The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-07-25

1t The Washington Union-presidentP Pierce
!. rgan-published the following article a FEY
days ago. twill be perceived that tit confesse
: that the democracy, as national party, n
n longer exists, and that the administration sue
), cumbs to the abolitionists:
l. elf we are right in assuming that the mort
Y and the south can never harmonic on the ab
.. stract subject of slavery, it follows that Their
8 can be no such things asnational parties, excer
! upon the basis of an entire exclusion OF the sub
J ject from their political creeds. No mathematl
: cal proposition is more true than that the onl
# basis of party organization is an agreemen
amongst those who enter into it upon the sub
= jects which they recognize as belonging to it
creed They may differ as widely as is possible
j as to all subjects not embraced by their part,
e creed, but to be harmonious inside their organi
cation they must have common sentiments, ant
stand together on a common platform. Thes'
truths will command ready assent, and they de
monstrate the proposition that no party EN-
, bracing members at the north and the soutl
, can be national or harmonious in its organiza
ton which does not exclude the question O
slavery from its creed If northern men insis
upon ENGRAVING upon their party creed the
doctrine that slavery is moral on political evil
they raise an insuperable barrier againsta har-
monious association with southern men. In like
manner if southern men insist on making it a
party creed that slavery is morally and poti-
cal]y right they thereby cut off northern men
from political association with them The ne
cessary result is, that, without federation Of
differences of opinion as tothe abstract question
of slavery, parties are necessarily sectional and
cannot possibly be NATIONAL .-.8.
The Delta, remarkng on this article says
that the very startling paragraph above quoted
has reused some of the most apathetic polti-
clans of the south. In every paper of any in
telligence, published south of Mason and Dix
on's line, we notice their startling effects, and
the deep underhum is universally perceptible
which must soon swell to tornado Yet,
neither the programme of the Union, nor the
recent course of the cabinet has astonished us
in the least. Months and months ago, we de-
| clared our utter want Of faith in the mosaic
cabinet of Mr.. Pierce, where the most adverse
opinions appear to be harmonized and held to-
gether by ':the cohesive power of public plum
DER We did not wait for overt acts, such as
the appointment of Reeder, or the pronuncia-
mento OF the Union, for the conduct of the adj
mlnlstratlon towards the national democracy of
New DIRK sufficiently assured US that "no good
could come out of Nazareth"
The Washington Sentinel, (the official organ
OF the U. s. senate, } reviewing the Unions ar
ticle, remarks:
"Thus, slavery is not in the creed-ienored.
it is excluded, while all its vilest enemies, vii.
son, Giddings, Theodore Parker, Gerrit Smith
and even Fred Douglass, flor negroes ere al
lowed to vote in the holy land, are to be an
nointed with oil and received in full fellowship
and communion with the democratic party!!
Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be
made white as snow. Is the democratic party.
north or south, prepared to adopt this plan. the
effect OF which would be inevitably, to abol |
tionizeit? Is the administration ready or wIlino
to see its organization, whose principles are
founded IN eternal truths marred and despoiled
by the hands of such traitors? Will Franklin |
fierce, whom we do not believe lost to sense
OF his most sacred duty and the highest and
most solemn obligations, by not disavowing
such sentiments permit himself and his admin
stratlon to be included in the category in which
he Washington Union has placed itself? Will
not Dobbin and Davis interfere to save US from
his humilation?'
The Richmond Enquirer follows the matter
lp ''But we have no patience with doctrine
Ike this We shall not undertake to set forth
painfully and argumentatively the monstrous
l IL OF this new canon of democratic faith.
the south nothing could be more dangerous
II repulslve Neutrality as policy! To be
leu,ral on the slave question at this crisis of ,
'ubllc affairs is to be hostile to the south. Her
ase IN the Union is like that of the Saviour in :
udea Whosoever is not with her is aoainst :
ef' There is no halfway ground betmsen =
ne south and abolltionism -between the con- +
Tuition and Its assailants. The one great ques-
on OF the republic, absorbing all others, test
lS the complexion of parties, the integrity of
ne constitution, the inviolability of the laws,
nd the continuance of the Union, is this slave II
uestlon. 10 claim to be national party, and IL
ct 10 nave 70 principles this leading, absorb Ia
- overshadowlng question of nationality, is o
mockery of political honesty To have no nj
Jews nor principles on that question, is to be al
estltute OF all principles whatever, save the al
llnclples of the loaves and fishes Abolition 10
m vaunts its higher law and assais the ma pc
onal constitution with fendish blasphemy and Tn
7nom' The democracy stands listlessy BY, al
umlng itself on its nationality and pampering I
re assallants with Office and plumber! Neu-
allty like this is, if possible worse than abo- pc
'onlsm, and the south will have none of it, al
The Charleston Mercury says: "But the pro- ~:
'stlon OF the Union not only exposes the I'M VI
orthness OF its motive, but as we have shown or
gam and again, involves condition, treach- ~ ~
Gus to the south. On this ground, more than a.
others, we meet and denounce it. When "a
expressed few weeks ago our suspicious M
at such proposal would be made in the APP In
oachlng canvass, little did we dream that
ey would be so speedily realized and from g.. 81
oh quarter. We thought likely enough, INT INT
at some party at the north, we'll knowing t tl's
at the policy, if acceded to by the south, VI. VI;
ould make her own hands the instruments of us
II overthrow, would urge itupon her as fair wi wi
ID pacific basis of party organization It o oo
oud be the old trick over again, which north OF
parties have SO often practsed upon the ne ,e
eduIlty and blindness of the south But we lal
yer imagined that democratic paper, a Al
uthern paper, pro-slavery paper, would so &c
iorgetits own principles and duty, as to come me
the south in the present moment of peril and -.r
xlety, with a proposition which is, in plain ~,
ms, a bare faced attemnt to r,roet,o+o -. Po'