The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-06-23


if we had a right to one, would DO unequivocaiiy
for Gen. Foote; but not, as the special organ
might suppose, because ready to sanction
the dissolution of the Democratic party to crafty
the ambition of individuals, bat to preserve that
party against all attempts to separate it from the
Constitution and the Union, and TO maintain the
or ganization which has enabled il to carry the
ship Of State through all the factions that have
dangcred il since the days Of Washington. II we
believed for one moment that Cen. Foote looked
to the ultimate Reorganization Of this party. he
could never receive our vote. We have faith in
him a sound Democrat Of the Jefferson and
jackson school,,
Z the special organ answered? Or will 1t main
tain, affect to maintain that the party in sup
port of Gov. Mcdonald aims at disunion, and that
it is doubtful whether the paper under control
does not sympathize with that movement"
Passing over the insinuation that some are
seeking dissolution Of the DEMocRATIc party
to crafty their individual ambition as too plain
to require any further index to the persons in
tended, we ask, in true sincerity, what benefit
is it to the real friends Of the Compromise in
the South to be charged indirectly with i'm
proper motives in their utilization with South
ern Wines in their patriotic efforts to avert the
progress of Justification and secession? Messrs.
CoBB and FooTE are candidates for Governor
in the respective States of GEORGIA and MIS-
slssIPPI. They have been selected by parties
procaiming to the country their determination
TO abide by and acquiescs in the measures
known as the Compromise. They are opposed
by men the representatives of party hostile
to the Compromise measures, and who in their
conventions have planted themselves upon the
doctrine that State possesses the constitu-
tisnal right to secede from the Union, for the
evident purpose Of preparing for coming
events. Ii is not sufficient for the conductors
OF the Union to say that they will or would
vote for Messrs. CoBB and FooTE If this or
that be the real point involved in the con-
test. They are presumed to know, from
their position, what are the questions at
issue. Do they honestly believe that the
matters in controversy between Senators FooTE
and DAVIS and Mr.. CoBB and Mr. McDoNALD
are as trivial as they represent? If SO, why
the necessity Of unfolding South Carolina in
her secession movement, by making the right
Of secession subject matter of deliberation in
their State Rights Conventions Suppose, for
instance, that delegation from the State Of
South Carolina had been sent to Georgia dur
ing the session of the convention that nomi-
mated Mr.. McDoNALp as Governor for the pur-
pose Of asking either the advice or cooperation
Of that body in tho contemplated movement of
South Carolina-could they have devised
more effectual mode of encouragement than by
passing resolution claiming the constitutional
right of any State to secede from this Union at
pleasure? If the opponents of Messrs. CoBB
and FoorE are as good Union and Compromise
men as those gentlemen, why the necessity for
asserting a right which they do not wish to ex-
ercse, and which they deprecate as the greatest
evil that could happen to this people? So far as
the editors take ground that they would support
Messrs. Com and FoorE, if such and such
were the issues between the parties, we have
no objection, and we believe that they would
But the magnitude Of the contest now going
on in the South is such that we cannot under
stand or appreciate how the leading journal of
the DEMoc RATIO party in this country should be
ignorant of the true issue involved in contest
that has annihilated all former party distinc-
tons. They head their article s'THE Con-
PROMISE AS UNDERSTOOD IN THE South" there
by admitting that it is not their understanding
The Union loving people of the North, and
especially among the politicians of the DEMO
CRATIC party, have right to know and under
stand what is the position of their organ at the
seat of Government relative to this Southern
controversy. Do the editors Of the Union
doubt for moment what are the feelings and
sympathies of such men as Messrs. DIoKIN-
SON, CAss, MARCY, DOUGLAS, and the host of
Democratic worthless who advocated the Com
promise in this contest between Conn and
MCDONALD, FooTE and DAVIS? Will they
put it upon the issue that if such and such is
involved in the contest, then they are for
CoBB and FoorE? Or think you that they
would even stop to calculate the value of
the DEMOCRATIC party, where the Union of
these States was involved2 The editors
may pretend not to understand the true issue;
but every indication shows that the opponents
Of Messrs. CoBB and FoorE, and Of the Union
organization at the South, are seeking to dis
solve this Confederacy; and such men as the
editors Of the Union newspaper ought to lend
all their energy, and all their influence, to put
them down. The South will never have any
quiet from the restless spirits who disturb the
country with the useless distractions of the
right of secession, until their press, and espe-
cially their leading organ in this city, speaks
boldly upon these questions. That they will
do 50 we have no doubt; and though they have
answered our question conditionally, we trust
that they will inform themselves Of the true
issue between Messrs. CoBB and MCDONALD,
FooTE and DAVIS, and answer categorically to
the country and the cause-whom do you
support?
Tho Canvass in Alabama.
The Mobile Register, an old Democratic pa
per, which has the following ticket standing at
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