The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-03-30


Monday of December next.
e, There was an Executive session. ~
We are not aware that it is any part of our
duty to enable the Union to comprehend dis
tnctlons that are patent to everybody else.
we state our views when necessity for
stating them arises; we try to meet objections
when they are pertinent and Ineligible but
we cannot undertake to amend our contempo-
rary's capacity, or to answer the same obiec-
tons more than once.
The Union is unable to discover how .the
President, nominated and elected as Demo-
cract," has managed to discard partisan
ground without changing his Democracy" 1t
does not occur to our contemporary that there
are at this moment Bipartisan grounds" amongst
the Democracy. the occupancy of any one OF
which would have involved an attitude on
the part of General PIERCE different from
that in which he stands Had he stu
died the wishes of. his Barnburning friends,
his endorsement Of the Compromise would
have been less distinct and emphatic. Had
ne enlisted under the banner raised by Judge
DOUGLAS and Admiral SANDERS, he would have
paused long ere he pledged himself to maintain
national honor as the paramount consideration in
our foreign intercourse. Had he allied himself
with the partisans of extreme Southern Rights
Democracy, he would not have lauded the
Union OF the States as prime source of their
glory, to be upheld at any and every cost.
Had he listened to the teachings of the Union,
he would not have couched his Inaugural in
terms that cast no reproach, convey no idle boast,
and serve in no particular to revive the heart
burnngs of the canvass. In all these instances it
was open to the President to take the partisan or
the national ground He elected to take the latter:
he proclaimed his choice in phrases that admit
of no equivocation; and we think that the
Union pays to him and to his party doubtful
compliment when it AYERS that he must either
still be partisan or cease to be Democratic.
We are told that this view is self-contradic-
tory on our part because up to November last
we maintained that General PIERCE was the
"creation and choice" of factions. We wrote
then according to understood facts. We said
nothing then without giving reasons for what
we said. We are not ashamed of our record in
that or any other particular, and know of no.
thing in it that should hinder us from dealing
with General PIERCE now as he now shows
himself to be. He has repudiated the distinctive
features Of every one of the Democratic fac
tions; and we will not adopt the policy of the
fjnj01 hu orro11iprr with bipo III -
antecedents are not to our fancy. 1t is enough
for US to know that his first act as President
was to plant himself on ground already occu-
pied in common by Compromise Democrats
and Compromise Wings; and that as yet he
has not manifested any disposition to aban-
don it.
Once more, then, we beg to assure the
Union that we have not changed our politics
and do not intend to change them; but that we
nevertheless intend to give to the President an
Independent support, so long as he adheres to
the course which he voluntarily and clearly
marked out for himself in his Inaugural. 1t is
scarcely necessary to add that our " indepen-
dent suPport'' imposes upon us no obligation to
spare the Union, or to be responsible for the
consequences of its obliquity, physical or moral.
The Buffalo Republic complains that we
have done injustice to it and to its friends, the
Barnburners and Freesoilers of Western New
York; though in what precise respect we are at
loss to discover. We cited the declaration Of
our Buffalo contemporary against the constitu-
of L..
declaration is repeated. We showed that that
journal condemned as s' factious and incen-
diary'' the resolutions introduced into the New
Y >rk Legislature, and the dennnciation is re-
nrodncon not retracted.
10 obviate any further a." uSa''on On tne
ground OF mlsrepresenting our namesake. we
mink 1t best to say that in the Impression of
the 10th instant it again characteristics Mr.
iASLoR>s movement as an ''incendiary attempt
to make mischief" in the Democratic party. and
1t lnvokes "the apprehension of all honorable
men" upon his head in consequence. 1t objects
that Mr.. Taylor is necessarily wrong, and the
opposition to him necessarily right, because this
journal and another Wing, the Buffalo Con,
n'erciaI .advertiser, in this matter occupy COM
mon ground with DICKINSON journals-the
Albany .Argus and the Rochester .Advert;ser
And, finally, it reiterates its intention to perse
we're in its opposition to the Compromise mea-
sures, without regard to the influence of its
tactics upon the party or the Administration.
emo such consideration" it says, as possible
"Proscription. by the President" "will extort
from us recantation of sentiments which we
honestly entertain;" and it proceeds thus:
'sWe should be pleased to nave patronage from
the Government; who would not? And if it NAV
be had ,oithout stultfying osrselues by endorsing
the constitutionaity Of the Fugitive SIave lao, we
will receive 1t thankfully. But, inasmuch as we
can find nothing In the Constitution which autho.
rizes legislation by Congress on that subject, we
believe all the laws that Congress ever enacted in
relation to it ,oere sDitho constitutional AUTHORIZE
So believing, we cannot be compelled, either by
the Albany argus or by its resolution mover, Mr..
Taylor, or by any other influence or for any con-
sideration, to misrepresent ourselves that sub
ject.'' H.
There is sincerity in the avowal, in spite of
its heresies- sincerity which stands in favor
able contrast to the trickery of the Albany At