The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-02-03
THE REP u BLIC.
WASHIN GTO N.
THURsDAYMoRNING FEBRUARY ;. 1858


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Congress.
In the Senate yesterday the bill for the re.
lief of General BENNET RILEY was passed
j Mr.. Downs further debated the Tehuantepec
question; and the Pacific Railroad bill was
/ further debated.
j In the House Of Representatives the Coin
age bill was considered during the morning
hour; after which, business on the Speakers
table was taken up. Pending the considera-
4 tion of the Wisconsin Railroad bill, from the
Senate, an adjournment ensued
The Democratic Party am Union OF Frag-
i ments.
We reproduce in our impression of this
morning two articles that will be read with
very great interest, as developing some Of those
seeds Of distress in the Democratic party which
have been sown in the Senate by General
CAss and Mr.. SoULE, who are represented in
the Press by the Washington Union and the
Democratic Reuisp. The latter journal goes
to the death for CUBA and SouLE. The Union,
however, raises the flag of CuBA and CAss,
and denounces buccaneers, sspirates, "plun-
derers, "marauders," and s.Jtilibtlsters," in a
manner that must be not little edifyihg to its
old readers.
| Our contemporary Of the Union expresses a
desire to see 'sepery fragment Of the Demo-
cratic party united" That union was effected
after fashion at Baltimore All the eefrag-
ments" pretended to come together on the
"platform. Did not VENABLE and PREsroN
KING shed tears together on that occasion,
fguratively or otherwise, in view Of the happy
and harmonious reunion of the Democracy?
Did not Young America and Old Fogyism EN-
brace, and swear an "undying friendship2''
Did not the Fire-eaters and the Barnburners-
one and all-protest that bygones should be
bygones, and that they would forget and for
4 give every thing that had taken place at Buf-
falo and at Nashville And what do we see
now? Abolitionists and Resistance-me may ge,
along very well together, but Young America
is running wild about the curiosity. shop Of Old
Fogyism, and makes sad smashing among
the crockery. The Union may well weep over
the fragments
That General CAss and the Union should
sympathize is natural enough, but. what omi-
nous conjunction Of fragments" brought to-
gether GEORGE SANDERS and PIERRE SoULE?
The Union says that SANDERS is no better
| than pirate, flibuster, marauder, plum
derer, and buccaneer. SouLE defends buc
caneering in the Senate But there is all
the difference in the world in their way of
doing things. SANDERS contemplates CUBA
as butcher eyes sheep. He is truculent and
savage, runs his shirt sleeve up to his shoulder
as he grasps the bloody knife, and cries "Ha-
| voco aloud in che streets. He has no DISCUSSES.
He wants CUBA forthwith. He thinks the
poor devils there ought to be put into the inn
mediate possession of all the blessings of tlibus
ter administration by force; and that he and
Law should be placed in funds out Of Mr..
MARsHALL's $10,00O,OOO appropriation, to
arm and equip the Havana and Chagres mail
steamers for this laudable enterprise. We can
see him now on the quarterback Of one of
those fine steamers, in blue jacket and duck
pants, with tarpaulln and possible pig tail,
brandishing his cutlass and looking for all the
| world like the veritable pirate of the gulf''-
an embodiment Of his own idea of Young
America. This is SANDERS. Not such is
SoULE. 9 The shepherd and the butcher, y
says SIDNEY, "may both look upon the same
sheep with pleasing conceits.o As MI, SAN
DERs is the butcher and thinks only Of putting
the knife to the0hroat of the victim, Mr..
SoULE pretends to regard the poor animal in
an Arcadian aspect, and the most he dreams of
is merely steering the fleece. He is casting
sleeps eyes at the wool, and at nothing else.
Disavowing any other design, he will pre-
scribe blccaneering pill SO well sugared and
gilded, that his patients will swallow it with
absolute pleasure. He will wrap you up
sspiraey" and .splunderv and .smarauding'' in
such dainty phrases, and set them off with
such pleasing conceits" that the ladies' in the
gallery think he means glory and grand senti-
ments, and embarrass him with bouquets in
token of their admiration. The next time he
addresses the Senate in the costume of a parlor-
man tactMs ad asague,n, we must have SANDERS
in full pratical rig alongside, so that the ladies
may understand the character Of the artists who
are to execute Mr.. SopLE's Arcadian designs. If
they are sincere in their admiration of Mr..
SoULE's sentiments, they will not be content
to send flowers to Admiral SANDERs-they
will smother him with more affectionate de-
monstrations.
The articles which we quote in another
column demonstrate the existence Of breach
in the Democratic party which will find no
Curtain spirit to close it. Neither General
CAss nor Mr.. SouLE is prepared, we apprel
bend, to leap into the chasm. Neither the
Democratic Reuiew nor the Washington Union
will propitiate peace by self sacrifice. What
then is to happen? We deem these journals Of
no great importance in themselves; but as
the opponents Of ideas entertained by large
classes of the DEMocRATre party, they fur
nish us with significant hints and suggestions
as to its condition. This party is well
described by its Washington organ as an
s union Of fragments" --of fragments that have
no element Of mutual attraction and cohesion