The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-04-11

If the article in question be genuine tits strange
coincidence that its manifestation should exactly
tally with the incoming Wing administration. No,
The secret Is OUT if the South had stultifed herself by
electing q northern Locofoco To the Chief Magis-
tracy instead Of southern Wing, we would now
be listening 10 the luling notes of security and the
song of the syren instead OF the startling tattoo and
the sound of the tocsn If circumstances coerced
or in any manner justified the change in tactics,
our pen would be silent; but who believes that
der Locofoco administration northern aggression
would have been less rampant and threatening
than at PRESENT. With our opponents il is party
first, and the South second. With them the weak
ening and breaking down Off Wing Administra-
ton, and building upon its wrecks a Locofoco dy-
nasty in '62, is more important than the promotion
of the substantial interests Of the South and the
Union. II is certainly master stroke of policy to
convert, through the agency OF agitation and
the demolition Of their own work. Locofocoism,
north and south, east and west, will of course
opond thereto a hearty
We invite the careful attention of Wings every
where to the following, clipped from article in
the Raleigh Standard, which We find copied into
the Macon Telegraph, one Of the leading Democratic
prints of Georgia. The whole article is coarsely
northern aggression, is the vile thing against which
the ''anathema, maranatha'' is pronounced:
"The people OF the South are now realizing the
bitter consequences Of their votes, cast on party
grounds, against General Cass. Ifhs were in Gen
eral Taylor's place, northern man as he is, and
pledged to arrest these aggressions by his veto,
some fair and equitable plan for settling the whole
question would have been proposed long since, and
would at this moment have been the law Of the
land. We should have had harmony and repose.
instead of discord and strife; and in place Of the
Free -Soer Fillmore at the head Of the Senate, TO
give the casting vote against US, should have had
southern man in the person Of Butler OF Kentucky
The Union may survive this struggle-more we
cannot say"
Here it is insultingly cast in the teeth Of the
Wings that the flames of discord have been kindled
because they presumed to vote "upon party grounds
against General Cass." II is than insinuated
that, if the country had quietly submitted to Lo-
cofoco succession, the howls of agitation would
have been smothered-the scheme of Nashville
convention would never have been agitated. In the
face of all this, we would ask, if the advent of a
Democratic administration could have changed
pre-existing facts? Would it have undone history?
Would it have annihated the fact that the tide OF
Abolitionism has been swelling for the past fifteen
years? Yet the storm would have been unevoked,
the alarm-b bell would have been unsounded. The
election of Wing is the signal for Eolus to send
forth the winds upon their errands of destruction.
Where, then, rests the responsibility? Let Democ-
racy answer; they unblushingly state they have
san equitable plan for settling the tcole controversy,
tohich WOULD HAVE BEEN PROPOSED had Cass been
elected As the stands they forbear They
"nay' permit the Union to ''surviUe this struggle:
MORE THEY cannot say What patriots! Wings,
be wary; one unguarded step may be difficult to
retrace.