The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-05-06

pointment of Mr.. CLAY's son to Portugal
as a hostage for his fathers personal de-
votion; and that Mr.. MEREDITH considers
that Of Mr.. WEBsTER's son to an inconsid-
cradle Custom-house Office as bargain for
BLACK DAMS forge of thunderbolts; and
SO Of the rest. Are these small favors to
to be thrown into the face of any Wing
who happens to think for himself upon any
subject! Is such Wing to be denounced
as failing in the performance of an en-
gagement to surrender his convictions for
which he received value in advanced We
venture to say that the New York Senator
who goes Scatheless of these imputations
has.received ten-no, score of favors of
this sort-for any other Whig's one. The
Cabinet is reduced to no such straits as
these-we know the Wing party is bound
together by no such cohesion.
But truce to bygones. Are we to un-
derstand from the Courier and Enquirer that
it will hold all Wing Senators and Repre-
sentatives in Congress who may advocate
the compromise, whatever it may be, as
foes to the PRESIDENT, and recreant to
their responsibility as Whigsl-for the ex-
tract squints to a reading out Of the Wing
ranks. BY a parity of reasoning, our
contemporary must read into the party,
and account as friends to the Administers
ton, all Democrats who sustain, for what
ever reason, so much of the California
message as relates to the admission of that
Territory as a State. By this arrange
ment we would be exchanging CLAY and
WEBSTER for BENTON and HAMLIN; BELL
and BERRIEN for CHASE and BRADBURY;
and fearful list of like character.
Surely our New York friends cannot con-
template building up the WIG party by
any such interchange Of banner-bearers!
If these are to be the sequel to the en-
couraging omens which are seen in the
direction Of the Capitol, we fear the Con-
rier and Enquirer has been deceived by a
| flight of as '1foul birds' as ever winged
their way between the sun and doomed
party.
Will the Courier and Enquirer inform
us what sort of WING party, or Admin
istration party, that would be, which
should be formed upon an issue that will
separate it from the entirety of both par
ties south of the Potomac-saving per-
haps one gentleman who has before stood
"solitary and alone" upon points on
which he has challenged any sentiment
but the confidence, admiration, OF respect
of the WING party' Let us pause mo-
ment, and see where these ordinations
and recriminations are leading US. Let
our Northern friends remember that we
cannot smite and strike down the WHIGs
of the South, the recognised great
men and great statesmen of the Union
North and South, on sectional ground,
without inficting fatal blow upon the
WING cause and the WIG party. we
have entered into no such covenants. We
can look North and South, East and West,
and we can fraternize, and sympathise,
and cooperate with all good citizens and
good men who can feel with us that we
have common country, common hope,
common destiny. But Disunionists and
Abolitionists of every color, come they
from the North or the South, we detest
and defy, as we always have detested
and defed them; and we are going into
no manner of controversy in which we
shall be called upon to repudiate true
WHO'S for half-faced fellowship with any
such associates.
We beg our friends to pause. I'VE are
just about entering upon discussion in
which controverted matters of great i'm
portance and interest are TO be adjusted
Men who are not easily alarmed have
been startled and driven from their equi-
poise by the excitements of the times.
The times and the questions counsel
peace-conciliation-a grave, reflective,
deliberate, and forgiving temper. We
L Slldll ucCu thCoc CitiiCulS vi Wise
prudent consultation.
We beg you, then, Wings Of all Sec
tons, to be patient, temperate, patriotic,
and national. Do not embarrass the pos
sible settlement of these agitations by
premature denunciation and prospective
menace ~ will be time enough to in
dulge il these when the hope which lib
eral and intelligent statesmen entertain Of
an adjustment of these agitations shall be
disappointed, and when there will be lit
tie hope left, but much fear and much
cause for fear, from sectional animosities,
and real or imaginary sectional wrongs.
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