The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-03-04

eeery human benefit and enjoyment svery Dir
TIE and ecery prudent get, IS sounded o" com
promise and bartery We balance inconue-
niences; zoe gioe and take; zoe remit some
rights that zoe may enjoy others; and
zee choose rather t9be happy citizens than sub
lie disputants."| The Democratic centre
had claimed all along to be the best friends Of
the Compromise. They had proclaimed that
President FILLMORE could not be trusted to
carry out his own policy With these feelings
Congress came together. The Democratic
Congressional Caucus was held, and the Free
soil faction of the North, in league with the
Secessionists, drove the Democratic centre to
| the wall. The Buffalo Couventionists had full
swing in the caucus, and put down Messrs.
Polk, German, BAyLy, and the whole Com
promise strength of the party.
Then followed the reaffirmance Of the Com
promise policy by President FILLMORE in his
| annual message, and its endorsement by the
Wing Congressional Caucus. From that mo-
ment paralysis seized upon the DEMOCRATIC
party, and from that moment "hope elevated
and joy frightened" the crest of the Wines.
We have not room or time this morning to
give the whole history of this movement; or to
| show the process by which the DEMOCRATIC
party has been gradually denatoDalized during
the last twelvemonth, and how the WING
party, from the appearance of the first message
Of President FILLMORE. has been occupying
the national ground. This subject we reserve
for another day. We only alude to it in this
connexion for the purpose of showing that the
DEMocRATs, within little more than three
months, have assumed a ne,D position, for which
the people have withdrawn their confidence,
and that the WHIGs have more distinctly and
formally taken their stand on the Compromise
policy of WING President. This accounts
for the "great peril /" of the DEMocRATIC
party, 4 peril which cannot be overcome by
any eleventh hour lodges of Mr. FITCH.
Deathbed penitence cannot save them, Abo-
lition and Secession are on the back of the
bound to triumph or fall with it. Meanwhile
the Wing party, stripped OF lis fatal incuTn-
brances, standing out natonalized, patriotic,
and united, planting itself upon the ground of
the WING Administration and the WING
Caucus, rallies the people to a decisive victory
over Abolitionized and Secessionized Democ-
racy.
The third document of the series which we
republsh is the extraordinary letter Of Mr.. BU-
CHANAN, which furnishes the Union with the
text for lis political homily. 1t is funny, very
funny, to hear an old double-dyed FedeIalist,
who would have % let every drop of Demo
cratic blood out of his VEINS" talk of the fun
damental and 9 tme-honored principles which
have divided us from our opponents since The
lightning" This is capitalize best joke of
the day. Mr.. BUCHANAN then goes on to state
what the Democracy must SO inscrbe on their
banners" in style that must amuse Young
America beyond telling. "DoUGLAs and the
spoils !" is an inscription that will laugh to
scom "BUCHANAN and rigid economy" We
think we can see the Democracy dividing on
these points-DoUGLAsc carrying the day without
4 count, and BUCHANAN literally nowhere