The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-10-05
THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER'S MISREPRE-
SENTATIONS OF NORTHERN DEMOCRATS.

With all its pretensions to candor and moderation, and
conservatism the National InteHigencer is doing
excite sectional ealouses and stres than any other jour
nal Its efficiency for evil is greater than that of the New
York Tribune and Evening Post and other papers Of like
character because seeds of dscod and dssenson
whilst professions all in favor of harmony and fra
terny between the sections On the other hand there
is disguise conceamen " the purposes and designs
of the other journals alluded to- The is open,
avowed and outright enemy-he other is nsdious foe
who the garb of friendship under which to
cea his evil purposes The following characteristic arti
Gle which appeared in the Itgencr of the Sd ns will
serve as an illustration of these remarks:
DODGING THE ISSUE.
Some of the papers afford amusing instances of
artul lodging 1t is often announced that Nebraska
resolutions unanimously adopted and this sounds wei
to the southern But the suboned paragraph
gives insight the quality of the Nebraska resolutions
See coo the Chicago Times chuckes the fact that
the South have no line Of protection, no barrier
From the Chicago Times o Sept %
"KEEp PEOPLE, that Williams, Norton,
wing candidates for Congress in Illinois, in
Of reestabishing arbitrary geographical ne south q
son. Aen Jackson MeSurry Marshall Harris Drake
the democratic candidates for Congress- believe that Con-
are Of leaving the people Of the Territories
fecy free to form and regulate their domestic N
States CHoos BETWEEN THEM"
The same paper States another article that in every
congressional district where the democratic party has made
will make nomination there has been full fair, open,
manly declaration of principle They ut says} utterly
opposed individuals slavery Were the question of its
existence suppression question in which under the
suon of their country they had right to decide they
would cheery decide set the captves ee &c. Thus
1t is that word of comfort to the antisavery is regu-
arly thrown in. With what sincerity such naural allies
of the South" must work
To one unacquanted with the antecedens and sympa-
thes of the Inegencer these would to be dsner-
ested suggestions, coming from sincere friend of the
South and warning southern against the decetul
professions of northern democrats. But they really
suggestions made by of that class of friends who
point the their neighbours eye but forget that
they have beam in their If the hMegencer is so
much concerned lest southern may be imposed upon
why does it not appropriate little portion of its broad
the anti-savery and dsunion positions of its
northern wing alies2 There time when the south
wings looked their organ at Washington nfor-
nation the position of their northern friends They
look there now however in vain for such information
The bteligeacer would gladly draw thick veil the
late proceedings of its northern friends and allow south
whiggery 10 remain in utter ignorance of northern
wing coalitions with aboltionism.
paper for the enlightenment of southern wings the
combinations and fusons and coalitions of northern wings
for the overthrow of southern rights and southern nstu
TONS they vigiant and prompt in detecting and her.
aiding the smallest indications of hostility to the South
by northern democrats In their affected eagerness to
the South they show scrupes in misrepresentng
the position Of northern democrats The Chicago Times
exposes the inconsistency of the wing candidates Con-
by showing that they in favor of re-esabsng the
MISREPRESENTATION line although the reestablishment
that line would by implication at least egalze slavery
south of the line The hegcer in this the chuck
ling of the Times the that the South has no line
of protection barrier If the Times chuckes ALL it
IS the fact that it clearly exposes the duplcy of
the whg candidates in protesting to be violently opposed
to slavery and yet advocating proposition which legal
ICES south of the Missouri line On the other hand
chuckles the fact that the democratic candidates
stand upon the principles of the Nebrasks BILL which
the ardent approval of the South.
But the Iuegencer is guilty of still giarng ct
tempt at imposition when it proceeds to make an ex-
tract from the Times, and from it to misrepresent the
position Of that journal 1t will be seem by reference
the foregoing article from the haehgencer, that that
journal guilty of the unfrness Of quoting part Of
sentence from the Times, giving context
relying upon the garbed extract nake the impression
that the Times sincere friend of this South in adj
vocang the principles of the Nebraska bill n the Intel
igencer had presented the whole extract it would have
shown that whilst the Times advocate slavery it
advocates the constitutional rights to slavery guaran
tied the South This is the position Of all sound north
ern democrats How many northern wings the Intel
lgencr find who occupy position favorable to the
South that But the Ltellgencer seeks by nsnuation
throw disrust the position of the Times by the
remark "Thus it is that word of comfort to the anti
slavery is regularly thrown i'm If the Ietgencer
had been as candid solcitous to make false i'm
preston it would have stated the real why the
Times expressed itself individually opposed to slavery
1t is known all intelligent men, and Of to the
editors of the Ineync that it is part of the wing tac
tics at the North charge every democrat who supports
the Nebraska bill pro-slavery propagandst This is
done excite and enlist the northern antslavery feeling
against all the advocates of the bill II is treated rs
southern proavery measure and all its advocates as
sailed proavery propagandists. As matter of self
defence therefore it natural for the Times
individual opposition slavery in connection with its
dent support of the Nebraska bill This DONE by
way Of comfort to the ansavery men," nsdiously
charged by the genc but to neutalize the prejudice
sought be excited against the friends Of the Nebraska
bill Thus il is that whilst the wings at the North
make it strong objection the advocates of the Nebraska
hill that thereby friends South and of