The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-11-10
I H Z R Z ? Z B L [ G.
WASHI n GTON:
SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 10, 1919
The Agitation OF Faction.

The Opposition having been driven from
other topics of agitation against President
TAYLOR, and the absorption of the Free
Sellers into the Locofoco party having
failed to answer the expectations formed
in regard to il; the sole organ of Locofoco-
dom at the seat of Government has COM
menced the agitation of the slavery que.-
ton, in the hope of thereby embarrassing
the Administration. To this end il pub
lished yesterday an article of some three
columns, which makes very remarkable
admissions and statements, to which we
desire to call public attention.
Ii has hitherto been charged by the
Union and its affiliated presses upon the
Northern WHIGs, that they were the party
friendly TO the Wilmot proviso; whereas
the Northern Democrats were said to be
opposed to it. The coalition Of the Free
Sellers with the Democratic party, and the
victories thereby achieved in Ohio, Con-
necticut, and Pennsylvania, have rather
staggered the sole organ-and II now seeks
to present the subject in new aspect. II
has found out that ga large majority Of
President TAYLoR's friends are among the
people of the North" and therefore it de-
signs to abandon its Northern allies incon-
tinently, and throw itself exclusively upon
the South.
The Union now enters into course OF
argument for the purpose Of showing that
a very large majority of the American
people are favorably disposed to the Will
mot proviso, or comparatively Indifferent
to its adoption. In the first place, il al.
leges that "there are bit fer politicians in
the free States who do not advocate the
prohibition Of slavery, by legislative en-
actment, in all the territories Of the
/ Union" They Of course sustain the vii
mot proyiso. But not they alone-no
I merely most Of the politicians of the free
. States, where all the people are politicians
"The slaveholding States" it seems
"have not been true 10 themselves, anC
the present alarming condition of affairs i
/ not more the result Of Northern aggression
than of the blindness and folly of tn,
South" This j. certainly highly compli
mentary to the people, both Of the Nortl
and the South. No one can doubt tina
the conductors Of the Union are frst-rat,
Democrats, and firm believers in the vir
tue and intelligence o. the people. Pu
the above sentence from the Union int
plain English, and how does it read' Tn,
Northern people are rogues, and the
Southern people are fools--or the presen
Charming condition Of affairs would
never have occurred The "virtue" o
the North expanding itself in acts Of ag
erosion, and the "intelligence" Of tn,
South merged in the commission Of folies
what kind Of stock is left for Locofoco.
dom TO do business upon'
But under the impression that all tn,
people Of the Northern States, and the
fools and blind men Of the South, backed
by the "most distinguished Wing jurist.
south of Mason x Dixon's line, including
always Messrs. BELL, BADGER and UN
DERwooD, Of the Senate Of the United
States may constitute a pretty formi
daole majority Of the people, the Unio,
inoiines 70 the opinion that the Wilmo
ProViso may pass the two houses of Con
gress, and 'be fixed upon the statut,
book, unless there should be some in