New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-08
THE SOUTHERN WINGS.

THE SOUTHERN WINGS.
An old Virginia Wing writes from Charlottes.
Vile "a private business letter" to The N. y.
Times, wherein he asserts that "the Northern
people" are "acting most unjustly," and "un-
kindly" toward the brave and earnest people"
of the South; and "hopes that The Times is
more considerable toward this unhappy portion
Of the country than most of the New-York jour.
nails" Here the laugh comes in. The writer
goes on to plead the cause of his Southern Wing
brethren as follows:
'The old Wing party OF the South although dragged
into accession really loved the Union than any If
even the Norths IN Irope-more than the Republican
party which called 1t league with death But how
ere they treated now' There Is a disposition 0en 20
be Lashe with the old Union party OF tue South than
with observation-disclosures. II Ia remarked the latter
believed in what they did The Union party OF the
South went with the South because blood Ii thicker
than water. They cast their lot, IA every generous
nature should. with their own peop.e-ana they sus.
tained through four bloody what they aohorred
This writer is grossly mistaken in what he
says Of " the Republican party" but let that
pass, since in what he says Of Northern estima-
ton Of "the old Union party Of the South"
there is a favor Of truth. This party had all
along profeSsed to condemn the principles and
the purposes OF the Southern .EaterS-had
held the views Of Washington, John Marshall,
Clay, Webster, and s. s. Prentiss, with regard
to the paramount authority Of the Union and
the duty incumbent on every citizen of uphold
ing that authority against the baseless preten.
sions Of estate Sovereignty" and the baleful,
perilous dogmas Of Calhoun, Rhctt, and Ruiiin.
Even in 1860, il made its Presidential canvass
distinctly on the platform Of "the Union. the
Constitution, and tho supremacy Of the Laws"
carrying the States Of Virginia, Kentucky and
Tennessee, and barely failing to carry Mary
land, North Carolina, Missouri and Louisiana,
thereon. They kner, and had long proclaimed,
that their Democratic opponents were plotting
Disunion-they denounced and assailed them
therefore-thcy knew that the disruption Of
the Democratic party at Charleston, in 1860.
was the result Of a Southern Democratic plot in
the interest of Disunon; and they had often
called On the people Of the South TO stand by
them, the Old Union party of the South" and
vote down the Disunion Nullifers, who were
pushing the South over the brink Of q precipice
into an unfathomable abyss. On this broad
issue, they gave Bell and Everett SIS, 1913 popular
votes in the Slave States, to $40, 81 for Breck-
inridge, 163,525 for Douglas and 26, 430 for
Misunderstanding Q clear aggregate majority
against the faction intent on Disunion. If ever
a party was committed by its principles, its pro-
fessions its alliances and its traditions, to stand
firm in a great emergency, then the old Wing
party Of the South" was so committed to resist
to the death Secession and DiSunion.
At length came the long expected ordeal,
whereby the Southern Wings were tried ard
found wanting. The great body Of them went
straight over to the camp Of their lifelong adj
yersaries, and tried to out. Hcrod Herod in re.
bellion and hate of "the Yankees" They
turned their backs Oh themselves, and became
what they had always protested to abhor. Why
sol What excuse con be made for theml
This Southern Wing says that
1.-THE Union party Of the South went with the South
because blood is thicker than water They cast their
lot as every generous nature should. with their own
peopcand they sustained through four bloody years
what they nbhorred."
Indeed
Now We wish no harm done to any portion Of
those lately in rebellion, unless for acts Of in
humanity and cruelty in violation of the laws
of War We are not merely willing but anx.
ious to have the bitter past buried in oblivion.
But such apologies for bloody treason as that
just quoted arc worse and moro perilOus than
the crime they would excuse. They form per.
netnal Indictment to new secessions, now civil
wars. Only let the Yanceys and Floyds got up
a Southern rebellion, no matter how inexcus.
ably, aud this virginian afirms that "every
generous nature" at the South should "cast in
their lot with their own pcople"-that is, with
tho Rebels. If this be sound doctrine, then
civil war is the doom Of this unhappy
country.
For sincere NuIlifer o." State So7ere'gntv"l