The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-05-06

WASHINGTON:
FRIDAY MORNING. MAYS. 1853.


N'o""y 0ou'"o@, altnough duly informed
mat the editor OF this paper was i'll and a5sent.
has chosen to indul 70 in certain imputations
upon his character and motives which require
a reply.
The vindication of this gentleman will come
win more propriety from an impartial pen than
from his own. He might not deign to defend
himself against an assailant the malignity of
whose assaults is always carefully graduated
by the personal impunity with which they can
be INDUCED. -,
The Journal, like other Abolition prints.
seems offended that this paper should manifest
an Independence Of party control Does the
Journal expect to organize the Wing party on
the basis Of anti slavery2 Does it, therefore,
expect that every opinion expressed by Wing
paper shall first receive Freesol primatur
before it may be legally circulated2
The Journal specifically charges the Repub-
lie with desire to support the Administration
In order that it may receive some political re-
| ward at its hands. We have shown that such
charge is improbable, because the Admins
tration would prefer to reward its own friends
1t has, moreover, become very apparent that
| there are many more Democratic mouths than
there are morsels with which to fill them.
When we see unhappy families deprived of
support for the crime of mere opinion in hus-
band or father, whose official duty it has been
to add column of figures or to close door,
in what rational hope of reward could journal
indulge, which was if not able yet certainly
an open opponent OF the party in pc wer2
But although any just tribunal would dis
miss at once The charge of purpose so i'm
moral, pursued by a conduct 80 absurd. it can
be shown that the imputations Of the Journa
are contradicted by circumstances incapable Of
perversion.
The Republic was established under the
control of its present editor, with an associate
we'll known for ability and honor 1t was in
tended to aid in maintaining the Unon-guar-
anteeing the acknowledged rights of the States
and promote the official reformation n the Gov
eminent. Few contributed more than the
editors of the Republic to the election of Gen.
eral TAYLOR, and none stood higher in bis
confidence.
1t is matter of undisputed history that GER
tain Indications convinced the editors of the
Republic that the division of the Wing party
to which the Albany Journal belongs was
endeavoring surrepttiously to obtain the con-
troll OF the administration, with the design of
bringing In succession of those politicians
known as Freesoilers. There were also GER
tain imputations upon Cabinet officer which
the editors of the Republic did not think
proper to defend.
10 consequence of their disapproval Of the
acts and tendencies of the administration, the
editors withdrew from their own paper. then
the accredited organ of the Government SO
far from seeking to embarrass the administra-
ton, they submitted their property to be con-
Quoted by others. 1t was thus that the present
editor abandoned all hope of reward from those
whom he had offended, surrendered the very
position which it is now alleged he would make
unworthy sacrifices TO regain, and incurred an
hostility which has been manifested Alike by the
power of party and the paragraphs of its I'M
scrupulous followers.
An unexpected change restored the relations
Of the present editor to the administration.
He then resumed the control of the Re
pubic, and 1t became his daty to cooperate
with and represent those who stood by the
Constitution in the memorable conflict of 1850
A native of the North, he fell under the ban of
those fanatics and political spectators who I'M
happily infest that country, and who would
have dissolved the Union but for the resistance
then and thus offered to their infamous designs
1t was obviCss that a mercenary politician
would have avoided strife in which even the
humblest soldier of the Constitution was regis
tered for vengeance, oowould have taken that
side on which sectional prejudice would have
provided for his future qualification.
The motives of the editors and proprietors
of the Republic have been indicated in the
manner We have related; nor did it any time
receive any thing at the hands of power or
party that it cannot show to have been honest
ly earned. Its choice for the Presidential sue
cession was consistent with its principles. 1t
advocated the denomination of MIR. FILLMORE,
because he had given proof of firmness and
patriotism. IL advocated the nomination of the
Lion of the North and the Bulwark of the
Constitution, because, with a greater than Ro-
uldn nelOlSIN, ne mao CLOSED Win Tue HjHOlS vi
long life chasm that threatened to divide
his country. Neither of these men was, how
ever, chosen; and, with fidelity to the Wing
party which should at least protect it from the
assaults of its members, the Republic entered
the last campaign in support of the representa-
| tive chosen to bear the banner of Wing prin-
ciples.
~
General Scott was presented to the conven-
ton by many good Wings as the only candi-'
date capable of uniting the party. His own
character and declarations satisfied the Rspub
Tic that, whilst he would respect the enants
of the Constitution and maintain the Compro-
mise, he alone could receive the support of the
Albany Journal and its allies, without thereby
committing himself to their pernicious doctrines.
This conviction the Republic endeavored to
impress upon others. But the Jealous advo-
cacy of the Abolitionists and enemies of the Com
promise blghted the aurels of that hero-im-
peached his good name-neutralized the inval-
liable services ne had rendered the county
| and cost him the yotea of thousands u ho Iook ed