The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-04-05

'~'0s yo0s0ioSyS P&SS00 a r0SOlutiOu
calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury to
furnish to that body, at the commencement of
the next session Of Congress. a statement show
Ing the aggregate amount of American stocks
and bonds held abroad; and after an Executive
session Of more than two hours, the Senate ad-
journed. aa
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| "What has become of the great Southern
Rights party?" is a question that must have
often occurred to the reader during the last few
weeks. Every man possessing the slightest
remembrance of the Wanted holiness of tone
and principle which not long ago characterized
| the extreme wing of the Southern Democratic
party, may we'll wonder where the principle
has sought refuge. and by what legerdemain
the tone has been reduced from thunder to an
inharmonious squeak Is it possible that the
last refuge of chivalry has sold itself for mess
of pottage? Is it true that a faction once strong
enough to split the Democracy, and bold
enough to propose to split the Union, has been
brought quietly into the traces by mere shake
of Uncle Sans money bag? Is it fact that
leaders and journals that up to November last
claimed General PIERCE as their special candi-
date, and excommunicated and spat upon the
Compromise Democrats of Georgia and Ala
bama, have suddenly succumbed to General
| PIERcE's Compromise declarations. simply be-
cause they desire to participate in the rewards
which are at his disposal2 Have such trifles as
the appointment ola Secretary of War and a Su-
preme Judge from their ranks reconciled them
to the reputation of principles to which but
yesterday they pledged 'their lives, their for
tunes, and their sacred honor?" Are thou
sand offices in prospect sufficient to wean them
from political virtue, and to reduce them into
allegiance to Government which they have
denounced as more corrupt and tyrannical than
that of Russia2
A column of these interrogatories would not
exhaust the list. We might go on to ask, by
what change of fortune the Southside Demo
crat, the .Mississipptan, the Louisville Demo-
crat, and host of Southern Rights journals,
have been brought into alliance with the Union,
which they have again and again prescribed
as traitorous to Southern interests. We might
ask what motive to acquiescence in the Com
promise now exists that did not exist before
the second Of November-save only the chance
of office. We might ask whether any respect
can be felt for class of politicians whose silly
ambition perilled the Union of the States, and
who now fall PROSTATE to lick the dust that
gathers about the Unions folds We may
present these, and yet other inquiries, when
those already offered shall be answered as spe-
officially as they deserve to be.
If no answers come, it will be because every
one of the questions must be answered afirma-
lively. Humiliating as they are, no other an
swers will be tenable, for none else will be true.
The fact must stand out, clear beyond all doubt,
that the pride, the pledges, the professed prin-
cples, Of the Southern Rights Democracy have
given place to unseemly greed of office.
States most prolific of Secessionsts send forth
the largest legions of office-seekers. Men deaf
to duty as principle are most eager to UNDER
take duty for profit.
| The anomaly is noticed elsewhere than in
Washington In Georgia, particularly, where
Union Democrats have endured recent and
most provoking insults at the hands of South
ern Rights Democrats, the inquiry is current
"Where is the Southern Rights party2" The
Columbus Corner Stone, journal now advo-
eating disunon, has encountered the problem,
and solved it nearly as we are disposed to solve
it. Our solution, however, would be ascribed
to the malice of ''Whiggery," and we there
| fore transfer that of the Corner Stone, whose
editor may be supposed to be competent to
speak of his late associates:
| eve received few days ago letter from
Connecticut, ordering paper; in which the
writer says: Through your paper hope to gain a
better knowledge of the objects of the great State
Rights party of the South
ave are sorry to inform subscriber that we
can give him no information as to the objects oil
any such party-in fact be has gotten hold of in
correct information somewhere, and is wholly mis-
taken in supposing that there is any such party in
J existence. There was, two or three years ago, in
: this part of the country, party which called
itself 'the great Southern Rights party but it il
gone, and we now hear nothing of it; having
heard nothing of any formal dissolution of it, WI
are left to infer that those who comp ,sed it, hav
ing become satisfied that they were wrong. have
quietly slipped of, acting upon the old saw, sthe
least said the soonest mended.'
"Our own opinion is that the great majority oil
those who were found in its ranks were there
from mistake in calculations to it's popular.
ityI and having found out their mistake, they are
no longer Southern Rights but good Union Demo
, cratic men, who are willing to waive even sthe
right Of secession There is now at the South 6
great Democratic party; to the object of tina
we think we can inform subscriber in a few
words-t ia to Ike to themselves whatever of th,
!. spoils the people of the North can spare or ar,
willing to give them to hold them to sthis gori
Gus pnion.'''
: To show the temper with which the Barn
burners and their allies proceed with their tasl
of ''harmonizing" the Democratic party, tn,
Albany y4rgus states that the favorite of tn,
.. Canal Board for the collectorship at Oswego-
Mr.. HUGENIN-is zone of the rankest of tn,