The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-07-10

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Old Hunkers coming out and calling for
the indispensable reunion of the De-
mocratic party Of the Empire State, for the
avowed purpose of breaking down the
"southern slaveholder," President TAY-
LoR-we say with entire confidence that
there is an end of the old Democratic Or
ganization forever. When the Democratic
party clears its skirts of the sEVipers of
Free Soil" by taking them to its bosom
it is dead and buried already.
Look at the leading men and leading
presses Of the old Democratic party. Is
there union, concert, harmony, strength,
among forces marshalled and commanded
by Mr.. BENTON, Mr.. CALHOUN, Mr.. VAN
buren,, Mr.. CAss, and Mr.. B. F. BUT
LER' What sort of effective alliance and
cooperation can there be among the mem
bers of party represented by presses
standing to each other in the antagonistic
relations occupied by the Washington
Union, the New York Ev'ning Post, the
albany .drgus, the Richmond Enquirer,
and the Charleston Mercury? When these
different sections of the party denounce
each other as "worse than Wings" can
there be any very warm and cordial CO.
operation among them to oppose those
very WHIGs-on the sole specified ground
of Free-soil opposition-because President
TAYLOR is GO southern stakeholder SC. ?
When we consider, then, the disturbing
and distractlng causes in the old Demo-
cratic party-causes which must forever
prevent its reunion with its old prestige
and popularity-and when we consider in
the same glance the moderation, the con-
cord, the harmony, of the WING party
their position as national party under the
lead of the gallant and popular chief whose
name is SO gloriously inscribed on the his
tory of the age-we think that it becomes
the one great duty of our friends, in those
States where Congressional elections are
yet to be held, to devote themselves from
this day forward to the Congressional can
vass, that this great and united party may
not receive its first blow through their de-
lection. In those districts where there
are two Wing candidates, one of them
should be withdrawn. No risk whatever
should be run. In those districts where
we have large majorities, we should take
good care that our over-confdence is not
our ruin. In the doubtful districts, we
should push our candidate with the zeal,
perseverance, and determination which
will insure success. The strongest Loco
foco district should not be abandoned
without a severe struggle-for we believe
that the most benighted southern Locofo-
cos are not unprepared to separate them
selves forever from an organization which
now mainly rests on sectional and local
questions-on geographical jealousies and
antipathies-so long ago denounced by the
father of his country as fatal to the peace
and perpetuity of the Union
| % AID AND COMFORT To THE ENEMY,
So Mortified was the Union, but short
space since, at the idea of the Wings say
ing any thing upon the subject of the war
with Mexico that did not happen to coin
eide with its own views and those of the
Administration, that it could find no more
favorite mode Of expressingits indignation
than by charging them with ''giving aid
and comfort to the enemy" Who could,
then, have supposed that the Union Itself
would so soon be found "giving aid and
comfort" to despotic government of Eu.
rope, and arraying itself against its own,
on matter in which the present Admin
istration is but enforcing law of our own
country, as well as the equitable law of
nations' By reading the articles in the
Union, and no other, upon the subject,
one would be led to believe, not knowing
the strong and controlling prejudice which
! guides the editor,s non that tho nresent