The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-10-15

nee, the Others would have acquiesced and with
cheerful zeal striven to secure his election.
Their friends would have buckled on their armor
aud given their best efforts for his success. By
pursuing a contrary course, he has committed
which he should hasten to correct. II ia not
yet too late; there is time to what has been
harmful In his but what Ia TO be done should
be done quickly. Wesay in all frankness that he 10
fast receding from the confidence ofthe Wings of the
Union, and unless he bestir himself soon he will
lose il forever. He has done enoue already to in
ure essentially his fame His silence bis continuing
allow the of his name for disor ganizing pur
poses, is unworthy Of himself and unjust towards
the Wings Of the Union, who have 30 generously
confded in him. To be the nominee of hopeless
mnority-a mere fragment Of the party, SO small
that its numbers excite only ridcule-is belittng
his great name. II is palliaion to say his friends
iusist upon his retaining his present position. Such
friends, whatever their motives may be, are in
ality his worst enemies. They have no right to
place or hold him in false position. He should
not, in justice to himself, permit them to do 80.
Besides Mr. Webster 10 not man easily led; he
has will OF his own, his past history demon
etrates, and rs oil great men have. We have al
ways admired him the more for it. II is folly,
therefore, to attempt to shift the responsibility of
bis course from him, or throw it upon injudicious
friends. The world and the great Wing party will
hold him responsible, and not his advisers A time
OF regret for having suffered his name to be
used at all, subsequent to the convention, will
surely come. When he shall see his course refer
red to evidence OF the fact that human great
ness and human weakness too often allied, that
tue ~l5est sometimes perpetTate the greatest Iol-
lies, he will wish that oblivion might pass its sponge
over this portion Of bis history and wipe it from the
memory Of the world.
The Wing party can spare strength in the
present contest, and Mr.. Webster, while he can
secure to himself not electoral vote, may de.
feat the Wing candidate and throw the Union into
the hands of the opposition. In this State every
vote cast for him jeopards the Wing party, while
it can do him no possible good. The few he may
receive here may turn the scale against us. He
should remember, and his friends should remem
Der, that every vote cast for him comes not from
his political opponents but from the Whigs-thus
dividing and weakening them; while, so far az
they go, they strengthen his enemies. Ia he will.
ing to leopard the Wing party in the State Of New
York by longer ming to the of his name
as a candidate? This is the plain simple PROPOSE
ton which he and his friends should understand
q proposition which are forced by the pressure
Of facts exhibited all around US to submit for his
and their consideration. 1t is no light thing to be
instrumental in the overthrow of a great national
party. 1t involves the overthrow Of national pol.
icy, and the sweeping away of great principles; it
involves the prosperity and honor Of the nation.
Mr.. Webster has been a leading champion of the
Wing party, sustaining it's principles and pledged
to ts policy 1t ia the great conservative party OF
the Union, the party Of rational progress Will
he turn against II now and undo the labor of life
devoted with herculean effort to it's advancement,
by being willingly instrumental in its overthrow