Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-03-13

tIRRELEyASr IssUEs-The call for the meeting at Tam
many Hall Monday evening invites all who in favor of
vigorous prosecution of the and opposed to the intro
duction of untmely and irrelevant issues We think the
latter clause might have been omitted without injury to the
Democratic party The words somewhat vague. What
is the repant and utimeiy issue that is to be avoided
Is the and coffee issue il the lieutenant general
ship or the Wimot provso Language vague subject
msnterpretaton. ...
some thing all events we hope no with free blood
in his veins will lift in of of the gallant
delegates this State who have taken their stand upon the
non xenson of slavery. The Winot, Preston King,
Hamn Provso, is the rayng point of those who love the
country and seek its best interests" -" '.
The New York Evening Post from which the
above is taken, is a thorough Locofoco paper. Its
editors are, however, prudent as well consistent.
They know that the appeal to the patriotic sympa-
thies of the people in regard to the is hypocr-
tical-that it is fraud upon the party. The editors
of that paper feel that, under the pretence Of STIR
ring up the citizens generally to the expression of
an opinion that the country must be sustained, a
party is bringing into operation the worst measures
that could be devised, and the Evening Post boldly
cautions its partisans not to fall into the snare
Never in the world were people more disposed to
stand by their own Government than those of
the United States never had people greater cause
for such patriotism; but arul men, knowing of the
existence Of this feeling, take advantage of their
generous impulses to seduce them into a sanction
country, revolving to men of lofty sentiment, and
what will, in time, lead to the ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of
the nation. The people are called upon to avoid
matimely and irrelevant issues. How can they
avoid them These issues are forced upon them.
They cannot shut their eyes to the fact that it is
the intention of the Government to extend Slavery
and that is an evil to which, we truly believe, they
will not submit. If it is not the intention of the
Administration Of the country to spread the curse
of slavery over the beautiful territory which it is 10
take from Mexico, why does it not say so! Why
do the emissaries and plant tools of the Admins
traton calmly appeal to the people to stand by the
war without making issues!
We believe that there is no disposition, in any
part of the country to deny the Administration the
means Of carrying war which erisfs; and,
deeply Notifying as it is to every high minded
man to know that the war is one for conquest still
little would be said. But when the Government
declares that the attempt to prevent the extension
of slavery into these conquered provinces is making
an issue with itself, then it cannot be denied that
the people Of the middle, the WESTERN and the free
States have before them admission upon which
they must act. II is not the first time that Gov
eminent has made war, shed blood, and wasted
the treasury, in order to effect Interior and perni-
cious objects nor is il the first time that such
Government has appealed to the patriotism of the
people to sustain the war, and make no issues upon
the Interior objects.-U. s. Gazette.