The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-11-09

and, nominating a State ticket, informed the Barn
| burners that they might have the substitution OF
four OF the eight officers, provided they would har-
| Inonlze with them, and say nothing more about
making slavery test This proposition OF the
Hunkers was accepted at a convention of the Barn
| burners at Utica. And then followed the mass
convention Of both factions at Syracuse, which, we
| are told, concluded and cemented the nuptal
! bonds. AT this convention even w illiam l.. Marcy
refused 10 preside, If remember Alright. Such was
TINS mockery of a union between the Barnburners
and the Old Hunkers. l know of nothing in the
whole history Of parties that can parallel or APP
proach the cruel fate of the latter, thus dragged
lhto a coaltlon with the men whom one year ago
only they denounced as foes to freedom adherents
OF slavcocracy, and the supple instruments of its
power; more dreadful, as il seems to me, than the
punishment Mzentius the old Etrurian king, in
hlcted on ms enemies, when he bound the living
the corpses of the dead, compelling them TO die in
the agonies OF such a horrible embrace. Gap
plause) And hardly less cruel is the fate Of tie
Hunkers. How revolving to them must he an ALI
ance with those upon whom one year ago thew
heaped every threat of opprobrium and abuse The
Banburncrs were then denounced by these same
Iiunkers (brothers nowD as the +" degenerate sons
OF Democracy" "traitors to their party, ""warmed
into life in the bosom of Democracy" and turning
in the very hour Of its final triumph "to sting il
the death" Aye. and they did sting il to the DEATH
And can they now repose III quiet, and breathe out
warm life heart to heart, they feel the serpent
coil around them? No! recalling their wrath as
they remember their doom
ct is if the dead could feel
The icy worm around them steal,
And shudder, the reptiles creep
To revel DER their rotting sleep,
Without the power to scare away
The cold consumers OF their clay"
And, to of their own choice words and
phrases: . w hen and where do the assassins and
avengers of Silas Wright meet % Is it ON the spot
where the arrow aimed at his heart fell upon his
new made gravep' And can the Wanting avenger
and the Jackal here join hands without disturbing
his ashes! Mark Antony, g making his peace,
shaking the bloody fingers Of Cesars foes may
well say:
" My credit now stands upon such slippery ground
That one OF two bad ways you must conceive me;
Either a coward flatterer."
Let them stand, then, this pretended union.
What Is there IN 1t but Locofoco attempt to band
like other bandits, for the spoils? What is the APP
peal they make, but an appeal to organize for per-
petual preponderance in this Government Will
you give it to them, Wings Of New York? (Cries
restore this unprincipled and now half famished
faction to powcr-this party of combined opposition
to all that is true and conservative? ("Nor') /
summon you then as Wings, one and all, mindful
OF the momentous issues at stake to come up as one
man to put down this infamous union at the ballot
box. Have they settled any thing? The Pharisees
and Sadducees have met together, but the question
of the resurrection they have not settled. "a laugh
Leu IL DC our part 10 Settle tnat Tor them, now! /
appeal to you on behalf of our principles; and,
looking at the balance of power welded by the great
State and city of New York. to come manfuly
up to the discharge of the high and holy duties de-
yolving upon you as men, and as freemen. 1t is in
your power, if you but will, to secure such tri-
umph of Wing principles in this State as will pre-
serve it for the next twenty five years. (Cheers,
and cries of 'we shall.'') Let us drive before us
that old whole hog" party, which now presents
itself before US with all its old unsghtliness from
tail to snout. CA laugh.'') Need say, fellow
citizens. few words in conclusion, about the can
ddates your conventions have offered you? Do
they not, one and all, speak for themselves? Pass
them all over, and soc if you can put your finger
upon one unworthy of your confidence. (Here there
were three cheers given for the "whole ticket')
They come from the workshop, they belong to, and
are of, the working classes of this community
Quicken your pace then, and press forward to the
glorious victory which shall assuredly crown your
efforts six days hence if you discharge the duty you
owe TO your country and your God. Remember
that here every thing is at stake. Let Pennsylvania
and Georgia pass out of the glorious procession of
Wing States that led on, in the last Presidential
election-so long the empire State stands FAST 30
long shall the noble arch of Wing supremacy laugh
to scorn the assaults of the enemy. Let every sol
der in the camp resolve TO stand by it under the
well-tried commanders whose names you have in
scribed upon its columns and it can never be broken
down
1.-THE speech of Mr.. Thayer was a brilliant effort,
and we regret that our limits allow only of the inn
perfect report of it we have given above. The
speaker, at frequent intervals in the course Of its
delivery was interrupted by spontaneous bursts of
applause that bespoke effect upon the listeners
not often produced by speech from the stump.l