Weekly national intelligencer., 1860-05-12

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utions according to numbers are about to be restricted
to less than their proportion of the country and they are
to be smoked out or starved out"
Conceding that the Republican party is committed
to nothing than the practical restoration of the
Missouri compromise, submit to the moderate men
among them that this result has been already reached
under the operation of the very policy against which
they protest, and which, as introduced by the De-
mocracy, still remains in force. On this head Mr..
NICHOLSON, of Tennessee, in speech delivered in
the Senate the 30th of January last, remarked
follows
You that the primary if not the only object
OF your organization to prevent the expansion OF slavery
AS long as the question to the existence OF slavery IN
Kansas was open there small amount OF plasl-
biity IN the avowed purpose of your organization But
even that slender preex swept away There IS no
other Territory into ,oh probable if indeed possible,
that apry can be carried and maintained Southern staDe
holders knOD too doe the id,os icich regulate the Daiue Of
slape labor to be guilty Of the folly Of carrying into Of
orr present Territories The acquisition of additional ter
rtoy OF any kind, and especially of character to invite
slave labor is too remote contingency to be counted with
IN the range OF possibility What, then is there that is
practical IN organization In the great contest about
Kansas zoe had the empty triumph of change of the law
by the court In our favor but had the substantial m
umph OF verdict by the jury your favor We have the
consolation OF having the law side; you have the
consolation OF having the jury your side. What
do you want After protracted conflict, putting to
hazard the Conederacy you may possibly succeed IN get
ung the court as well as the jury your side. But The
eIPdnstoH g stdUey io0d be efectHag prevented
then than II is noto."
We cite these statements of the honorable Senator
as much for the political wisdom they inculcate as
for the historical facts they embody If pointed in
their primary application to the Republican party,
they equally full of instruction to the Democra
cy. The pith and substance of their address to
hnfh ba
ineontestble truth that the point in controversy be-
tween the two organizations having ceased to exist
in substance, has degenerated on each hand into the
dognatic definition and defence of political absrac-
tions which, barren of benefcent results in the prac
teal administration of the country are fruitful only
in domestic dissensons and sectional rivalries
SO long as aught of substantial moment remained
at stake between the competing sections it was per-
haps to be expected that the parties commonly re-
garded the exponents of the rights and interests
respectively claimed by each should present an un-
broken front the to the other. The very disn-
tegration, however, that has now overtaken them,
and by which they both to some extent affected
well in ascertaining the range and limits of their
principles as in selecting the leaders under whom
they may hope most successfully to marshal their
forces suggests to the philosophical observer that
the demarcations fixed by visible and tangible lines
of separation rapidly becoming merged in the
shadowy and indefinite confgurations of thought
that result from the absence of positive and substan
tial aims TO give them life and embodiment
AT the present time the first and highest need of
the country is domestic peace A truce is called
between the beligerent parties, if only long enough
that both may clearly ascertain for what they
olr-b; of Al,
countrymen seems so greatly disproportionate to
the objects severaliy proposed And the circum-
stances under which this appeal made by the friends
of the Constitution, the Union, and the enforce
ment of the laws" seem propitious to the accom-
pshment of their patriotic purpose Party ties are
ysiby weakened all Sides either by fierce dissen
sions from within, by the absence of compelling
motives from without sufficiently cogent to give
them compaetness of organization and defnteness
of aim Patriotic citizens of all classes and political
afinities longer called to cast their votes
under the influence of sectional feeling wounded
in its sensblites by indiscriminate reproacbes or
by hostile aggressions. With several parties in the
field, and with independence of opinion generally
reigning among the members of each with partisan
rage materially modified in its capacity for attack
by internal disagreements in the bosom of former
confederates it is obvious that the reserved strength
of that large and influential body who have hitherto
been unable and unwilling to share in the heats Of
recent political contests, may approach the
masses of their countrymen in the confident hope
that they will suspend the fratricida strife which,
having already endured too long for the peace and
prosperity of the country has begun 60 prove
of confusion and defeat at last to the forces
previously banded by it in columns closed and ea par
for the unnatural contest.
1t is in the midst of this relaxation of political
bonds that the Constitutional Union Party offers its
nominees to the acceptance of all who are wearied
by the agitations of the last few years. And who is
not wearied by theml Who would not gladly pro-
mote a return to the things which make for peace
Is it not time to seal up the bitter fountains which,
instead OF healing streams, cast up only mire and
dirt the more they stirred
In furtherance of these high and holy aims, as
constituting the paramount need of the times, the
baltimore Convention, interpret its action has
placed in nomination the distinguished statesmen
who have been selected by that body as candidates
for the highest Offices in the gift of the people So
constituting its purpose, we should do great violence
to what deem the dictates of patriotic duty If we
failed to commend that purpose to the appreciation of
our countrymen, especially when the movement is
naugurated under the auspices of two among the
most ustrious of our living statesmen and in whose
elevation to high official responsibilities the whole
people might confess to feeling of legitimate pride,
as well as of satisfaction at the thought that the
public welfare would be safe in their hands.
CONGRESS THURSDAY