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

/ Office holders throughout the country
| Where there has been an approximation
to this policy, we have seen popular ap-
proval of the Administration. In the
States where the alleged pledge Of the
President has not been SO interpreted, and
where place and patronage have remained
in Locofoco hands, we have seen the evil
dences of popular discomfort in the results
of all the elections. But we do not mean
to discuss this as part of the question in
the present connexion.
That he should not remove Locotocos
from office, we see, is one Locoioco con-
dition Of the policy of a President OF the
people. What is the other, as indicated
by the sole organ OF the Democracy ?
That he should adopt the Southern view of
the Wilmot proviso, and in the language
of the Union of November 9th, % act as a
Southern man." II is "he failure Of
General TAYLOR to act as a Southern man"
that the Locofoco press, in express terms,
now holds up to public reprobation. This
has been the covert meaning OF all its at
tacks upon the President for the last six
months. The whole aim Of Locofoco
rhetoric has been to prove "the failure OF
| General TAYLOR to act as Southern
man." 1t has been charged that in the
| formation of his Cabinet he has failed to
act as Southern man, or, in other words,
has suffered other portions of the Union
to be represented in it. In refusing to
announce to the people in advance that he
would veto the Wilmot proviso at all haz-
ards and under all circumstances, there was
| another instance GOT the failure of General
TAYLOR to act as Southern man." These
topics have been urged day by day, and
pressed upon the people of the South with
factious industry and zeal by the journals
and orators of the Opposition. The South
ern Locofoco presses have been filled with
denunciations Of the PRESIDENT, re-echo-
ing the charge against him of deserving the
South, by refusing to take the Southern
side on an exciting subject of political con-
troversy-at time when Congressional
elections were pending, liable to be largely
influenced by the expression of a sectional
Southern sentiment. A single word from
President TAYLoR-the most casual, the
most unmeaning, indicating sectional and
partisan feeling in this behalf-not de-
termination, but a mere Inclination to veto
the Wilmot proviso-would have turned
the whole current of the Southern Con-
gressional elections, and given the Admin
stration an Overwhelming majority in the
House of Representatives
The refusal of President TAYLOR to COM
promise his official position on this subject,
by taking the side of the South against the
| North-the failure to sEact as a Southern
man" on point on which he is liable to
| be required to act as the Chief Magistrate
of a nation-is alone sufficient to vindicate
the confidence reposed in him by the
American people That he has not, by
word or deed, by writing or suggestion, in
any manner, or through any medium, mott
fed the South that he was prepared to
sfact as Southern man. on this subject,
or on any subject, bears testimony TO firm
ness and integrity that entitle him to the
respect and gratitude, not to say the love
and admiration, of his fellow countrymen-
alike of the North and of the South That
he has been equally reserved in the ex-
preston of any sentiment having North
ern aspect-after the Southern Federal
elections were nearly disposed of, and
while important elections were pending in
the Northern States-is only another evil
dence of his desire TO hold the balance,
even between conflicting interests and pas
sions-to give Satisfaction TO his coun-
| trymen" in every section, and to become,
in the broadest and most enlarged sense of
the expression, the President Of the People.
| CoRREcrIoN.-In the Introductory remarks 10 the
speeches Of Assunwah and Blow Bowlegs, pub
| lished yesterday, said that the conference be-
/ tween the seminoles and the United States COM
mandcr in chief in Florida, was held at Tampa
/ Bay. The " talk" occurred at Charlotte Harbor.
| The letters from which we made the extracts were
dated at Tampa Bay, several days after the confer
cnce and hence the mistake
The Rhode Island Legislature despatched its bust
ness promptly. II adjourned Friday last, after
four days session, in which four acts and sundry
| resolutions were passed. great amount Of pri-
vate business was transacted and all in four days
CoLERrDGE, treating on the inseparable conncx.
ion Of truth with error, ssys that there errors
which no wisc man will treat with rudeness, while
there is probability that they may be the refrac-
ton Of some great truth yet below the horizon.
s estimated that existing contracts for beef in
and about Cleveland, will require the slaughter Of
twenty thousand head Of cattle during the fall and
| winter.
| The wakulla (Florida) Times states that the
manufacture Of turpentinc IL beginning to attract
considerable attention IN that State. Those who
have engaged in it, 20 far, find it more proftabl,
! than cotton.
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