Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-08-25
Which is the Union Party?

Among the many curiosities of the day is the claims that the fossil remains of dis banded organizations have to be called the Union party. The following list of "old l ne whigs," comprising nearly all the re- maining lights of once great party-are now acting with the constitutional democ- racy. Surely if the whig party has any respect for its counsellors and standard bearers, in days of its past glory, it cannot fail to see that to John C.. Breckinridge and Joe Lane the eyes of the good, the pat rlotic, and the reaecting of all parties at the South and North are beginning to look for political salvation. Read the follow ing extract and tell us ye whigs of the South, if you will not rather go with your old leaders in theirinterpretation of present constitutional issues, than follow the stand ard of petty tricksters who are making noise over John Bell in order to sell out to some other party at above PAR VALUE?
 
 Caleb Gushing was conspicuous member of that party; he Is now deacon in the democratic church, and goes his length for Brecknridge, John Tyler, ditto ditto. Henry A. Wise, ditto, ditto Josiah Randall, Joseph k. Chandler, and William B. Reed were leading whigs in Philadelphia; they are now democratic magnates-we believe all for Breckinrdge. William Wright, ditto in New Jersey. In Maryland James A. Pearce and Rev erdy Johnson were whig standard-bearers; they are now democrats of long standng-the latter a Douglas held-marshal. Mir. Pearce seems a little bewildered, but will proba go for Breck- nridge. Abraham Rencher, Burton Craige, Daniel l.. Barringer, and Thomas l.. Clingman, were among our most vehement whigs in North Carolina; they are now good democrats, and they say our pruer chepaier Kenneth Rayner is about to follow in their footsteps Clngman would like to go for Douglas, but the local current is too strong -he IS determined not to be read out of the party he has had so much trouble to get nto-so he has to seem to 90 with the crowd for Breckinridge. Isaac E. Holmes, our solitary whig from South Carolina, whOso vote made Mir. Winthrop Speaker of the AAAth Congress, is now farmer in Cali fornia, and we believe republican. Our whig master-spirits from Georga--Aleck H. Stephens, Robert Toombs and Thomas Butler King-are now all democrats of approved standing, though Steph- ems IS likely to be read out of meeting for wanting to support Douglas. Our leading, if not only whig in the XXXth Congress from Alabama, was the Rev. Henry W. Hilliard. who is now for Breckin. rldge while Lewis E. Parsons, of our stanchest Harry Clay men of the old days, leads the forlorn hope for Douglas. In old Kentucky-not to men, tion the Wickltfes, who left us a few years after Mr. Hunt joined us-William Preston, Humphrey Marshall, and Archibald Dixon, were wings of lofty mien; they are now democratic leaders, and for Breckinridge. In Tennessee, beside Meredith P. Gentry aforesaid, Charles Ready an old whig and ''U Union Member of the last House, is now out for Breckinridge, while Gov. Jones has turned democrat, and died in that faith. Of our old whigs in Missouri. large portion have sunk through border -rutiansm into slavery extending democ- racy about half present delegation to the House of that stripe though it said that Col. Wood son, seeing his new household hopeessly distracted, is trying to crawl back into the old camp. Our old whig organ, the Missouri Republican, is now the sgnal-lght of Douglas democracy. Even Albert Pike of Arkansas-whose whigism ought to have been bullet proofs said to be now demo- crat. Calling spirits from the vasty deep'' is not an absolutely hopeless enterprise, supposing any spirits to be there; but undertaking to galvanize the corpse of whiggery in order to make it do vice in the hopeless cause of Douglas-the most intense and wholesale opponent of all Mir. Clay $ ideas and asprations-is insanely preposterous.