The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-10-25

IN MS inaugural denounced the provisions OF the
| Fugitive Slave law, nominated for Governor
BREsLIN and PuGH, both active promoters of the
bargain that sen. CHASE to the Senate, were placed
on the State ticket and the Abolition Convention,
over which GIDDINGs presided, few days after
passed resolutions against banks and protective
tariff, and adjourned with such perfect good un-
deTsanding with their Democratic BRETHREN that
the Piaindedler, Governor WooD's special organ al
Cleveland, talked of giving him a dinner AS
the Democratic State Convention only re- affirmed
the resolutions of lS45, that were re-afirmcd in
1850, nothing remained but Senator CHAsE's letter
to announce the completion of the coalition on free
soil grounds, he declares-thus utterly repudiat.
ing the Unions claim that he was a convert to the
Baltimore platform.
Since that time the Abolition press of Ohio, in
conjunction with the Locofoco, has teemed with as
saults ON MIR. VINToN as the pro-slavery candidate
for Governor, while the Washington Union fum-
mates the contrary charge. RUFUS p RAHNEY, one
OF the Locoioco nominees for supreme bench, vic.
lently denounced the Fugitive law at the time Of
its passage; and STANLEY MATHEWS, one of the
Locofoco nominees for judgeship in the great
commercial county Of Hamilton, was editor for
sometime of the Abolition paper in Cincinnati un
I'll transferred In the CHASE sale; and in his new
position, conferred by Democratic votes will have
ample opportunities of accommodating by writz
OF habeas corpus and warrants for kidnapping
those southern gentlemen who may attempt to
capture their runaway negroes in the Queen City of
the West SPALDING, too, one of the present judges
of the supreme court, whose Democratic decara-
ton that, Jackson like, he would pay no regard
TO the Fugitive law, but rather aid in securing
negro from the custody of the United States
marshal, should not be forgotten in making up
the muster rolls of the National Democracy;
yet these men, being in regular standing in
the party in their State, must be recog-
Missed in the Baltimore, Convention, as the Donald
correspondence proves for any other rule would
exclude MEpARY, the great sachem of Ohio Demo
cracy, together with most of the Locofoco leaders
of the northwest who are nearly all Of the Brolvn
stripe of politicians 1t is to combinations gotten up
by politicians of this class that Locofocoism owes
its late overwhelming victory in Ohio, where the
Western Reserve the Abolition portion of the State
sends but one Wing member to the Legislature
the balance are Democrats of all stripes.
On the other hand, Senator KING, of Alabama
prominent Democratic candidate for Vice Presi-
dent declares Willingness to vote for the repeal
OF a portion of the Compromise that does not suit
him; and yet with the Union his standing is good
on the great national platform of "acquiescence."
Why does the organ tolerate this sullen acquies-
cence in what these southern gentlemen denounce
as fraud on their rghts; while it charges every
northern Wing with abolitonism who does not
aud the Compromise measures in every particular,
and seems even unwilling that the Free-soi wing
should fall back in silence this admirable Rich
mond junto platform of 'acquiescence. Why
has not the editor honesty enough to treat north
ern and southern opposition to the Compromise
alike? Perhaps he has not entirely gotten over
the hallucination which took him to the Nashville
Convention; but here he cannot plead, like Abdiel
previous Ignorance of the designs of the company
he was found in at that time.
The Compromise consisted of a series of mea-
sures, the great turning point of which the
Texas Boundary bill, on which the peace of the
country rested yet the Union passes by in silence the
violent opposition of his party friends at the South
at this point, while it comments largely on the
fact that SO few northern Wings voted for the Flu
gitve Slave bill, without stating that General CAss,
and most of the northern Locofoco Senator's lodged
the same question.
The only ORGANIZED opposition to the Com
promise, :" final settlement" has proceeded
from the Unions own party at the South
for it ia notorious that, both in GEORGIA and
MISSISSIPPI but one Democratic paper sus
tains CoBB and FooTE, whom the Locofoco
press, in their respective States, treat as de-
serters from the party; while large masses of
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Union, yet it s remarkable how few Wings have
fallen into the secession movement; there was
scarcely at the Nashville Convention; and il
has been really amusing to notice the course of the
central organ during the pending contest at the
South. AT first afraid TO express its opinion
above whisper, or take sides with either CoBB or
FooTE against the right OF secession, until the de-
ieat of TRoUsDALE in TENNESSEE for occupying a
doubtful position, alarmed the editor, and since
that time his paper has been becoming stronger
and stronger every day against the right of seces
sion, the set of the popular current at the South
becomes more and evident. New converts
remarkable always for zeal, and il is necessary
for old members of the Compromise church to I'M
derstand their motives. The Union knows THAT
there were large of both parties in each
section OF the Union opposed to particular fea
lures of the Adjustment measures, but after
their passage men all sides have been gra
dually coming to their support, owing chiefly
to the impartial execution of the laws everywhere
Most northern VINES believed in the constitu.
tional power of Congress to prohibit slavery in the
Territories but refrained from its exercise on
grounds of expediency; while Locofocos who de-
MED the power were willing to see it exercised by
Congress for the mere purpose of embarrassing a
WING Administration, and Furnishing the country
for electing General TAYLOR. The strong arm
now at the helm of Government has so far steered
il safely through all difficulties; yet partisan is
the Union, the great self constituted champion of
the Adjustment that it would prefer the election to
the Presidency of KING, QuITMAN, DAVIS, or any
anti Compromise Democrat to FILLMORE, CRrT-
TENDEN, WEBSTER, or any Compromise WING.
But the people are getting tired of being amused
with mere names The word Democracy has led
the good old mother Of commonwealth many
dance, but it will never charm her into seeming
sanction Of disunon doctrines If the signs Of the
times not to be mistaken OLD VIRGINIA lin De-
cember next, under her constitution, which
reinvigoratcs her with loo, 900 new voters ardenty
attached to the Union, and who have not yet
learned the secession philosophy of the old party
hacks, will show the leaders at Washington and
Richmond, by the election of SUMMERS, that a
ticket tainted with the secession smack in its legal
branch cannot win in the Old Dominion. Acqui-
cscencc in the Adjustment measures, when they
cannot help themselves, may be a very good
halfway house for politicians OF the South Caro-
lima school, afraid Of the Indignation of their con-