The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-08-01

Cass-the annexation of the Canadas at all hazards
would be its ayowed policy. We regard the cleo
ton of Gen. Taylor, aside from all the positive good
it has conferred and will continue to confer the
country as an incalculabe blessing, because it has
prevented our Government from interfering with
the affairs Of Canada and in the quarrel now 10 pro-
gress between the Canadians and their Govern
mentan interference which would certainly cost us
war with England, and the aggravation of our ma
tional Indebtedness to probably four times its pre-
sent amount. Were Cass President, his desire to
be involved in war with England, as well as his
desire TO extend the limits of our Confederacy,
would doubtless induce him to precipitaie the
try into long and cruel war, as Mr.. Polk precipi-
tated it into war with Mexico Under the adj
minlstration of Gen. Taylor il is not probable that
the peace of the nation will be placed in jeopardy.
He and his Cabinet unite in considering war the
greatest of all calamties, and will steadily endeavor
to preserve amicable relations with all nations.
From the NJ Y. Courier and Enquirer
General Taylor is prominently man of ma
onal views, dscardng every thing partial and sec
tonal, and seeking in all his acts the permanence of
the Union and the enduring good of all sections of
our common country. He has declared his pur-
pose to give Executive sanction to the national will
as expressed by Congress- within the limits of the
Constitution; and these limits he will recognise
they have been fixed by the past legislation of the
country and its Interpretation by the judicial tribu
nails. This Is precisely the position occupied by
the great party which has elevated him TO the great
place he now holds.
This position, we trust, the Wings Of the whole
Union will maintain with mistaken constancy II
is the true ground of patriotism and of Justice il
is the policy around which all men must ultimately
rally when peril menaces the country from sec
tional and faciious schemes. The efforts that are
now made to commit Wings to the projects of sec
nonal parties, however plausible they may appear,
can only end in mischief to the country and in in
jury TO every interest dear to the patriots heart.
We trust they will be resisted and foiled by that
sound, clear common sense which has always
hitherto characterized and guided the Wing party
of the Union.
From the Boston Atlas.
General Taylor and the New Hampshire
Resolutions.
The Washington Union, the other day, published
the resolutions recently passed by the Locofocos Of
the New Hampshire Legislature, in which General
Taylor and the Administration attacked in a
manner which would have been deemed disgraceful |
to any other Legislative body, but which is per-
fecty in character with the Locofocos Of New |
Hampshire. The Union paraded them in its col
umns with preface and fms Of its own. They
were held up as the voice of sovereign State in
condemnation of the national Administration The |
principal theme Of the resolutions was, of course
the removals from Office of Locofocos, and the APP
polntment of Wings in their places. Upon this
subject they follow up the cry put out by the Union
and we have strong impression that Mr.. Burke, |
the new editor of the Union, has had some hand in
getting them up. He is New Hampshire man.
and being be-wether in the flock there, the sheep
will follow him.
The most ridiculous thing connected with these |
resolutions was the apparent consequence which the
Union attached TO them. The "voice of a sove-
reign State" said the Union, is uttered against the
Administration, when the truth is, the resolutions
were carried by close party vote. They passed |
because the leaders at Washington and Concord |
desired 1t, knowing that their own outcres against
the Administration were but as voices in the will
derness, which no one Needed They drummed up
their tools in the New Hampshire Legislature to en-
dorse their clamor. They decreed and were obeyed
We have heard of gutton preaching abstinence,
OF sot advocating temperance, of libertine chas-
uty, and now we have another example character
istlc of these, of New Hampshire Locofocos cla-
moring against party appointments. Hypocrites
OF past days are nothing to the spawn of the pre-
sent. There has not been, since the early days Of
Andrew Jacksons administration, the first Wing
appointed TO Office in New Hampshire by Locofo-
cos. The State government has been even more
lntolerant than the national Government The
Wings of that State have been as virtually debarred
from office as if they outcasls and aliens.
From Governor down TO the meonest Office in his |
gift the law of outawry has operated. Not salts
fed with keeping all the Offices in their own rarty
a few years ago, they attempted to give an addi- |
tional screw TO the party vice. bill actually
introduced into the Legislature, by which il was |
decreed that all legal notices should be published in |
the Locofoco newspapers, thus deprivng the Wing |
papers OF their share of this small patronage with
which the State, as State had nothing in the world
to do. This bill actually passed one branch of the
Legislature. They have law something like this
one now, which applies to the New Hampshire
Patriot, the organ Of the party, Concord and the
most vehement denunciator of the Wing Admins
tration. People in New England have long since
forborne to express surprise any of political
hostility Of New Hampshire Locofocos towards
Wings. There Is a bitterness and malignity in
their course OF warfare which is unknown else
where The public sentiment Of the State was de.
bauched and brualized by party rancor, years ago,
by Isaac H and although he has retired from the /
active field, the virus still remains Those who now
keep up the fight may lack his talent but they have
his spite, his bitterness and his malignty Politi-
cal discussion has long since fallen in that State to
mere personal abuse, and to call man an I" old |
Fed is all that is necessary to write his doom.
And yet II is this class-this party-that berate |
Gen. Taylor and his Administration. Why, they |
couldn't do any thing else" They have abused |
every Wing in the Union. They can't help it. Ii |
has become a second nature. No man has been |
more vilely abused by them than Mr. Webster |
native of the State-a man whose name confers |
more honor on New Hampshire, than their efforts |
do to disgrace it. And yet the Washington Union |
chuckles over few impairment and malicious |
resolutions, trumped up by the leaders, and passed
by the Locofocos in the Legislature, against Gene
raj Taylor and his Administration if new oracle
had spoken-a new morality bad arisen. We hold |
these resolutions TO be highly honorable to the Ad-
ministration, and TO the Wings Praise from such |
a source taints The Wings Of New Hampshire |
than whom a better, more intelligent and patriotic
body Of men live not on this continent, will sustain
and do sustain the Administration and so will the
moderate men Of other parties, and in the end will
triumph.
From the Philadelphia North .1mericun
biography Of senior Editor.
II our memory Of political history serves us
rightly there A period within thu laet 6f,a.n