The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-02-15
[FoR THE nEPUBLIc.l
Di.unIon and Bitter-Endisna.

| impossible to shape law resolution for the
ton of either House of Congress that will escape il.
Having recently spent some time there, and having
watched closely matters and things, purpose Civ
| ing my views in relation to the same.
Congress is the hot bed, out of which public
| sentiment is sought to be manufactured. The
heathful tone and temper of the southern people at
large is SO at variance with the state of things at
Washington, that a man can hardly realize the
change in passing from the one TO the other. am
a southerner by birth, education, and location
| own slaves and expect always to own them ! love
the South, its institutions and its people, but am
not to be driven from my love and loyalty for the
Union, by following in the footsteps of those south
ern men who have taken il upon themselves to fur
nish remedy for the wrongs we justly complain
| Of, much worse than the disease Some of their
doctrines startling; and, in the better days of
| our Republic, would have been deemed most trea-
! sonablc have before me printed address from
| the representative from Arkansas, in which find
| the following most strange and Objectionable pas
| sage;
| tThe North are those who vocIFERoUsLy DE-
| NouNcE pIsuNIoN. The southerner who joins them
| had better move to them. humbly think so, and
so will the people. They denounce il because they
derive all the advantages. The South would do the
same, perhaps, if the advantage was hers. But it
| is not They will not spare whilst i'll the Union,
and, if it were not for our power, would not spare
| us out"
| Nor docs the representative from Arkansas stand
alone in the avowal Of this most Objectionable doc
rinc The dissolution of this glorious Union has
| heretofore been looked upon, by the most
clamorous disciples of the CALHOUN school, as an
evil, and only to be resored to in the EXTREMIST
| cases, and when all other remedies for southern
wrongs had been exhausted but notc the southerner
who dares to profess attachment for the Union,
| ia poty no In The
| be that superior love for the South animates the
bosoms of those men, who set themselves up as our
| peculiar guardians? ! fear not have profted
but little from what have recently seen, or else
my vision is the dullest, if am wrong in the
clusion, that bitter endism is at the bottom of the
whole matter. A determination long since expressed
| by the Union to oppose General TAYLoR's Admin
stration, no matter what face the future wore, is
but the echo of the feelings and intentions of the
southern chivary; facts demonstrate this to every
| unprejudiced mind. When General CAss's letter
to NICHOLSON, upon the subject of the Wilmot pro-
viso, was before the people, it was construed by the
| southern Democracy advocating to the fullest
extent the doctrine of non-inteyterence; and this
| doctrine, we're then told was the only safe one
| for the South General TAYLOR has avowed him
self in favor of this doctrine Should not this satisfy
| those gentlemen who but recently SO much APP
| plauded it, Oh, no; presto-change 1t ia TAyLoR's
| doctrine now, and btter-endism will not permit
| its advocacy. Had General CAss been elected,
we should have had nothing of this excitement be-
cause deny that the people of the South have
| advocated dsunion. I further deny that those of
their representatives who had given utterance to
| sentiments which to seek rather than avoid
dissolution of the Union, speak either their views
or feelings.
| The South suffering wrong at the hands of
the North, but am still inclined to the belief that
there is among the latter majority who will stand
1 by US, and give a compromise which will secure
us in those rights SO soemnly guaranteed to US by
the Constitution. If l am mistaken in this, feel
equally sure that, at proper time, and when other
means exhausted, the South, under the guild
| ance of discreet men-none the less her warm cham
| pions from lacking superabundance of Hotspur-
sm-will have her rights even II she go out of the
Union to obtain them ] hope, however, for better
things; sufficient for the day being the evil thereof
Turning eyes the Senate of the United States,
what do we behold Some half dozen political as
prants, each bidding for the Presidency. They
SO avow this of each other; and while each OF them
is looking upon the other with jealous eyes and
feelings of deep hatred, they endeavor to outstrp
each other in the of opposition TO that honest
old patriot who sits in the White House the other
end Of the capital calm and collected, perfectly
L
ing nothing beyond the discharge of the high du-
ties to which he has been called by his countrymen
| in that manner which shall best advance their in
ercss. And yet bitter is the opposition to him
in the Senate, II contrasts most avorably with that
of the House OF Representatives In the latter place.
Btter-endism seeks TO administer TO him its bitter
est pills Even father Abraham, he is familiarity
known and called in the good old North State, after
he had solcmnly sworn upon his almanac before
| leaving home that Frec-Soilism should find no
quarter at his hands, but the contrary he would
fight against il, in all its moods and tcnses, could
not resist the tempting opportunity Of administer
ing to old lack the bitterest of bitter pills, in the
| shape of placing WIN. J. BRowS in the Speakers
chair, although he Frcc-Soiler Of the deepest
| dye; and, accordingly, voted for him.
| Poor father Abraham II cruel shock 20
him, when few of tho pulled out of
GIDDrses's boots He has recovered, however. A
spectator in the lobby even at single glance
discover it. He may be seen at any time when the
House is in session, walking 10 and fro in front Of
the Speakers chair, restless bear with sore
head, hourishing a walking cane, and for all the
werld looking as IL he were n conseryator Of the
| peace. His smiling countcnance betrays that, IL
at war with Free Solism, he Is in perfect good hu
NOR with himself-though occasionally, when the
fact comes home to him that he is packing on his
shoulders all the wrongs and ills Of the South, lines
of deep suffering his brow.
But father Abraham is not without rivals for the
part Of leader TO Bitter-endism. The Hon Chair
man OF the Committee Of Ways and Means, the chi
varic BAvLY Of the Accomac district, lays in a rival
claim TO that distinction. His position gives him
| an undue influence father Abraham, for be
can cripple the Administration by withholding the
sinews of war. And then, too, he has an intelli-
| gent boy with pencil and string, measuring with
unerring accuracy, and noting down most care
fully, all the twists and crooks in old ZAcK's policy.
There are other rivals, too. The polished Chair.
man Of the, Committee Of Commerce is TO poke at
him sugar coated pill; while the Chairman Of
the Committee on Public Lands is going TO admin
lister nothing short Of Wake Robin. He has made
a wonderful discovery. II is this one Of General
TAYLoR's appointces. though only in Office free
months, has, by his incapacity and neglect got
| the business of his Office two years bchindhand.