The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-04-25
President Taylor and the wings.

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Congress. He has recommended policy
in regard to the admission of California as
State. He has also advised that moth
ing should be done in regard TO civil
government for New Mexico, until the
people of that territory shall present them
selves for admission into the Union. tits
his belief that, by awaiting the action OF
the people, all causes Of uneasiness may
be avoided, and confidence and kind feel
ing preserved.
This is the policy of a WING President,
recommended for the adoption of Con-
gress, on the ground that it demands no
concessions or compromise from either
the Northern OF Southern portion Of the
Republic. 1t calls upon no Northern
man to vote against the sentiments of his
constituents. 1t calls upon no Southern
man to vote against the sentiments of his
constituents. 1t leaves nothing open--for
it settles the principle that the slavery
question is to be left in all cases to the
people themselves.
Since the plan of President TAYLOR
was first suggested, various other plans
have been submitted to the country-some
of Wing, and some of Locofoco origin.
This is natural enough, and right enough.
1t is difficult to control individual opinion.
Gentlemen have right to differ from a
PRESIDENT Of their own party, on one of
his recommendations, without subjecting
themselves to the imputation of hostile
or unworthy motives. 1t is to be expect
ed that men of the other party will differ
| from him, and seek to substitute some
scheme of their own. We have no doubt
that all these gentlemen are persuaded
that their own way of settling this contro-
versy is the best-perhaps the only way.
1t is laudable ambition-the desire to
render distinguished service to the
country. We therefore repudiate and re-
pel-as suggestions with which we have
no sort of sympathy-the limitations that
have been thrown out in some of the news
papers, accusing this or that distinguished
statesman of being actuated by selfish,
inimical, or improper inducements, be-
cause he has seen fit to present his indi-
vidual proiet in the premises.
And at the same time we desire to re-
pei the charge that President TAYLOR in
his recommendations has been wanting in
loyalty to any portion Of the Union. Gen
tlemen who occupy SIX years seat in the
Senate may be comparatively Indifferent
to any vote they may cast on this or any
other subject. But how is it with men,
bers of the House, who are compelled to
settle an earlier account with their con-
stituents' Is it right TO urge them to meet
issues or take positions on which they can
not maintain themselves at home on
which, perhaps, they are pledged by all
the considerations which bind men to a
particular policyf 1t was wise, therefore,
prudent, and considerate in President
TAYLOR to suggest such disposition OF
the slavery question in New Mexico as
would withdraw it entirely from the juris-
diction of people who have nothing to
do with its final adjustment, and sub
NIT it in the first instance to the tribu-
nal of ultimate resort. This is based on
the very principle for which the South has
always commended, and which the PREsI-
DENT thus recognises and adopts.
But while we concede to our WIG
friends the perfect right to differ with the
PRESIDENT on any question, but certainly
on one which has not been a vital ques-
ton of WIG policy-there is one view
of the case in which it becomes of espe-
cial interest that the Presidents policy
should be successful. 1t does not differ
so materially from the other plans as TO
make il worth while for Wings to quarrel
about it and we are DESTROYS that Presi-
dent TAYLOR should triumph on every
issue that he has presented to Congress.
The defeat Of the. WHO'S on the election
Of Speaker and Clerk amounts to nothing;
they we're matters in which constituencies
were not much interested But when il
comes to the Tariff, and the Harbor and
River bill-the substantial and important
issues of the session-the policy of the
PRESIDENT will be perfectly triumphant.
Why, then, will not the Who's unite on
the PRESIDENTS plan for adjusting the
Territorial question, and thus complete
the circle of victorious WIG measures
There is but a shade of difference be.
tween territorial government without the
Wilmot proviso, and the existing mixed
government of New Mexico. II is all 9
phantom to frighten children with--tht
idea that any danger can come from tn,
semi-miitary rule that now prevails there
! A necessity recognised by Congress--thi'