The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-07-29
From the Cincinnati Enquirer
TIE DISUNI0N PARTY.


TIE DIsUNIoN PARTY.
We have said that the organization of party geo.
graphical lines and composed only of a section of the
Union, necessarily produce the results which
predicted the consequences Of such Of affairs by
the lustrous Father of his Country and by all the early
sages and patriots OF republic The blackepubltcan
party these assertions and allegations in most log
ical and disngenuous First they pretend that
Fremont is southerner that his birth in South Carolina
give him the right TO be considered southerner Can
anything be absurd2 He declares against what
the black republicans themselves call sectional idea and
institutions which exist only in the South
II is in the political sense that the word sectional
1t not question of BIRTH Brny, the first candidate Of
the abolition party, yrgnian by BIRTH and it would
quite proper say that he southern candidate
to claim that character for Fremont
In this sepse and in this view that the authority Of
the canddaure jackson and Calhoun loses all its force
and application the of Fremont and Dayton jack
and Calhoun southern in birth and residence but
they stood national platform, and they received AZ
many if more electoral votes at the North than at the
South. They the nominees of citizens OF all the
States combined in political organization and for GER
tain general political and national objects. They were
combined to put down the National Bank. There was
nothing sectional in that They combined to put
down high protective tariffs internal improvements by the
general governmental OF WHICH objects interested equal
| ly the citizens Of all the States.
So too of the present democratic party 1t matters lit
tie where its candidates born They the candi
dates of citizens of all the States They have more sup
porers at the North than in the South They the
nominees of convention In which all the States fully
The nominee for the presidency the spe
cal avote Of the North Nearly the whole South voted
against him for the nomination the first ballots but
hen be had received majority OF the votes and stood
upon broad national constitutional platform, the South
acquesced The South did not withhold its vote from Mr.
i - tharp frpi tha
majority of its ballots for whose birth and residence
were still further north. How differently the nomina-
lion of Fremont effected The South not even ex-
peced or invited take part in the proceedings OF that
body Indeed insult added to injury by the attempt
to smugge imposors into the cenvenuon 70 cast the votes
of States where meetings had been held could be hsd
in favor of the object of the convention.
The whole affair sectional in Its motives and objects,
its spirit and its organization Dsunion must have been
ia the contemplation of its managers. They not
Ignorant as imagine that the free people of this country
would consent 10 live under the government Of fac
| ton and section.
The character and motives of the scheme developed
with the skill of artist by Wendell Philips the abest
abolition in the country in the following remarks
! delivered by him the 4th of July last:
"No man. Mr.. Chairman has a right to be surprised at
the present state of things IL is Just what have
tempted bring about My friend Swasey telling u.s.
this morning, what slavery has done She has stolen
j
presidential chair empty. What has she done? She has
done just exactly What we have been tempting her
TO do-that is she has developed herself The slave
power had always the same power and the wish
is the antslaTey enterprise that has developed that
wish into act IL ID Just what expected, exactly.
The forces at last ranged face TO face Our friends
have not turned the bright side Of the matter to-day
but there merit In the republican party II Is this IL
tie first sectional party organized IN his country
docs not kaotS ' opn face and es H'tg national 6 Il
against The South Henry Wilson said 10 me, we must
get every northern State in order elect Fremont Even
In magin he did not count upon single southern
State 1t distinct recognition Of the fact that the
republican party party Of the North, pledged against
he South Theodore Parker wanted to know where
disunion would begin. will tell him just where that
party divides That northern party against the south
do not call 1t antslavery party it has not risen
that yet II is northern party against the southern
They made the first little breach The first crack in the
iceberg is visible you will yet hear it go, with crack
through the eentre, It's first distinct recognition was
Bankss election. He elected by northern men-not
that party. hail IL as 5gn-as great gain. did not
hope to SEQ II for ten years 1t has come Unexpectedly
| early"
This is frank, honest and straightforward II exposes
in strong light the miserable fasehosd, hypocrisy and
obiquy Of the back-repubcan leaders They know they
asy when they pretend that their object is not the for
nation OF exclusively sectional party and they know
that the tendency and effect Of such organization is TO
dissolve the Union
Theirs aleast honest journal embarked In the cause
The New York Mercury weekly Of large circulation 10
the last number il hypocrisy and decep-
ton In the northern republican party to pretend that theirs
not sectional party and that the great free NORTH
ing the power will not il for the promotion and
tabisbment Of its own policy that Of the nation Far
less dangerous enemies Of the Union those honest and
outspoken advocates of sectional division than the sneak
ing ase-faccd hypocritca pretenders who affect be
shocked the very idea Of dsunon and yet support the
measures which must inevitably lead TO u.