Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-06-12
THE WASHINGTON UNION "IGNoREs,,
SLAVERY Il SETS RATsBANE BY
THE poRRInGEu

We perceive that the Richmond Examiner
agrees with us in condemning the proposition of
the Union in its article of Sunday last, entitled
" The Democratic position on the slavery ques-
ton"
In our article with this head, which appeared
in our paper of Tuesday last, we neglected to
show the disastrous effect upon our sound ma
tional Democratic friends of the North of the
plan of the Washington Union.
Entirely excluding the subject of slavery from
our party creed, as the Union proposes, we ask
what would become Of Bright, Douglas, Dick
inson, Brodhead, Richardson, Hubbard, &c., &c.,
if the ignoring project of the Union and Senator
Wilson shall be adopted by the Democratic
partyi
If, as the Union proposes, (the subject ofslavery
excluded,) members of the party "rnay differ as
udeiy possible 10 all subjects not embraced by
their party creed, what will be the effect, mark,
upon those sound Northern Democrats who stand
by the principles of the compact formed by the
original thirteen States We answer-they will
be borne down by the stream Of fanaticism. Those
who succeed them will in Congress be free to
NOlc W lhpldAldlc AUOHLtOn sentiment, Will
out losing national prestige as expounded by the
Union.
We copy below the article from the Examiner,
and draw attention TO it.
More Treason In the Palace.
From the Washington Union of Sunday last
We copy the following sentences They occurred
in leading editorial dissertation Of that paper
entitled "The Democratic position on the slavery
question :"
" II we are right in assuming that the North
and the South can never harmonic on the alb
stract subject Of slavery, it follows that there can
be no such things national parties eTctpt upon The
basis Of an entire exclusion Of The subject from their
political creeds No mathematical proposition is
mere true than that the only basis OF party organ
ization is an agreement amongst those who enter
into il upon the subjects which they recognize
as belonging TO its creed. They may differ as
widely as is possible as 10 all subjects not en-
braced by their party creed, but to be harmonious
inside their organization they must have COM
mon sentiments, and stand together on a com
mon platform. These truths will command ready
assent, and they demonstrate the proposition that
no party embracing members al the North and The
South can be national or harmonious in It's Organi-
zafon tchich does not crciude The question of saUerU
from its creed. II Northern men insist upon en-
grating upon their party creed the doctrine that
slavery is a moral or political evil, they raise an
ILsuperable barrier against harmonious associa-
ton with Southern men. In like manner, if
Southern men insist on making II party creed
that slavery is morally and politically right they
THEREBY cut off Northern men from political asso-
citation with them The necessary result is, that
without federation Of differences Of opinion as 60
the abstract question Of slavery, parties are ne
eessui ty sectional, and cannot possibly be ma
tional"
IL there is a task irksome and disgusting to us
above all others, il is keeping watch upon the
Washington Union, and denoupcing the damna-
bic sentiments it is constantly uttering as il in
tent upon the destruction Of the Democratic
party II is shameful--it is monstrous, that an
establishment which counts its emoluments from
the Democratic party by the hundreds of thou
sands Of dollars by the year, should so outrage
ts confidence, falsely its creed, and sting in its
bosom with poison Of death, as this Washington
organ is daily doing in the utterance Of such
abomnable opinions as the foregoing.
Because the North and the South differ in SEN
timent upon the abstract subject Of slavery
therefore there can be no national organization
Of party, that does not entirely exclude the ques-
ton of slavery from it's creed, and leave its mem
bers free to think and do, to act and plot, 10
nTachinate and insult, TO wrangle, abuse crirni-
nate and scandalze, upon that vital test ques-
ton, according to their wont and will and plea
sure! That is the present doctrine Of the Wash
ington Union, Of the pretended organ Of the
party of Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, and Polk
Of the party known and confessed by the world
to have been national, in deed, in creed, in name
and conduct--natisnal by excellence and pre-cm-
inence from its foundation until the evil hour