The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-01-28

tee, and subsequently passed.
There are at least two useful arts which our
neighbor the Union should strive to acquire
without delay. It should learn to abstain from
prescribing duties for contemporaries over
whom it has no control; and to bear with re-
signation if not good temper the evils incident
to its own position. When our neighbor has
mastered these elementary branches of practi-
cal knowledge, it will not assume the right to
prescribe topics for others editorials; nor will
it permit its equanimity to be disturbed because
the topics chosen by others do not harmonic
with the delusion to which it would fam give
color and consistency.
The Union is particularly troubled by our
endeayors to chronicle Democratic facts and
fancies as they arise. 1t admires, initiates,
and would inculcate the ostrich instinct, in it's
dealings with the stern realities of the passing
hour. 1t believes that there is less harm in
crying "peace" when there is no peace, than
in proclaiming the presence of difficulties
though at its own door. 1t insists that news
papers have no right to print intelligence that
is calculated to mar the digestion of its friends
1t is angry because we collate from Democra-
tic sources evidence of dissension in the Demo-
cratic ranks, North and South, and because we
borrow from Democratic mouths non-c ompli-
mentary phrases applied by them to Democra-
tic leaders. Il has cheated itself into convic-
ton that the shapeless, unseen thing yclept
Democratic unity really possesses some vitali-
ty, and is entitled to the servile veneration of
every citizen.
We are not indisposed to respect the morbid
fancies OF absurd caprices of anybody. We
would not hang ANDREW JACKSON DAVIS for
pretending to reveal the mysteries of the un-
seen worId-or the Misses Fox, who presume
to bring the dead from their graves to knock
on tables-or Elder ORsoN PRATT for imapin-
ing that the Book of Mormon is aught but an
imposture; and we will not make the Union
an exception because it persists in proclaiming
the unity Of its party. We are for the largest
liberty in all of these things; leaving the COM
mon sense of the community to operate as the
corrector. But we are not therefore bound to
acquiesce in nonsensical decisions, or to pre-
serve solemn silence whilst others pro-
pagate them. We are not to be dumb
that the Union may the better preach, or
false that its preaching may pass uncontra-
dicted. And SO, despite Of all its protestations,
we mean to do just as we have done When
occasions are presented, we shall again array
conclusive proofs that the Democracy of New
York are shivered to pieces-that the Democ-
racy of Georgia are once more rent in twain
and that in Louisiana, as elsewhere, the strug-
gle for the spoils is producing elimination and
recrimination to an extent that must be fatal.
And reasoning from data like this, it is proba-
BILE that we shall again point out the preponde-
rance of sectional elements in the party, and
the impossibility of constructing Cabinet
which can command all sections as its support
ers. Perhaps the Union will vince in view
of the process, as it has WINGED hitherto. Per-
haps the Union never will become reaconciled
to the skinning which it is fated to undergo.
Perhaps it will still grow furious when we
print news not to its taste, and assail us with
out stint when we indicate the purport or the
tendency of what others say. Well, we are
not our neighbours keeper, and decline to be
for its whims. If nothing else will
serve, it must bury its head yet deeper in the
sand. In that art it is proficient already.
Yesterdays Union alludes to our alleged
"distresses," and takes credit for It's generous
forbearance" in the circumstances; afterwards
transferring an article from the Rochester
Democrat in reply to former structures of this
journal. We told the Union some days ago, and
we tell it now, that were we as ssdistressedo
as it would have us to be we should look to
other quarters for sympathy. We do not need
any, and we know that it has none to spare.
It is worried by its own adherents, and merits
all the pity and ssforbearance" it can muster.
Its necessities in this regard are no secret.
Mr. MARSHALL blazoned them the other day
on the floor of Congress.
The New York Erening Post and it's cola
borers Of the Freesoil- Democratic stamp have
made merry over them and multiplied them.
The Southern Rights press, without an ex-
ception, has done the same; and both at this
repudiate it as an organ. 1t tried fl
clustering until it called forth the crushing
condemnation Of the New York journal Of
Commerce; and now that it echoes General
CAss's conservatism, it is derided and despised
BY Young America. Was ever journal so tried
before? Why our "distresses'' are trifling in
comparison. They emanate from faction
whose good will we have never sought and
whose cooperation we would now refuse. But