The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-11-25
T II E 4 E UBLIC.
From The Vicksburg Whig.
Migsisetppi.

MhssIne1ppl.
To those abroad who may have had their atten-
ton turned htherwsrd by recent events We can
say with decided assurance that the disunionsts in
this State have been totally routed in the light skir
mishes which their opponents thought merely pre-
On aratory to the decisive BATTLE Less endurnS even
than jobs faithless friends, they have been con-
sumed out Of their places before the heat of the
great conflict School boys playing soldier never
scattered faster and in worse order at the dreaded
call 10 ssbooks" than the disunonists at the GER
tainty of organized opposition among the frionds
of the Union. This result must be owing in part
10 their want Of confidence in their cause, for
be it known that the extremists men of war,
and have often borne themselves proudly in the
political field. Nor we, as faithful chroni
clers, omit to state that the campaign, which
they have strangely abapdoped, wes projected
upon wrong estimate OF public opinion; and that
the discovery of ths mn y have bad something
TO do in frustrating the designs Of men who per-
haps the worst fighters in the world unless they
in an undoubted majority. Anidea ofsuch thing
as a political Buena Vista entered their
heads; they have never been known to take up
against odds unless through mistake. We re-
gret therefore, that the Unionists did show their
strength when the first mutterings of a Disunion
campaign began to reach their ears. We advised
that course, but the Conservatives, confident in
their power, lay at until the utras began to
imagine them afraid to make public demonstra
ton. Had they not been backward in this duty, the
expense of an extra session might have been saved
to the State-the Uniopists might have been saved
the disgrace Of precipitate retreat, and the
quent goading OF the spirit of revenge and retaa-
ton which makes il necessary to watch them more
closely than would have been needful, if they had
been prevented from committing themselves to the
enterprise from which they have been sternly
driven. There arc two things of greatimportance
to the State, both Of which might have been accom-
plished by an early movement among the friends of
the Union first, the saving Of money to the trea-
sury--secondly, greater unanimity Of feeling and
opinion upon questions affecting the slaveholding
interest.
Hardly anv ono donhta now that Coverpor Omit
man regrets having issued his proclamation, and
that, if what has taken place since had happened
before, he would not have summoned an extra
sion; and, from the lame and petulcht MANNER in
which his adherents trying to disavow
their disunion intentions, ii is plain that if they
had been prevented from protesting them they
would now be in better humor, and the State
would be presenting more united front on the
subject OF her highest political interest We looked
TO such results as these in advising large Union
meetings at the commencement! OF the agitation;
but cannot blame the friends of the Union for
being slow to demonstrate. They men who
cannot be acted upon by such mere party conside-
rations moved the Disunionists; they do not
dance at the end of the party wire; neither they
naturally inclined to figure at public meetings and
in public agitations. Hence their force cannot be
brought to bear at given point easily that of
their better drilled and less reflective opponents,
And besides, something is due to their charitable
estimate OF human nature They did not believe
the opponents OF the compromise capable of
taking steps toward secession, but seemed msrely
suppose that their dissatisfaction proceeded from
the dictation Of few leaders, (who must of course,
quarrel awhile with any thing done under a
Whig administration,) } and would soon be cleared
away. 1t is useless therefore, to regret amiabe
error the part OF the Unonists; and we should
not have noticed it at ALL if the calling of the extra
session did not seem to us to be of its result.
We have unconquerable aversion to the
money Of the State spent and her character out
ragged by such worse than nonsenscal measures
There is hardly rejecting and unprcjudiced man
in our borders who does not that if the extra
session had not been called, our State would now
be respectable. Ii is precisely by such move
ments that South Carolina has lost much of the
respect of her sister States; the call of her
tion will injure Georgia in character well in
purse and the dgnihed attitude of Louisiana is at
this moment a matter of pride 10 her noble and
chivaric sons, and of envy TO many of the better
citizens Of those other States that have been made
ridiculous by their Bells, Quitmans. Townsen,
and Rhetts.