The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-12-29
THE REPU BLIC.

slders she has been aggrleved. The Union
party, how Iver, composed of Wings and Dem
ocrats, ZELDA different doctrine, and sent MIR.
HoUsToN il tho place of Mr.. HUBBARD; and
they did thesame in the Congressional districts
of MississiTpi, Georgia, and other Southern
States, whe,e a Democrat was suspected Of
dsunion. The Virginia elections came on
later, and tie Secessionsts of that State re-
treated from the position they had assumed in
the beginning of tho contest, and besought
their Democratic friends to have mercy. But
now that these ire-eaters of the South have
got back into the Democratic fold, by exchang
ing certificates Of orthodoxy with Preston
KING, RANToUL, CLEVELAND. MoLoNY,
CAMPBELL, and their associate FreesoileTs,
they have the effrontery TO read out of the
party such men as CoBB and FooTE, and those
men South who sustain the Compromise mea-
sures as final settlement of the slavery ques-
| ton.
If Messrs. CoBB and FoorE are "despicable
demagogues and treacherous renegades from
the Democratic ranks" what becomes of all
those Democrats who supported them, and aided
in their glorious triumph over the enemies of
the Constitution and the country2 If those
only are the true Democrats who oppose the
Compromise measures and hold to the doctrine
as laid down by Senator Mason, in answer to
Mr. FooTE-that each State has constitutional
right to withdraw from this Union when, in
her judgment, she considers the compact has
been violated--what becomes of such men az
| CAss, DoUGLAs, Dickinson, German, RICH
ARDsoN, Ross, and the host of Northern Demo
Gratis who aided in passing the Compromise
measures? We have not doubt that every
| Northern Democrat sincerely favorable to the
Compromise measures Tejoiced in the result of
the elections that made Messrs. CoBB and
FoorE Governors of their respective States.
If that portion Of the Northern Democracy
who in Congress- voted for the Compromise
could have selected between HoUsroN and
HUBBARD, FREEMANand McWILLIE, Wilcox
and THOMPSON, NABERs and FEATHERsToN,
with the issues, as they were, of Compromise
and the Union, or anti Compromise and Disu-
Mon, they would not have hesitated one mo
ment in making the same decision that the peo-
pie of their respective districts made.
If, then, that portion of the Northern De-
mocracy who assisted in passing the Compro-
mise measures sympathized with that wing of
the Southern Democracy that helped them to
pass those measures, the question arises, are
they not also, in the language of the Richmond
clique, 'despicable demagogues and treache-
rous rem des from the Democratic ranks?"
What more has Mr.. Com done to sub
| l. llattn of
| BILE demagogue and treacherous renegade"
than General CAss or Mr.. DOUGLASS They
were all friends of these measures, in
Congress and out of Congress and. when
| they had received the sanction of the law max
\ ing powers, each returned 10 his constituents
and zealously advocated an acquiescence in the
same They did more They respectively de-
nounced the treason Of disunion, and the traitors
who desired its accomplishment. For all this
Mr. CoBB is denounced by that wing of the
Southern Democracy--who were and are the
real rebels against their Party-as ''despica-
| BILE demagogue and treaeherous renegade from
the Democratic ranks" A similar fate no doubt
awaits the conservative portion of Northern
| Democracy at the hands of the allied power
that opposed these healing measures, alike in
the forum and before the people.
| If to be in favor of the Compromise measures
as final settlement Of the slavery question,
and opposed to dissolution Of this Union,
| Justly subjects Democrat TO be denounced as
" "a despicable deraagogue and treacherous rene
gade," then thousands of the honest men of
that party among the people are doomed
to be mathematical by the allied forces OF
Northern fanaticism and Southern disunonism.
These denunciations, however, will not affect
Mr.. CoBB with the masses. His enemies may
indulge in vituperation, and some Of his timid
friends may prove inadequate TO his defence;
but the people whom he has served, and the
country he has helped to save, will honor and
reward him. To him and his associates North
and South who sustained the Compromise
measures, before and after their adoption, the
country owes debt Of gratitude which cannot
be over estimated.
The people are not 70 be bought and sold by
every corrupt politician that may desire TO use
them, but, having an abiding faith in the Gov
eminent Of their fathers, they will sustain it tc
the end. Politicians may coalesce, abolitionisn
and disunionisn iain hands, and the RANToULs
and MEADEs, KINGS and YENABLEs cooperate
but the masses, both North and South, who have
sustained those who have been on the side Of
the Constitution and tho Union, will not desert
them, though the allied powers of every fac
ton of every party should Join in attempting
their overthrow.
Tho virginia Election.
We learn from the Richmond W'hig that thu
vote, so far as yet collected, stands thus: Sum
MFRS, 1880; JOHNSON, 54,S97-JoHNsoN'i
present majority, 6,5lS. Three counties arr
yet to be heard from, viz: Boone, Prince VIII
liam, and Westmoreland. OF the House 0