Washington sentinel., 1854-07-14
THE BOSTON ATLAS ON THE SOUTH
ERN WHIGS.

We commend to our whig friends of the
south the following remarks from one of the
leading northern whig Journalistic Boston
4tlas. They cannot be mistaken by any, how
ever blind or stupid they may be. They have
one merit, and that is plain bluntness. Their
meaning cannot be misinterpreted. The atlas
makes no hypocritical professions of affection
for its whig brethren Of the south. 1t openly
repudiates and abandons them. II comes out
and boldly denounces them. The breach be-
tween the northern and southern wings is widen
ing. The gap is growing larger. The Atlas
makes no concealments, no reservations. Its
structures are, however, not indiscriminately
applied. Some are excepted from it. Some Of
the anti-Nebraska wings ofthe south are praised
most profusely, and hugged most fraternally.
They are cherished as the apple of the Atlas's
eye But it cuts off from all fellowship and
communion all the Nebraska wings from the
south, and taboos the Richmond Wing, St
Louis Republican, Baltimore Patriot, and all
other Nebraska journals, until they shall eat
their words, retrace their steps, repeal the Ne
braska bill, and restore the restrictive clause Of
the Missouri compromise. The atlas says:
"Whatever doubts may exist in the minds
of northern wings as to the course which their
duty, and the soundest policy may demand Of
them, in regard to retaining their old party
name and party organization, there is at least
one point, in regard to which the entire whig
party Of the free States are united, and in re.
spect to which, doubt or hesitation is impossible
! This is in regard to further cooperation and
Joint political action with the southern whig
members Of Congress- and those southern
presses, who by their advocacy Of the Ne
braska wrong, have united to betray their
party, have proved false to the propptings of
honor and to good faith, and who have proved
that party ties and personal honor are alike
powerless before the demands Of sectional agita
| ton and selfish policy. They have, by the
course they have voluntarily chosen to pursue,
made further political cooperation with them
an impossibity. They have done this deibe
rately, with the amplest warnings Of the nevi-
table consequences. They have, therefore,
now no right to complain Of northern whigs
| for position into which we have been forced
| by their treachery and Punc faith. The whole
Of the responsibility for the consequences of
this great and crying outrage, this inevitable
separation rests upon them. They were warned
the first moment the Nebraska per6dy was
suggested that so intolerable and dishonorable
a scheme could not, and would not be suffered.
1t was clear and demonstrable violation Of
the platform which southern wings had them
selves dictated to the party at Baltimore, and
to which many northern wings had most re-
luctantly yielded. 1t was in palpabe violation
of national honor and good faith. 1t was a
breach of most solemn covenant. 1t was the
creation Of wide and impossible gulf; that
Of slavery propagandism between the north
and the south. Of all this they we're warned ear.
nestly, eptreatingly, even. Our warnings were
unheeded. Our entreaties we're disregarded,
and even insulted, until we are left in posi-.
ton where manhood, duty and conscience alike
compel us to treat those who have been our
friends, henceforth as our unscrupuous politi-
cal opponents.
"0f course no portion Of these remarks ap-
ply TO such noble and whole.souled southern
wings as Hunt and Cullom, and Taylor and
Bell, and they who with them resisted, with a
manly independence ever TO be held in the
highest honor this great and crying wrong /;
nor yet TO the whig journals in Kentucky Ala.
bama, Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas, North
Carolina, and Missouri, whose columns joined
in this upright and honorable resistance 10 the
preparation Of wrong. Towards them we cher
ish only the warmest and kndliest feelings of
gratitude, admiration, and confidence; and we
earnestly hope that nothing need ever occur to
sever the ties which their heroic fidelity, under
the most trying circumstances, has drawn more
closely than ever. But with the entire whip
delegation from Kentucky and Missouri, and
with every southern senator, with but single
exception, Hon. John Bell, of Tennessee, and
with such Journals as tie Richmond Wig, ST.