The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-09-08
Correspondence Of !be Republic.
BosToN, Sept. s, ls49.

AN INQUIRY.
We are all anxious to know, in this part of the
country whether the Union has yet got out of that
every tight place. in which you left it, like Ariel
"pegged in the knotty entrails of oak in
ference to its abuse of Mr.. Gllett, Solicitor of the
Treasury, for supposed communication of infor-
nation, which he had no right to withhold, in re-
gard to the DENLY affair We curious to see
how the :" sole organ will creep out Of that diem
ma, into which it precipitated itself in its par
tisan zeal; and we have looked very searchingly
through its columns for something like explana-
ton Please let know if we have overlooked
any thing in regard to it.
VERMONT AND THE ADMINISTRATIONS.
The news to-day from Vermont indicates
accessions of strength to the Wing ranks-and is
the best reply that can be offered to the impotent
clamor of the Opposition press about the condem-
nation of General Taylor and his Cabinet by the
people. Ifone is to believe the cock-and bull stories
of the Union, it must be supposed that the people of
this magnificent confederacy have no better en-
ployment for their sympathies than to join in the
wailing and bowling that Is going on about few
insignificant removals from office. For this exer-
else of his prerogative-an exercise rendered, in
many instances, imperative by gross official mall
versations or defalcations-we called upon to
believe that the people Of the United States have
weighed the Administration in the balance and
found it wanting; and, without affording it the OPP
portunity to carry out any marked line of policy in
unison with the Legislative power of the coun-
try, have passed judgment both upon the capacity
of the President and the patriotism and good nten-
tons of the Cabinet-the opportunities of forming
that Judgment, testing that capacity, and trying
those good intentions, being step towards equal
ization of official patronage by admitting Wings,
,b,b hoe ccrihe fort he last
TO an humble share The crcdulity must be mon
strous, indeed which believe that great people
could be guilty of such uncomfortable meanness and
triiing folly.
PREPARATORY CONVENTIONS.
A convention for the nomination of State officers
in Massachusetts, will be holden at Worcester the
Sd of October next The Free-Soilers have their
convention on the 18th instant. There is pros
pect of vigorous triangular war. The Wings
are in good spirits, and on the alert.
AN ODD OBJECTION
A correspondent of one of our papers says to-
day. ''the weak point in General Taylor's charac-
teri have seen il from the beginnings his stub
born, infexible integrity" He is too uraccommo
dating, in short. With little Machiu liam shut
fling, little Kinderhookish talent for intrigue, it
is astonishing how much he would b. elevated in
the estimation Of certain people!
RELEASE OF REV. CALVIN FAIRBASK.
Mr. Fairbank was convicted in Kentucky some
five years since of having aided in the escape of
Hayden, of Boston, then a slave in Lexington,
and was sentenced TO fifteen years imprisonment
in the penitentiary at Frankfort. Early in the
present year it ascertained that pardon could
probably be obtained if the parties who had form
erly held Hayden as slave would join petition to
that effect. This they willing to do on being
paid indemnity Of six hundred and fifty dollars
Hayden resolved to raise this amount. He began
to solicit donations in April last, and, within sixty
days after, obtained the whole, from about one hun
dred and sixty individuals, nearly all in Massachu
sets. The money, raised, was RENTED to
Kentucky, and the efforts in behalf Of Mr.. Fair
bank have resulted in his liberation on the 23d Of
August last.