The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-02-05

remainder of the day was unproftably con-
sumed in parliamentary struggle between the
friends and opponents of certain bills granting
lands for railroad purposes.
A Dying Kick.
The Washington Republic, now on its last legs,
expresses the hope that Mr. Pierce will do no such
thing appoint Disunionists to his Cabinet; such
for example as New York Barnburner, or a Mis-.
sissippi State Rights All such, the Republic
Thinks should be tabooed for not having belonged
to the Union Saving party. The Wing party have
had the benefit of the Republics political sagacty
for about four years, and can now afford to spare
its services. We should be willing to contribute
something handsome towards protracting its life
through the coming administration if it will
agree to turn Locofoco, and do much mischief
for Mr.. Pierce and his party it has done for
General Taylor and the Whigs.-N. Y. Tribune
We are quite at loss to know how to treat
our amiable contemporary. 1t is impossible
to discuss the above paragraph in the temper in
which it was written, for it would betray us
into the use of language that would better be-
come the columns of the Tribune than our
own. There is propriety, however, in our
taking some notice of it, not SO much on our
own account as on account of the Wines who
agree with us in our opinions, and with whom
we shall continue to act in concert.
The exultation of the Tribune over the an
ticipated demise of the Republic is natural but
premature. 1t is shared with our neighbor of
the Union. Locofocoism and political Abel.
tionism both rejoice over an event which is as
little likely to happen as is the adoption by the
WING party of the chronic absurdities of the
Tribune. If party is to be built up and
maintained on Fourierism, Mesmerism, Maine
Liquor laws, Spiritual Rappings, Kossuthism,
Socialism, Abolitionism, and forty other isms
that figure in the columns of the Tribune,
those who are addicted to such pursuits may
march under the Iribuae's flag we have no
disposition to mix with any such companions
We deny the right of the Tribune jour-
nal which reflects merely the idiosyncracies of
its leading conductor, and which is about half
crazy on many of the subjects it undertakes to
discuss assume to speak for the ssWHIG
party" 1t may speak authoritatively for the
Abolitionsts. But for the WING party of
which Mr.. CLAY and Mr.. WEBSTER were SO
long the pre-eminent leaders, and in which
Mr.. CRITrENDEN and Mr.. EVERETT still re-
present the views and feelings of Kentucky
and Massachusetts, for the WING party which
has rallied round and sustained WHIG Ad-
ministration as patriotic and incorrupt as ever
presided over a republic; for such party the
Tribune has no right to appear as an exponent
or representative.
For the sake of the country we do hope that
no Disunionists will be called to the Cabinet of
General PIERCE. We are not surprised that
the Tribune differs with us. That journal
would be pleased to see an entire Cabinet of
Disunionists, because its hostility to slavery is
stronger than Its love of the Union and the
Constitution. 1t sympathizes with the Fire
eaters and Resistance men of the South, and
makes common cause with the conspiratOrs
who met at Nashville to plot the dissolution
Of the Union.
The Tribune and its friends have had their
own way in one Presidential campaign. They
began with doing their best to vilify and break
down a Wine administration. They habitu-
ally assailed, with the coarsest vituperation, a
WING President, and all Wires who preferred
following the lead Of Mr.. CLAY, Mr.. WEB
sTER, and Mr.. FILLMORE, to that of the fanat-
les who proclaimed that slavery was to be abol-
ished "over the ruins of the American Church
and the American State" They defeated Mr..
FILLMORE and Mr.. WEBSTER at the National
Convention, and nominated their own candi-
date, while they repudiated his accepted and
avowed principles.
We sustained in good faith and to the extent
four humble ability the candidate of the Vino
Convention. 1t was our duty to SO, and, as
far as General ScoTT was concerned, we did it
cordially. We knew him to be scholar, a
statesman, and patriot, and on those grounds
advocated his election.
The party, however, were embarrassed
North and South, enfeebled, and finally de-
feated, for no other reason than that General
ScoTr was unjustly believed to be under the
influence of such presses as the New York
Tribune, and of such politicians as Governor
SEWARD. This is the brief history of the
late election. Thousands of Wines staid at
home, and thousands more, and in the north
ern States, voted the PIERCE ticket because
General ScoTT failed to purge himself sea
sonably of this attributed connexiol. Gen
eral ScorT received the electoral votes of
four States which did not vote for him inScon-
vention, and the States which claimed the
right to make the nomination because they
6 could be relied upon for General Soorr" all
voted for General PIERCE. The Tribune
carried oni is part Of the campaign by "spit
ting on the PLATFORM" and by very active