The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-03-23

| Danger In the distance. The course NJ that
journal in the premises is the more worthy of
notice because it is well understood to he the
MARCY journal, and was long supposed to be
Barnburning organ in consequence of the zeal
with which it pressed that genteman's claims
to seat in the Cabinet. We must do our con-
temporary the justice to say that its partlalty
to and supposed connexion with the Secretary
of State have not hindered it from prompt and
direct support Of Mr.. TAYLoR's Compromise
resolutions. Its action in this regard appears
to have provoked the ire of some of Mr.. MAJ
cY's friends; for in its impression of Monday it
acknowledges the receipt of "several letters of
more or less pungent quality" touching this
matter-some of them every condemnatory.
| while others are Sc fired up to somewhat
threatening pitch" Thereupon our contep-
porary vows that it will adhere to the Compro-
mise supporters of the Inaugural, and proceeds
| to read the Democratic obstructives lesson on
the sin of abandoning principle for the sake of
Office. We take the following passages from
its article, only promising, further, that the
facts they necessarily imply confirm all that
has been said in relation to the corrupt motives
which have prompted at least one section of
the united and harmonious" Democracy of
New York:
"We can in no degree go back from our posi-
ton. The time has come when it is our duty to
take higher ground than that of union for the
sake Of office. There the interests of our COM
mon country, the integrity and efficiency of the
Administration, and the honor of our party-these
are altogether higher considerations than union
FOR the sake Of office. The most reckless and most
dangerous men in the world will unite for spoils-
1t ID the great social principle of thieves robbers
and banditti. What we meant by the
union of the party was a union for the sake of
principle. We thought that it was to re establish
the unity and power ofthe Democratic party We
believed that those who had gone astray had come
back to work, in g,od faith for the principles of
their first political love. Their presence on the
platform, for any other motive, could do Us no
good, but infinite harm. We believed them honest,
and we believe them STILL SO far as the great
body of the voters lie concerned But qDe do kno,u
that certain of the politcians-of those who rather
reign in hell than in heaven'-have been,
euer since the election, pursuing course aUhich rosrs
something than doubt upon their intentions in
relation to certain principles Of the platform
tchich the administration stands. We are
certain that if this management does not
stop now, the old feeling will creep back into
the ranks of the people again, and the Ad-
mnstraton in this State will be crippled. =
We beseech you, gentlemen OF the AS.
sembly, to think again before you take step that
will be fatal to you, and ruinous to the party in
this State. Do you intend to bring
the disgrace upon the Administration of
General Pierce' Say mo-and let the past be as
nothing. But if you refuse to do this, your acts
will be construed into reserved hostility to the
spirit and principles of the Administration. 1t
will look as though you united with US only for
the sake of ofhce-a kind of union that brings
with it the seeds of inevitable disrupture and
decay. If the party in this State is not united
now, it never will be; and if it is united now, it
must be on the platform defined in the Presi.
dents address. Union any other ground is
impossible And to dodge this ground will be
to chow that you are not sound points that
vital to the Administration
We weary of tricks, and will go further
and say that we weary of tricks!ers. The whole
head is sick, and the whole heart is faint with this
reckless, unprinciped, damnabIe scramble for
office We hate the mock-auction system of poll
tics, and we shall not to tear off the mask
from it, whenever, wherever, and among whomso-
ever find it. We believe with the President
that a claim for office is ,chot the people of re-
public should neoer recognise And any party
union which is based higher principles than
love of Office will be to give way, and let fall
to the ground whatever hope is built upon it. IF
gentlemen in the Assembly insist that they wish
particularly to endorse other points of the Presi-
dents address, well as those named in Mr.. Tay-
lor's resolution, presume that the honorable
member from New York will have no objection, so
there is direct and special endorsement of those
particular points specified by him. Recent events
in this State render it udicious and safe to have an
expression on these points particularly, and then
cannot be lodged by cunning proposition to s,oal.
Io,p the ,chole, ,oithout digesing any part of it,"
The Post and Alias will comprehend the full
significance of these closing words. They set
this " cunning proposition" on foot, and may
we'll feel mortified that its nature is detected
by those whom it was intended to delude.
The Buffalo Republic had not reached New
York when the editor of the Democrat penned
his reputation of the hucksters and tricksters
of his party; or he would have seen that the
precise course which he has designated as fatal
to the local interests of the Democracy, and in
sulting and injurious to the Administration, has
been actually decided upon by the leaders of
the Freesoil wing.
There is mischief, if not fun, ahead.
The Monroe doctrine, as historically traced