism than we have in northern democracy. We
hare an abiding trust that the mass of the north
L.
rage upon the Constitution, The ld,os, or the
tie northern fcligs soih The repeal of tie Ne
braska law to The triumph ofthe northern demo
Gratis Nth The temporary maintenance Of the
Nebraska ldp."
Could party blindness go further? Could
insensate devotion to the name of whig and re-
lentless hatred to the name Of democrat, go be-
yond this?
When, where, and how have the northern
wings shown themselves as deserving Of the con.
6dence of the people of the south, as have the
northern democrats? Certainly not lately. To
man, they opposed the Nebraska bill. They
are now, with the aid of abolitionists, freesoil-
ers, and stragglers, endeavoring to raise up an
organization to repeal that bill, and to repeal
the fugitive slave law. Some few Of their jour
nails, at the last moment of grace, seeing that
most of the southern wings, unlike the Louis
vile Journal, refuse to countenance their in.
cendiary, unconstitutional, and unpatriotic de.
signs, have become alarmed, and are now
rather affecting to throw cold water upon the
amalgamation. Their, argument, however, is
not against the objects and purposes proposed
to be accomplished, but against amalgamation.
They say the wings are strong enough ofthem-
selves without forming league and an alliance
with the abolitionists to accomplish those OBJ
jects. They believe that if they abolitionize
themselves, but yet retain the name Of whig,
that the abolitionists who do not stand on cere-
mony will sustain them without formal
league, and that southern wings, not given TO
suspicion, and averse to change, will be de-
ceived and entrapped.
The Louisville Journal is an able auxiliary
to the northern anti-slavery wings. Its ad-
vice to its southern brethren may thus be sum-
med up: "Stick to northern wings no matter
what they do" We would not willingly do in
Justice to any man or to any journal and, as
proof that our summing up is right and true,
we make the following short extract from tho
Journal:
"The majority Of the northern democrats
oppose the law, and the minority that support
it consist only Of the mercenaries and the troop
at their command. Of course, 80 long as mat
ters wear their present aspect, we shall desire
the ascendancy Of the whig party in the north.
Eren II 'tlemossof enorthcrndemocrats should
be drilled By the force Of discipline into the
adoption Of The Nebraska lao as a portion Of
their party platform, noe should kno,o, as crcry
retlecting man pould, that they aoe,c disciplined
into acting against their opn CONNECTIONS icih
cicso TO victory and The spoils, and noe shoxld
then hare no more confidence in Dem than zoe
hace nop."
The meaning Of all this, IL IL has any mean
ing, 10, that the southern wings are TO trua and