The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-02-24

We publish in another column letter OF the
Hon. A. II. STEPHENS in regard to the Union
organization in Georgia. 1t cannot fail TO be
read with general interest, though many OF It's
views are of merely local application. Upon
what pretences the men who have gone into
that organization, with honest plans and purpo-
ses can now seek to abandon Or dissolve 1t, we
confess that we are at loss TO imagine. The
WHGs who Withdraw from it must fall into
pow erless minority; and the Democrats who
withdraw from it must surrender at discretion
to the Secessionists. Those who have taken
part in the movement must continue to CO.
operate, or they must become helpless and In
significant; for the Secessionlsts will never for
give the TRAITORS" whom they have been for
months denouncing as worse than WHO'S. and
whom they hate more bitterly than the Wines.
There certainly appears no good reason that
should induce the Union DEMocRATs TO bolt
the organization, after having secured an Union
triumph by VINO votes. Nothing has tran
spired in Democratic history for the last
three months that promises any comfort TO the
nionists. When CLEVELAND, RAEroUL, and
PREsroN king, ia combination with the
MEApEs, NyHABLrs, and BocoCKs, to put down
GoRMAS, BAyLY, and Polk IN Democratic
raucus-when known Aboitionists and Secs
sionists give the Laws To the National Democrats
and Law their resolutions on the table-we
should suppose il was no time iOI CnlOnlsts 10
disband with the view Of falling into the ranks
of the Democratic party. Still less should
such a movement be made at a time when a
| WING Administration, and n VINO Congress
| sional caucus; or, in other words, when the
VINO party, through It's representatives In
the Legislative and Executive Departments,
have placed themselves upon that ground in
relation 10 the compromise which we under
| stand To be occupied by the Union party OF
Georgia Alabama, and Mississippi.
II is now reasonable to believe, from the ac.
ton Of the representatives of the Vino parry
in Congress, that no Presidential candidate
can receive the Vino nomination who is not
/ known to be entirely sound on the Compromise
/ question. No candidate hanpered by Abolition
! alliances, pledges, or associations-or suspected
| Of being under Abolition inhuences-can by
any possibility receive the votes of ina
iority Of the American people. In the pre-
sent posture Of the DEMocRATIc party, with
! It's whole organization coniessedly controlled
by the BLArRs. BENToNs, Van BURENs, PREs
TON KINGS, and CLEyELkNDs, their candidate
must necessarily be the candidate Of the Aboll
ton wing of the party. lis no longer mat
Tor Of choice. To make the matter worse
/ ,.pl. no cd
the Aboltionists. but be- must be endorsed by
the Secessonists. The ultras and iactlonst'
will thus make the candidate, and the DEMO
CRITIC centre will succumb, as they succumbe'
in the Congressional caucus.
I'm this view Of the case, the Unionsts o
Georgia. Alabama, and Mississippi will natu
rally fall into the ranks Of the candidate who !
nominated on the platform Of the VINO Ad
ministration. 1t is of no consequence who ma.
be- the nominee, or what may be the platform
81, ,,,,.. esons of the Democratic Convention
,ba FAC, is oo,o,,.ns that the party styling tsel
Democratic is entirely in TIC hahos o' '''e -
cessonists aud Abotionisls. The ~ '''
+ centre, the conservative Democracy por
, ton which sides with the Administration an,
, the Unlonlsts on the questions Of the Compro
mise and Iutervention-hav no power IN Con
, gress, and will have none in the convention
exaept that which they derive from humIllat
+ mo coalition with dangerous and desperate fac
tons. But this same Democratic centre cling
, to the factions in spite Of the hate they all bea
to each other, and the principle Of cohesion
the name Of Democracy. In this way do grow
= men sacri6ce Substances to shadows.