The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-05-06
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

Ii is well 10 take lesson from our ADVERSE
ries. There is much wholesome instruction.
to be gathered from the efforts at reunion now
making by the Democratic party. They shut
their eyes and see nothing in the world to dis
turb their harmony. The slavery question is
not to trouble them in the least. They are to
ignore the fact that the Democratic MIR. VIII
MOT was the author of the proviso that bears
his name. In the name Of Mr.. WRIGHT the two
wings of the Democracy are to be brought to-
gether in New York, on constitutional grounds,
when Free soilers and Old Hunkers may join
in loving fraternity on theoretical harmonies,
regardless of practical discords. The party IN
Massachusetts is to be treated as faction
and the faction is to be considered as the party.
The River and Harbor question is to be ad-
justed on the old platform Of the distinguished
Democrats Of Richmond" and of Mr.. GLEN
EMS, General HoUsToN, and Mr.. SOULE; and
the men who clamor for the removal of local
snags in the Mississippi are to be treated
as so many outside barbarians. Free trade
is to be carried at all points, and the
coal and iron men of Pennsylvania are TO
hold themselves in subordination to the unity
and integrity of the universal Democratic party.
General HARRISON and General TAYLOR, with
the popular seal upon their merits and achieve
ments, and with the popular faith unimpaired
in their integrity and deservhgs, are to be set
down as the two great mistakes of their age.
General JACKSON is to be the only chieftain
since WAsHINGroN's time worthy of being
classed in the same category with the first of the
PREsIDENTs-and his endorsement of Senator
DOUGLAS is to ticket and label him for the next
Democratic candidacy. Such seems to be the
entertainment to which the Democratic party
are invited by its metropolitan organ.
This is an admirable programme. The only
difficulty in it is, that it proposes to get rid Of
disturbing questions by a process altogether too
summary and inadequate. We apprehend that
the Epening Post and the VAN BURENs are
not yet quite prepared to acquiesce in revival
of the old Richmond organization. We do not
believe that the friends Of River and Harbor
Improvements are quite ready to abandon all
they have been battling for during the last
six years. Pennsylvania, in our judgment,
will not consent without struggle to see
her mines and her furnaces abandoned un-
Massachusetts,, with its sweeping Free soil
and Abolition alliances, will not yield the track
to the representatives of the twenty seven re-
cusants and rebels who united in the fruitless
enterprise of defeating Mr.. SUMNER. 1t all
looks very well on paper. The effort is an
amable one, but delusive.
Meanwhile the attempt should teach wis
dom to the WINGS. They are now strong in
the possession of the Executive government,
and in the possession of the popular side on all
the political issues. When Mr.. RHErT said
in the Senate that the Democratic party had
all gone over to Mr.. CLAY, he merely admitted
that Mr.. CLAY and his friends had taken the
popular and democratic view of the leading
political questions. This we believe to be the
fact. Take the River and Harbor question
alone. If the Wines could make an issue on
this question, unembarrassed by any other,
with the Tariff. Pennsylvania will never
again be swindled by the infamous arts which
carried her against her true purposes and in
terests in 1874. On both these questions, as
Mr.. RHErr truly charged, the Democratic par
ty have gone over to Mr.. CLAY; or, in other
words, the WINGS have the majority Of the
nation with them.
In this view of the case, there is nothing
wanting to insure the success of the WHIGs in
the next Presidential election but little tole
ration and mutual forbearance. Let US avoid
all premature committals that are liable to cre-
ate distrust and ill-feeling, and come together
in convention prepared to support the candidate
whom we shall at that time ascertain to be the
choice of the party, and most likely to be ac-
eeptable to that majority whose votes are inds-
pensable to success.
CALM-There is just now a state Of calm pre-
valing throughout the political circles Of the coun