The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-04-30
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SATURDAY MORNING. APRIL 80. 1853.
The Washington Union.

SATURDAY MORNING. APRIL 80. 1853.
The Washington Union.
Honest, honest Iago!"-Shakspeare.
We would, for its own sake, that we could
bring the Washington Union up to line of
conduct at once fair, honest, and honorable. 1t
has industry and zeal that reflect great credit
upon it, and that would do honor to the party
it serves, if guided by due appreciation of
even tho poor standard of moral integrity
acknowledged in the ordinary commerce of the
world. But the inevitable tendencies of the
Union, like the hair Of Mr.. Thomas Traddles,
in Dickens's David Copper6eld, wiH stick
out! 1t is in consequence of this perversity of
moral obliquity in the Union that they who
read and unwittingly give credence to its re-
ports are so generally led into the byeways Of
darkness and Of error.
The Union mas of late from time to time
quoted US as pledging to the Administration a
uniform and cordial support unlimited and
unrestricted by any qualification whatever; and
the Union Of course draws its own differences
and makes its own commentaries thereon!
Yesterday morning, however, its eager desire,
for a pressing and special purpose easily seen
into, betrayed it into an act of seeming mag
nanimity no less than that of quoting in ertenso
our remarks of the preceding day in reply to
the Albany Euening Journal, whose article it
had copied in the largest types used in its
columns.
Dishonest purposes, however, usually bear
external evidences of their inherent natures;
and it is thus that the Union, in it's endeavors
to create or give publicity to the evidences of
division in the ranks of the Wing party, but
reveals the fact that the Republic is denounced
and opposed by such sectional, side-issue jour
nails as, though Wing, opposed and denounced
the nationality of sentiment that characterized
the administration of President FILLMORE,
when the Union, assuming virtue if it had
it not, placed itself in an attitude, however
ridiculous and grotesque, of apparent cham
pionship of that administration! We did not
then, in jealousy, repel, or even disparage the
efforts Of that paper. We were willing, on
the contrary, no matter how unworthy the ad
vocate, nor how insincere and interested it's
advocacy, that it should be permitted to stult-
fy all Its antecedent sentiments, and even to
be led by its own unworthy instincts into the
defence of truth and justice. That we were
correct in our estimate of its motives may be
seen in the fact that it has since, as The dog to
his vomit and the sow to her wallowing in the
mire returned to its total disregard of the spirit
of nationalism by which it then professed to be
influenced, and taken into its embrace, and be-
ultra of all the disunion fanatics with whom the
administration of Mr.. FILLMORE had to con-
tend, with the witches in Macbeth exclaiming:
"Blue spirits and black, white spirits and grey,
Mingle, mingle, minge, you that mingle may!''
We occupy the ground we then occupied; it
is that OF setting higher value upon whatever
is American than upon the things of party.
Partisans, in certain sense, we may ever be;
but never can we be partisans when PARTISAN
ship conflicts with our country's welfare.
But in this matter we need surely offer no
defence. All just men have understood us
Alright; and that the Union is displeased, and
that it sustains it's paltry allegations by quota
tons from the Albany Evening Journal, the
organ of faction of party, some of whose
journals proclaim the Wing party ertinct,
should be sufficient to satisfy every intelligent
reader who values what is even seemly in APP
pearance, much less what is honest and upright
in purpose.
We shall take little further pains with the
Union on this topic. Its inconsistency, its
cunning devices, and its trucking spirit are
enveloped only by flimsy and transparent veil,
by which the purblind scarcely can be duped.
1t need not fear that in the general appreciation
of whatever of right lies to the credit of the
Government its Office may be wholly lost. 1t
will yet have much to do in its own appro-
pirate sphere. But it must not have the to-
merity to aim at SO dgnifed a duty as that Of
defending the craftsmanship, the consistency,
and the integrity of the Administration. The
party to which it clings, and on which it hopes
to fatten, contains too many journals of more
exalted worth, whose abilities are, to say the
least, equal to its own, and in whose honesty
of purpose the people of the United States,
and especially of its own party, repose more
implicit confidence. The lower office, of cynic
and petty maligner, will PROFESSIONALLY be
still its own, with all the honors and more
than all the rewards appropriately attached to
this inferior and undignifed position.
The Presidents Senator from Louisiana.
New ORLEANS, April 2s.-The Legislature to-
day elected the Hon. John SIidell United States
Senator for the State of Louisiana. He is Demo-
crat. ~
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