The true Democrat., 1854-08-09
From the Washington Union
 Southern Wings Versus Northern Democrat

Every day serves to convince us, more and more, of the faithlessness of that small class of southern men who try to excuse the excesses and vices of the Northern agitators under the plea that the democrats of the free States are anx lous 10 break upthe whig party. The whig or ganlzatlon, as 1t now exists. is mere ad;nnct to aoolltlonsm-a tender to the anti-slavery englne-a hngerboard pointing the way to that dlreful sequel apprehended by the patriot as the immediate precursor of national decay and ruin. Let us be understood. We are far from saying that the Southern whigs are resnonsible for any such state of things; but it is bevond controversy that the whole power of the wb;o system is in the hands of Northern wb;ooorv9 and 1t Is alike unquestionable that the majority of Northern whigs are at this moment banded In common cause against the South. No Southern man can close his eyes to this fact or seek to overlook 1t, without subjecting him. self to the imputation of being false to his own region and to his own duties. Pa1g possu with these lntrlgues on the part of certain Southern wings to excuse their abolition brethern in the North, IS the effort to excite distrus against the Northern democracy, who stands fast and firm ln the midst of the unaversaz a0zag detection. These observations occurred to us while pe- ruslng leetter from Hon. Thomas l.. Cling- man, oi North Carolina in which he defends himself agalnst the attacks of certain whies of that State. We find it in late number of the Raleigh North Carolina) Standard and direct the earnest attention of our readers to it. His yin- dication of the Northern democracy is admira. ble and complete:
 House cf Representatives, June Is, 1854. MY DEAR SIR:
 "Whlle hypocritically protesting friendship forthe N ebraska bill, they [aportion ofthe North Carolina whlgs] have insidiously, and in the most coWardly manner, made war on the mea- sure Nay, more; they have assailed the brave and patriotic men of the North who, amid all the storms of fanaticism and sectional denun. clatlon, have firmly and gallantly marched for ward and carried the bill, exhibiting as much courage and magnanimity as was ever shown on the bloodiest battlefield. We'll knowing that every whig from the free States was agalnst the measure, and that it was supported by the administration and majority of it's Northern friends, they, nevertheless. gave all the aad and cnnfo't they could to the former, and made war on the latter Yes. durino the great struggle to restore the South to equality Tn the Union, they have been denouncmg the generous men of the North who came to our ald, because they were not able sooner to pass the bill by reason of the fierce opposition of those wings whom they were praising and de. lending Professing friendship for the meas ure they still helped its enemies, and railed a, It's friends because of tho difficulty they found in overcoming the opposition.
 During our revolutionary struggle, what would have been thought if PRoFEssEr WHIG PAPER, that had continued to praise the British army, and assailed our ally France, be. cause she did not sooner put an end to tbe war, and that had abused Lafayette and his gallant comrades because they could not at once drive the British out of America? :? And yet the conduct of such journal would no, have been ln anywise more gnominiousIy base than the course of the papers I have referred to. They must meet with contempt and de- gradatlon Wherever truth and honor have tame."