Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-02-20
2 SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS,

- oIA0AA We NE AUhNlN0 pRESS,
The Union asks, Is there Wing party?
pretty much as hundreds of papers are
e2claiming, "Have we Bourbon among
US u" The editor processes to feel salts
lied, that " echo answers no." 1t strikes
US, that, however the Wings of Congress
may divide sectionally upon the Nebraska
Bill, THAT division forming the reason
why the official asks the question, it will
be found that they are as ready as ever
to vote as a party, upon all questions
which they regard as Wing issues. Time
and again, though greatly in the minority
IN the House, they have made themselves
felt, as party, since the first Monday in
December last. Discussing " the National
Expenditure" in another article, the same
paper says;
ITO restrict the expenses of the general
government and confne the actions of that
government within reasonable limits 30 that il
shall neither interfere with the appropriate
duties Of the States, or enter into the details
which belong to private enterprise and private
oenevolence, seems to be, Judging from it.
professions and its history, the general purpose
Of the democratic party.
lit becomes democrats in both branches of
Congress to take care that the democratic
party, as represented by them adheres to its
principles of strict construction in regard to
the expenditures, and maintains its we'll
earpod reputation, by upholding the cause of
economy under our government. The whips
pay waste the public resources and lose no
Popularity, by manifesting the want of q virtue
which they were never supposed to possess;
but the democratic party has won it's noblest
victories as the party of economy; and it will
lose Its gigantic strength, and stop short in it.
onward progress, when it ceases to contend
agai0D the visionary schemes and progressive
extravaganza Of the times
The Sentinel continues its discussion of
the treatment the Missouri Compromise
has received from North and South, CON-
menced in that journal, on Saturday
morning last. Its facts so far, are those
SO forcibly presented on Friday last by
Mr.. Stephens, Of Georgia, in his great
speech.
The Inteligeneer is after the Nebraska
bill with sharp stick" After con-
denning the vehement pulpit-abolition
and such like demonstrations against the
bill now current at the North, which the
editor writes down as a natural result of
disturbing the Missouri compromise, he
argues that it would have been far better
TO have left matters as "the Harmonic
lus" were disposed to leave them but a
month or so ago. Thus he quotes the
original report Of the territorial commit
zee, and the Union's memorable editorial
of the Goth ult., slashing Senator Dixon
for an alleged offence not to be named
under existing circumstances.
The same paper plays with the Sentinel
IN a very amusing manner. The latter
having essayed to discuss history with
the veteran, ventured to intimate that the
Irtelligencer claimed Mr.. Clay as the
author of the Missouri Compromise, and
went on to insist that Mr.. G. was always
a steady opponent of that measure. This
the Wing organ denies, as well it may;
showing that L" in spirit of compromise,
Mr.. G. sustained the settlement of 1920. ,
The editor, however, does not pretend to
argue that Mr.. Clay was Missouri Com
promiseman perss. Or, in other words, that
he was not originally strenuously opposed
to any slavery territorial restriction, and
that his aequiescence in the compromise
was the result of aught but his preference
for that over the dissolution Of the Union,
which was seriously threatened in the
troubles growing out of tie agitation ex-
listing in those times.