The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-03-01

these distinguished Democrats Of Rich
mond"--they must let slip all the dogs
and devils of discord to worry and hunt
down the PRESIDENT of the peoples
choice.
For the last six months the Locofoco
journals have been seeking to alarm and
inflame the Southern mind with this ques-
ton of slavery. President Taylor has been
denounced in violent terms for not "be-
ing Southern man." The prejudices,
animosities, antipathies, and fears of the
South, have been appealed TO by the very
men who, in Connecticut, Vermont, New
York, Massachusetts,, and other Northern
States, were plotting and consorting with
Abolitionists proper to break down Presi-
dent TAYLOR and his Administration
while the PRESIDENT has been solicitous
only to withdraw an exciting topic from
the halls Of Legislation, and to refer it to
the tribunal of the last appeal for its final
adjudication, in conformity with the very
principles laid down by the Southern lead
ers Of Locofocoism themselves. These fac
tionists have been stunning the ear Of the
South with bitter and savage denuncia-
tons Of the old patriot because he would
not anticipate the action of Congress, and
announce predetermination to veto the
Wilmot proviso. And to such an extent
have these journals operated upon politi-
clans in local Legislatures and in Con-
gress, that some victims of this infatuaton
predict with confidence the dissolution of
the Union, announce gravely that Mr..
CALHoUN's last crisis is really at hand,
and tell the Senate that, unless the right
kind of resolutions are passed on the spot,
it will be in vain to think of keeping these
States together for weeks time!
The whole excitement that has pre-
vailed on this subject has been fomented
by Locofoco politicians for base party pur-
poses. There is no more reason that the
country should be convulsed and distracted
about the Wilmot proviso now than there
was two years ago, except that General
TAYLOR is now, and then Mr.. Polk was,
in the Presidential chair. The Locofoco
presses themselves tell us that if General
CAss were now President, instead of Gen
eral TAYLOR, there would be none of all
this trouble (; there would be no South
ern convention - there would be no
cry for disunion. Affairs would be as
smooth as the face of millpond, and
proceed as regularly as clock-work.
The only difficulty under heaven is, that
certain gentlemen Of the Richmond Sweat
house clique, who have been regulating
our affairs for the last forty years, more
or less, have been thrown out Of power.
They are off the track. They think that
it would be fine thing to get up little
Southern confederacy, in which the
Sweat-house could continue to have things
their own way; and they have brought in
some of the friends of Mr.. CALHOUN, by
persuading them that now is the accepted
time for the dissolution of the Union.
The handspring of the whole excitement
is to be found in cabal of vile, intrigu-
ing, managing, reckless factionists and ag-
itators, who see that their only hope of
regaining substantial power is by dissoly-
ing the Union or breaking down President
TAYLOR. They will be disappointed in
this hope. The Union will stand. Pres
ident TAYLOR will stand. Mr.. CALHoUN's
crisis will turn out dead failure for the
fortieth time. The Sweat-house will ar
ray itself in sackcloth and ashes; and the
elite will have to amuse themselves for a
while in playing second-fddle in the gov
ernmental concert The people mean that
it shall be so, and Locofocoism cannot pre-
vent it.