The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-07-10
THE STATE OF PARTIES.
COnRre ssiOnaI Elections.

Congressional Elections.
If we can reason at all from the signs of
the times, our WIG friends never had so
strong motives to eXertion as they have
in the pending Congressional elections.
With majority in the House of Repre-
sentatives, good working majority, there
seems to be no doubt whatever that the
Administration of General TAYLOR will 90
on quietly, prudently, and wisely, to Sc
cure for the country all the advantages
that the people have expected from it.
The popular branch being with us, there
will be no factious opposition in the Senate:
and the tendency of things will be to as
simulate more and more every day the
views of the latter body to those of the
Administration. The moderate measures
Of reform put forward by the House will
not be factiously defeated in the Senate;
and the country will prosper under that
benignant policy which contemplates the
welfare of the whole people, and believes
in the power of the General Government
to give them "good roads, good harbors,
and good laws"
If we look at the position of the Admin
istration party, we shall find in it all the
elements of strength, progress, and perpe-
tuity The heart-burning and discomfort
resulting from the exercise of the appoint
ing power amount to nothing. They in
duce sometimes imprudent language, but
that is all. No sane man will ruin his
character and position with the communi-
ty, by opposing an Administration because
t it has not conferred an office on him. No
man will relax his exertions in cause to
which he has been honestly devoted, be-
cause he supposes that his personal merits
: have been overlooked or sighted. Oppo-
sition based upon personal disappointment
is at once shorn Of all its power of mis-
chief
This, however, is the sole disturbing
element in the ranks of the Administra-
ton party. On all the great questions of
policy they are agreed, whether they live
on the Kennebec or the Rio Grande. The
manifestation in favor of Internal Improve
ments and Domestic Manufactures are as
. strong this very day in Tennessee, and
Georgia, and Alabama, as they are in Mas
sachusetts and Rhode Island. The desire
/ for peace and the preservation of our
neutrality is as strong in Louisiana as in
: Pennsylvania. There is no question ex-
Q tant with regard to National Bank, or a
4 Distribution Of the Proceeds of the Public
3 Lands. There is every where a DISPOSE
9 ton among the WHO'S to acquiesce in the
/ withdrawal of the slave-question from the
! arena Of party politics, to settle il in what
: ever shape il may come up with a strict
9 regard to the rights, interests, and feel.
9 ings Of all parties to the controversy, and
= to the requirements of the Constitution oil
y the United States. Entire harmony pre-.
. walls, and the best personal feeling among
q our distinguished men. President TAY
% LoR, "the southern Shareholder" frater
nizes with Willard Fillmore, the "north
ern Abolitionist," (as the Union style,
them,) precisely as hundreds Of Thousands
Of their WIG constituents in the northern
States fraternized with other hundreds o
thousands in the southern States before tn,
late Presidential election. Fratemizin!
at then, il would be very strange, indeed, i
's they should quarrel now over their sue
cess, and because of it.
Now let us take a look at the Opposition
party, and the elements of which il is com
= posed. We apprehend that the idea of
es Democratic party in the southern States
IN of the same kidney with the new forma
Is ton under that name in the northern
=, States, is an bsoIete and deiunct idea. Al
ID a national party, the so-called old Demo
cratic party is utterly shorn of its prestige
ct its position, its power, its identity, its hole
'e upon the country. II can never be re
united as national party. The momen
a it connected itself with sectional and loca
n issues-the moment it sought to be alb
n sorbed in Free-Soiism, there was an enc
n Of il as national party. When we SEE
this union consummated in Wisconsin
Connecticut, and Vermont-proposed ant
advocated with all the weight Of the lead
ers and county committees and State com