The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-04-07

snd tnsTit. With facts like tBess passht a the
community. it is worse than idle to talk about
81 Denecntic ssnassp' being 'sunited by
cemon 1ncipless' hh an insult to popu-
= lntelle nce IAN outssge upon the popular
rprd foKtruth.
We donot dwell on tkese thinos with .nv
dosire to 1lsecipitate the difficulties which the
Administration must sooner or later encounter
Regarding the proclaimed views Of President
PIERCE with favor, we would not willingly
contribute to his embarrassment. But the
Union, which is understood to be one of his
organs, pursues 80 ill-considered line Of tao
tics in his behalf that these discussions are
from day to day pressed upon US. We are not
permitted to acquiesce in his policy without
being called upon to forswear Wing principles.
We are not allowed to think that his Adj
ministration should have fair trial, except
on the condition that we regard the Democratic
party as united in principle, and pure and
patriotic in its designs. We submit that
our independent support" of General PIERCE
entails upon US none of these obligations.
He extended the olive branch, and the con-
sentative Whigs-the Republic included-ac-
cepted it in good faith. They are not there
fore to vote themselves dead or to applaud the
antics of the Union. Their friendliness to the
President is not reason for submitting in ST.
lence to the transparent trickery of writers
who, under the guise Of organship, are doing
their utmost to fan the fame Of opposition, and
to fling obstacles in the path Of him whom they
profess to sustain. We predict that unless great
and an early change occurs in this regard the
President will supplicate for deliverance from
the advocacy of the Union.
From tie Buffalo Commercial Advertiser. Apr;l4.
Funeral Of Mrs. Fillmore.
The last sad duties to the remains of the la
mented Mrs. FILLMORE were suitably per-
formed on Saturday afternoon. There was a
very large attendance OF citizens, all of whom
manifested the deepest sympathy with the late
President in his great bereavement An exchange
feelingly and beautifully remarks that the bril-
liant and successful public career of Mr. Fillmore
in his Office of Chief Magistrate OF the Republic,
has been overshadowed at it's close BY the most
touching of domestic caiamities His civic donors
have been severely balanced by visitation that
has desolated his Preside, and swept away the
crown and ornament of his home. Offers of sym.
pathy, and words of coincidence, though appro-
pirate on such occasions, may be in vain expected
to heal the wounds of the bosom which have been
caused by this domestic bereavement. The sufferer
will undoubtedly bear his misfortune like man,
but we are sure he feels it like man. Can we
fail to remark, though do so in no superstitous
frame of mind, that the arrows of death have been
aiernd at the White House with pertinacity al
most indicative Of fatality connected with those
who dwell there. General Jackson's wife, Gene.
raj Harrison, Mr.. Tyler's wife, and General Tay.
lor, were all summoned to the tomb while inmates
of the Presidential mansion. President Polk sur
vived his residence there but a short time. Mrs.
Fillmore still shorter. The present incumbent
even while the great voice of the nation, calling
him to his exalted post, had hardly died away
upon his ear-was struck with the heart rending
domestic tragedy, which Frustrated his dearest
hopes, and carried mourning TO every heart in the
nation. These occurrences, surely, must sober
our views of what are esteemed the brilliant and
aliuring objects of human ambition, and teach us
that rank and honors, and exalted position among
men, cannot gain us dispensation from that in
exorable law of the universe which balances the
good and evil of this life with stern and rigid
impartiality.