The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-06-29

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APPOINTMENTS BY THE SECRETARY
OF THE INTERIOR.
WILLIAM r. VANCE, to be Pension
Agent at Louisville, Kentucky, vice New
ton Lane, removed.
STEPHEN P. MEAD, Of New York, to be
Indian Sub-agent, for the New York
Indians, vice Robert H. Shankland, re-
moved.
FEDERALIsI---THE WHIGs---AND MIR.
BUCHANAN.
In the war of 1912, about thirty-fve years ago,
when young man, Mr.. Buchanan shouldercd his
musket and volunteered to defend his country
against its British INVADERS with whom the Federal
party then sympathized, and to whom it rendered
said and comfort - and tchatcper he may hare been
before, certain u.s. that since then he has had moth
ing to do ,ciih the Federal party. And if he had
desired to continue his connexion with it. he could
not for that party, and its legitimate successor, the
Wing party, would tolerate such acts Of patriot
ism on the part of one of its members Union.
In connexion with the above paragraph
from the Union, we are guilty Of no i'm
propriety in citing for its benefit an abb
stract proposition which was printed near
ly hundred years ago, and is as true now
as it was the day it was first given to the
world. The proposition is as follows:
t'There is no crime more infamous than the
violation Of the truth. 1t is apparent that
men can be social beings no longer than
they believe each other. When speech
is employed only as the vehicle Of false
hood, every man must disunite himself
from others, inhabit his own cave, and
seek prey only for himself"
There are two violations of truth in the
above paragraph from the Union. The
first is the general allegation that the WING
party is the "legitimate successor" of the
Federal party. The second is the specific
allegation that Mr.. BUCHANAN left the
Federal party in 1912, and has had no
thing to do with them since.
|. In the time of Mr.. MONROE there
was general blending of parties in
the "era of good feeling" The old divi-
sions and distinctions, however, were re-
vived when Mr.. ADAMS became a candi-
date for the Presidency. Nothing is better
known than the fact that large, able, and
bitter portion of the Federal party reor-
ganized and took ground in favor of Gene
raj JACKSON. Between them and Mr..
ADAMS there was an impossible gulf. 1t
is matter of history that there was an
irreconcilable feud, growing out of Mr..
ADAMs's supposed treachery to the Fede-
raj party, in his early relations with Mr..
! JEFFERSON.
J As recently as October, 1928, when
! Mr.. ADAMS was a candidate for reelection
to the Presidency, letters passed between
him and certain Federal leaders in Massa-
/ chusetts, which rekinded a smothered
hostility, and threw the most active and
able members of theold Federal party into
an alliance with General JACKSON. The
WALLS, TANEYs, BUSHES, BUcHANANs,
4 VANDERPoELs, Premises, CRoswELLs,
HUNTERS, CoLEMANs, BLEEcKERs, BRY-
ANTS, HUBBARDs, and thousands of Others
some of the most bitter and virulent Fed.
eralists-the black-cockade gentry, who
had passed their younger years in writing
pasquinades on Mr.. JEFFERsoN's rec
breeches, and had been in the habit o.
thanking God that they had no Democratic
blood in their veins-embraced the cause
Of General JACKSON, and carried with then
into the councils spirit of ultra Federal
ism, which was developed in the Protest
the Proclamation, and many Of the leading
measures of his Administration, from
which even the Richmond Enquirer wa
compelled to dissent. The more mode
rate portion of the Federal party joinet
with their natural allies, the correspond
ing class in the old Democratic party, AM
formed the great Wing party Of the coun
try.
The main, leading principle ofthis WHt
party, at its foundation, was opposition t.
the measures and policy which we're tend
ing to render our Government what Mr.