The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-01-22

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sion the Senate adjourned till Monday.
The House Of Representatives considered
and passed bill for the relief Of DAVID
MYERLE. The message of the President of
the United States, in relation to the capture
and condemnation by the Spanish authorities,
of the barque Georgiana and the brig Susan
Loud, was read and ordered to be printed.
General Pierce and his Friends.
The New York Eveni,g Post abates not a
particle of the confidence with which it deties
the efforts of the Compromise Democrats, in
reference TO the selection of the coming Cabi-
net. 1t scouts the section Of the party repre-
scented by Messrs. CAss and CoBB as ga whole
posse of intriguers," and attributes their anx-
iety to preserve the Government from traitorous
hands to desire to ''govern by corruption, for
the wages of corruption" Noticing the ru-
mored intention of the Union Democrats to act
with Union Wings 10 the event of the forma-
ton of'a sectional administration, the Post re-
marks:
''We find this sturdy alliance, after the manner
OF their brethren in another line Of the profession,
very ready to cry Island to true man. General
Pierce, who is shrewdly suspected of being honest
we'll as full-handed at present, and not willing
to rob the kings exchequer for the benefit of Fall
staff and his crew, is bluntly told he shall not
make an administration in conformity with his
own obsolete notions of hone~ty-that he shall
shape his government to suit modern innova-
tions with the tools of other men, and surrender
his scheme of taking pure aud exalted charac-
IL
section of the country, with view to gene
raj reform OF abuses and the general salts
faction of the patriots of all parties. If he
makes such selection, it ia already announced
to him through the public prints. as well as
privately to his friends that there members of
the Senate prepared to pounce down unon his
council and Gust the very men whom it has been
intimated he would prefer for their ability and
probity. We do not deprecate the issue they
would thus make with the new President They
would continue and aggravate the disease of the
Government, tending to render il prey TO vul
lures. He would arrest them If they should at
tempt to kill off some Of the best men Of the Re
public, the people would be very apt to understand
the motive, and our past history shows they know
we'll how to return such blows. The great men
who may venture on such display of Senatorial
omnipotence will be apt to find that General Pierce
would be able to get without their assistance,
and the country itself might be,tempted to make
the same experiment"
General DIX is put forward by the Post as
one of the '.pure and exalted characters whom
the President elect is expected to call to his
aid; and the assertion that prominent Southern
Rights politicians will refuse to act if General
DIX be appointed, is stigmatized as "a DELHI
crate and wilful falsehood.''
We presume that the threats SO boldly pro-
mulgated, with the view Of forcing Union De.
mocrats to acquiesce in a scandalous coalition,
will fall short of the desired effect The coun-
try will be at no loss to comprehend where
charges of corruption most properly apply. The
amalgamation Of factions having no interest in
common except that which is adverse to the
public peace and veal, can deceive none. It
will bring together the extremists who have
labored to prolong sectional agitation, and to
impel it to its final and most perilous issue;
but, on the other hand, it will serve to rally
into compact and vigorous opposition all who
are not prepared to succumb to hungry and
adventures. The ordinary dis
tinctions Of party will be forgotten in the
prayer, used in MILToN's time, with slightly
different application
Help US to save our country from the paw
VI hirelIng wolves, whose conscience is their NAV.
General PIERCE will be egregiously deceived
if he permit himself to be talked into belief
that the threatened resistance to sectional
Cabinet springs only from professional poiti-
clans who would themselves suffer from such
an arrangement. Let it be but consummated
and the delusion will be quickly and perhaps
roughly dispelled. There are indications enough
now, out of Washington or Concord, to satisfy
most observers of the strength of the determi-
nation to defeat at the outset any combination
of Freesoiers and Secessionists which General
PIERCE may manage to construct. Men do
not require to be taught that thisles are not the
progenitors Of roses; and General P,ERcE may
rest assured that they will no. deem waiting
necessary to ascertain the nature of the policy
to which the political briars and thistles of the
day would certainly give birth. Both will be
summarily cut down long before harvest.
The strife already begun between the two
sections of the Democracy toreshadows the
more general struggle that must follow the
threatened course of proceeding. The Hunk
ers and Barnburners are battling with omlnous
anger in anticipation Of the app ,intment Of
General DIX, who is aptly described as san
nnrenouncing and unwashed sectipnalist." He
has counterparts in the South, and not few,
and to them there will be like resistance unless
all ordinary signs shall fail. In Georgia. where
Secessionist journals have boldly exconmuni-
Gated Governor COBB and all other Union Demo-
Gratis who refused to bow the knee to Baal, there
are indications and warnings which should lead
General PIERCE to pause in the path marked
out for him. The Marietta (Ga.) Union has
sounded timely note, which is echoed with
significant promptitude by the Athens Banner.
The latter, under the head Secession Adj
yancing, !" thus notices the position assumed by
one of the leading organs Of the Southern
Rights party.
s.We publish an article from the last Columbus
1ymes, to which we invite the readers attention
1t plain from its tone and temper that the Seces
sionists are becoming holder every day, and are
resolved pon establ ishn their cr eed n Tho hood