The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-08-03
Generous Tribulation OF the ..Union."


We have sincere desire to crafty all rea
sonable wishes on the part of the metropolitan
organ of the Democracy, bat really it must
pardon US for not dwelling in Diet il upon its
daily essays on the Wing nomi,. alton. We
have no relish for an everlasting lingering upon
the alphabet of the campaign! and at the risk
of seeming rudeness must decline to follow our
contemporary example. A couple of months
ago the subject was pertinent enough. and had
some interest in it; but now it is as stale as
controversy on KossUTH, and almost as unpro-
fitable. Perhaps the Wing Convention would
have acted wisely in consulting the Union be
fore venturing to nominate General SCoTT.
Perhaps, too, the Union, had it been con
suited, would have counseled the nomina
ton of the man above all others likely to leave
the Democracy far in the rear at the polls
But neither contingency presented itself in
season. The Wing delegates imagined that
they were the best judges Of what their con-
stituents desired, and that no obligation existed
for asking beforehand whether the nomination
would or would not please political adverse
RES and the Union should therefore try TO
endure the slight with as much christian grace
as it can muster. Plain people are apt to think
that what cannot be prevented should be en-
dnred with show. Of patience, and according
to this rule the Union should make up its mind
to contemplate General ScoTT's nomination
with philosophic equanimity.
There are not wanting evil thinkers who
81. H. H,a fio he
Wing nomination springs from consciousness
that General SCOTT will win the race in can
ter but we will not do our contemporary in
justice by supposing that its manifest concern
in the premises arises from any other source
| than deep seated desire for the nation
atty and welfare of the Wing party.
The Union loves the Democracy; but it loves
it's country more; and it knows that without
the Wing party the country would soon fare
i'll indeed. We therefore appreciate the kind
watchfulness over Wing welfare exercised by
the Union, and pray that it will accept our
sympathetic tears. 1t shall have the condo
lences, if it cannot secure the gratitude, of the
Wings.
Others there are who insinuate that the
Union is guilty of bad taste-if not of some
thing worse-in declaring daily that one cause
of its antipathy to General Scorr springs from
sympathy with Mr.. FILLMORE and Mr.. WEE,
srER The malcontents alluded to are so in.
considerable that they say that for many months
previous to the nomination the Union was
interchangeable in its efforts TO induce the public
to believe that the country never had worse
President than Mr.. FILLMORE, nor a worse
Secretary Of State than Mr.. WEBSTER; anc
on this ground it is argued that the Union
has no decent pretence for recommend
ing the nomination of Mr.. FILLMORE ol
MIR. WEBSTER as third candidate. In thi.
instance, again, cruel injustice is done to thu
Union, which is positively incapable of thu
duplicity with which it is charged. True, TIT
Union did for period decry the Admins
tratiou whereof Mr.. FILLMORE is the head
and Mr.. WEBSTER distinguished member
but it was all the time known that the Unio'
did - because a show Of faut-fndng was es