The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-11-26

1 by stripping off their hunting shirts and going
| about in "sackcloth and ashes %
| We learn from the Union that g Marion is Hay
mond's own county, "a fact which we knew be-
| tore,) and Preston is the home of the excellent
| Brown" This We did not know. We demand TO
| be informed who is 4" the excellent Brown" The
Browns are a family almost as numerous as the
Smiths and we should like to know which of them
is here invidiously styled F." the excellent and
why the :" excellent Brown" whose q heart is in
the right place. should have connved at the ruin
of the accomplished Thompson There is a
profound mystery about this matter, which the
''excellcnt Brown" owes it to all the friends of
human virtue, well as of pure Democracy, to
/ unravel.
over the fate of the late Colonel Thompson, is where
| it pronounces Colonel Raymond g seductive and
sly" and describes him as 90 wearing two faces un
| der one hood" To all men who have ever seen
| this remarkably plain, straight forward, open
countenanccd, open hearted, warm handed, broad
shouldered veteran of the northwest the idea of
seductive and sly is rich in the extreme 1t
| minds us of the memorable burst of eloquence of
Sergeant Buzfuz against MIR. Pickwick, in which
that paragon of simplicity and benevolence
made to appear monster of craft and villany
and the letters which, in the innocence of his heart
he wrote to his landlady, requesting chops and
tomato sauce for his dinner, were described by
the learned counsel of Mrs. Bardcll covert sly
! undetermined communications - communications
that must be viewed with cautious and suspicious
eye, and which were evidently intended at the time
| to delude any third parties into whose hands they
might fall
The Union possesses wonderful power in pro-
ducing metamorphosis of political characters. In
the twinking of an eye 1t transforms worthy citi
into Z" the excellent Brown a sprghty attor-
ney into the g accomplished Thompson and a
peculiarly frank and honest old Marion farmer
into ''sly and seductive" Lothario.
The game of the leaders of the Free Soil party
"founded upon principle they stated to the
people at its commencement, has not resulted, so
i 40 ha,-
their favor, They have every where been defeat
ed even after coaescing with their Democratic al
| lies. Ii tried in Vermont, and failed. New
York followed with similar discontinue And
the Massachusetts Free Democracy followed in
their footsteps, and have been routed "horse foot
and dragons The editor of the Worcester Spu
philosophically endeavors TO give crumb of COM
fort TO his dcluded followers, by telling them that
the political stamp of the Legislature is to be de-
| cided by the Representative elections yet to be
made!
But the die is cast. Wing principles yet prevail
| in Massachusetts,. They are triumphant without
coalition, and have scattered TO the winds the fee
bic clements of corrupt amalgamationists. The
people have succeeded in thwarting the schemes of
political gamblers, and the commonwealth remains
in the hands of the true conservaors of its estab-
lished interests. The of the parties opposed
TO the Wings too barefaced to be overlooked by
the people, the sovereign people of the common
wealth. They could not brook the insult offered
them, and rebuked the conspirators in becoming
| manner. The people have willed it, and the Wings
| rule.
Those of the leaders of the Free Soil party who
formerly voted with the Wings have been the most
| malignant opposers of Wing men and Wing can
| didatcs for office. Wing measures have been the
constant themes of their vituperaton. The regu-
lar Democracy have been soothed and comforted,
| while the Wings have been confronted on every
question of public policy, and their leaders have
| been branded as knaves and plotters of mischief
But honesty has put to blush the rhapsodes of fac
ton, and the shining light of Wing principles has
| triumphed, and routed the combined forces of the
opposition. Proud is this victory for Massachu-
setts-glorious is this result for the country Such
We trust, will &c the discontinue of all combina-
tons not predicated upon sound and tenable prin-
ciples.-BOston Journal, goth.