The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-06-20
From the Bucks county (Po.) Intelligence.
President TayIor-his National Po.iiioIl

Never has any man occupied the Presidential
chair under more trying circumstances than have
surrounded President Taylor during the past fif'
teen months. No President has ever been more
bitterly or unjustly assailed by those who had OPP
posed his election. So far from judging him by his
acts, his assailants even commenced their unrelent
ing warfare months before his Inauguration, and
have pursued him like band of harpies ever since,
condemning and denouncing not only every thin q
he has done, but every thing he has not done
heaping upon him the grossest calumnies, and most
vulgar epihets, and unscrupulously preferring the
most unfounded charges that the worst felon could
be guilty OF. All this was TO be expected, with a
knowledge Of the character Of the opposition. But
the poisoned shafts have fallen harmless at his feet
or recoiled upon those who hurled them. The peo-
pie will stand by and sustain their patriotic Prcsi
dent They not to be convinced by such means,
that he who has barred his breast to the foe ON SO
many ensanguined fields, is recrcant to liberty
and his country's veal, as his enemies would make
it appear
hut, more formidable obstacle presented itself,
in the radically opposite sectional views Of two
large portions Of the people, greatly aggravated by
the efforts of the Locofoco leaders. To maintain
national posion-siding with neither section--was
clearly the duty of the President. This he assumed
before his election and all the efforts Of friends and
foes, from that time to this, has not prevailed upon
him to abandon il. Nor will they. On this branch
OF policy he is, and will remain, emphatically the
President of the nation. He seeks to maintain and
promote the peace and harmony Of the whole coun-
tryto secure justice and equal rights all in the
administration of the laws-and to preserve the
Constitution in all its pristine vigor and integrity.
In this spirit he has recommended to Congress such
measures as his judgment and patriotism suggested
In view OF the exgencies of the country And it is
| fact no less remarkable than worthy of remem-
brance, that he has presented to the country the
only truly national proposition for the settlement
of the unfortunate and disturbing agitation of the
| slavery question. His proposition IS the only one
that has even the appearances of compromisc-which
| seeks to secure no triumph to either section-and
which alone can save the feelings and pride OF the
radicals either side.
The SO called compromise or omnibus bill of
| the Committee OF Thirteen, by mingling together
questions having natural affinity, some of which
are no more formidable and imminent than they
have been for years, and then attempting to force
them through by stopping all needful legislation,
and even the annual appropriations for the sup
port OF the Government, cannot fail if successful,
TO leave behind it bitter sting to tester in the pub
lie mind, and produce again, in even more ag-
gravated form, the same deplorabe condition of
| things we now suffering under The Presi-
dents plan, on the contrary, takes the question at
once out of the political and from the halls OF
Congress- and refers it to the people themselves,
and those only who directly interested. The
tagonist sections each have an ultimatum to offer
when the question is presented to Congress-the
one must insist recognition OF the right TO carry
slavery into the new Territories; the other upon
prohibition of that right. The President does not
ask either to surrender; but proposes to withdraw
the ISSUE and refer 1t TO the people Of the Terrific
| res to which the principle is TO apply
Here then Is common ground, on which the
citizens oil all sections stand, unless they are
determined to insist upon pushing their full claim
to an immediate issue, at all hazards All who are
actuated by spirit Of Cancellation or compromise,
can step upon this platform without dishonor-
without any unreasonable sacrifice Of consistency
or pride of position. 1t is truly and essentially
national patriotic, practical position. The only
objection of any validity that has been or can be
urged against IT. ls that it proposes to leave the ter
ritories of New Mexico and Utah without any ade-
quate civil government; and this objection is made
by the radicals of both extremes. sufficient an
TO this is found in the fact that Ca fornia has
been left in the situation to the present time
because neither set of radicals would consent to do
any thing TO relieve her, unless their favortc doc
trne should be permitted to prevail. And with all
not give them civil government for half century
it, in doing it, they must abandon their position on
the slavery question. Why then not do by com
mon consent what they will do by common dsa-
greement-eave the territories they are till they
provide something better for themselves as Califor-
MIA has donc2