The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-03-12

The maintenance of the established policy of
the Government in relation to changes Of
constitutions, or international disputes on that
continent, in no respect clashes with our prlvl-
lege as journalists to lay before our readers
views and statements suggested by passing oc-
currences. We have uniformly written In
favor of the liberal cause in Europe, and still
feel as deeply interested in its progress as our
nelghbor; but from none of our articles can a
passage be selected in the slightest respect at
variance with our antl-interventon opinions.
Of this We are sure, that European absolutist
journalists have never obtained aid OF comfort
from the editorials or correspondence of the
Republic; and certainly we have given no
succor or consolation to the interventionists.
With the Paris Constitutional before its eyes,
the Union can scarcely say the same.
Still commenting on ourselves and the In
teligencer, the Union proceeds to remark:
" But these central organs of the Wing party
are not, perhaps, fully aware how broadly and
boldly they contradicted by the most authori-
tative organs of Wing sentiment in various parts
of the country. The New York Times makes it.
self the organ Of Kossuth, and urges Congress and
the people to grant him all he asks, in full con-
formity with the most extreme terms Of his de-.
mand The New York Tribune presents Kos.uth
as the very impersonation of the cause of liberty
and emancipation everywhere. and 60 calls upon
all men to sustain him. And now following
close in the wake of these northern expounders Of
Wing doctrine, comes the Louisville JournaI''
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friends of the Compromise responsible for the
hereses of the Evening Post, were as rational
| and just as the attempt of the Union to repre-
sent the New York Times and the Tribune as
opponents of Wing principle or feeling. They
are higher law organs, and therefore consistent
in the advocacy of Intervention, which is but
another name for abolitionism; but we deny that
the Wings Of the country, as party, can be
held responsible for the declarations Of either.
Take the Wing press, as whole, and we are
persuaded that an immense prepOnderance of
character and influence will be found on the
right side, vigiant and decided in exposing
and repelling the insidious abors of foreign and
home-bred filibustiers. The Louisville Jour
whose tactics on this question we are unable
to explain. None respect It's editor more than
ourselves; none more fully acknowledge the
fidelity and zeal with which, through long
series of years, he has battled for sound princ-
pies; but neither personal respect, nor regard
for the well-established character Of the Jour
nal, ought to hinder us from saying that its
approval of kossUTH and his cause does not in
any degree compromise the Wings of Ken
lucky. In this instance, the Journal, like the
rance with the State convention of its party;
and we are inclined to accept the deliberately
expressed resolves of convention in prefer
ence to the opinions of an individual editor
With full knowledge of the fact that the
Wing convention of Kentucky pronounced
against Intervention, il is not exactly candid in
our contemporary to identify the Wings of the
West with the KossUTH eulogies of the Louis
vile Journal. The Wings of the West need none
of the whipping in" which the Union sug-
gests as necessary to drill them into orthodoxy
in this matter. They are sound to the core,
without drilling. We believe so, at any rate,
and shall adhere to the belief until somebody
leginmately representing the party declares
otherwise. On this point, again, the Union,
has more cause for anxiety. The Democratic
Convention Of Ohio, the BENTON Democracy
Of ST. Louis, the Tammany Hall brotherhood
and other fragments Of the great party, stand
committed TO the full measure Of flbusterism,
and by their recorded action secure to the De
mocratic party the dubious honor Of struggling
to overturn the maxims and policy of WASH
INGToN.