The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-06-26

mise measures, but such as will consent to don
It's own party livery and sound its own party
shibboleth. Indeed, we begin to think it will
soon deny that Whig ever had any part or
lot in originating passing it, and claim it as
an exclusive Democratic party measure. At
any rate it is now striving to create dstrust
| in the minds of its readers of the PRESIDENTS
| fidelity to those measures, and calls for an as
surance from him beforehand that he will veto
any act of Congress repeating the Fugitive
Slave law!
The Union, we are sorry to say, disappoints
us. We had given it credit for liberality
franknesss and sincerity but its leading edto-
| rial of Tuesday seems to US not to abound in
these qualities 1t is wanting in liberality be-
cause it attempts to withhold from others that
which is justly their due; in sincerity, by pro-
Tossing to dstrust the Presidents fidelity to
his oft-repeated declarations made in the most
solemn manner, and even TO his oath of office ;
and in ffankness, by mystifyng its own posi-
ton IN regard to the Compromise measures
and those who support or oppose them.
Does the central organ fear the effect of the
Presidents popularity at the South, arising
out of his unyielding determination to perform
his duty to every part of the country by rigid
and faithful execution of the laws? II not,
why does it attempt to sow the seeds of distrust
where now is entire confidence Is it .'alarm-
| ed lest the excitement on the slavery question
should pass away without having an issue which
is to make the question of secession a practical
and not theoretical one? 2" If not, why the
manifest anxiety to claim for Democrats the
whole credit Of sustaining the Compromise
measures, and holding out the idea that the
whole Wing party are opposed to them?
Viewing the Compromise measures as the
result of the joint labor and patriotic efforts of
distinguished statesmen of both parties, who
nobly threw aside all mere party feeling on the
occasion, and united, heart and soul, in the
great work of saving the UNION, we have never
been disposed to claim any peculiar credit for
our own party, on account of the agency which
some of the most distinguished Wings of the
country had in its inception, passage, and sus-
| tainment. 1t has been our wish to do Justice to
all-injustice to none. We yield our cordial
and hearty support to all and every candidate,
whatever may have been his former political
associations. who stand upon the platform of
the Adjustment measures, and give them an
honest and hearty support; and we have
no hesitancy in saying that we desire the
defeat or any man, no matter TO what par
ty he may have belonged, who arrays him
self in opposition to those measures, and in ia
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lion, or advocates secession. Hence we have
taken deep interest, in common with the
Union, in the success of Mr.. CoBB, of Georgia,
and Mr.. FooTE, of Mississippi. Hence, also,
we take an equally deep interest in the election
of General CAMPBELL, of Tennessee; and
Messrs. SHIELDS for Governor, and G.. c..
LANGDoN for member of Congress in the first
district of Alabama. Our sympathes are not
reserved for those alone who have in former
times acted with and bore the name of the
party to which we belong; but we give our hand
as warmly and our cheering voice as cordially to
such as are battling for what we consider essen
tial to the preservation Of the Union, who have
heretofore been arrayed against us politically, as
to those who have acted with u.s. We find no
reason for desiring the election of Governor
MCDONALD over Mr.. COBB, in the fact that the
one has been Wing and the other Democrat
1t is sufficient for us that the latter is the
champion of Union principles and of Compro-
mise measures, and that the former is antago-
nistic to all these.
The same reason induces us to desire the
success of General CAMPBELL and the defeat
of Governor TRoUsDALE in Tennessee. Will
champion Of the Compromise at the South
whose election it Gesires2 We have shown
from the Mobile Register, Democratic autho-
rity, that the issue in the first district of Ala
bama between c. e. LANGDoN and Judge
Bragg is ''the approval on disapproral Of the
Compromise measures" Judge Brace also
advocates the South Carolina doctrine of Sc
cession; Mr.. LANGDoN denies it; and upon this
showing we ask the Union whether il is for
LANGDoN or BRAGG? Whether, if the latter
should be elected, which we hope is not pro-
babe event, the Union will not exult in his
victory as Democratic triumph
The same state Of things is presented in the
second district of Alabama, where Colonel AB-
ERcRoMBIE. Wing Union man, is opposed by
Colonel COCHRAN, Democrat and disunionist,
and we wish to know which candidate the Union
desires elected2 If the central organ will give
us frank and candid replies to these questions,
we shall better understand its position than we
have been able to do from all the explanations
1t has yet given us; explanations which, taken
in connexion with its course in regard to men,
rather mystify than explain the ground it oc-
cupies; at least so it seems to US, though pos
sibly it may be owing entirely to our want of
perception; if we saw through Democratic
spectacles, perhaps the Unions position might
appear as lucid as light itself. But with
such optics as nature alone has given us,
we perceive, or think we perceive, the
Unions position TO be this: We approve the
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