The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-02-04

Our contemporary OF the Boston Atlas accom-
panies the publication of Mr.. WEBsTER's letter
to the citizens of Westminster with short par
agraph, intimating that an Union meeting there
was quite superfuous, inasmuch as there are
few disunionsts at Tarrytown. The horizon
of Tarrytown is ample enough, no doubt, to
bound the vision of the Atlas; but, in his forty
years of arduous public service, MIR. WEBSTER
has accustomed his eye to much broader po-
litcal survey.
In the very commonwealth where the .4tias
is printed there is a society pledged to seek the
abolition of Slavery over ''the ruins of the
American Church and the American State. :"
This association numbers among its members
men of education, position, wealth, and power
full connexions; damaged not little, no doubt,
by their violent and reasonable sentiments,
but not so much damaged that they can be
properly ignored, or lightly treated by the
Atlas
At the very time that the Atlas is sneering
at the Union meetings, struggle of fearful
significance is going on under its own eyes in
the result of the pending Senatorial struggle,
can the country be blind to the fact that in the
old Bay State there has been a coalition of two
great parties, one Of which is expressly organ
lied upon the principle of hostility to the con-
stitutlonal rights of the southern States2 Can
it be blind to the fact that the party thus or
ganized has dictated its own terms to the So
called Democratic party, and that it is now
calling for the consummaton of bargain by
which an Abolitionist is to be placed in the
Senate of the United States Send to that
Senate many such men as CHASE, HALE, and
SUMNER, and how long would it be before all
the Union meetings that wise and patriotic
men could convene from Plymouth Rock TO
the gates of San Francisco would be unable to
keep together the States of this Confederacy?
Men who look no farther than to their immedi-
ate vicinage, may think every thing is going on
well in the country as long as there are g no
disunionists in Tarrytown." Men who reason
upon names as if they were things, and who
oppose CHARLES SUMNER for the Senate be-
cause he calls himself Free-soiler, and support
ZESo ScUDDER for the House because he calls
himself a WING, and this notwithstanding he
has pledged himself in writing to all of Sum-
NER's doctrines; such men may well imagine
umphant query" How many disunionists are
there in Tarrytown %
We may differ with our con temporary when
we express the opinion that in the "Tarry
towns" of his Commonwealth there are more
dlsunionsts than good men like to see there.
We think Mr.. RANTouL and Mr.. SUMNER are
both disunionists-and all the Democrats and
Free-soilers who have entered into the in
famous coalition for placing those gentlemen in
the Senate. We can never consent to the notion
that men are not to be supposed TO contem-
plate and desire that which is the inevitable
tendency of their doctrines and measures.
When we see public journalists filling their col
umns with paragraphs on the slave question,
designed to foment i'll blood among the northern
men and southern men, we regard them as dis
unlonlsts. When we see Legislators making
bargain, one of whose conditions is that an
Abolitionist is to be sent to the Senate, we
regard them as disunionists They may deny
the imputation, but acts speak with more EN-
phasis than words. The direct tendency, the
inevitable result of the success of their princi-
piles and objects, is the overthrow Of the Con
stitution and the dissolution of the Union.
In view of these facts, and entertaining these
opinions, we hope that all measures and meet
ings designed to call public attention to our
mutual rights and duties under the Constitu-
ton will continue TO be countenanced and en-
couraged by all good and patriotic men, even
though they may be persuaded that there are
few or no disunionists in "Tarrytown."
How to depress the Price of Cotton.