Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-09-19
AN ANSWER TO THE SOUTHERN WING
PREss-A BLUNDER EXPOSED.


ANANsWER TO THE SOUTHERN WING
PREss-A BLUNDER EXPOSED.
We observe that some Of our Southern Whil
contemporaries who are unwilling to admit thai
anygood can come out Of Democratic Nazareth
and will not acknowledge that the Northern
Wings are scurvy set Of fanatics and Free
sellers, unless we will bind ourselves in solemn
compact to confess the same in regard to the
Northern Democrats observe that these,
our Southern Wing contemporaries are making
the occasion of the defeat of the Northern De.
mocracy, in some of the recent elections the
ground Of accusation against them. They ex-
ulting ask, why, if the Democratic party in
those States was sound and true, were they de-
feated? They infer from the success of Free
soil Wings, and the defeat by them of sound
Democrats, the equal disgrace of the two. They
declare that as the Democrats have recently
failed to carry States that they carried in 1852,
they must be tainted with the heresies that SO
extensively prevail at the North.
We have never said that all the individuals
who acted with the Democratic party in 1852
were sound, honest, reliable Democrats. There
were mercenarias attached to it, as there were
mercenaries attached to the Wing party. They
joined it because they thought it would sue
coed and they hoped to enjoy their share Of the
spois of victory. Many Of them have fallen
off-many more are following their example.
They have formed new alliances and combina-
1ions. The constitutional doctrines of the
Democratic party are not congenial with their
selfsh and mercenary natures. The great
Fusion perty that bid high for recruits has
enticed them to its banner. Others have gone
over to the Ere esoil Wings, who, in the face Of
day, have procla. imed themselves better Free
soilers than the Fir 'eesoilers themselves.
Even in New Eng land, which we believe to
bemore thoroughly abo 'itionized than any other
portion Of the confederacy, it has been shown
that while all the other parties have declared
themselves against the Cons titutioi, State Rights
and the Nebraska bill, there is left compact
Democratic organization that canntt be Sc
duced.
In those recent State elections in which the
Wings have succeeded, they have succeeded by
means Of their Freesoil principles. ..Vhe Flu
sionists have succeeded in the same ma uner,
and in every instance; whether the Wings S uc-
ceeded or not, they declared themselves in favo
of reviving the Missouri restriction and of free
territory Whereas, in no single instance have
the Democrats followed their example. The Flu
sion party, which is but an other presentment of
Freesoilism, is compounded of old Freesoilers,
Wings, unsound Democrats, and all the isms.
That it contains far larger number of Wings
than Democrats no man will have the hardi-
hood to deny. But when the Wings have run
tickets against the Fusion. tickets, they have
protested precisely the same principles; and the
success Of the one, in all, save the name, is the
success of the other. The Democrats, on the
contrary, have freely yielded up the mercenaries
and the Freesoilers who have quit their ranks
nor have they in any instance endeavored to
beat the Fusionists or the Wings by proclaim
ing themselves in favor of repeating the fugi-
tive slave law, reviving the Missouri restriction
and declaring against new slave States.
Until our sensitive Southern Wing contem-
poraries can establish that we have claimed for
the fugitives from the Democratic party the re-
,slgecs and consideration due to political sound
ness, their argument altogether fails. We
mover claimed, and never viii claim, such re-
snoc.. and consideration for them. The esti-
mate ,,laced on the Northern Democrats by
the North ,ern Wings is very different from that
which our s outhern Wing contemporaries affect
% n,aM on a ,em. The Northern Wings every
where, now oppose them, because they are true
a. ,he nstitut ION and the South. While the
Southern Wing journals unjustly accuse the
Northern Democrats Of being equally unsound
with the Northern Wings, these latter arraign
them before the Northern people as slavery
,uapandists. The two things cannot con-
sist. -
u' 70 'emocrats. That charge ~, that
:, ,of'uern y, Rose States, in which they have
'neu 'eeas In I. 'es that they are unsound
been defeated, prov, absurd. If the Demo
This charge is simply elections nrec;sel,
Gratis had succeeded in thos e. " ooo;ns
the same charge would have peen ms'> n,
them. Their defeat was bro, gn' auou' :,
union of all the e.,istempered "u lep,ols r. :,
les, and by TIE contribution to 'na' uno s. !,
he corrupt and unprincipled mer ' .an'a;n o-e
heir ov m ranks, while those VINO - 81 tbei
'0O' d They we're defeated becau = -, n,
s;,bf.l adherence to principle an
Effort 4 made to make that defeat ap. 80
Gomez conclusive evidence Of their uns0und1 ss; !,
In no single instance have the wn'g'm =. =
northern States recently declared 'nen =.
in favor Of maintaining the fugitive slsse 80,
IN favor Of the repeal of the miSsoui' 80, !;
,;on or of congressional non-iptervenuon !
,hei Territories On the contrary, Wnenese
thew have expressed themselves at all |" na
Nan IN the opposite manner. Whereas, IN
- instance have the Democrats followe
their example. M
Thon Lot ;ustice be done them. They