The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-09-03
MONDAY MORNING, SEPT. 3, 1885.
sectional Parties.

The New York Express together with nearly
the whole phalanx, north aud south, of the old,
tried, substantial public journals, heretofore
national and conservative in their political
tone. regulates promptly and eInphatically,
the efforts of Toombs, Stephens, Benjamin &
CO.. on the one part, and Seward, Greedy d
Co., on the other part, to array the North and
South against each other, in an ill-omened sec
tional contest for the Presidency.
: IT. indeed, we look into the essential elements
of these sectional and disorganizing movements
on either side, we viii find them in no small
degree identical with those which have ever
characterized at once the ultraism of nulli6ca-
ton and abolitionism-in this, that they as
sumo for States and sections certain rights and
functions Of sovereignty which belong to the
Federal Government as a national and conser-
Yative power. The doctrine of ultra State
rights is to no small extent at the bottom of
all our sectional troubles In the South, it
teaches that State may peaceably resist the
payment of Federal taxes-snd in the North,
2 it recognizes the right to rob the southerner of
his slave property passing transiently through
q noD-sla veholding community. These are rad
ical heresies, which, unfortunately, have scat
tered their fruits broadcast over the land. 1t
Is time, high time, they were exposed and re-
buked wherever they are directly or indirectly
taught. The authority of the CoEsTITgTIoN,
and the CONSTITUTION AS IT 10, should be main
tanned in the purity of its good old Republican
simplicity and conservatism. This is the best
security at once for the preservation of South
ern rights and of the American Union. We
see no argument urged now in advocacy of a
"Southern Party" which would not have
been plausibly applicable in defense of the in
cipient plans and schemes proposed by the
reasonable sectional Southern Convention of
.1s5O-which has been very generally con-
demned by the conservative sentiment of the
whole country. The project of Benjamin and
Stephens will be no less emphatcally repndi-
ated now.
The Express remarks: Gan attempts in this
country to form mere sectional parties, have
always failed-and must always fail-if we are
TO work together as one People in one Union.
The men who have been engaged in forming
these sectional parties, have always been ru-
ined by them, and must always be ruined
unless the public is prepared to ruin the uni
versatility of our Federal form of government"
And speaking more particularly of the great
empire State of New York, the same excellent
journal, in national and patriotic vein, says:
ba
mercal and trading State of New York-the
State whose canals, and railroads, and steam
ships, bring not only all the products of the
Union, but of the werld, to it, and through it
into State outside of the other States of
the Union, South, will also fail. 1t will sput-
ter, and splitter, however, as did the Hartford
convention, and the Columbia convention
but will end in .tfzzLe. Our interests are too
vast for us thus to make Chinese barbarians of
ourselves, and to shut others from our parties,
or our party organizations. We may be indig-
nant because of the repeal of the Missouri
Compromises doubtless we are-but wear
as indignant with the Northern Representa-
tives. the Northern Senator'S, the Northern
President, the Northern members Of the Cabi-
net. that wrought the repeal-as with the
Southern minority in the House of Congress.
Our indignation is not so blind as not to let us
see the North helped do it, as well as the
SOUTH
Neither the North or the South is yet ready
for the incipient steps of the Dissolution
whatever be the pretence, or by whomsoever
it is urged.