The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-06-23
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SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE %, ls49.
THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH.


The Union cannot OF will not under
stand us. We say, once more, that no
person, combination of persons, in or out
of place, is responsible for what appears
in the columns of this paper. ''The Re-
public' alone is answerable for what is
said in ''The Republic 1t is the organ
of the opinions which it avows. What
ever support we give the Administration
is voluntary. 1t arises from sincere
conviction that the principles upon which
it came into power are those upon which
the prosperity and the perpetuity of the
Union may securely rest. We profess to
represent those principles in so far as we
are capable of doing SO. We rejoice, and
the nation has occasion torejoice, that the
President of its choice requires no mouth
piece to trumpet his praises with cease
less blast. He is content that the people
should Judge him by his acts, and by
what he shall say for himself, when it
becomes necessary for him to appear be-
fore the public. Our respect for the Pre-
sldent himself arises out of an intimate
knowledge of his public history and long
acquaintance with his private worth. We
know him honest, patriotic and capable;
and we further know that he is as little
disposed to have us sacrifice the indepen-
dence of the Press by slavish devotion
to himself and those who are around him.
as we are to reduce journalism to mere
echo of what is said and done in high
places. We are not in the habit of linger-
ing about the purlieus Of the Departments
to pick up the inclinings of public men.
We require no nudging in the service we
have undertaken. Our path is straight
before US. And when the Union wants
to know what truth there is in the small
tattle of the walters on fortune, it must
| Apply elsewhere
Having said this much, we shall now
proceed to respond to several articles
which the Union has addressed to us, the
gravamen of which is reduced to a simple
inquiry imbedded in its last leader on the
same subject, to wit:
"Why does not it the Republic state
the views of General TAYLOR on the vii.
mot Proviso-whether he sustains the
North or supports the Southp'
When the Union can convince us that
any amount of agitation of this question,
by the Washington press, can produce the
slightest effect upon the people of the
North or the South, other than to aggra-
vate the evils which its discussion has al
ready produced, we shall write with it by
the acre and wrangle with it by the day.
When il can show that its own labors, in
this behalf, has prevented its own party
In the North from rushing, pell-mell, into
the fold of the Free Sellers, we shall be-
gin to consider whether any thing but
mischief can come of thrusting ourselves
between people who are of one mind upon
the subject The Union's proposition in
wolves the idea, that the people of the
North entertain one set of views respect
ing the proviso, and that the people of the
South hold another and different set
that Wing and Locofoco in one section are
alike proviso men, and Wing and Demo
crat in the other alike oppose it. Both par
| ties in the same sections Of the Union hold
like opinions in relation to it, Does the
/ North, then, stand in need of urging &c
produce unanimity of sentiment there
Does the South require advice to effect
unity there Surely no one will say so.
What good object can then be attained,
we would ask, by taking sides with the
North, where there is no diversity oil
opinion or with the South, where there
is no diversity of opinion None what
ever. Let Wings or Democrats be elected
from the South, and they will be anti-pro
viso or Wings or Democrats be elected
in the North, and they are for the proviso
Hence it is manifest that no change car
be produced in the composition of Con
gress, in SO far as this question is con
cerned, by all the help that can possibly
be volunteered to either section. The
only result from such course would be
that the passions and animosities of eacl
would be inhamed against the other, anc
the difficulties in settling down upon som,
national and satisfactory adjustment mul