The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-08-31
LocoFoco CAN'T.


off,"
1t is reported, says the biographer, that
an illiterate burgher came to ARIsTiDEs,
whom he took for some ordinary person,
and giving him his. shell, desired him to
write .Arisiides upon it. The good man,
surprised at the adventure, asked him
whether Aristides had ever injured him.
No, said he, nor do | even know him; but
it veres me to hear him evey wAere called
the Just
Because President TAYLOR is determined
to maintain friendly relations with all for
eign powers, without any sacrifice OF our
own rights, or what is due to other ma
tons, he has been appropriately called
man q peace-n peace Presideaf-in contra
distinction to those leaders of the so-called
Democratic party, who are actuated by
the war spirit.
The Opposition, however, true Ish-
maelite, raises its hand against this term,
which has been so appropriately applied
to the PRESIDENT; as it has done, and con-
tinues to do, against almost every term
and thing that have been used and done
by the WIG party and the present Ad-
ministration-no matter how appropriate
the term which may have been used, or
proper the thing which may have been
done, in the estimation of the unpreju-
diced Thus, to designate the peoples
President as man Of peace is, in the esti-
nation Of Locofoco publicans, to be guilty
of the crime of ''sacrilege" For, says
this sanctimonious brother of Kill-Sin PIN
pie and Be Faithful Joyner, "There has
never been but zone man of peace and
he was "a man of sorrows and acquainted
with grief" So argues this counterpart
of one of those two men that went up in
the temple to pray.
The fact is, the Opposition, when it
penned the above, was no doubt suffering
under the effect induced upon its religious
sentiment (i) by its publication, 'swithout
comment" of its ridicule and ribaldry on
the Fast Day, remembering, doubtless, that
it had noticed, in terms some what of appro-
val, the PRESIDENTS recommendation.
But, in order to make the amende honorable
to the decent and unheroic portion of its par
ty for its publication, ''without COMMENT"
of the low wit which loaded its columns,
and which still continues to weigh them
down, in the estimation of that elite por-
ton, it resorts to this charge of sac,1-
lege against the Whigs-a charge which
may be regarded as a miserable and abor-
tive attempt to draw off public censure
from itself fer the sanction of that which
it thus vainly endeavors to fasten upon
the admirers and supporters of the PREsI-
DENT. 1t seems to fancy that the remem-
brance Of its own delinquency will be BAN
ished, by falsely accusing Wings of insti-
tuting comparison between, or claiming
quality, in one sense, exclusively per-
tanning to the Prince Of Peace. II is so
uered, so maddened by the peoples cries of
ga man of peace" and '.peace President,"
that, although it is ready to confess that
President TAYLOR never injured it, and
that it even perhaps does not know him,
yet it desires to have him ostracised-his
name written upon its shell-simply and
solely because it peres it to hear the Pres-
dent every where called man of peace
peace President.
With as much force it might have at
tempted to maintain against Mr.. DALLAs's
letter upon the treaty, that there is and
has been but one treaty of peace pro-
claimed upon earth, and, in proof, alluded
to the PRONUNCIATION Of the glad tidings of
mans salvation. With as much success
it might have argued, that it was detract-
ing from the purity and permanence, and
exaltation, and from the oneness, of that
one great, pre-eminent treaty, for Mr..
DALLAS to speak Of any other treaty Of
peace; that there was and had been but
one treaty Of peace, worthy so to be
called; and that such a term Of designa-
ton was as detracting and inapplicable,
relatively, to this one great treaty, as was
the same term, relatively, TO the Saviour,
when applied to President TAYLOR. The
amount Of what il has said about this term,
as applied to the President, is, that as
there has been but one man of peace, and
of sorrows, and acquainted with grief,
ergo there never has been, nor can be
another, in any sense; and, therefore, to
designate any other man as a man Of
peace, IN any sense, or in the sense used
by the Wings and applied to President
TAYLOR, is "sacrtiege."
This paragraph, then, Of the Opposition
about ewing Can't" may be viewed as
the dog of Alcibiades, with his fine tail
cut of-a mere political ruse, TO oblterate
public remembrance of its own delinquen-
CIV. In II NAV be discerned the sleek face