The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-12
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W. r NOT sorry TO see that the National Iatellgenea
has at last found subject upon which it make up
column of oburgaton against the democratic party on the
h;ac of the Nebraska bill for it is little too ssdden-
ing to see our venerable contemporary rejoicing over apo
ton vhg victories and trying extract from the whig
coalition with all kinds of isms temporary sunshine to
comfort its distant readers The Iegecer having well
nigh despared of being able TO convince the South that
The democrats of the North have abned their devotion to
constitutional principles falls upon the proceedings of the
recent democratic State convention in New York as the
most acceptable subject the purpose has in view To
this end il tries prove that the resolutions in favor oil
Nebraska did not 90 far enough and upon this ground it
desires southern papers to answer what they think OF he
New York friends-those very southern papers who are
daily told by the htegencer that they have not gained
ANYTHING but lost rather by the Nebraska bill Its chief
witness is of the most malignant hounds oil abolition
in New York. the Evening Post paper that howls as
bitterly against the Union as the reasonable Tribune IT.
sef paper that has been universally rejected by the
democracy of the country For ourselves we are nee 10
say that the resolutions of the Syracuse convention GO
90 so far as we should have liked to see them go ana e
same NAV be said of the democrats who previously met al
Utica and nominated Mr.. Bronson for upon eaeh 'Ns
strong influences used to prevent any xostand
4vu0dt legectf 10 make capital out OF tnese results
will only end in inducing all liberal ask If the
course the New York democrats Nebraska has
been decided enough, where IN the ,chole North and Vest
IS there whg convention thai has dared go ha far IN
support Of The grea principles inpoced in that bill? Where
is there wing newspaper that has done i2 Where is
there wing leader that has done i' The InteUgencer
is daily enghtening its readers through endorsed
tracts from other journals that the South has been cheat
ed by the Nebraska BILL and that the Territories
are to be free; and yet in the breath, see
that there is not wing in the North bold enough
to cut loose from the abolitionsts by taking prac-
teal, common-sense ground the subject of the Ne
braska bill On the contrary the abolition party has
taken captive the wing party of the North and the IN
tellgencr tries break the force of fact significant
and weghty by seeking out in democratic politics msera
BILE exceptions the democratic rule of devotion to
onal principles The of New York which it cites if
properly regarded makes against ITSELF for the democracy
that Syracuse in the resolutions they adopted upon
the Nebraska BILL by that act lost the extreme antsavery
who had been operating with them and who left the
convention procaming that the Nebraska bill had been
endorsed No such instance be produced from the
wing party in the free States In that party all is gloom
and dnr6ness-all is abolition and aconall is hostility
to the constitution and yet the National Intelgence
paper protesting be the constitution rallies I'M
der banner which only be carried to triumph
the ruins of the rights of the southern Statesl