The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-01-29

uniS Tue oehdte unul monday.
HOUSE RsrREsEsrArHEs-This being objection
day. the House were engaged upon private business and
many private bills were duly passed.
The Ropablic.-Its Wall and its Consultations.
IL IS no long time since neighbor OF the especial
organ was content to give attention TO his own
business by doing what in him lay to keep the wing
party IN existence ii il could be kept IN power
But since the people have signay repudlaed wing
politics. the Republic has given lis own party matters
the go-by with almost much facility as IT displayed
in abandoning the Fillmore wing interest. and DOMINIC
the harness OF Sewardism, after the wing nomination
The Republics for its course has amusing
simplicity 1--WE are" tsays. " for the largest liberty in
all these things" "We not naisposed TO respect the
morbid fances absurd caprces oil anybody" The Re-
pucs critic could have said the thing better
II has asserted for itself. and exemped in its course.
very "lage liberty" of political regeneration. and now
brazens it out with still larger "bery" OF professional
impudence II has thrown off its formal commitment TO
all that claimed be national in the wing party, by way
OF showing its respect for those "morbid fances" and
people have just trampled down dangerous to the
peace OF the country and now its defence is that it
claims the 'larges liberty in all these things leaving
The obvious answer to all this is that the common
OF the community" has already taken efectual
lion IN the PREMISES and swep, the Republic and party.
and the tergversatons which il has pracsed, and the
morbid fances 1t has respected all summarly out Of the
path of the renewed peace AMI the advancing prosperity
OF the country
That an opponent in slch prelicament should rec
ommend resignation to u.s. and talk about forbear
ance" towards us, is ludicrous enough; and the
absurdy OF such language not lessened by its spec
fcation of Mr.. Marshall's -considered and expur
gated harasgue in the House, and NJ George San
der's rawlings in his Democratic RsvtW as its main
"evidences" of 'misforunes." We have already
taken all the notice deem necessary OF Mr. Mar
shalps indscreton. and do not propose to aid the
Democratic Review its owner in its manifest effort to
gain notorety by including in assault upon
what is most respected aud honored in the democratic
party To us such assaults advantage rather than
injury. We have yet to learn that they work any
serious damage the democratic party to its chosen
head.
But in the Republics capacious and most laughabe
commiseration, the Washington Unoa only bu, the
whole triumphant democracy OF the country. now adj
vancing TO take by popular reclamation all the high
places OF power in the land, is embraced The especial
organ thrusis out lis front Of brass and It's tongue OF
from under the avalanche of popular condemnation
which has fallen upon itself and lis party to hoo, at the
idea that 'the shapeess, thing called democratic
unity really possesses any vitality" Well, then. wha,
shall be said of the vitality" OF that whiggery-taking
by turns all OF "shapes" and "seen" too long for
its own credit saiety-whch this sane democratic
unity" has had both vitality" and vigor enough TO
mary eject from power everywhere and lrampe under
foo,'
But the Rsptiblic will not learn. II persists that
amid defeat and ruin it will still in melancholy mood
chant over and over again all the OF its old war
song II tells us:
When occasions presented shall again array
conclusive proof. that the democracy of New York
shivered pieces-ha the democracy Georgia
more in twan-and that in louisiana, as elsewhere,
the struggle for the spells is producing elimination and
elimination TO extent that must be fatal"
We heard all this BEFORE and while the presidential
canvass went Then, too, the Especial organ"
boosted conclusive proof" OF coming whg victory
that the democracy of New York shivered in
pieces" that the democracy OF Georgia rent in
twain" and that IN the democratic ranks OF Louisiana
there was fatal" quarrel. But in all these Slates
swiftly, like an armed man, unexampled dem
ocratic trumph--by near thirty thousand in New
York. and near twenty thousand in Georgia, and
by overwhelming and irrecoverable whig defeat in
Louisiana-,o confound il not TO silence the false
prophe, in the midst OF his predictions Before
the shifting OF this same " democratic unity
such as il was and is-bultress and baement OF the
wing power everywhere went down, and the party en-
lrenched in "al the offices and all the principles"
found 10 a single day its bargain platform yword
OF political Ieproach, its chosen standard bearer
ument Of political defeat, il. principles detected cheat,
and wors, OF ALL its scepre OF office" turned to ashes
in its grasp Nor was this all What best in the
wing ranks all through the country, and what had been
most Landed by the Republic, scarce dssembed s
placency or conentnent the catastrophe and left the
special organ" which had sold oat its convictions in
order to put on the livery of Sewardism to digest
as il best might the agones OF defeat in which all
was lost but the honor" which the first blow struck by
il in the battle had already branded treachery and
shame
In such plight the Republic may well turn from s own
dreary prospects to carp and cav al and the de-
mocracy lie, il repeat its parrot-note OF Buffalo and
" Nashville" Let il ring again all its old changes
upon 'abolitonism," "secessonsm," and "disunion y
Let repeat again and again, that of these things and
not OF the united democracy, the President elect is "thc