The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-07-18

ton Of ''the general Administration at Wash
ington" will delight the abolitionist plotting al
Buffalo or in Vermont its overthrow. 1t will
refresh the ''latler day. brethren who, elected
by the act Of the people, pray with feVency
for their restoration 1t will win q grim smile
from the reviers of the Compromise and the
foes of the Union in South Carolina itself
The general Administration is now in the
hands of Northern man whose firmness and
devotion to the Union has secured the entire
confidence of the nation. The representatives
of the people and of the States adopted Com
promise, which was committed TO the Admins
tration TO be maintained as the law of the land.
A violent contest between the factions of Abo
litionists and Disunionsts has resulted in
combined attack upon this measure Of adjust
ment, and upon the Administration TO whose
fidelity its enforcement has been confided.
With such evidences of popular and legislative
confidence, the Administration will perish
amid the ruins of the citadel committed to its
defence, before they will yield TO seduction, or
submit to force. When, then, the Compromise
Administration is guarding SO gallantly the post
committed to It's fidelity, struggling day after
day with the deadly weapons of the form
Of government under which we live, is
it magnanmous in the Union to aid, in
effect, those enemies Of the Compromise, by
asserting constantly that the Administration
cOvertly fayors one of the combatants? Is it
exasperate, and, under this mistaken view,
justify the factionsts? Can it be necessary
thus TO vindicate a position, verified by the
signature of the Compromise laws, by repeated
and authentic declarationsl Is not dignified
silence the best reply to the coarse vituperation
towards the PRESIDENT INDUCED in by Mr.. VAN
buren, and his associates in Vermont, and by
Mr.. RHErT and Mr. COCHRAN in the South2
Is it wise to give these incendiaries the en-
enlargement Of believing that the Union, as
the organ of a powerful opposition, stands ready
to cooperate with them in bringing the go
vernment at Washington into disrepute?'
For ourselves, we are not actuated by any
inquietude for the exclusive attacks of the
Union. We are not surprised that an incon-
sistency should be visible in our columns to
those who published the "eccentricites" of the
fixed stars. These things, in the language of
Mr.. TooTs, "make not the least difference"
The Union will pardon us if we neither respond
to its articles with asperity nor with the atten-
ton which they might, under other circum-
stances, justify. We have higher duty to
perform, in comparison with which the temp
tations of controversy are Insignificant. Wehave
our humble efforts, first, to aid in the
preservation of the Union. We keep our guns
bearing steadily upon its foes. IL the Union,
professedly engaged in the same cause, finds us
engaged with the common foe, and turns its |
batteries upon US, even its assaults cannot drive
Us from our position. In such cause we can
withstand Abolition and Disunion, even fight |
ing under cover of the batteries of the Union
newspaper. The number Of our antagonists
ian make no difference in the resolution with |
which we shall resist them