The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-04-08
Another Pounoe upon Old Foxy,.,n,


We have received the March number of the
Democratic Repielc, and we have read as much
of it as promised to be entertaining We have
been very much entertained, too and as the
circulation of the Rericw is probably not SO
large as it will be when Young America be-
comes fully alive to its merits, we know not
that we can serve the country better, or amuse
our readers more, than by giving them few
elegant extracts from its pages. We sup
pose it will be duly brought up in the House of
Representatives in day OF two, and we think
it may be well to have few texts printed for
the use of the members. We do not see that
its contents can be satisfactorily discussed
however, until it is laid upon the tables Of the
House.
The crack article Of the number is entitled
Congress, the Presidency, and the Reuiep;"
and il indeed makes every thing crack sgain.
In the first place, Mr.. BKEcXEsRIpcE is de.
molished; then Judge DOUGLAS is defended
from the charge Of connivance, or completely
or responsibility, between him and the Re.
rier; then General Butler is killed over
again; and Governor MARCY is clapped under
an extinguisher; and Mr.. Speaker Borp is put
into an exhausted receiver; and the modus ia
quo is given by which Democratic notxbilities
have been in times past immortalized in the
Democratic Rerie,c, by means Of steel engrav-
ings and purchased biographies. We wish the
present proprietors, by the way, would send us
file Of the Rerie,c for the last year or two,
or as far back as may be conven lent, that we
may understand who are the individual nobodes
that have been thus buying for themselves a
niche in the temple of fame. Young America
discusses them with vengeance, and we should
be pleased with an opportunity OF aiding in quiet
way their lnudabe efforts for distinction. Bless
us, if these DEMOCRATS would all turn out
and tell what they know Of each other, Just as
the Rericic insiructs us in the secrets of old
f,gyism, we should have such revelations as
the world never saw, or heard Of or dreamed
Of before 1t is clear enough that the days Of
old fogysm are numbered and If MARCY, b.
oHAs,s, BoYp, Cas-, BUrLrR, Wool, and
their associate old fogies do no, all ground their
arms and go in for the candidate OF the De
mocraiie Reuier before the meeting OF the
the most ungratefu and unihinking set Of
gentlemen in the world. They are doomed
to be swallowed whole by Judge DOUGLAS, and
they may well submit with good grace as
bad one. II "Mr. MARSHALL Of Cslifou,a,
Mr.. SMITH Of Alabama, Mr.. SOUS of Lousi-
ana, Mr.. WILCOX Of Mississippi, and Colonel
Pork Of RECONSIDERATION the Rep,e,r
seems TO rely upon the representative men
Of Young America--if these gentlemen. backed
by Young Washington" and the Reri>,c.
cannot nominate and elect a PRESIDENT Tor
these twenty. three millions Of people, we
"should very much like 10 know" ,cho can be
trusted in such premises
There are some passages in this article. we
are sorry TO say. that not eraofiy TT for fam.
lily reading little too French for Saxon
msiden--but, with the advent Of Young Amer
lea, we shall probably become accustomed to
this new style. We think in one or two in |
stances the illustrations are drawn from sources
that nothing but the sentiment Of Democratic |
progress could reconcile to American ears
but we shall find il all right. no doubt. by the |
time the contagious" islands IN the Atlantic |
and Pacific oceans are annexed to our CONT |
mental empire. Nobody but an old fogy, how
ever, would object 10 these somewhat highly |
colored passages, aud We should not have Al. |
luded TO them but that we desire TO present
the cause Of progress in every aspect, that all |
may know what we are TO expect in the good |
time coming"
Butwe are gossipping, while we withhold
from our readers the beauties of the Rcrie,c.
And first, we will examine what the new De
mocratic editors say of their Democratic pre-
deccssors. Mr.. BnEcKEsRiDeE had compli-
mented the latter at the expense Of Mr.. SAN
prns and his coadjutors. The Rcuiec retorts
IN style Of abuse that is really Bentonian:
THE REVIEWS ANTECEpENTs.
In the times, md under the management spoken
OF by Mr.. breckenridge ~ different from the
present, the Democratic Eec,s,o was not only "n
mere partisan sheet" bat The most determined