The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-07-18

ration of the public good demands this. II the
Administration cannot stand upon the principles
ofthe message, il does not expect TO stand at all"
IDANIEL WEBsTER's Letter TO the Union Meeting
at JPesfchester.
ton.
The Compromise Administration stands, like
the man in the Almanac, the object against
which the arrows Of most uncompromising
opposition are directed. The Abolitionists de-
nounce the PRESIDENT at the Free-soil Demo
cratic Convention of Vermont as follows:
'sAIr. Fillmore came into the office of President
by the death Of General Taylor. He had it in his
power TO put end to the entire slavery agitation
in twenty days.
But he choseto take the opposite course, to turn his
back upon the friends who had elevated him, TO fall
sify the professions of his past life, throw himself
into the of those who prostitutng the
Government to the extension of slavery and to set
the seal of his appreciation to law which, in my
humble Judgment, no civilized government on
earth, except our own, would enact
The Disunionists of the South use the follow
ing language:
at is a fact well known at Washington city and
elsewhere, by the pimps of the present Abolition
Administration that if Foote is elected in Missis-
sippi, and Howell Cobb in Georgia, the Abolition
Government at Washington, whose adviser ia
Daniel Webster, will use military force to carry
out certain laws of this Abolition Government and
will bang every citizen of that State for TREASON
who murmurs at any law that abolitionists may
establish. But if neither of these Esaus of the
South ia elected South Carolina can do Just what
she Pleases and nothing will be said TO her by free
EV-II E-rI--
Buffalo."
With these the organ of the Opposition Co
operates by pouring perpetual stream of cen
sure upon all the motives and measures of the
Administration. The Union has obviously
profited by the advice of Mr.. VAN buren, to
the Common Council at Tammany. 1t GER
tainly INDUCES in as ''strong denunciations of
the general Administration at Washington
az the most vehement member of any con-
yention could decree.
This is of course the safest policy. 1t is
much easier than to rebuke Mr.. COCHRAN, who
sees emo remedy but secession, I" who pledged
himself to the congenial design of doing call
that we can 10 bring the Government at Wash
ington into disrepue amongst u.s." MIR. CocH-
RAN is Democrat. But we have right to
expect some condemnation of such fagitious
sentiments from paper that avows itself a
friend of the Compromise. We had right
also to have expected some condemnation Of
Mr. BIGLER, notwithstanding he was the Dem
ocratic candidate for the office of Governor Of
Pennsylvania, when he has failed TO answer
the standing inquiries Of the United States Go
zetfe referred to in the following extract from
that paper:
1--WE embrace the occasion to renew the ques-
tons which have been presented repeatedly to Col
onel Bigler during the past fortnight, and which,
as yet, have received notice at his hands, or in
any authorized form.
s SIS Colonel Bigler in favor of the Fugitive Slave
law as it now stands, without modification
amendment?
4 is Colonel Bigler prepared to repudiate his
vote on the act of 1877, denying the jas Of this
State to fugitive sIavess
". Is Colonel Bgler ready to dsavow his vote
in the State Senate in favor of the Wilmot pro-
WAC ?
eve were disposed to believe, when these inter-
rogatories first propounded, that sense Of
honor and duty would have prompted the cand-
date Of the Opposition TO have answered them
didly, and thus have evinced purpose to conduct
the canvass upon such principles would have
challenged the respect OF all parties. But to
great disappointment, Colonel Bigler has
forced upon very different opinion Of his
character and candor, and brought to the
viction that he, like all other partisans of the
school in the pursuit of office, holds TO the doctrine
that any means, however unworthy, are justified
by the end We find him couding and confed-
Grating with the most open and avowed enemies Of
the Constitution, whom the Pennsylranian and its
have hpar cd N do
nounce when an object was to be gained by pursu-
ing that course, while they are now combined to-
gether when votes necessary to elect party
nominee. There can be and there ought TO be no
confidence reposed in candidate who persists in
maintaining logged silence upon issues which
30 materially affect the canvass; and it is with the
view OF exposing the attempted deception, and OF
bringing the principal ectors in this discreditabe
coalition before the public gaze that we have felt
IT to be proper to keep inquiries standing, and
to warn the people of Pennsylvania and of the
whole Union of the fraud which is in progress"
Here are abundant opportunities for the
Union to demonstrate its devotion to the Com
promise. Let it demand of candidate BIeLER
unequivocal answers to these most important
questions Let it speak in impartial denuncia-
lion of RAETouL and RHETT. Let ii appeal to
VAN BuREs, and to the Democracy of the
South to vote against CocHRAN, the avowed
enemy of the Union. The tactics recommended
by the invited guest Of Tammany is. in party
sense, much more judicious. To "deuounce
the general Administration at Washington" is
far safer and less responsible than TO single out
and condemn party associates because Of their
hOstilityto the Compromise. This denuncia-