The Yazoo Democrat., 1854-03-22
THE WHIG PARTY.

met with universal acceptance, and some ingeni-
Gus persons have exhausted their energies in la.
borious augmentation to establish the fact or
the existence Of whig party amongst US. This
may be, but if SO the question exhibits no signs
of animation. Neither did Falstaf when he
lay the motionless counterfeit of death but be
rose again and achieved valiant deeds of arms
on the body of the gallant Percy. We suspect
the Wing party of no such strategem. 1t has
fallen neither in syncope nor in affectatlon, but
from the mortal stroke of the destroyer.
The Petersburg InteLigencer gives the result
of post mortem examination of the Whig Par
ty in the following interesting article. The fact
as well the Cf its death, are satisfaction
ly demonstrated
THE WHIG PARTY.
We have for some time been under the i'm
preston that the new phase which the slavery
question has assumed IN Congress would play
the mischief with the old party organizations,
based as those organizations were. upon the re-
cognition in their respective platforms of 1852
of the Compromise of 1850. We never for a
moment believed that the Free Soilers who EN-.
hraced the Democratic platform had a particle
of sincerity in their declarations, or that they
would not seize the first opportunity, after get
ting their share of the spoils, OF thrusting out
the cloven foot which they cunningly concealed
under their garments at the time. Neither have
we any great confidence in the body of the Nor
thern Wings, because the influence of VIM. HI.
Seward over them has been too obvious to have
escaped our notice. With few distinguished
exceptions the Wings of the non-slaveholding
States have been found steadily opposed to the
constitutional rights of the South, as it regards
their peculiar institution. They almost unani-
mously resisted the Fugitive Slave bill, and have
given no indication since Of the slightest change
in their.position. We had hoped, however, not
withstanding all the dscouagements that the
Wing party at the North would, under the wise
counsels of such men as Everett, Choate, and
Others of like stamp. be brought to consider the
follies and hazards of heir anti-southern demon
strations. and would, upon reflection, retrace
their steps and become united with the Wings
of the South in great national party. We ex
pected with confidence that EDWARD EVER
EFT would, of all men, have signalized his de-
votion to the conservative interests of the coun-
try as they are embodied and guarded in those
great enaetE4ents Of the thirty first Congress
known collectively as the compromises
which he has always avowed himself the ardent
friend
If he had stood firmly up to the crisis-ff he
had proven himself true to his post in the time
of trial-there would have been chance of getS
ting the whig party safely through the Abolition
breakers amids which it was struggling. But
his influence has been exerted only to precipi-
tate the disaster which he could have averted.--
Never did an eminent man commit so wretched
blunder-never was statesman so lamentably
at fault as is Mr.. Everett in his course upon the
nifty of consolidating his fame--of blazing bright
est amongst the shining lights of the land. He
has, with a strange infatuation, abandoned the
lofty position which he so long held with honor
to himself and benefit TO his country and de-
soended to unite himself with a sect whose doc
trines, maxims, and practices, cannot but be the
opposite of his. When we see such man sur
render himself to the Free Sellers and Abolition
lists, and takehis place along side Of Seward and
Chase, and Sumner, we have nothing to do but
to express our astoniShment at the spectacle, and
regret so lamentable an instance of instability
in one of the most gifted intellects of the age.
The detection of Mr.. Everett, and of the Ma
tienal Intelligencer. has played havoc with the
whg party It is useless to disguise the fact that
Abolitionism and Free Soilisn have, with these
accessicns, effectually broken the ties which
bound together the wings of the south and of the
north. The former cannot fraternize with the |
latter, arrayed as they now are against one an
other upon the vital constitutional principle
as embraced in the Nebraska question. There
could be neither consistency, propriety, or sim
cerity, in any union between them after the pro-
ceedingso of the Northern Wings upon this ques-
ton. For some days rumors have been rife of
meeting of the Southern wings having been Sc
cretly held at Washington, IN which Messrs.
Toombs, Stephens and others declared the party
and denounced the N ational Intelli-
gencer for its desertion of the South. We know
not whether these rumors be well founded or
not, but this we viii say, that if they shall be
confirmed, we shall be gratiied at the stand ta-
ken by the meeting, and shall cheerfully cast in |
our lot with the South-our own Southland |
abide the consequences. inclination no less
than duty impels us to this determination.