Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-10-21
UNJUST CENSURE OF NORTHERN
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The Southern Wings cannot, or will not be
made to understand the difference between
Northern Wings and Northern Democrats.
They constantly affirm that both are alike I'M
sound. Some Of the btterest partizan Wing
presses at the South, that still cherish all the
rancorous resentments Of past days, even 90 so
far as to charge that the Northern Democrats
| are more unsound than the Northern Wings.
Others, again, that propose to bury the Ratchet
"to blot out the terms Wing and Democrat
from our vocabulary" and to unite like one
man, make it a sine q,ta non and condition
precedent, that the iguominy shall be equally
divided between the Northern Democrats and
the Northern Wings. That is-that the South.
ern Democrats shall agree that the Northern
Democrats are just as corrupt, demoralized,
and unreliable as the Northern Wings. Com
PEELED as they are to cut themselves off from
their Freesoil allies, they want to compel South
ern Democrats to cut themselves off from
Northern Democrats, whether sound or un-
sound. The Petersburg Inteuigencer, which
by the way, is entitled to the credit of being
one of the first Wing papers to denounce its
Abolitionized allies of the North, thus expresses
itself in a late article on the recent elections:
THAT the natural allies have done the lob
in these elections is as clear as a mathemati-
cal demonstration; for il must be remembered
that the Wings were in minority in these
States, and the accession of strength which
gave them the late elections could have been
obtained from no other source than the Demo
cratic or natural ally ranks"
This is rank injustice to the Northern Dem
ocratic organization. No one denies that
many, who belonged to the Democratic party,
Quilted that party and united with the Freesoil.
ers, and that what had before been Wing
minority" was thus swelled into majority.
The Democrats who thus united with the Free
sellers and the abolitionized Wings are disa-
vowed and repudiated by the Democratic or
ganization. The whole Of the Wing party in
the States, referred to by the Intclligencer be-
came uusound, while only portion Of the
Democrats joined them. That portion stands
condemned. Would the b,telligcncer condemn,
in the same manner, those who remained true?
Would it punish both the good and the bad?
II so, how can it expect the South to find any
friends in the North?
The Northern Democratic party that was de.
eated in the recent elections By the confederated
tsmsthat havesprung up, has not swerved one jot
or title from the principles which the Intelligent
Ger says should be the basis Of union between
Southern men. In those elections in which il
was defeated it stood. up for those very princi-
pies, Although beaten, it still stands by them.
These Northern Democrats have proved them.
selves, both in victory and defeat, true to the
Constitution, true to State equality, true to
their Southern brethren. Under these cir.
cumstances, is it proper, is it generous, is it
just, in any paper or any man at the South,
whether Wing or Democrat, to place them
on the same platform with the false Demo.
Gratis, whom they voluntarily abandoned, or
the abolitionized Wings, whom the Iatellioen.
Ger is compelled to abandon? For our part.
we cling to such men with tenacty that no.
thing can break. The Wings Of the South
may denounce them, but they we're true to the
South when the Wings Of that section were
controlled by their more numerous Abolition
allies Of the North. Many Of them have been
sacrificed tor their devotion TO the constitutional
principles for which the South now, irrespec.
tive of party, contends and yet Southern De-
mocrats are asked TO abandon them. This
they will never do They will promptly cut
themselves of from all tainted Democrats, but
their tried and noble Democratic friends of
the North, they will adhere to, cherish, and de.
fend.