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

BUCHANAN, and all the Jackson leaders in
Congress, in 1926, not we, who pro-
claimed that the MONROE declaration was
nothing more than "the mere expression
of opinion of the Executive, submitted to
the consideration and elaboration of Con-
gress."
The Union knows it was Mr.. Polk, not
we, who proclaimed and maintained, in
1926, that President MONROE chad no
power to bind the nation' by that declara
ton.
The Union knows it was Messrs. Polk
and BUCHANAN, not we, who, in times
past, maintained that, Sin extending our
commercial relations with other nations,
we should have with them as little Politi-
cal connexion as possible"
The Union knows it was Messrs. Polk
and BUCHANAN, not we, who, years ago,
insisted that it would be highly inexpedi-
ent for US ''to form any alliance, offensive
OF defensive, or negotiate respecting such
an alliance, with all or any of the South
American republics"
The Union knows it was Messrs. Polk
and BUCHANAN, not we, who took the
ground, in 1926, that we should not ''be-
come parties with the South American re-
publics, or either of them, to any joint
declaration for the purpose Of preventing
the interference Of any Of the European
Powers NTH their independence or form of
government, or to any compact for the pu :
pose ofpeventing colonization on the CONT
nent of America. y
Knowing that the foregoing was the
language of Messrs. Polk and BUcH AN.AN
NOT daring to deny it, yet afraid to lie
pudiate it directly-the Union denounces
our republication of it as evidence that
zone of the organs of the Administrah On,
under the dictation of the Secretary of
State, is endeavoring to weaken the
force of the position of this country, and
to prepare the hearts Of the people for
an absolute and disgraceful surrender to
British arrogance" Why, if it be Grim
inal in as to repubhsh the language Of
Messrs. Polk and BUcHANAN-not 70 the
purpose of adopting it, and without adopt
ing it--these gentlemen, according to the
Union, must have been moral traitors of
the deepest dye! We call upon the
friends, personal and political, of Messrs
Polk and BUCHANAN to notice the d eadly
stabs which the Union is recklessly m aking
at their regulations, for the miserable pur-
pose of relieving itself from a difficulty
which nothing but the most impene trable
stupidity could ever have gotten it into.
We warn the friends of the Union to be
on their guard, for that, goaded to despe-
ration by General TAYLoR'S election, it is
now stunning a muck striking alike at
friend and foe-with power, however, to
do mischief to its friends alone We
asked, last week, if the Union had g lost
its reason" VIII not its own friends
! give that question their most serious con-
sideration, when they see it denouncing
President TAYLOR because it thinks he
intends pursuing the very course Of policy,
in reference to the Nicaragua canal, which
General Jackson heartily approved of, and
even commenced preparations for carrying
out in 1886 when they see it denounc-
ing the mere republication in the RepvJHc
of extracts from printed speeches of NIessrs.
Polk, BUCHANAN, VAN buren,, FORSYTH,
and the lamentedHAYNE-speeches warm
ly approved of and loftily eulogized at the
time by the senior editor of the Union
as proof positive that the present Admin
stration intend TO truckle disgracefully 10
Great Britain in the negotiations now
pending with her in relation to the Mica.
ragua question
For further proof that the Union is la
boring under some serious hallucination,
we cite the following, from that paper Of
the 18th inst:
But Mr.. ADAMS was a federalst, and he
claimed the power to execute the MoSRoE dccla-
ration az if it we're law of Congress or a treaty
stipulation"
And yet in the very article, in the same
number Of the Union, from which the fore
going extract is taken, President TAYLOR
is charged with intending to sacrifice the
honor and interests of this country, be-
cause, as the Union thinks, he will not
exercise the power to execute the Mon.
: ROE declaration" which Mr. ADAMS was
:" federalist" for claiming If the
Union were in its right mind, would il
perpetrate such absurdities as that,
! Another Of the Union's ludicrous subter.
fuges is the distinction it draws between
: the Panama Mission and the Nicaragu;
e affair. II "cannot but regard with pity
e bordering on contempt, the statesman wht
c does not perceive the difference between