Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-06-29
SPIRIT OF rHK MORNING PRESS.

The Intetfgenesr, protesting against the
declaration of the Petersburg HstelIigsnesr
and Richmond Wing that the Wing party is
dissolved, says:
I'VE had yet to learn that the Wing party
owed its origin to the entire agreement Of
opinion a. to the question Of the limitation or
to depend on q perfect accord, North and
South, on an insulated point. We had thought
that there were great principles Of foreign and
domestic policy, of which Clay and Webster
had been the champions, which the Whig party
had asserted and commended for, and which
bad no re.ation to the disturbing question of
slavery We saw that as large
q number of Northern Democrats, relatively,
as Wings, opposed the repeal Of the Missouri
Compromise, but We had seen ne sentence of
dissolution of the Democratic party pronounced
from the Sou-h for the dereliction of their
Northern brethren. Above all, while we deny
the sufhsiency Of the alleged ground for dis
banding the Wing party, We had to learn that
the opposition to the Nebraska measure was
sectional, or was confined 10 Northern Wings.
On the contrary, we perceive every day fresh
evidence that large proportion, if not ma
jori y, of the leading Wings Of the South con.
demned the propriety Of renewing the slavery
controversy in Congress by moving the repeal
Of the Compromise, and dissented from the
expediency Of that repeal. One Of the most
sterling Wing papers of Virginia, the Win
chester Republican, stated emph atically. but
flew days ago, that it Z" had greater reason to
believe every day that on the Nebraska ques-
ton the National Intelligencer reflected the
general sentiment of the Wing party of the
South" For these and many other reasons
which might be sdduced, we were unprepared
to acquiesce in the edict of humiliation which
had been, without adequate cause or authority,
S>l 81 H.
waited for some potential protest against il
to reach US from the further South. Such q
protest we have received in the subjoined arti-
Gle from a steady, able, and consistent Wing
journal of Alabama, the Mobile Daily Adver-
User. We doubt not that our Wing readers
through all the South will peruse it with a
satisfaction equal TO that which it impaired to
u.s."
The Union discusses the MeEpn treaty in
the House, saying with reference 10 the insinu-
ations against the integrity of that transae.
ton:
"A word more In reference to the dark hints
thrown ont by Mr. Benton in the House Of
Representatives, and his submissive follower
Mr. Peckham, of New York, in regard to the
manner in which the new treaty was cousum
mated. Does the country suppose, if the ma
licious inuendoes were not eminently un
f0unded, tnat sQcn statesmen as Lewis CasS,
as John Bel, as Stephen A. Douglas, as Isaac
Toucey. as John Slidell, as Robert Toombs, as
W. l. Dawson as r NJ. T. Hunter, as James
d. Mason, as w. N. Gwin, leading men of both
parties, would ever have sustained that treaty
by their votes and their voices? They had
4ii the raeCs- Thss h~a ,e.i the documents
IIsy mad p:oDoa The whole issue from nrst to
LAT; and if they had any doubts at any time
as TO their votes, this certainly did not grow
ont of ANY impression made upon their minds
BY the scaDdaIous fsbrications of the New
York press"
Discussing Col. Benton, the Union also
says;
g The worst Of Colonel Benton's conflict at
the present moment IS ms conflict ,cith h,m-
self. He has written library of sound doc
trines- Every new movement against his old
friends is at once met aud rebuked by himself
by The witnesses which bis own history and
his own brain have created and they come
forth not In single spies. but in whole battal-
ions. 1t is Action devoured by his own hounds
over again. Whether he takes ground against
popular sovereignty in the Territories, or in
1ay0I q the abo.i i1n:sts in their war upon the
it does nos require any other voicer6r ftipfs
orr has 01cn thomas IL Benton was an i'm
bodin.ent of q democr attic statesman and
democratic leader; and the democratic creed
itself might almost az readily take up arms
agsID st itself, and hope to survive, as that b Q
should expect success in his war upon his own
example and his own opinions"