The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-02-26

tenhs of the American people. and Of every repub-
| lican in the old world or the new. So be It,"
| Hard blows these for leading Democratic
editor to level at his friends! The ease and
indifference with which he sets aside the pre-
tensions of the leaders who adverse TO his
nomination is in the highest degree amusing,
and fully explains their illconcealed desire to
tempt or choke him of.
| The Democratic nominee must be new and a
young man; that places BUCHANAN on the shelf.
and HoUsToN to that? ''Mere wire pulers
and judcious bottle holders" are unequal to the
emergency; how will that decree suit the no
tions Of MARCY or DICKINsoN2 Above all a
"beaten horse" is out of the question; and that
"unkind cut" buries the hopes of CAss. 1t
were wrong to dignity this wholesale execution
| with the title of martyrdom, slaughter of the
innocents," or any similarly captivating term;
| but certainly it is the coolest kind of killing
| that has been seen Of late.
Whether the portrait of Mr.. DOUGLAS. as
painted by his advocate, will please the De
mocracy, is point on which we offer no opin-
| ion. The whole fraternity Of filbusters cannot
| be otherwise than delighted with the picture OF
| a man after their own heart, and what infiu-
ence kossUTH can WELD will assuredly be ex-
ercised In his behalf. This result can sur
| prise no one. General CAss, it is true, entered
this section of the field concurrenty with
| DOUGLAS, but in such race young blood''
L.
| that an old tactician could enter for struggle
in which he was certain to figure second best.
Unfortunately for the harmony of the "united
party" the dangerous heresy set on foot by the
Democratic ReUie,U manitests tendency to be-
come contagious The Richmond (Va.) Er-
lows the lead of the Reuieao, and fights for
DOUGLAS as the only candidate fit to be 1.-the
future hellnsman of the nation" Hear the
Examiner:
Stephen A. Douglas is the adopted son of Hi
nos. He entered that State as journeyman car
penter and at enty elk years of age he sat judge
upon the bench of her supreme court. Since then
he has successfully filed every honorable and high
office which that State could confer, and at the age
of forty one he ia taciie princeps of the American
Senate--the bright and morning star of the Ma
| tional Democratic party-and ia designated by
millions OF voices from Maine to Texas the future
helrnsman of the nation. He ia relic of the
past-no fossil remain of a bygone time-no past
defeat casts its ominous shadow in his path.
Hope and youth blaze before him; success sits
like halo on his brow. He has already passed
every contemporary competitor, yet all may see
that the history of this man is still a future.
liz, raI,t, IA, ha
He is the NEW MAN in the field. He belongs
to no clique OF old fogies-in Virginia any
where else With him all ranks of the party--the
young and the obscure, well the old and
hitherto distinguished-will have their equal
chance. He has past backsidngs, no indis.
speeches, for the orators and the presses Of
the Federal party to match against the ridiculous
qualities, the absurd words, the foes, and the
errors of Winfield Scott. His Democracy
is the 'chrysolite without flaw in his political
career there has been variance shadow of
turning In his whole life there has not been one
hour of vacillation, has single sectional
timent ever yet distorted his lips. Bodness of
movement, precision of thought, and the moot
larged views of our national interests, have
guided him. Even his geographical position for.
bids the suspicion of sectional feeling thought.
A resident of free State, he is yet SOUTHERN
ter Of an estate and of slaves in North Carolina.
He has stood by the South in every tyin and
on every question. In every interest he s IRE.
yocsby identified with us; and when he uproar
the Fugitive Slave law convulsed the North, he
was the first man in a free State who had the
coura TO stand in the midst and dcnounce its
mics the enemies Of the Constitution and Of the
oountry's veal. lie gave vote which the
sraitest southern Democrat could wish to blot. lie
is not afraid OF the people; and therefore never
stops TO think how he himself will be affected by
this that particular question. Sprung from them,
of them. he has confidence in their intelligence
and patriotism; and, therefore, when following his
own common sense and the Constitution, never
fears TO find himself At variance with popular sen
timont. He is the true type of this powerful and
growing new country; and its heart will rccog-
misc its perfect representative. Sprung directly
from the people, without the most remote aids OF
birth or fortune, educated by his own thirst for
knowledge, he supported himself from infancy by
his daily labor; and battling alone against the
world, he has risen with the sheer force Of superb
intellect and undaunted heart, step by step. until
lac stands acknowledged and respected IA the
chefchampion Of the Democratic party"
What text for homily on political ingrati-
tudel Generals and Legislators who have
struggled in the political world throughout a
lifetime are classed together and gibbetted as a
'clique Of old fogies," while DoUGLAs sits in
the full blaze Of hope and youth, with "overy
contemporary competitor" far in the rear, and
nought before him but honor and SUGGEST
The public would doubtless like to know
what the metropolitan organ thinks concerning
this new development of intestine warfare
From The Nsw York Erpre.
Reception OF Daniel Webster by the Conn
mon Council Of New York.