The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-05-24
PUBLIC OPINION.
Erom The .Albanu Register.

at may be all very well for personal friends
| dependents or admirers Of President FILLMORE
MIR. WEBSTER, or General ScoTT, 10 endeayor TO
force their private feelings and wishes as law of
action upon their party and to secure such nom
ination as would be acceptable to them, without
regard to other considerations. But such endea-
vors cannot succeed. The nomination will not be
| made upon such grounds. II may be all right,
moreover, tor sectional factions to attempt to die
tate national action for their own ends. Southern
ultrasts may breathe the direst menaces against
the party that shall dare to slight their edicts and
| northern fanatics may illuminate counter blasts
against all who arc not ready to trainple down the
Constitution and the Union in order to strike
blow at slavery. AS by-play, or as a sort of pre-
paratory gymnastics, this may be mutually agree
able, without doing any mischief.
"But II will not last. This Union was not made
for fanatics of either section; is the public mind
to be swaycd by such influences. The great masses
OF the people Of the whole country, without dis
tinction of party, and without regard TO sect onal
divisions, Tor sustaining the Constitution, for
preserving the Union, and for executing the laws
OF the land And for any one party 9f section to
set itself up as the exclusive guardian of these
great principles-to assume the special and exclu.
sive championship of these great interests, and to
exact from all others oaths Of supremacy, of con-
formity, and Of continued loyalty-will be felt and
treated as an insult and wrong. The Whigs,twe
are confident must meet upon equal terms in re-
spect to principles 80 common as these Something
must always be taken for granted when people Of
any sort attempt to act together; il will scarcely be
thought extravaganza if whigs from the North
should claim from their southern brethren at
least the unquestioned credit of being neither
traitors TO their country nor the enemies Of law"
~. Y. Times.
With great deal OF insdous and mischevous
iallacy, the Times not unfrcquently says good
tbing-writcs sound sentiment and wholesome nd.
vice upon political matters. The article from
which the above is an extract il one Of this de-
scription.
nT MIR EIIJ nyoD
ton, not on personal grounds, not on sectional
grounds, but for the reason that he occupies
commanding position above and beyond the reach
OF these. lie stands cevatiun-on broad
national platform, whose foundation ia the princi-
pies and measures for which the Wing party has
ever commended; and, underlying all, the Const
tuition of the country. Ills friends urge his nonna,
ton in opposition to sectional fac and personal
cliques-in opposition to the malcvolencc and ha-
tired Of tho "southern ultraists' and "northern IA
natics," who are "ready to trample down the Con
stitution and the Union" to accomplish their pur
poses. tits such who arrayed against him in this
State-those who seeking, not the country's
good not the interests OF the whole people, not
the success OF Wing principles, but the gratifca-
ton OF their own malice and the contamination OF
their own selfish ends and purposes They are
active and scrupulous-rcsor,ing to every dis.
uoutst anu ul5nOnOTaDlc means 10 carry Their
points. No wants better evidence that these
men are not laboring for the good of,he party or
vi the country than the GLOVER deep Of degrada-
ton to which they descended in their action in
relation to delegate and alternate to the National
Convention in this county. 1t stamps all their
professions Of attachment to the party as s'base
coin" To such the structures Of the Times will
apply. They are engaged in u "by play" which
though it can not last must prove destructive to
those engaged in it. II the prospects of General
Scott can be advanced by the resort to such
disgraceful means and the Of such disgracelul
instruments. we greatly misjudge the integrity
and intelligence of public sentiment.
With the friends of the Admnslr alton the con- |
test has been one OF principle. They have planted
themselves upon the broad, conservative and ma
tional platform of the Wing party, and labored
earnestly and zealously for the SUCCESS Of Whig |
principles in thci. purityor the integrity Of the
Constitution and the supremacy of the lave. But |
they have been met with fanatcism and faction in
every form and shape. The worthless demagogues |
who control these in this State have seized hold of
the skirts of one renowned in war, and attempted |
to retrieve their fallen fortunes by the aid of bis
name among the people. In this they may have |
been partially succcssfu but their corruption and
dishonesty cannot much longer be cloaked from |
the people. Gen. Scott's prospects and reputation |
have been greatly damaged by the political black.
legs and knaves whs have assumed his cham pion-
chip in this State and it will be difficult for him to
survive their friendship.