Washington sentinel., 1854-04-12
THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN
WHIGS.

81 & 4 T.
Northern whiggery, which was prostrated in
the last presidential contest, and which has
since been SO quiet as to inspire the hope that
it had meekly given up the ghost and had laid
itself down to die, has alarmed the country by
startling symptoms of miraculous revival
very resurrection from the dead. In two States
victories have been achieved in recent cleo
tons by the party calling itself the whig party,
and there is general JOY among the members
Of the northern whig party in consequence Of
that result. They are inspired with new con-
Gdence. They, who but few months since
we're crushed, disbanded, and Respondent, are
beginning to cement anew their disrupted or
ganization, and ambitiously mediate greater
and more glorious achievements.
How, it iswell to inquire, were these victo.
ries accomplished? The answer is plain. All
the odds, ends, and fragments-all the isms,
all the abolitionists, freesoilers, and fanatics,
oil the women's n's-rights men, all the freethink-
ers all the disappointed, all the disafected-- -
voted in opposition to the honest, sterling de-
mocracy, who scorned to make bargains and
coalitions, and refused to resort to tricks and
dishonest means. These victories, thus achiev
ed, are called whig victories, when in truth
there never was band of more variant and
antagonistic elements. Men Of every hue and
stripe, without any fixed principles in politics,
morals, or religion-the floating scum Of the
nation-acted together. 1t cannot truly be
designated as the victory of any particular
party. But this is true, and it cannot be dis
guised, that it is defeat of the democracy in
the States in which the elections have taken
place. 1t would be disingenuous in us to
deny that the results to which we refer have
mortified us; yet we are proud to say that
we do not believe them to have been caused by
any unpopularity of or detection to, the princi-
pies Of democracy. 1t is far from being pleas
ant to think that our party, which but q few
months since achieved such signal successes,
which elected its president almost by acclama-
ton, and one short year ago inaugurated him
in the highest Office known among men, should,
in SO brief a period, manifest such symptoms
OF weakness and dlScontent.
But, whilst there is much to mortiy us in
these defeats, there is one consoling circum-
stance connected with them. 1t is, that ample
time is allowed us to rally against the next
presidential election. If there is to be any dis
turbance or discord in the democratic party, we
would far rather it should break out now, and
work the mischief it is destined to make, than
that it should occur on the eve Of the next can
vass, when time would not be allowed us to
recover from its effects.
If the victories to which we refer are whig
victories, they we're achieved by such means as
will effectually and forever separate the wings
Of the south from the wings Of the north. There
is from this time forth no sympathy, no affinity,
no bond Of union between them. They will
henceforth be as strangers and as aliens. If
the whig party of the north has coalesced with
freesoilers, and fanatics-if it has
abandoned the broad platform on which q ma
tonal organization can only exist--ifit has
made itself exclusively local party a Sec
tional party, and arrayed itself in company
with oil the senseless and unprincipled is'ns Of
the day against the Constitution and its sacred
guarantees against the rights of the States
and in opposition to the south-then, indeed,
must there be wall of complete separation
between the wings Of the north and the wings |
Of the south. Any party that stands upon
narrow sectional platform deserves to be pre-.
,ipitated headong to the earth. 1t is the
boast of the democratic party that there is moth
ng sectional in its creed; that it does not look
o localities, sections, or classes that it does
not claim for one portion or one class Of
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