The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-07-16
For the Republic.
THE UNION NEWSPAPER.

Were it not that the Union newspaper, published
in this city, claimed to be the sole organ of Democ
racy, it would have no right to expect or receive
the consideration of any who lays claim to
responsibility. It's denunciations of General lay
lor and his Cabinet coarse and vulgar that
large portion of their own party condemn H. and 1t
receives the countenance and support only of those
who have "got to the bottom" The Wing party
have nothing to fear from their calumny, and much
less from their ability. Nor does that party desire
a stronger vindcation of the correctness of its
principles, or the patriotism of It's members, than
the agitation and alarm into which the Union is
thrown whenever tie Hon. Truman Smith sends
out documents for the people. If the people are
capable of self-government, which fear the Union
does not believe, and the Wing principles and
Wing policy are wrong, not all the Truman Smiths
in the world c,uld change them from their purpose.
Does not this trepidaton on the part Of the Union
when the Hon. Senator from Connecticut issues
a circular, or when Mr. Mudd makes a visit 10
North Carolina, show conclusively that there are
some things they wish concealed from the dear
people? Ii our party is such 'raw-head and bloody
bones' as the Union makes out, the more they show
themselves in their members, their acts, and their
writings the better it is for the Democratic party
Again, ever since General Taylor has been in
office, the Union has not ceased TO declare that the
dear people were humbugged. And has 1t come
this, that there is not sufficient penetration IN the
American people TO make choice of their Chef
Magstratei And f it be true in this case, they
are liable TO commit the same error next time.
| did not know before that system was 50 deiec-
| tive. We who have boasted of having demonstrated
| the proposition that is capable Of s,lf-govern-
| ment, are now he informed that il is all poetry
and no truth in il. The Union newspaper declares,
| IN so many words, that the people have not sutt-
clent dscernment TO make choice of a President
they have been humbugged. II, TO reward man
who has carried his country's arms 10 the highest
| pitch OF national glory be humbuggery, pray that
\ It may be transmitted from generation TO generation
until the American nation shall be assembled with
the nations Of the earth render her account IL,
| TO do justice to the old Soldier, whom the unfor-
tunate rulers OF his country endeavored TO DIS
grace and destroy be humbuggery, | trust that II
! will be the active, living principle OF American
| action, as long as we exist coniederated Re
| public. III, TO honor the brave and the generous,
| the vrtuous and the good, those who have stood
by their country in the gloom OF her darkest hours
when her own President selected and gave To the
| enemy their own commander, be humbuggery,
then has this generation the proud satisfaction OF
knowing that they have not wasted the inheritance
transmitted by the ilustrious ancestry of revolu.
tionary memory. But il is useless TO proceed the
| most shallow intellect cannot fail TO perceive the
motive Of the sole organ in daily splitting It's venom
at the illustrous chief who adorns the Presidential
mansion. The one editor has lost his offoe-the
other his occupauon-and TO this circumstance, #
none other, has General Taylor a right to be CRATE
fully remembered.
But il is not my purpose to indulge in epthets
unworthy a good cause, or attribute motives TO
mems actions that not legitimate and pal pable 10
every one at a glance. III the Union honestly be-
leve that General TArIoR is humbug, and his
Cabinet s composed OF knsves and FOOLS the people
will find IL out without this continuous effort on ITS
part to decry them and PREJUDICE them before they
have been heard lam aware that humsn credulity Is
easy TO be imposed upon and both IN civil as well
as savage life the mind sssents rather than undergo
the fatigue and trouble Of investigation; but there
isl point beyond which il is ofentmes impotic
to venture, for fear that all the good you may have
achieved will be lost by asking too much.
So il is with the editors If the Union; they may
impose upon the people 80 far as 10 make them be-
lieve that General Taylor is not much Of general
after all and the battles he fought IN Mexico were
humbugs; that John NJ Clayton exhibits great e,
norance in his powers Of diplomacy, and that such
; men as Ewing, Collamer, and Johnson will do TO
head factions and prescribe political opponents but
when they attempt 10 force upon the public conyc-
ton that MIR Meredith is weak, and that Messrs.
Preston and Crawford have not as yet, learned
their duties and the latter will, as they dad IN
their paper Of the l4h inst they lose all right and
claim TO have any credence placed IN any thing they
say; and such, no doubt viii be the verdict Of an
intelligent public.
But have extended this article beyond my ex-
, pectsuops. have nothing IN the Admins
trstion to condemn, and the people have every
reason to believe that their country's honor will be
maintained, and her prosperity advanced Al
ready do have the earnest Of better times m the
: condition of her stocks the surest indication that
the public have confidence in those who are placed
i, to manage the affairs Of State. The Union may
continue to write against General Taylor and his
Cabinet; they may endeavor TO overawe him. they
may attack him upon thus point and that but from
all he will rise as Brutus rose from the stroke Of
Cmssr's fate, victorious and greeted with the APP
plsuse Of CATO and Of Rome JUSTICE.
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