The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-03-31


.4rgats of Monday, needs no comment to poin
out lis significance. 1t affords the best evil
dence that can be desired in support of the
opinions uniformly expressed in this journal ir
reference to the character of the existing De-
mocratie organization in New York; and indi.
rectly exposes with crushing effect the empti
ness of the Fluctuations in which the Union i,
apt to indulge. With this testimony of the
.argus on record, the Union will have difficulty
In proving that the factions of the Democrat,
are absorbed in glorious and united whole
Unless it impugn the veracity Of the triee
Hard shell organ, it will be constrained to ad
NIT that the prospect of Democratic unitv If
the Empire State has seldom been. more slim
than it is at the present moment.
In reply to the inquiry, Have we Free
solers among us % the .Argus says:
cit involves the question whether the limited
Democracy of New York'-so caIled-are res,,,,
with the great Democratic brotherhood of The
Union on the vital question of the Compromise
Misunderstanding the Fugitive act-and can
and will sustain, harmoniously and unitedlv. the
President of the United States and his Inaueural
PLATFORM in every inch of it's length and breadth
and thickness? Can this reunited party'-which,
since it became such, has never yet in State con.
Ventlon named the words Compromise or sFugi.
tive act-whlch never did more than scongratu.
late the country on the settlement of certain
disturbing questions which had agitated these
states-which no longe ago than September, Isl
olstnctiy refused to pledge itself as a party to
discourage renewal OF the slavery agitation and
anhare tn md OIL n,
IN their full force and vigor-we repeat, can the
united Democracy of New York; thus deicately
constituted in reference to these great and essen
tial measures of conciiiation and peace. present
an unbroken front, in line with their brethren Of
the Confederacy, in support of the Inaugural doc
trlnes OF President Pierce? Or have we Freesolers
among us-Van Buren, and Adams men in AS
Hale men, at heart and in principle, in '52-aliens
now from the fold to which they pretend to be-
long-and ready, in 56 in 49, to raise the stand
ard OF revolt, and, in alliance with the pestilent
Abolition faction, to CO operate with the Whigs
against the Democracy of the State and nation?
"We need not remind such as are at all CONVEX
SAINT with the circumstances under which the Free
soil renegades were brought to cooperate in '49
with the Democratic party in the support of the
same State ticket, that they were not required
then even to recant their heresies, or to do more
than to coalesce with the Democracy in joint
effort to elect four Democrats and four Freesoers
to office, and that by the implied, if not expressed
terms of the bargain, they were to stand on their
own Buffalo platform, and to keep their black flag
Tying all through the canvass-as they did. Nor
need we remind any such that, from that day to
this, these abohtionzed apostates from the Demo-
cratic party have never yet struck their flag or
abandoned their platform in good faith. That
during the recent Presidential canvass their CO.
operation with the Democracy did not extend be-
yond the support of the candidates; that even in
dared to be, under the restraints imposed bv tSss
two hostages for their good behavior on the State
ticket; and that as respects the platform of the
Democratic National Convention, these partisans,
through their old leaders and presses. openly and
Indignantly repudiated its great and essential
doctrines and principles. We allude to its recog-
milton OF the Compromise measures as a finality
and it's pledges to sustain them as an entirety.
Everybody soho KNOBS anything Of the peculiari-
t'es Of the United Democratic party Of Ne,c York;
'sfaWiar spi the fact that so antagonistic are the