The republic., 1851-09-06

fore the country is correctly stated by the U,lion
Why, clearly, body Of men united for promoting
their personal advancement by overthrowing
an Administration that seeks to promote a. the
national interest upon particular principle"
which these men profess to approve If the
Union is correct, the DEMocRATlc party are
engaged in personal and factious opposition to
the PRESIDENT.
Of this opposition the Union claims to be
the metropolitan organ. Its theory is that the
present Administration must be overthrown,
notwithstanding the Democracy agree with it
in the only particular principle" that is
deemed essential, because there is such entire
unanimity in favor of the Compromise, both
North and South, in the Democratic party, as to
render it the only national party competent to
save our Institutions! We submitted a day or
two since few remarks in reference to the po-
sition of the Southern Democracy; and, we
think, succeeded in demonstrating that the
Southern DEMOCRATS as DEMOCRATS are more
generally opposed to the Compromise than the
Northern Wines. The DEMOCRATIC party at
the North are nearly as much divided in opinion
on the Compromise as the Northern WING party
Does the Union pretend to consider that resolu-
tons crammed down the throats of dissenting
majority, as in the recent MASSACHUSETTS Goa
litlon Convention, indicate the opinions of the
DEMOCRATIC party of that State2 Is the
DEMOCRATIC party an unit on this question in
New YoRK, when JOHN VAN buren, boasts
that the Democratic members of Congress from
that State, with single exception, are opposed
to the Compromise and when the New York
Evening Post, perhaps the ablest and oldest and
most influential DEMocRATIc journal of the
State, speaking for the DNEs, Buffers, and
VAN BURENs, daily denounces the Compromise
as the measures of a Who administration Is
the DEMocRATIc party an unit in this regard in
PENNSYLVANIA, where Mr.. BUCHANAN, the life
and soul of Its organization, is pledged by the
strongest implication to lend his aid, if elected
to the Presidency, to the division of CALIFoR-
MA on the line of the Missouri Compromise
Is the Democratic party an unit in Ono, where
even Mr.. Senator CHASE holds himself and is
by many considered to be faithful exponent of
the opinions of a majority of that party? But
it is not our intention to review this portion of
the political field this morning Our present
purpose is with an article of the Union, in re-
ply the Republic, in the matter of the oppos
tion of the Southern Democracy to that Com
promise which the Union declares to be the
national platform of the Democracy. We quote
from the Union of Friday morning
"But upon what grounds, we should be
crrla +ha Ioi tb
identity of the Southern Rights party and
identity of the Union party and the Wing
party there? Who leads the Union party in
Georgia and Mississippi? Messrs. Cobb and
Foote. And has the Republic the hardihood
to intimate that these gentlemen are Wings
We hold them to be good Democrats, and all
the better Democrats because they stand upon
the faithful maintenance of the Compromise
the only ground upon which the National
Democratic party can unite. On the other
| hand, is Mr.. Senator Berrien, in the Repub-
he's judgment, a Democrat2 He has hereto
fore been understood to speak with some au-
thority for a large Whig constituency in
Georgia. He is not, we believe. claimed as
Compromise man, and we have understood
that he is with the Southern Rights" party
in the present canvass. Is Mr.. Senator Glenn
ems, in Alabama, Whig2 He sustains the
Compromise as final adjustment, and be
longs to the Democratic Union party. Is the
Republic authorized to assign an opposite po
stion to Mr.. Senator King in the same State
Are the Democrats of Louisiana opposed to
acquiescence in the Compromise Mr.. Sen
ator Downs has some right to answer for
them and he is in favor of such acquies-
'cence."
We never proclaimed the 'tidentity" of the
Southern Rights party and the Democratic
party at the South; though, if we had made
such proclamation, we should not have been far
out of the way. We said, and we repeat, that
the WmG party At the South is almost an unit
in favor of the Compromise, and of the policy
Of the Administration that holds those measures
as final settlement of the whole slavery ques-
ton. We stalled, on the uais2r hand, that
three -fourths of the Democratic party South
denounce the Compromise, seek to reopen the
controversy, and are as much for agitation as
any Aboltionst of the North
This is the proposition, we presume, which
the Union undertakes to deny; and to substan-
tlate its denial misstates the proposition, and
suggests variety of argumentative interroga
tories, which we shall not reply to seriatim,
nor in the aggregate in our own language, nor
shall we leave any of them unanswered. We
shall let the Southern Rights and Democratic
press Of the South answer the questions of our
contemporary, and we shall only act judicially
between those journals and the Union, and let
| them go to the country on the facts as they are
thus given in evidence.
The first witness we call to the stand is the
Savannah Georgian, one of the old Democratic
Journals, and still of the Democratic faith and
party. What says the Georgian that bears on
1 the interrogatories of the Union2 We quote
an article from a number of that journal which
presents itself to our hands from the mail of
Thursday evening.
From the Sauannah Georgian (DEMocRATrc.)
/ "THE WAsHINeToN UsIoN.- A late number of the
Raleigh Standard the organ of the Democratic
\ party Of North Carolina, contans the following
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