The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-10-25
THE REPU BLIC.
WASHIN GTON:
FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 25. 1850.

Our worthy contemporary of the sole Demo
cratic organ is never happy unless he can be
fussing and foaming about slavery 1t is only
few weeks since that he assured MS the bow
OF peace spanned calm horiZon--and now il is
all storm and tempest, and fire and sword, and
civil and servile war; and the Union is to be
dissolved because there has been some little eX-
element at the North about the Fugitive Slave
law. He rants over an incendiary despatch
or newspaper paragraph as if the world were
coming to an end and this though there has
been law abiding and conservative spirit ex-
hibited by the people of the n-slaveholdng
States that ought to disarm all apprehension
He is sure that Mr.. FILLMORE is not the man
that he took him for, and calls upon him to
come out and threaten half dozen vetoes, UNI
der the penalty Of the displeasg-I,e Of Mr..
RITcHIE and the destruction Of The Union and
Constitution
TINS manner of rhetoric is all fudge-stuff,-
nonsense Does our worthy friend imagine
that people are not TO talk about the Fugitive
Slave law, and discuss il Just as freely as they
do the Tariff or the Internal Improvement
question! Who Is to close their mouths?
does the Union propose the panacea of sedi-
lion laws! The law in question, being the
law, Will be executed faithfully, firmly, and
efficiently. In so far as it may be necessary for
carrying out the provisions of the Constitution
honest and patriotic citizens, and lovers of the
Union, will be in favor of preserving it as it is.
If, In It's practical operation, it should be found
not only TO operate upon fugitive slaves but to
endanger the liberty of freemen, all good and
patriotic and just citizens, North and South,
will call for its modification. We have not vet
found the first Southern man in the circle of
our acquaintance who hesitates upon this sub
ject.
Whether the law 50 operates OF not, is
question for statesmen to discuss and decide.
1t will not be settled in mob meetings. whe-
ther held in lecture-ro rooms or bar-rooms The
decision Will not be affected by newspaper par
agraPhs indited in mob-spirit, and crowded
with taunts and menaces, from whichever side
OF Mason and DiXon's line they may come
We have House of Representatives and
Senate fully competent to legslate up
on this or any other subject. The Oppo-
sltlon-whose organ the Union claims to
be-is in majority in both branches; and
the Union certainly pays but poor com
Pllment to its friends when it announces that
the country will be ruined when Mr.. FILL
MORE menaces Democratic Congress with his
vetOl
Our contemporary pyramid rests on its
aPeX-it IS turned upside down. The WING
pyramid stands on its base The present
Executive looks TO the people as the source
of power. 1t usups no functions that be-
long to the representatives Of the people and
the representatives of the States 1t will en-
force the law which the people have made 1t
will not sanction the violation OF an existing
enactment, nor insult the Legislature by the
menace Of veto, nor promulgate any Execu-
tive sedtion law to meet the case of the RHErTs
and the QUITMANs, or that Of the GARR1soYs
and the GIDDIyGsEs