The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-12-17
The CALLED Jade yvinces.

When the Union commenced its article
under the above caption, it might have
been inferred that it was about to indite
rhapsody upon It's own sufferings. Its
withers had been wrung to the quick-a
torture made more intolerable by the fail
ure of fraud to which there are many
who think II was party. Its pet, its first
saint, its protege, had undergone a mar
tyrdom at the hands of his own party more
excruciating than that over which the
/" sole organ had pitched It's most plain
tive ieremiad. Verify, exclaimed the
Union, "the blood of the martyrs is the
seed of the church." Mr.. WILLIAM J.
Brown was the first seed planted. Ii was
strewed in the richest compost the Union
could prepare, and brought forth just
such fruit as might have been expected
from germs that had been watered by the
tears of the crocodile.
Had a correspondence, such as took
place between Mr.. BRowN and Mr.. VIII
MOT, been disclosed upon a Wing, the
Union would have been Shocked-thun-
derstruck; and the parties would have
been denounced with all the explosives
known TO the denunciatory vocabulary of
that journal. In the case of Mr.. Brown,
the crime was in not cORcediiRg the bar
gain with the Abolltionists. a deep regret,
sincere disapproval Of that gentleman's
position-meaning perhaps, his exposure
only-is the sum total of the Lnion'S con-
domination Of what many of lis own party
have denounced a. the most disgraceful
development ever made in the House, and
which the Richmond Enquirer has yclept
"damning enough This most shameful
plot has only warmed up the Unioa'S ge-
MUS to scandalize and lampoon other peo-
pie; and this it does in the hope that like
the cuttle-fsh, it may hide itself by black
ening and beginning every thing about it,
Mr.. Bows was peculiarly proper
candidate for the ''bitter enders." We
remarked, in the Baltimore Hrgus, some
comments 20 this effect. When il was
thought certain that Mr.. Brown would be
elected Speaker, that Journal was in &C.
stasies at the rebuke his elevation would
be Of the Administration The first mar
tyr the truncated saint And though,
since the explosion of the plot, the Argus
has rather spoken Of Mr.. BRowN as a
headless Hessan. than a companion Of
John Rogers of Smithfeld, yet, as en-
blematic Of the hostility of those who
oppose the Administration of General
TAYLOR, "no matter what face the flu
ture may wear, TO the bitter end" il
nav BIZ doubted if his election ought 70
have been defeated on account Of his let
Ter 20 Mr. WH.MoT. In bargaining for
the votes of the Abolilionists, it was
agreed that the committees should be
formed in a manner especially distastefu
TO the Administration. The Union, the
morning of. the explosion, endorsed Mr..
BRowY as "admirably qualified to dis.
charge the duties OF the Chair" The
Union is "bitter ender." And Mr.
WrLMoT declared that, under the arrange
nent, It was specially provided that per
sons favorable TO the present Adminlstra
lion should be excluded from the contro
verted committees. Mr.. WLAoT is an
g;her "bitter ender." Mr. BRowY ther
represented the ''bitter end" of botl
wings Of the opposition. The "sole or
GAM invoked Free-Soi and ultra pro
slavery men TO his support. "HoLMEs,