Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-07-21
The Boston t1as ON the southern wings.

The Boston Atlas, a leading Northern Wing Jour-
nal perhaps the leading journal of the ultra anti
Nebraska and anti-Southem wing of the party ID
New England, proclaims. openyand boldly, sentence
of excommunication against those Southern Wing
presses and politicians who gave any aid or comfort
to the Nebraska perfdy,n as it calls it, and singles
out prominent Southern papers as specimens of
class against which its vengeance is directed such
the Richmond Wing, ST Louis Republican and Balti-
more Potriot but makes special exceptions in favor
of the Wing Journals in Kentucky, Alabama Louisi-
ana, Tennessee, Arkansas, North Carolina and Mis-
souri, who took the Northern side of the dispute
We rather think that the compliment is not very
desirable one, the exactly such as Will
give its praises weight with the people OF this State
vet STILL such it is, friends OF the Wing press
are entitled to it, and therefore lay it before our
readers The Atlas says:
Whatever doubts may exist in the minds OF north
ern wings as the which their duty and the
soundest policy may demand of them, IN regard 10
retaining their old party and party organization
there is least point In regard TO when the en-
tire wing party of the free States united, and in
respect to which doubt hesitation is impossible
This is in regard to further operation and Joint po
litical action with the southern whig members OF
Congress- and those Southern presses who, by their
advocacy of the Nebraska wrong, have united to be-
tray their party have proved false to the promptngs
of honor and to good faith, and who have proved
that partv ties and personal honor alike power
less before the demands Of sectional agitation and
selfish policy. They have, by the course they have
voluntarily chosen to pursue made further political
CO, operation with them an imPossbihty. They have
done this deliberately, with the amples warnings of
the inevitable consequences. They have, therefore,
now no right to complain of Northern Wings, tor
position into which we have been forced by their
treachery I'd punlc faith. The whole Of the respon
siby tor the consequences of this great and crying
outrage this inevitable separation. rests upon them
They were warned the first moment the Nebras
ka perfdy was suggested that SO intoerable and dis
honorable Il scheme could not, and would not be
suffered. II was clear and demonstrate violation
of the platform which southern wings had themselves
dictated 10 the party at Baltimore, and 10 which ma
| ny northern wings had most reluctantly yielded
It was in palpable violation of national honor and
good faith. 1t was breach of most solemn cove
nant. 1t was the creation OF wide and lmpassable
gulf, that of slavery propagandism, between the
North and the South. Of all this they were warned
earnestly entreatngly Our warnings were I'M
needed; our entreaties dsregarded and even in
suited, until left in position where manhood
duty and conscience alike compel us to treat those
who have been friends, henceforth as our unscr
pulous political opponents.
'Of course no portion of these remarks apply to
such noble and whole souleh Southern wings as Hunt
and CulIom and Taylor and Bell, and they who with
them resisted, with manly independence, ever to
be held i'll the highest honor, this reat and crying
wrong; yet to the whig Journals in Kentucky,
Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas. North
Carolina and Missouri, whose columns Joined in this
upright and honorable resistance to the preparation
of wrong, Towards them cherish only the warm
est and kndlest feelings of gratitude, admiration and
confidence and earnestly hope that nothing need
ever to the ties which their heroic fdeii
ty, under Tie most trying circumstances has drawn
more closely than But with the entire whig
delegation from Kentucky and Missouri, and with ev
cry Southern Senator, with but "a single exception,
Hon John Bell, of Tennessee, and with such jour
nails as the Richmond wing, St Louis Republican, and
Baltimore Patriot, and those who with them have, in
tull view Of the inevitable consequences, arrayed
themselves with our enemies, further cooperation
has been made impossible, certainly until the great
outrage upon the free North, which they have contr
buted TO perpetrate, has been recalled, and until
rights soemnly guaranteed to the North by the com
promise of 1920 have been indicated by the restOra
ton of that violated compact. Until that is done,
this question: which treacheous friends and pertdi-
foes have united to force upon must be the one
great paramount, absorbing question, and all union
or lOtical fellowship with those who array them
selves against US, upon this ISSUE simply impossi
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