The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-11-23

cognised By the people Of the United States,
so fir as the Legislative branch ofMe Coz
er7lnent-their o,on repreSentatiUeS-loaS
concerned. Surely, if Democratic Con-
gress could make such declaration as
this to all Europe, we might be allowed
the humble privilege of quoting the views
of Mr.. Polk and Mr.. BUCHANAN, on the
MONROE declaration in 1926, without sub
jecting the Administration to the imputa-
ton of intending to tell the British govern
ment "that the Government of the United
States does not question, much less re-
sist, the right of England, or Of any other
monarchical power, to plant new colo
MES in America, as they may please y
Why, that is precisely the same thing, in
substance, which Senator ALLEN, accord
ing to the Union's logic, tells US the
Democratic Congress Of 1926, as far as
they were concerned, declared to all En-
rope' But in the Union's present unsettled
state of mind, we shall not be at all sur
prised to find it assailing the .Administra-
tion furiously, and charging 1t with in
tending to tell England to come on and
colonize the American continent as much
as she chooses, because zoe have repub-
lished the extract above from a speech of
Senator ALIENS in 1916!
So much for Senator ALLEN in 1916.
Now for General CAss, the late Demo-
cratic candidate for the Presidency. By
turning to the extract we have quoted
above from his speech, in the Senate,
in 1916, on Mr.. ALIENS resolutions, it
will be seen that General CAss, speaking
of the MONROE declaration, asserted that
g it had remained o dead letter upon
the history of our intercourse with other
nations," because Congress had neuer re-
sponded TO 1t. As Congress did not re-
spond to it, therefore, in 1916, nor has
responded to it since, according to Gene
raj CAss, the MONROE declaration remains,
to this day, a dead letter, SO far as our in
tercourse with foreign nations is concerned,
and must Of necessity remain a dead let
ter, in our own intercourse with other ma
tons, until Congress gives it vitality by
responding to it. What figure does this
declaration Of its late candidate for the
Presidency cause the Union to make be-
fore its readers and the public ! Just look
at it Here has been the Union-the
self-styled "sole organ" ofthe Democracy
at the seat of Government-for weeks
past, vexing the public ear, fretting and
tuning, scolding and vituperating, snort
ing and cavorting, denouncing and vilify-
ing General TAYLOR, because, it thinks, he
does not intend to run John Bull clear off
the entire Mosquito shore NTH a dead let
teri-with dead letter, into which he has
no power under the Constitution, accord
ing to General CAss, to breathe spark of
UitahtyH
We submit it to the Unions own friends
to say, if We have not made good our po
that if it had understood
what it was about, it would never have
logged into this controversy the debate in
the Senate, in 1926, on Mr.. ALIENS reso-
lutions. Would man, not bereft of his
reason, seize with his naked hands the
flaming red-hot end Of poker, either for
purposes of offence or defence' We trow
not.
And now let the readers of the Union
be on the lookout for a tremendous out
pouring of its wrath upon the ErecutiUe,
because we have quoted the extract given
above from General CAss's speech. See
if the Union does not discover, in our re-
publication OF that little extract from
speech made in 1916 by the late Demo
cratic candidate for the Presidency, indu-
bitable evidence of traitorous intention,
on the part of General TAYLOR, pusillani-
mously to surrender intothe hands of Queen
Victoria the only weapon in his posses
sion which he could have used efficiently
in the Nicaragua negotiations weapon
of such transcendant potency that single
wave of it would be sufficient to strike
with terror and dread all the monarchs of
Europe, and insure the continents of
America against all future attempts at CO
lonization by European powers-a wea-
pon-how shall we call itl--what name
shall be given TO ith-letus call il, in honor
of the Union, the Union'S DEAD LETTER
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