The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-05-03

| length found platform which it can occupy in
common with It's Free-soil contemporary, the
New York Eueaing Post. Under the soothing
tunes played by the metropolitan organ we may
expect to find before long the formation Of as
genial a coalition between the Old Hunkers and
Free sellers, in New York, as has recently been
| effected between the Democrats and Abolition
lists in Massachusetts. Since the Erening Post
and the Union agree so marvellously well in their
| disposition to eulogize the late Mr.. WRIGHr,
they will soon find it equally easy TO agree with
| regard to the VAN BURENs, Mr.. b. +. BUTLER,
Mr. JOHN A. DIX, Mr.. Preston KING, and
the gentlemen generally who raised the Adolf
ton-Democratic flag at Buffalo.
A few days since we took occasion to copy
an anecdote from the Union in relation to Mr.
WRIeHr. We thought it presented an honor.
able and creditable personal trait, and accord
ingly transferred it to our columns. We an
nexed few remarks touching his political
character, Of which we presented the same
view that we have been in the habit of taking
during Mr.. WRIGHr's lifetime. We said not
a word to reflect upon the purity of his private
character, nor to detract from his reputation as
a man Of distinguished talents. Our observa-
tons applied exclusively to his political tenets
and career. We now have nothing to explain
OF TO withdraw; and if any thing is to be gained
by reprinting or misrepresenting that article, or
by quoting it in alleged connexions in which it
did not appear, the Union will continue to do
SO. Meanwhile it is proper that the southern
| friends of the Union should understand the re-
lations and position Of the gentleman who is
now put forward as the object of the Unions
idolatry.
though the Post and the Union agree in eulo-
giving Mr.. WRIcHr, they do it upon very diff
ferent grounds. The Union commends him
for his Orthodoxy" on the points involved IN
the Compromise SO does the Post. But the
Post interprels his Orthodoxy" one way, and
the Union another The Union rebukes us for
abusing" Mr.. WneHT, when his name and
promise while the Post alleges, on the
other hand, that, il he had been alive, Mr.
WRIGHT would have been opposed to the Com
promise. No one who knows any thing Of MIR.
WRIGHT's associations can doubt for moment
that he would have gone with the VAN Bu-
RENs, Buffers, and PREsToN KINGS into the
anti Cass movement. He was determined to
submit no longer to the domination of the "dis-
tinguished Democrats of Richmond" He
gave Mr.. RlrCHIE to understand as much
when he told him emphatically that they
"should rue" the abandonment of Mr.. VAN BU-
Rem for Mr. Polk ''to the last day of their lives"
With these feelings he would, no doubt, have
gone with the old friends with whom he had
grown up into power and importance; and it is |
among them, at all events, that we are to look
for the most reliable information as to his
whereabouts. We regard the Post, therefore,
as better authority on this subject than the
UniOn-because the latter knows nothing in
regard to Mr.. WRIaHr's later associations, and
the former every thing. In this view of the
subject, we transfer to our columns the COM
mentary of the Epenisag Post on the very ora
ton which has called forth such warm eulogies
from the Union, and we commend the subject
to the further discussion of the Union and the |
Post, that they may settle between them what
Mr.. WRiGHT meant and said on this slavery |
question. Whether his principles were such
as would sustain the adjustment, or such as
gress ought to prevent or favor the extension I
Of slavery, or ought not 10 NEEDLE with it;
and, in short, whether he is rightfully claimed |
by the Barn-burners, Free-soilers, and Adolf |
tionists-the DIxEs, VAN BURENs, BUFFERS, |
and kINGs-or whether he belongs to the Old
Hunkers and the National Democrats. And |
when these two mighty powers in the press de-
temine to which wing of their party Mr..
WRIGHT belongs, and what were his precise
opinions on the subjects 10 which we have re-
ferred, we may deem it judicious to renew with
the Union controversy in regard to the gene
raj political character of Mr.. WRlGHT
We republish the article from the Post, and
desire the Union to copy it the next time it
may have any thing to say (justly or other
wise) Of the Republics assailing Mr.. WRIGHr,
notwithstanding his PRONUNCIATION Of principles
in support of the adjustment
sILAs WRIGHT ON THE COMPROMISES OF THE
CONSTITUTION.
The Journal Of Commerce yesterday contained
portions OF speech delivered by Silas Wright,
about twelve years ago, in st. Lawrence county,
which touched, incidentally, upon the subject of
slavery. Without intending to depreciate the
usual contents of that journal, we may be permit
ted to say, that Il would gain much in interest a.
well value by quoting more frequently from the
writings Of that distinguished statesman, whose
premature death depriUed the cause of freedom Of
one Of s most pope.ful champions, and soho, of all
TIE men Of this generation, ,oas most competent and
disposed to put prompt and decisive check to the
aggressive spirit Of slaury.
II occurs TO US that our contemporary must have
published Mr.. Wrights speech without reading ii;
he certainly wrote about it without understanding
it. There il not line of that speech not senti-
ment, which has not often been set forth approx
ngly in our columns, or that does not receive
unqualified sanction; and place il in our col
umns to-day, that our readers may compare the
ground we now occupy with that occupied by the
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