The New York Herald Newspaper, June 27, 1854, Page 2

“TWE LATE GREAT WHIG PARTY. A Clean Split Upon Mason and Dixon’s Line, NORTHERN WHIGS VS. SOUTHERN WHIGS. | ‘WHERE ARE THEY TO G0?” Political Jeuruals, North and South, Taking Soundings. Recks, Breakers and Sandbars All Around. HIGHLY INTERESTING EXTRACTS, FIRST PART. THE NORTHERN SIDE OF THE QUESTION, (From the Hartiord (Conn.) Courant—whig.} SEPARATION OF PAKTIES, ‘There are periods in the history of our country, “when, under the operstion of some great exvitin Cause, party lines appear to be almost obliterat and the allegiance to party dictates forgotten. Such seems to be the case at present. The new issues | that have lately presevted themselves bave pushed aside the old ones, avd »ew principles of political action are becomi: nolive powers fo our elections. ‘There i# almost a oL-mem!erment of the old parties, and the country is sate of effervescence, pre- paratory to the reorguulzatioa ef new political as- éociations. The democrats, in some bly split, and nothing be @0 amalgamation. ‘tation ard decempo Bome great question « ‘In some, as in Now She division of the s; feud too Litter for reconciliation. The interi of Pierce and his cavivet in the politics of th Ptates—the anomalous action of that interfereace— ‘and the utter incu pabiiity hia administration of ruling for national jx bave produced these divisions in many c vob is the weak, seldsh, anprinoipied character « ranklin Pierce and his | cabinet, that none but the office seekgrs remain | their zealous adherents, and even they despise tie | dand that feeds them. i et i But the principal canse of this disorganization of | the democratic party has been the repeal of the Misgouri compromise and the inuate love of free- | @om which is the underlying stratum in the charac- | ter ef every true Aimerisau whose principles have ‘not been eorrupted by government patronage. Very many of the democratic party—men who voted for Franklin Pierce in 152—are vow ready to break awey from the support of the measures of the ad- min! ion. Such men ure goveraed by names— whieh, indeed, is the case with all mea, more or | loss, They are not willing »penly to join a whig or- | ization, under that uame. They have been Fighting it too long for such a submission. Hence nee of some uew party, that will unite ail the opponents of the extension of slavery into e homogeneous mass. orpat it is not the deinocratic party that alone is - Although the late divisions of our arty in New York are quieted, and the whole Northern whig party was never more united than they ere at present—a union produced by a simi- larity of feeling on the Nebraska bill—stili, as a na- tional party they are weakened, perhaps we can | pay —— weakened, by the separation of the Southern whigs. Our opposition to the extension of slavery bas driven the mass of Southern whigs to | leave us. The Petersb: Intelligencer, @ leadin whig paper in Virginia, recommends the calling o} aBouthern Whig Convention, to separate that sec- tion of the party from the North, and to act, if ne- Coesary, entirely wit! the Southern democrats in the Measures essential to Southern interests. Such a | union is a very easy one, for the subject of slavery | Overrides all other questions of natienal politics. It will thus be seen that the Northern and Southern sections of the whig party can never hope to act to- | gether again. We regret the necessity thut leads to this rupture. We regret that the breach of contract | of which the South bas been guilty in the repeal of the Missouri compromise has forced this separation. | Bat we love the principles of freedom better than | the success of party. {his regret is deepeued by | the sacred ‘memory of Henry Clay, and by the re- | Wembrance of the patrictisa of many a whiz from the South with whom we nave acted. But liberty ia more valuable than friendssip, and right must Roften regret. | What Shall we do, then, as whigs? Shall we re States, have irreconcila- a new i-sue will produ e ne instances this fermen- have been prodaced by al reform, as in Maine. is a mere question of neh bus terminated in a | e 1c main together as an organized party, shorn of halt our strength, when the united postes sion of the the whole was hardly able to produce victory? Or shall we seeka new organization, with a new name, by uniting with thore who agree with us on the principle of no more slave territory? It is a ques- tion for Northern whigs to settle, and it inust be Gone soon. rom the Sprinficld (Mass) Repubiican—whig.) EAT AWE THE WHIGS OF MASSACHUSETTS T0 DO? The Springfield Repud/ican, in the course of lou, article recommending « coalition between the ae and free soilers, in reply to a corresyondent, says:— Who is afraid of being cheated? Are we making bargain? Are we buying and selling? Are we trading in offices and principles? If we propose to do anything of the kind we ought to be cheated. But we propose no such thing. If we are to go into this movement as whigs, democrats and free soilers, and not as men entertaining one sentiment, pos- sessing common priucipies and feelings, and bound to compass one object, harmoniously, orderly, dis- oreetly and determinedly, then let the matter drop. Cheating! Shall we cheut ourselves? Shall we cut | our own throats? Shall we throw away the advan- | ea we shall all gain? hat are the whigs of the South doing at this very moment ? They are leat steps for holding a Southern Whig Convention. The Petersburg Intel- ligencer, & leading whig paper in Virginia, in | m™ call for this convention, and in speaking of Southern whigs, says :—‘‘Upon one great subject they can act with the democrats of the South.” Upon that one great subject they have acted with the democrats of the South, and always will. The South is a unit upon that subject. Shail the North be divided, while compromise lines are being brush- ed away like cobwebs, while free soil is being in- waded by the blasting foot of slavery, while South- ern oupidity and dough-faced pertidy are fastening ther grappling irons upon Cuba, while incipient steps are being taken in the United States Senate for reopening the slave trace, while a law remains y our statute books that inakes the whole North 8 hunting ground for slaves, turns our courts of jus- Aice into tlave pens and our people into slave- Watchers, and all this in the face of a free constitu- Gon, and in the light of the most enlightened and Christianized age the world ever saw ? God forbid ! We appreciate fully the feelings of our corres- dent, We know him to bea candid man. We ow, also, that he has had to do in hand to hand conflicts with unprincipled demagogues whom it is hard to forget and to forgive. But tho-e dema- ogues do not represent the free soil party or the | erent party. It is from those very mea that porition ma: expected ia the movement that propoted, for they doubtless see that in it their loom is sealed. Their occupation will be gone. ‘Break down party lines and you kill them, their schemes and then ambitions, and the soener the Gemagogues of all parties ure politically dead and under the turf the better. ‘The people want a chance, aud we hope they may have it. é [From the Albany Register—Filmore- Anti-Soward whig.) THE NEXT CAMPAIGN. ‘The question as to who is to be Governor, what his location, and what the platform upon which he | is to run, is constantly recurring. This question is muoh more easily asked than answered. It i+ doul joan true et adhesions are being broken up, ities much weaker than they have last five-and-twent, politica, the power of ‘aril ng are much less than they have been in times past, and to act and talk with a fearless ice Ww & very few years ago would regarded as rank treason. The passage of the Nebraska measure through Congress has woused the anti-slavery sentiment of the North, and Bivon it a vitality and ener, [me nome J le. Indced, the discovery has been | sentiment is so pervading at the | forth that it may be regarded as universal, and therefore it cannot be made the basis of State orga- Rizations, for it is common to all minis. We say | the few who advocated the Nebraska | i i amount in mea ioe | an exception; whig and democrat repudiate the ako tion of the Missouri com- | romine ible extension of slavery. | lence there can be no two organized with | refe;ence to that measure, old organizations | remain with the anti Nebraska sentiment pervading | both. The question ag te who shall be the whig candi- date for Governor is one of deeper intercrt than most politicians are willing to admit. Names have Btate, 3 The disci- ave been in plenty, scattered all over the names tlh ote men, too, in the abstract— standing, not only in the whig | social position entitles them to | But names are nothing in these times, | ‘iples—and the position rinc! Bre party with reference to wr tain great * sam A ing before ¢ i 'e corefully sorutinized, It ed that for the last few theve lias been 8 grow- ing restiveness, under influence of the central power, whose iron tyranny baa en thousands upon thousands of gocd whige over the State. it power has controlled ‘cancuses and dictated to conventions, until a pape: indignation at its assumption has stirred the great body of the bo paity to a determined and active resistance. resistance is by no means confined to that branctr gf the party known as national whigs; it pervades now al! independent, fairminded men over the Stato--and slates made up in private rooms of Sy- racure hotels, by meddling outsiders, will be broken in the convention, or smashed at the polis, The scene of the lost convention, as well as those which revulted in the election of the late legislative offi- cers, cannot be enacted again. with impunity. The whig back is up again on this. subject, aud submis- tion to such trickery and dictation is out of the ques- tion. The candidates at the ooming election must be mon disconnected with cliques, frank acting, in- dependent men, or, unless we greatly mistake the signs of the times, they will meet with small suc- cess at the polls. Political toadlice—mere party hacks—will have a bard time of it next fall. ‘There is another matter that will have to be looked to if the whig party would secure success. It is a fact against which it is folly to attempt to close our eyes, that the temperance issue is to have a control- ling influence in the coming election. The whig me would do well to Jook totbis. The democracy a! is pledged against the temperance movement, a3 the whig porty by its past action is in part at least ged in favor of the vrohibitory principle, A inlatnre passed a prohibitory law, and waa tained by the great body of the whig party. It is entively trne that this sustaining has uot been, universal, There are those who have heretofore ex- ercised a large and controlling influeuce, who have opposed the prohibitory measure, insisting tuat the great remedy is not prohibition of the traffic in. ia- toxicating drinks, but the suppressing by penal enactments their adulteration—that intemperance with a)! its accompanying evils is to be cured. b; creasing the cost of indulgence beyond the reac of the Jaboring masses, giving pure liquor to the rich and cold water to the poor. Butthe great mass. of the whig party sdvocate no such foolish theory. They are in favor of a reform that shall be radical, —wne that plucks vp the evil by the roots, by plac- g the whole trofic under the ban ofthe law. Ail this the dealers j trinkers of intoxicating li- quors know, apd th d by their interests. and all the propric position against the whig party. ‘Lbere are in the democratic party thousands of | warm-hearted temperance men, who also know and | feel the force of thes: ots. They are not willing | to abandon their princip n the subject of tem- | perance for the suke of t party obligations, and | will not vote for any niin whose position is against | a prohibitory law. _° ‘he temperance people are not desirous of enter- ing the field as adistinct organization. They see the position ot the whig par They have studied. its proclivities and appreciate its past action. They are ready to give its candidates their support, pro- vided they are men whose opinions are not doubtful: on the question of prohibition. pledg of their p [From the Genesee (N. Y.) Whie—Conservative.] | TUE COURSE OF THE WHIG PARTY. The course which shall be best ‘or tue whig party, to adopt in this State, at the coming elections, is a question which is exciting much interest and pro- | voking some discussion, i * * * * * Such is the aspect of affairs, under which the im- portant query arises--what will the whig party do? Mhree courres bave been suggested, aud are under diacursion by the press. lst. To abandon our or- anization and go over to the free suil party. 2d. | fo suspend our organization and have a People’s Convention, irrespective of all parties, and there act upon equal terms with our fellow citizens of every political denamination, who feel, as we do, the ne- cessity of a cordial co-operation of the efforts of all friends of freedom, to repel the aggressions of the | slave powei. 3d. To preserve our orgunization,and hereafter contend that it recognizes the principle of go into the fall campaign upon our own resources, | with the accession of such strength as good whig nominations may draw to our standard. : In proceeding to consider these propositions severally, the difficulty presents itself, of how the determination of the whig party is tu be obtained, 80 as toarcertain iruly the will of its majority. We believe in mujorities governing, whether in caucus convention, clection, or legislation; and, however it may be with the locofuco party, we do not believe that either city or country journals can dispose of the action of uvy considerable portion of the whig party, just according to their views, however in- fluential, good or disinterested they may be—a fact which we are led to infer some of our Detroit cotem- poraries occasionally lose sight of. For ourself, we claim fo have an individual voice in the delibe- rations of the whig party, and no more. First, then, will the Wiag party dissolve itself for the avowed pose of going over aud electing the free soil cau: ¢ Tre Northern whigs claim to and y party—uud the strongest 8, are (he votes of their rep- yngress, Where their names will be vinst the ension of slay y, from iexation of Te down to the repeal 1 the Missona compromi igitive S) law in- luecd. Is there any thing in tue ante ents of the tree soilers likely to induce the rank aud ae ot for their sakes? it is common them to ailect orofessions. whigs to repudiate thems bond not. ieve whig anti-slavery afford to have them do #0, so long ag we have our ess to point at. We have, then, the seme cnd in view, but do not agree upon the means of accomplishing it; and because of this difference, it seems to us that the disorganization of the whig party has been long systematically sought after by the free soilers, without much regard to the means employed. We have no foult to find with these effurts—we presume | they are altogether right and equitable, according finally sundered beyond the hope or power of ré- to political morals; but we would rather not see them successful. Many of our whig friends in this locality remember the rabid denuuciation of them- | selves, in their own court house, by the Rev. Mr. St. Clair; and others will recollect the virulent and abusive misrepresentation of the whig party, in- dulged in by itis free soil organ of Detroit for some | months after the defeat of General Scott, until it | became a problem whether antislavery or auti- whigism were the cardinal principles of the party. But pronouncing the whig party dead, it was found, | did not kill it; and now all this is changed, and | they come into the whig party for some of the most important officers upon their ticket—and take out the notice of Theodore Parker's cowardly desecra- tion of the name of Webster from under the head of | the organ—and cease ty “the documents are | ready,” showing up the vileness of the whigs--and —and—expect us to go in and elevate them to power in Michigan. We do not doubt the purity of their motives }or the goodness 0. their intentions, but we do ‘is‘rust the soundness of their judgment, especially in are ing the whigs of Michigan can so sv0n forget these things. And what have the free soilers ever done for free- dom? To go back a little upon their antecedents, we answer—Procured Texas, New Mexico, Utah, and the repesl of the Missouri compromise! In 1844, a8 now, they were determined to break the wave of ‘rcetom into spray, unless they could ride into power upon its cre: One-third of the votes cast for Biruey, in Ne ‘ork aloue, would have elected Henry Clay; and it is very well understood that if Clay, instead of Polk, had been President, Tex9s would not have been annexed have been no Mexican war—with- equally certain the Nebraska bill have been introduced by a Northern usable, because the first. With the result of that live of policy of the liberty party, staring us in the face in the of the Missouri compromise, to repeat it at the p nt emergency is not excusable: avd inthe review of ali, we donot think thereis any | probability whatever that the masses of the whigs of Michigan can be either induced or persuaded to gy into the support of a ‘ree soil ticket, without their consent, and jnet ut a Lime when overy whig repre- | sentative from a free State, in Cong*oss, has done | his whole duty. Second—The question, however, asumes an en- | tirely different aspect in our ie and probably in | thoge of most whigs, when it has reiation to an in- | dependent convention, where they would be called to act—not as the tail of some other purty—but ag feliow citizens with fellow citizens, on ‘free and equal terms, come to take counsel together, and as- each other to repe) an enemy common to all. If csire for such a movement should be mauifested ly support it—but if not ge , it were better un- attempted. If it were notfor the selfish position already assumed by the free soil party, such a course which have surprised a | wonkd lead to the overthrow of the pro-slavery party in Michigan--but as it now stands, the free Coy would be so divided, that until we seo farther de- velopement of events, we can arrive at no concla- sion satisfactory to ourselves. Under any ciroum- stances, we con!d not counsel such a convention as has been spoken of by the Detroit Tribune—one of free soilers and whigs, meeting for the purpose of re-nominatng the free soil ticket. Such a conven- tion would look like a solemn farce, and we do not think its action would be sustained by the body of the whigs of the State. Third—We claim to be a phig, and if the party we feel a juat pride in belonging to, [oO freir own convention, it shall cost us no reurets to work for its success with whatever limited ability Bid no If the party should ever abandon its lan dnfarke—among which opposition to slavery ex- tension is # prominent one—it will be time enough to concider then where we shall go. At present, the wh'g voies in Congress are sufficient for our Batisfactor. A meeting, without distinction of party, has been held in in which some of the most influen- hig citivens have taleen a Its result we wre yet puacyuainigg with, but it canuct affect the Woe oan | + This was a grave error in judgment, but | y 4 majority of the whig party, we should cordial- | should elect to | into the contest with a whig ticket, nominated in | oplaieas.we have-ey- fdr the whigrofDetroit:| sutboedines of an most en can oply » pa tee Ap ee «Ie the on deeioel the tide public of the through out the State‘at large, in the service for which he is wanted, that will | to sweep away every of friend: to the > Die be enough. wy go for whigs, democrats,’ and free | South, And what is the position of the Northern [From re ) Courien-Anti-adavery whig-} | sotilers alike in e comene elections, i whig press? We leave out of the question the ain WHS 9. PARTY DISBANDED, are true men.” | i 2 we and its kin. The most moderate whig =o not bee n» much of « whig party wince ‘This tallies Pe ‘ieely with plan advanced jcurnale—journals which hitherto have epoken the , nor eadeed, Sepa te that time; ite’ }decline | the Hon. Mr.Sews rd, and adopted with - | language of conciliation and forbearance— pein at tl ve Vis phd out the | mivy by the Nort om: whig preas. The Southern | sre now gone over to the enemy, and are tution against t they for the Presidency. Since iis nas bese ea apaian | iecause they hate Iecg mee ae oe a - ye x Coun ag Raquiver m— mae pels te a epecye struggling to keep Sts head above the water. The | that co-operation i = such a design would be treason I ar tke head of the. list, and 4 rophetio | ‘mate alliance wa ti soot J A in rophetic mate allianc be; Sit Meet Touatpae ott | Siegel og ed” Grneanee ge | te are Se hep ela Sot Tay) Srl Ste no a ee Mason & Dixon's line. This city and county, a few | and Mr.Seward. ‘ Ihe most influential portion of South? Alt . nd cusy indifference. “The | {heir dextg gt all ed a “i M . »& fer AIS is calm and easy indifference. The | their desi to f ae ae toa og ih gery in| their Sepa oge uae es independence of party | thunders which come rolling fire the North “ale in good aith aga Bs =" thie State,” Here Lota en he eg ea | cbligntions, and openly refused t0 go upon the plat | away before they reach our latitnde, or if heard at | They are not content te ware eee, SPE phen) 6 Sara erenoe Ds avery, th awh ig part; biel wi te prey 9 E ani soilers” to secure are scarcely heeded. The contrast thns exnibit- | nothing, but they mean to exact terms of alliance, sehen ep, LAGieear ee, aes ote e r once pe apd ed the active and fierce evergy of the as- | und to stipulate for a share of the apoils. Itis mot ig oP ye Tha anaer, rage leat whig batever of the i by pe sympathy we may have | siilsnt and the quiet apathy of the assailed, is most | their purpose to coalesce thoroughly with the domo- paper in the " formally strael colors this | bad with the gallaw t Northern whigs who stood by | remarkable. ia¢ are Ha causes? Does the Sonth | eratic party, but to preserve a dlatinet and inde- morning, and came out : — pager article | Websterand Fillmo re when the: mag the Union | feel safe and secure? Has she no bitter recollec- | pendent organization. Mingled with the masa of = favor of a coalition of al elements of | and the rights of tt > Jouth, we'can feel little regret | tions, which bristle up st the name of abolition? ie democracy, their strength would n008 be lost; Te Sept oe bs 1 polygamy. er porting wee ps qhose-leaders, are merce- De @ she Jook for pace, when tho cry is, “war te, but euviving asa compact and separate element, field and the work of cei bt tbe whigs are e donot think ¢ hat this. separation could bave ead t se to Paar Bee papa Leta beabicty | en ei te ere in as deplorable a condition South as those in the | been led. Nott only bas-there been little: sym- | cism? We leave #I questions to Pe: nus were | _ Phe whigs of th South peer Northern States is equally tree. It is even expected Bae for some yean 3 past between Northerm.and | others. aie thei here iT rs missing ticle cone that the whigs in the Southern States doas, ern whige, but there seems to be no regret on They have pede ee ae eng thelr prejudices. their representatives in,Congress did, viz.: go over in & body tothe slavery extension party of. the North, Already the Cincinnati Ege ccs h -of any basis upon the pro-sizvery opinions of Henry Clay, and the | that upon the bas State Sentinel, at Indiauapolis, copies “ sloqucut” |' sour’ compromise. 1 bat possible, Thecondith 0 upon the admi agticles trou the Journal of G.D. Prenticn, I sion of future States was never considered ef; There is much food for reflection in the.following article taken from the Louisville Journal. of. yester- | legal obligation 1s av extra constitutional ents. an ing | control over the rights of others not then in e.} |, ‘the part of the North ern whigs | “the party. Indeed, w ’¢ have seen but one su; wha ich they. cau be re-un: " ood many whig new: f “4 of the North an TS. ere sayin; at the dissolution of | 9, tien ited, ad is of the re-enactment of the Mis- ropesition is aimpiy im- Tinveced i | Kaneas bill. 4 was made between part ies who could have had: so whut they suppose the whi ‘cal existence. Jt assumed ta bind ¢ whigs of the South will do in the next Presidential | future citizens of futun: ‘Sates, baiee ving = canvess and clection. We do not feel that we arc:| asiie, not upon the apy lication of the South; bat cepable of putting forth any valuable apeculations.) upon the demané of N¢ ntfeco men who wereua: upon the subject. Theee seems at preseat ty bea rather poor prospect of hurmouious action between Northern and Southern whigs in 1856, but there, is no telling or even guessing what reconciliations aad strites, what starting of new questions into live, aad. whit burial of old ones, what combipatious, orgeni- zutions, re-orgenizations and disorganizations. may tuke place before that time, or what will be their results. It must be confessed thatthe chunces for. a very thorough disruption of both. the old:pazties ac now pretty high up in the ascendant.” Ovr position is unchanged. We have ever sup- ported the and the politicians whom, we.’ thought nearest right. Willing that each a rest riction showd disgrace the overci)R people and 0 he severeign States, Many Scuthamn whige may ha ve ragretted the introzuction of the subject. Sowe t night.bave voted against the rj ea) of the eompror nise,, but none oan advocate its :¢-torstion. That 7 >a: f adjustment being then impracticable, we see no other. It must thes. be as our former associates williit.. We must in-fiture Tecaid them aswe d& > other political organigations which exist among us, and regulate our relations with them according ly, ‘The Lynchburg V irgirian (whig), in commenting PART SECOND. THE SOUTHERN. SIDE OR THE QUESTION. [Frem the Richmond (Va.) Whig.] PARTIES—THEIR PRESENT CONDITION. That parties, at the present time, are in a state of utter confusion, no observant man can deny. ‘That there is a high probability of their entire dissolution before a very great while, seems to be equally cer- tain. We are not preparad, however, even to con- | jecture what is to be the ultimate result of their dis- | memberment. Neither can we tell, unless they are to be re-conatructed upon asiehy. mean {ero what principles or views are to constitute the ON 4 ot Hirde (ences which are tosucceed them. ene pi i reper’ Laas ri Itis better, at present, we think, to let things pur. bold fast teib aa ane ave ways cecupied, and sue their natural course—they will come toahead ¢ ‘thern de: Tee ‘y have ever charished. in due season, When preparations begin to be ay “ait mocais desire the affiliation of Southern made fer another Presidential contest, which is yet the ae ipo y ep the line that now separates two years off, we can then determine, with all the Sittd.inc) are wenoumce many Spiniene, they now lights betore us, what is test to bedoue for the pro- | |... d, an a chou, cee Hikes eae re Lr count. the South, and the general welfare of the dent veh a beat ore eaations an a ig ihe Pag " whigs, however, we cannot shut our ¢'>ment upon the open enemies of, the Seuth, and rent the fact that inthe inte contort, involving "Re thinks tha: another slave State will never co:ae simply the recognitions of pee right, ee Mexico.” mu. theagh we acquire the whole of whigs of the North deserted us, without a solitary hed os exception in either house of Congress. It may turn Asto the proposition of the Petersburg In‘allé out, to be sure, that Northern democrats—if, as we suspect, those who voted for the Nebras{a bil! shall on whig politics, 8 ays:—. | porritie that the Southern whi, their organizathon in, that of arty. Nothing, is igs will) merge the democratic less reasonable or proba. national platfa.m would not affect tho and opinions @f Soxthern whigs, nor } nearer than they now are to the ant whom they have staod opposed from their birth, It. may bathat the fluctua‘ions, lic sentiment, the mutations of political issves, and the fana.ical proclivities of Northern men of ajl parties, may createa gulf tye the whigs of e lat® mists to day of whether the time for it has arrived, if it may c atull. Certainly without the return of a witiater “ squatter sovereignty,” which the South regards as more odious than the Wilmot proviso itself—have only acted the part of wolves in sheep's clothing, and therefore are not less guilty than Northern whigs themselves. Such, we say, may be the case, and indeed is more than prebable, when we consider what the Sokuareieiced position of Gen. Cassis upon the subject, and recollect the significant declarations of the President himself, namely—that the ‘‘Ne- | braska bill is a proposition in esas sreecoan a that in the event of its passage, jough we mig] * acquire the whole of Maxiod Jet not another slave The Columbus (Ga.) Zimes extends avery kind State would ever be added to the Union.” If such invitation to the Southern whigs to join the national be the construction whicb Northern democratsintend bs Ghee pattie a nent | that if it is the objeot to put npon this bill, we repeat that the difference °! the Southern whigs to remain in tha Union and between them aud the Northern whigs, 80 far ag 2ntrol the action of the government, their co-ope- in the North, continued association as a party.with the whigs of that section will. be impraoticable. but there is no necessity for immediate action, and we this ae next eae to ener may be employ. wiser reflectiorg_and better corelusi than wa have la‘ely had evidence of.” <n (Srom the Montgomery. (Ala.) Journal—Whig.] AKIND INVITATION--WHO ACCEPTS? either may be relied upon by the South, is about the *#tion with the national democracy is their ouly, ith > etwixt tweedledim and tweedledee, ‘The alternative—and they asks: “* Why ‘should not tig oue manifests its hostility to slavery and the South | ¥!o'e South go into.the next Natioual Democratic Convention? It is. true, there are free suil derp- crats who will, in afl probability, assert aclaim to a seit in the conveution. Let them come. We will Dake the platioum, and if they will accept x, we ceitanly will not reise their vates in carryiag out evr irue policy.” Now, although this is certainly a very kind and attering invitation—we beg eave most respectful- ly, so fur as we are concerned, to decline its accept- eater and we SipUrenen tL such will be the feeling nd Sentiment of ev ce S Soy — 18st higs OF the pons en rue Rou absolve their inan open and defiaut manner—the other slyly aud | covertly, and by means of # contemptible tricix, We tiust, vever, despite our feurs and appreheu- that Northern Nebraska democrats will reégte | picions, and triumphantly vindicate their | patriotiem, integrity and goed faith towards the | South. If they do not, then Northern wiigs, even fi the isnkest snd most desperate abolitionists them- | selves, will have precedence over them in, the re- | spect aud confidence of the Southern people. Wwe can always face opposition and hostility, even the 208 i t and deadly, when it is waged in an 4 7 ies, i = eR and wnaely Tanner. Bat the idea of | copeetion with t Northern allies, in conse. te ~ bier m js | Guence of their hostility to slavery, with what sort peatline'¢ eas ue Ga ate. ol petie, Gerad oe of consistency cvuld they join the democracy, which awakens all the scorn and contempt of onr natures, ©l#sps and me 2 = cg ifs most rabid aboli- We raid that Northern whigs had deserted us in a Heeaeaed sind Soritiog Oy oes id with power most important crisis. We say further, that their ae uae nee, a mee Pos one ae stowing ore preeent temper and purposes, as exhibited in the hich evi pi Vr mecatechirs re h Raber ice and spirit and language of their organs, distinctly indi- | ¥ ty wv a o Pitted or i only not denounced cate that the bond of union between us is waxing | by the Southern ane "eh ed Ci or ap: weaker and weaker, with every prospectof itsbeing P!0ved and sauction yy them? No, Mr. Zimes, we cannot join even the Southern, much leas the na- tional, democracy under such circumstances. If we are to coalesce with abolitionists and free soilers, we would prefer the free soi] and abolition whigs to thore of the same class in the ranks of the demo- cracy, because we believe them to be more honest and more independent, and, therefore, less to be feared or despived. But the coolness with which the Times holds out his democratic hand to the whigs, excels everything of the kind we have ever met with. Why, it really in earnest, the edigor of the Times must think the Southern whigs tif greatest fools in the world, or he must himself have taken leave of his own senses. If the whigs of the South have to meet in a national convention with free soilers, they can meet as well, or a little better, with whigs than with democrats, newal. Certain it is, that unless they recede from the position they have taken, there is no ‘ibilit: of our acting together in the futute. It is well known that even that portion of the Northern whig press which has heretofore pursued the most mode- rate and conservative course towards the South has latterly come out in a tone of furious denunciation, boldly asserting that the “Nebraska outrage has set- tied forever the annexation of slave territory to this Union”—that ‘it has effectually prevented the ad- mission, at any time hereafter, of another slave State into the Union.” They go farther, and declare that Northern whigs will be “content” with no- thing less than an immediste and unconditional re- peal of the Nebraska bill, and that they will never give their “support to any man for any place who is not pledged to such repeal.” These Northern | 2nd we apprebend that they can build up a platform whig orpans take still another step in the direction fully ng national and as conservative of the rights of downright abolitionism and implacable hostility | °f the South, as if they were in a democratic con- vention. But it seems that there must neceasarily bea great difference between the democrats and whigs, in the estimation of the democracy, for they Dabinehingly practice the very things they have the aucacity to charge as a great offence if followed by compromise of 1850, and that connected with the the whigs, to wit: affiliation with free svilers and admission of Texa: ed to be swept away, | Sbolitionists; and it seems to be taken for grauted f tday. Such are the threat: | that this is all right and proper in the demo- enings and such the position of even the mildest | crats, but a great outrage upon the South if and most moderate of the Northern whig press, in | done by the whige. Just look, for instance, at the respect to the course they have marked out for the | Just Presidential canvass. The Southern whigs met future. in convention with their Northern whig brethren, It is needless to say that Southern whigs can | 2depted a platform upon which every truly national unite with their late Northern allies upon no such | Tepublican might stand, and then nominated a | platform as that which their folly and fanaticism | Southern born and Southern bred man for the | have thus erected. They will co-operate in no effort | Presidency—who had fought the battles of his to repeal the Nebroska bill; and that seems to be | Country at home and abroad, and had everywhere | the least with which ovr Northern friends will be | Muintamed the honor, interests and welfare of the | saticlied. We, therefore, tell Northern whigs that | country. Weil, the Southern democrats met their if the repeal of the Nebraska bill is the oniy con- | Xerthern oles in convention also, and before dition upon which the unity of the whig party can | opting # p'atform of Diaices nominated for the | be preserved, then its unity is gone, anda guif of | Presidency 4 man born, bred and educated in the | separation is already between them andus. We | Svitt—with all the Erion of that section con have no part vor lot inany such treasonable | against the institution of slavery, and of whom not | oitempt, but will resist it with the energy and | 0:€ man in a hundred in the United States had ever courage that become us. If they mean thus to abo- | heacd—end then the hue and cry was raised against itionize themselves, and rally under the banver of | the whig condidate, that be was the nominee of the | Greeley, Giddings,and Sumner, we henceforth wash | fee Foil whigs of the North, and if elected he our hands of all convection and association with | Weuld disregard the interests of the South, and ‘Lem. It is for them to say whether we shall part | vn appoint abolitionists and free goilers to company, and be to each other as strangers and | ‘fice, while the nominee of the democratic aliens. perty could with eafety be relied upon—though a Northern man, yet he was a “Northern man with Southern OF gay ol and if he was elected the rights the South would be pro- tected, and the free soilers and abolitionists would find no favor in his eyes, This was believed, of course, and Gen, Pierce was elected. And now what have we seen? Why, in the first place the most ra- bid free soilers in the democratic party were chosen by the President as his most reliable friends, and national democrats were absolutely turned out of office to make place for free soilers and abolitionista! And what did the Southern democrats do, who had warned the people not to support Gen. Scott because he would appoint this class of politicians to office? Did they denounce the action of Gen. Pierce? Did they even go so far as t0 complain of his course, and fay that they had been deceived by him? Not they. No such word fell from their lips—but on the con- trary they sustained and approved his course. And now the whigs of the South are invited to join a party composed of such materials! We'd see them all in Jericho before we would do any such thing, to the South, and express a great “fear” that the Northern masses ‘will not be even thus easily satis- fied.” They say that in addition to the repeal of the Nebraska bill, and the exclusion hereafter of all | slave States trom the Union, ‘every vestige of the [From the Baltimore Patriot—Whig.] DISSOLUTION OF THE WHIG PARTY—PAOPOSED FOR- MATION OF A SECTIONAL WHIG ABOLITION FRE SOIL PARTY. The disorganization of the whigs has really been | completed by the rapacity with which the Northern | sections of that party clutch at the coutrol of the government. It is thought that the issue of slave or freedom is likely to be more profitable than that of an ad valorem or specific tariff. have, therefore, formally given notice to their Southern brethren that the partnership beretefgre existing between them has terminated. Not only has the Hon. Mr. Seward announced this ominous issue of freedom and slavery as the sole question for popu- Jar decision, but the Hon. Mr. Wade, of Ohi, and others, bave declared the final separation of the | Whig party. This is confirmed by the Norther pine po generally. The New York Tribune, the admitied organ of the free soil movement, consum- mates a series of indiscriminate insults to the South, by Cy home “a basis of effort,” upon which it pro- | Poses to unite the whole forces of the North. We | only hope that a design so malevolent will have no more serious effect Ay the ice of the country, than the suggestion to fire the capitol and disband the government, or that which recommended to the | free negroes and fanatics of Boston to “ organize” | an armed resistance to the Fugitive Slave law. bs the sincere fet | Here is the plan :— _ “We matntain that the only policy | friends of freedom, and those who ave determined to resist theagaressions v4 slavery , is to unite in solid Phaianx, and so makethen efforts tell. There iano sense in any other course. No man who realizes the importance of the existing crisis, and who is | iseues co far buried, and the sentiment and voice of firm and resolute in his opposition tothe domination | that whole section so united in war upon the South. Of the élive power, will stop to ask about the party | If we turn to the democratic press, we find it for the {From the Charleston Meseury—£ecession democrat.) THE NEW ISSUE. ‘The spectacle presented by the North and Sonth at the present moment, is well calculated to arrest the attention of thoughtful minds, In the former, we find eociety convulsed, all the yea? ele- ments of sectloval bitterness roused, and slavery pee = awake Og nipped ite brief and delusive , strengthened by new accessions, and je onset. Never before has the Northern nded such a storm. Never before have the jorthern press a) ‘ogi pe #0 near to ananimity in the cause Tr aboltt Never before were all other gencer for @ convention of Southorg whigs,we daubt | condition of sentiment, and a jaster course of setion | co not despair that the interval of time between | upon our late pol? tical extracts and commentaries | 4 The HERALD seems to consider it unot im- | ie. The abaue Snmoot by Northern w’ rigs of the | grins ies { th i vO? ‘ ; Sovth in favor of ti of pub- | this is made r will stand But when f | sure merel: i bey | | | i But what is the iasue upon whioh tie st: j gain toopen? The Tritune, with a eel i wlicy, counrels its Party to forego forthe present an | clusive avdsupercihous eet that they were in the ay of their short-lived power. What, then, oan its extreme designs violent’ measures, and _ back eae rm Ere cto halliog on all quarters, for repeal of tl lebraska and: | the democratic party gain from an alli i fF It believes that npom: this issue the | the whigs of South? Our pieer toe abolition party can take the lead; and secure a vio. | irresistible, and: a mere addition of mambers tory which can be pushed to poiste-beyord.. It well! bring no accession of etsength. Is there any feel- knows that once unite parties atthe North upon gan! it Ue principls in common between a Badzer and rate pt tectional and hostile to slavery, the: | a Butler, or a Botts ané a Caskie? Can Clayton pais nyt “8 pedis eeetan peasd La Beg further. 4 el ianany co-operate in support of the samecanse? re i future: ui - re is nothi rehet If we look nov to the South, we: will diseover-| fr aoe nde items Breativariance of opinion on the Nebraska bill. By. many, it is regarded with indifference; by: some, openly opposed; while the. mass leok uponitiag Uv np of go little practical good that iit fs omtat net werth the labor of an active struggle to mai: They have made no recantation of their principles, do they maniiest any abatement of contempt ‘atred of the democracy. They are the sane hope, ‘om this alliance. There i ascociation taint the purity ot Two bodies never. mcet bi & f ard the democratic party, ¥ |, opcration of the whigs of the South without abating 7 a in- fi S& mething of its auster 4 an it. This is the tone of some presses in car own | 0! 1 E> eambaionc mpetoneee oho eee ea ‘ate. Outside of it, many coukd be enumerated. | independent el xaent int» the bosom o lemo- ihe New Orleans Bulletin, speaking: of the uuani- | erstic par ty, will impair the permony aad etic meus teeling at the North against the-bill, uses the | ef its organization, and ultimately overthrow its ol owing Janguage:—“Se much forthe Nebraska power, Where there is so much of inveterate hi, which we hive cepessa asa Siuthern man, | prejudice, of hereditary hatred, of antagonism of \«amd.to our section by every tie. of: inclination, | prin: Aples of jealousy and suspicion, there can be no friamdship, and interest, because we deemed its ins-| €ordial co-operation, and no unity of aim. troduction inexpedient, impolitic, and celeulated ito For these reasons, we say, no true friend of the lemocratic party will counsel an ailliauce with jo wm, althor shall ever maintain, that the principloof non-inter:.| whigs. Men of tip! \ontion embodied in it—the principle that: the peo. | schemes. to Porencage Gen a ci alone itories, when they propese. to come-| union, but the suggestion will be scouted by all who tic party, danger lest the conraat tf democratic princip! mat by mutual approach, cannot secure tue ce- ple of the Te Tote the Union ag States, have. a cleanright to.con- | have at heart the interests of the 4 ‘nol their own domestic affairs as suits them—isright:| and who have tho mind ‘to distinguish between { wisdom ity. ho bthiia? ta fbucesd a. i and absurdity. It was the ass who went and proper.” Bunti t fe he Nebraska and) Kanaas. bill; : if e , There is no com 0 folly. while at the Werth there is the most: intense hosti- lity to it. What is to be done? Can the South: |: stund aay by and see. the. bill. repealed; when. |, e direct issue against: her, and the bond of union, which once secured, is.to.be used fiercely for her ruin? Ifthe matter ended with the. repeal of the Nebraska bill, it might be permitted. pope sere erecen piane Oe the. Tribune plain-. eae ly show, abolitionism iaten stoop. to. this mea-. tbraska— Opposition to the Mexic because itz will,unite.the North-against.| — prcpriation— Mr. Benton's Views, fe. pbs a the South, and secure.a triumph which it can press: | _ ‘The ap) ao for currying the Mexican treat to the worst acts of aggression upon her, how can; || into effect will doubtless be made before the Sore she remain indifferentito the result? If she priaes.| inst. Meanwhile, an individual, a subject of Louis the citadei, can she neglect the ouvposts?: There is. | Napoleon’s government, Charles Dubois de T no alternative for the South. When. the-North pre-. | bas given notice to our government that he has a sente a sectional issue, and tenders hatte upon. it, | lien upon the territory ceded by the treaty to the she must meet it, or abide. all the. consequences.of a | United Stutes. It isa part of the territory mort—, victory casily won by a remorseless eager foe. posed to him by the Mexican government, ax weour- | That sho has not a better issue is her-own faults ity for the payment of nearly'a million of dollars, as pppeare! ‘ meee hse) _ Louis con, itis said, has under consider-- tion the clk of his subject, and may proceed to. enforce itagainst Mexico. It may be worth while to refer the question oi Santa Anna’s title to,thec Attorney General, and of all the cases of this.sort, which he has had, this will be the most troublesonse: —particularly if Napoleon should notify this gov- ernment of his intention of assuming the lien of ' his subject. The Emperor has been suspected of f£ome. wae upon Mexico, and this may be.one of his plans for creating a claim upon that county, ir. Opposition toour own all absorbing and manifest , “tte Reciproct ie Reciprocity treaty is before the committee: foreign afte of the Senate. It has not yet been, reported, but probably will be. Soma remon- atrauces against the same have also been presented and referred. The treaty must be ratiéed within six months from its date, and of course jhe Senate must act upon it at this sescion. The proposition from the Committeo,on Foreign Affairs, for the withdrawal of our eighty goa *quadron from the coast of Africa, ad not Leen discusted in executive session, aot will ‘Thus, the Senate will bave important; mattera for censideration in executive sessions, which ire no secresy,and might be properly conside: in open session. Y The territorial nominations havo. not yet been taken up. Some objections are ta,he made to the policy of sending an anti-Nebraska man as gover- nor Kavras, while a friend of the princi of he bill ia sent. se goveruur of tha. Nebraska terri tory. The objection cannot be sussained; for, as to, Kaneas, an anti-slavery governor could not keep slavery out, and as to Nebraska, it would take song pro-slavery governor to slavery in. in Washin ton. (Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun.} i Wasutneron, June 23, 1854. The Mexican Treaty A: propriation—A Freneks Claimant for the Ceded ‘erritory—The Recipro- city Treat, he Proposed Recall of the African. Squadron—The Appointments for Kansas and The Richmond (Va.) Mail (whig), in. com menting upon ounrecent article onthe whig party, Bays:—~ We think it munch moza likely. that the, 10- sition of the Hraaup is cormctecand that the whige of the, South, “upon a broad, liberal platform, ‘apagt from tha. administration,’ ’* might unite with Southern democrats in opposition to abolitionism. Bui it would. be only an the two conditions above meationed, aad for the object above specified. As lovg as the C¢mocratic party o2 the South upholds the present administration, it is vain to expect that the whigs will unite with it in, the attainment of any abject. Te whigs of the Scath are as. bitterly op- pored to sholitioniem. and famaticism as the demo- ciats, though perhaps they don't make as great a display of profersions. And they will go as far as wha go farthest in putting it down—but they do thindependently gad on their own hook, if they axe required to swesr allegiance to the present administration asa conéition precedent to a coali- son with the democrats. They will have nothing *« do with an administration which, though elected onthe Union platform, elevates factionists to tre hphest offices—which keeps at the bead of the K.teben cabinet a man who is as corrupt, both po- | iitically avd privately, as Jobn W. Fornoy- whih’ is suspected ‘of giving ite sanctioa, to such enormities as the Homestead bill, and of wink- pg at the echemes of the land grabbers and specu- lators of the West. The whigs of the South eaanot SRAM PENRS nat” however, ie thei basines not ours. We have slways crats credit for honesty and fession about the public land: 8, prea Southern demo- sincerity in their, pro- is—but if they can sus- P vf To-morrow is assigned for toi inate ac Mbt onertnt| trys he Wn, an "der Wan ik to which he has been ality, our faith must, of me-:| phe onouce Will pass it, after hearing Col. Benton's objections. Col. Benton iptimat intention to show that the, Mexican invasion of the privileges, of the yesterday hia cesrity, be considerably shaken. treaty was an It is only then upon the platform of, a, complete renunciation of the present administration hy the | treaty viol tes th i Boar. eG Southern democratic party, that any concert a ac- ai bast oe privileges, in any partioniar, it tion can be had with the whige. We do not. antici- Biust be in the provision for territorial Scyuiaition, Some persons have cont: be covstitutionally a the people of the es lee i r. Jeffer preceded. negotiation for the a chase of Louisiana by. anplying to Cor fr ek appropriation of three millions of cours for the object; and after h¢had negotiated, the Pl ended that territory caonot oguieedy without the tment of nited States, givan through the House. pate any such result—first because the leaders are interested in keeping on good terms with the administration,and secondly, haxing swore that the New Hampshire Brigadier was a marvellous proper man, they have too much pride. now to answer all that they swore to two years ago. For these rea- sons they will perhaps still stick to the admicistra- tion, no matter how much the administration may violate the Baltimore platform, the Virginia plat- form, and the resolutions of ’98. Thus the line of demarkation will be still kept drawn. They may resist the common enemy, aboli- tion—but they will fight under different leaders, and different banners. If there is to be any union, it must be, as the Heraup says, “upon a broad Union platform, and apart from the administration !"" We do not know that the whigs of the South desire this union ; but if they did, we feel convinced that no other terms would be listened to for a moment—as there is not even a remote probability that such terms would be conceded, it is useleas to anticipate such an event. ‘he, purchase, he applied for the balance of twelve milione, stating e that the Honse ought to be, and kas not, Railroad route. eflect offer a mediation between Russia and the da oe would all be glad of a HCH Wasuineton, June 23, 1854. Ratification of the Reciprocity Treaty—The Home- stead and Bbsentees—-Bocock’s Navy and Old’s Post Office Bills—The Anti-Nebraska Address—~ China Steamship Line—The Clayton Nebraska Amendment—President Pierce at Old Point, &e, The dissolution of the Canadian Parliament’ will not seriously interfere with the reciprocity treaty. The treaty may be so ratified by the Senate, aud the House be £0 act in the premises, ag ta authorize the President, whenever the British Pro vinces of North America had significd their assent to it, to declare the treaty in fall. force by proclama- , tion. This is the best manner of disposing of the matter now. ‘The Homestead bill comes up next week, when the absentees will be counted and marked. There are , some advocates of the measure loudest when there isno chance of passing it; and when there is a chance of acting upon it, they are not to be found in their places, The Houre may possibly finish the civil and diplo- ‘ matic bill to-morrow (Saturday.) The House will then have time to pass Mr. Bocock’s navy improve- ment bill, and Dr. Old’s Post Office bill, both of which are loudly called for by the necessities of the country. If the House set the Senate a good exnm- ple, all the appropriation bills and many other ira meant bills may be acted upon before the lst of ugust, and the House may safely adjonrn on the 10th or 14th. The address of the anti-Nebraska mombers was * issned without any of the pangs usually attendin labor. It is intended, no doubt, todo a great deal of execution at a distance. The committee onthe Post Office and Post roads in the Senate has unanimously recommended the , establishment of @ line of steamers between Francisco and Shanghai. This is a triamph for Dr. [From the Richmond Enquirer—Democratic Administra- tion Soft Shell Organ.] THE WHIGS OF THE SOUTH. The result of the presidential election of 1852 very naturally suggested the inquiry whethor the whig party was honestly dead, or only in a state of somnolence or suspended animation. The investi- ation was zealously and thoroughly prosecuted. ‘or months the political press was engaged in dis- cussing the interesting question, at a prodigious ex- aed of labor, learning and wit. At last a satis- factory solution was obtained, and the public return- ed a pretty unanimous verdict against the existence and vitality of the whig party. Since, nothing bas occurred to impair the justice of this decision ; but, on the contrary, the public conviction of the utter avd inetrievable overthrow of the whig party bas bern confirmed und fortified by sul juent events. ‘this point settled, an incidental inquiry arose ; and the question now engaging the public attention is, what disposition shall be made of the remains of the late whig party? Perhaps it may be thought iunpertinent in us to meddle in this matter, it being the peculiar prerogdlive of the dead to bury their dcad ; but it is our business to look after the health of the democratic party, and to see that its organiza- t'on be not impaired by contact with corruption and decay. The proposition for an alliance between the whigs of the South and the democracy, gives us a right to ray something of the present condition and ultimate destiny of the whig party as a political or, Pe cei . hin the whi € are sincerely sorry that whi i funct. The damscrscy will never fin a foe difficult to beat. The opposition of the whig part oo alive the vigilance, and exercised ond ‘isch plined the energies of the democracy, without seri- is de- lesa ourly retarding their progress, or ling their | Gwin, itinets, suocens. But. it may bap; n, in the posal iene faith ee a ae ee ble combinations of the future, thet a pany, will | The mare's nest whieh some! has found in’ arive with something more of efficiency in its organi- | the Nebraska bill, to wit that Mr. Clayton’s Know- zation, of plausibility in its form, and of enthu- siaem in its leaders, which, Ne 5 Se eda, tivast, wil ‘othing amendment is there, without ‘irs ons of + lated into it, has vanished into thin democratic principles widened t= 8 in We have nothing to gain but much to lose from Pid pg gd pany ts Ma 7 the dissclution of the whig part; eS Se eco, fully consider our position, wé to exult than to mourn over the even! and if we care- be less disposed it. The real Rattway Accipgyr-—A man named Tuckerman, vitality and efficiency of the whig are not in | an aged resident of Herkimer county, was killed on the lest ab the aceon of the hig ot the track of the Central Halltoad, near’ Little Palle, the South, but, on the contrary, positivel; im- | on Thursday. He was on the north track in d. Their strength has been | when he heard the whistle of the lightning train of no e! in national contests, being utterly over- from this city, and had scarcely stepped on to the whelmed by the irresistible power of the Southern | other track to it the Ii to son a xy have been a source of weakness | when he was by the engine of the ex. in #0 far as they restrained their Northern allies | press train, whose he had not heard. He from adopting issues and appeal to ns | was Te ee is another Step tah are given themes: * pre- the track of a railway, = lerance in the . By the separation, there- ter how safe it may appear to be—Albany Regie- ‘cre, the bulk of the whi, remains intact unfettered by an incon, “! P Pilance and at fall ere Mona rst wet By roralis fom We DOW | ander Grimes, uber onthe Super Rala waa! His manifest that the whigsoftheSouth | found dead on Sunday spree with tw aspire Kalle rith the democracy, and that Baa et oe hom ad fe tbe reat entieo their present efforte on wi qhisend. And webave beard of some eminent de- of see and eapeaie er