The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-11-10

teTposItlon OF which we have AT present
I no assurance"
! "What," the Union adds, ''will be the
consequence Of the passage Of the Will
mot proviso, or of law abolishing slave
{ ny in the District of Columbian Will
the South submit to either or both OF
those measuresi or will it redeem its
pledge to resist them at all hazards, and
4 10 the last ertremityW
! We should like to know when and
where ''the South" gave any such pledge'
Who were authorized to speak for the
South on this subject' The Union itself
represents the Southern WIGS as indif-
ferent in the premises. They form part
of the South, and pretty large part, if
we reckon rightly. AT the last Presiden-
tlal election there were 435,345 Wing
voters in the Southern States, against
400, 402 Locofoco voters. If we can place
any dependence on the Union, we may
safely assume that they will content them
selves with something short of nullifica-
ton and disunion on subject to which
they are Indifferent" Then General
RUsK and General Houston have both
condemned the resistant all hazards doc
trine as intimating and threatening " dis
union and war;" They have some party
! friends in their State who think with
them. Mr.. BENTON and his followers
do not hesitate to denounce it as .'trea-
son.
But supposing the South to have made
the pledge charged upon it, we should be
much obliged to the " sole organ of the
Democratic party at the seat Of Govern
ment," to inform us what it would be
| Democratic for the South to do under such
circumstances From the sole organ of
the National Democracy, we should be
pleased to know what course it recon-
mends to the South to pursue With
more than two millions of voters at the
North, most of whom it describes as of
one way of thinking; and with $4,000
voters Of the South, of whom 435, 345 are
| Wings, and considerable portion of the
residue such fools and blind men as Mr..
BENTON, Mr.. RUsK, and Mr.. HousToN,
what would the Union advise to be done
| What would the Northern conductor of the
Union advise for the portion of the Democ-
racy he represents Would he recon-
mend war or disunion on account of the
l Of F.
tally he himself voted Judge DOUGLAS
says that he voted for the Wilmot proviso
| before Mr.. WILMoT came to Congress.
Mr.. BURKE says that he never voted for
the Wilmot prosiso, because at the time
he voted for it Mr.. WILMoT was not in Con-
gress. What would the senior editor of
the Union advise-that most democratic
of Democrats-ay, the most elite of the
elite Democracy of Richmond itselfi Let
the national Democracy speak through its
most miraculous organ" We imagine
that its utterance would prove the truth of
JOHN VAN BUREE's allegation at Rich
mond, that the Democratic party, as ma
tional party, is dissolved
! The sentiment which the Union at one
moment describes as nearly universal, in
! the next breath it denounces as "the agi-
tation Of faction" 1t is "factious'' for
couple of millions of voters to entertain
sentiment, but it is not factious for the
Union to stimulate, and by implication
recommend, PERSISTENCE" to what it be-
lieves will become a law. "Resistance at
all hazards" means forcible resistance or
disunion, if it means any thing; and the
forcible resistance of a minority in the
Southern States to the majority in those
States, and the whole people of the free
States
We have no such fears as the Union
seeks to excite. We believe that the
people Of the South are quite as unani-
nous in their hostility TO the Wilmot provi-
so as the Northern people are in its support
We believe that the prospect is most hatter-
ing Of the adjustment Of the proyiso ques-
ton by the admission Of California and New
Mexico as States, and the establishment of
President TAYLOR in the affections of the
Northern "aggressors" and the "fools and
blind men Of the South" And II is this,
we apprehend, that presents the most alarm
ing feature in the case 10 the Opposition.
The Union is taking time by the forelock
II is afraid, unless it can buster and bully
the Administration a little in advance,
there will be no opportunity. It had bet
ter make the most of its time If the ter
ritories Of California and New Mexico
should present themselves here with con-
stitutions to please themselves, Congress
might be 'factlous" enough to admit them
as States; and then there might be no
more badgerlng and batting the Admins
tration about the Wilmot proviso.