The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-02-16
From tie Nesc York 7yibvns.
cne Aepablic, tho Tribune, and the WING

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Ane Aepablic, tho Tribune, and the Whi(
i ane nxpssotse " ashington) lately saw fit to ex
E nope that General Pierce would appoint t.
not hsonss !. no member Of bis own party who die
isagac!y evinced in this counsel (assuming that i
~ sneere) was 20 exactly of a piece with tn,
;eI services to the Wing party during tn,
r.. !. ~ eAlsIence that we could not but hope
that recent rumors Of negotiation for the sale o
that journal were well founded, and that it wa,
about to transfer Its allegiance to the ramnan
,Democracy,' IN which case we should even We
Lparty-whereupon the Republic to the Tribune thu
| discourseth:
"We are quite at loss to know how to treat GU
aniable contemporary. 1t is impossible to discus
the above paragraph in the temper in which it wa
written, for it would betray into the use of Ian
guage that would better become the columns o
the Tribune than our own. There is propriety
however, in our taking some notice of it, not ST
much on our own account as on account of th,
Wings who agree with US in our opinions, ane
with whom we shall continue to act in concert
"The exultation Of the Tribune over the antici
pated demise Of the Republic is natural but prema
ture. 1t is shared with our neighbor of the Union
Locofocoism and political Abolitonisn both rejoice
over an event which is as likely to happen as the
adoption by THE WIG party of the chronic ab.
surdites of the Tribune. If party is to be built
up and maintained ON Fourierism, Mesmerisn
Maine Liquor laws, Spiritual Rappings, Kossuth-
lem, Socialism, Abolitonism, and forty other isms
that figure in the columns of the Tribune, those
who are addicted to such pursuits may march un
der the Iribune's flag; we have no disposition to
| mix with any such companions.
owe deny the right of the Iribune-a journal
which reflects merely the idiosyncraces ofite lead.
ing conductor, and which is about half crazy on
many of the subjects it undertakes to discuss
assume to speak for the sWhig party 1t may
speak authoritatively for the Abolitionists. But
for the Wing party of which Mr. Clay and MIR.
Webster were SO long the pre- eminent leaders, and
in which Mr.. Crittenden and Mr.. Everett still
| represent the views and feelings of Kentucky and
Massachusetts; for the Wing party which has rail-
lied round and sustained a Wing Administrator
as patriotic and incorrupt as ever presided over
Republic; for such party the Tribune has no right
to appear as an exponent or representative.
'sFor the sake of the country we do hone that
no Disunonists will be called to the Cabinet of
General Pierce We are not surprised that the
Tribune differs with That journal would be
pleased to see an entire Cabinet of Disunionists
because its hostility to slavery ia stronger than its
love OF the Union and the Constitution 1t sym.
Pathizes with the Fire-eaters and Resistance men
OF the South, and makes common cause with the
conspirators who met at Nashville to plot the dis.
solution of the Union.
"Ihe Tribune and its friends have had their own
way In one Presidential campaign. They began
with doing their best to Willy and break down
wing Administration. They habitually assaied,
with the coarsest vituperation a Wing President
and all Wings who preferred following the lead of
Mr.. Clay, Mr. Webster, and Mr.. Fillmore, to that
OF the fanatics who proclaimed that slavery was to
be abolished sover the ruins of the American
Church and the American State They defeated
Mr. Fillmore and Mr. Webster at the National
Convention, and nominated their own candidate.
while they repudiated his accepted and avowed
principles.
We sustained in good faith, and to the extent of
our humble ability, the candidate of the Wing
Convention. 1t was our duty to do so, and, as far
as General Scott was concerned, we did it cordi
ally We knew him to be scholar, a statesman,
and patriot, and on those grounds advocated his
election.
lne party, however, were embarrassed North
and South, enfeebed, and finally defeated, for no
other reason than that eneral Scott was I'M iustv
believed to be under the influence of such presses
as the New York Tribune and of such politicians
as Governor Seward. This is the brief history of
the late election. Thousands of Wings staid at
home, and thousands more, and in the Northern
States, voted the Pierce ticket because General
Scott failed to purge himself seasonaby of this at
trlbuted connection. General Scott received the
electoral votes of -four States which did not vote
for him In convention and the States which claimed
the right TO make the nomination because they
could be relied upon for General Scott all voted
for General Pierce. The Tribune carried on its
part OF the campaign by splitting the PLATFORM
and by very active and strenuous efforts to alien
ate from General Scott all good citizens who be.
lieved in the wisdom and justice of the policy
which had been approved by very large MAORI
ty of the Wing Convention We apprehend that
1t lies not in the mouth of any such journal to
preach the Republic lecture political sagacty,
or to read it out of the Wing party.
s'The policy of the Republic has been, with due
latitude on minor matters, the policy of the Wing
Administration. Ii has been endorsed by two pop.
ular conventione-in the Democratic Convention
by resolutions adopted in the hurry and confusion
of closing session, and in the Wing Convention
on debate and on division in which only sixty
six delegates voted in the negative We are con-
tent with this compliment to our political saga
clty'-and we are quite prepared to part company
with all that class of politicians who like the wr-
ter in the Tribune, nothing if not Abolition
ists''
REMARKS. =" Short settlements they saw,
"make long friends;'' and we propose now to set
tie accounts deliberately and thoroughly with the
Republic and the clique for which it speaks We
have therefore printed its article entire, and will
thank 1t to let its readers see this reply
/. The Republic deliberately and wilfulIy mis- |
states the vital matterin issue between US in saw
ing, elf party is to be built up and maintained |
on Fourierism, Mesmersm, Maine Liquor laws |
Spiritual Rappings, Kossuthism,'' &c., &c. The |
editor Is perfectly aware of our lifelong and ear
nest protest against bringing these extraneous and
irrelevant matters to bear the organization and
action OF the Wing party. They have no business
there; and he who introduces them is deadly |
Toe to the success of the party il not to it's exist
snce. The Wing party was formed to accomplish |
ends and based on avowed and definite principles |
which have no bearing these topics Wing |
may favor or oppose Fourierism, Mesmerism, |
Maine Liquor lave, Kossuthism, &C., without |
making him one whit more or less a Wing; lust |
aAhe may be Presbyterian or Unitarian, Roman |
Catholic or nationalist, without at all affecting his
orthodoxy as Wing; just R. M. T. Hunter
and Horace Mann, Robert Toonlbs and Joshua R |
Giddings, were equally accounted and treated as |
hlgs until they saw fit, in obedience to their an
tagonist repulsions, to withdraw from the party
The Tribune has from first to last contended for |
the old landmarks-for the hitherto recognised
liberty to differ all questions not essential to the