The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-03-24

Executive session the Senate adjourned.
The Union has chosen singular course by
which to demonstrate its devotion to the Ad
ministration. 1t began by imputing to the
PRESIDENT sentiments not only not to be found
in his Inaugural but at variance with the spirit
which ,pervaded it; and now our contemporary
carps at the Wing press and party for not as
,suming an attitude of open hostility to the
Executive. The Union has been SO accus-
toned to shouting and shooting at random, in
time and out of time, without regard to proba-
bilities prophecies, or facts, that it is unable
to comprehend why Wing journals should not
take up and continue its unreasoning howl. If
there be no assailants, our contemporary i'm
AGNES, it will have no opportunity of benefit
ing or edifying-or amusing-General PIERCE
by lis valorous management of the defence.
Organising will not be necessary, and the
Union will expire from sheer idleness. 1t
may be doubted, perhaps, whether General
PIERCE has not less to apprehend from the
extinction of the organs vocation than from the
continued exercise of its strange and injudicious
tactics.
In its yesterdays impression the Union
refers halfdeploringly, half-exultingly to the
acquiescence of Wing journals in the policy of
General PIERCE, so far as his views have
been developed. But it is not alleged that the
acquescence of Wings in this regard proceeds
upon an abandonment of principle on their
part. They find that upon the great questions
that were touched upon in the Inaugural, they
and General PIERCE are as one. They appre-
ciate the liberality which led him to commence
his official career by practical reputation of
bitter partisanship, and they are ready in re-
turn to render him support in the execution of
policy that is consonant with the interests of
the country. They feel that if he can afford
to assume Office without reference to the
strife which preceded his attainment of it,
they also can without difficulty or dishonor
meet him on the broad platform of principle.
and sustain him in carrying it into full opera
ton. He has not gone back to the deluge for
party cries and long forgotten party issues, and
they are not disposed to trample upon his ex-
ample. In all this, however, there is nothing
that can warrant the Union in speaking
piteously or CONTEMPORARY of what it
is pleased to call 'sthe predicament of the
opposition" There is nothing in this
that implies Indifference to principle on the
part Of the Wings, or that can Justify a
press which desires to be regarded as an organ
gifts party in endeavoring by insult to drive
them into position antagonistic to the Admin
istration. The Wings have not changed their
ground in any respect; and neither party nor
national interests require them to change that
they may the better wage war of opposition
to the PRESIDENT. If at any future time his
policy shall differ from that propounded in his
Inaugural, the Union will find Wing journals
doing their duty without any fear of its mimic
thunder. Till then they are prepared to CO.
operate with him to the extent of their ability;
thankful, meanwhile, that the PRESIDENT gives
no aid or comfort to the narrow and factious
spirit which finds vent through the editorials of
our contemporary.
Having first thrown up its cap at what it
processes to consider the final rout Of the
Wings, the Union next manages to discover
that Wing journals are, after all, grumbling
"They show in relations to the
tnaugural-our contemporary observes" no
common sentiment, except a disposition as
Wigs to oppose or censure the Democratic
Administration" What Wing presses, we
ask, are covered by this remark? In what
state and in what manner have ''they" evinced
this disposition to oppose or censure? We ask
for information; for, SO far as our knowledge ex-
tends, the statement is the opposite of true.
Surely the Union does not comprise in its
category Of 1.-THE Wing press" such journals
as the New York Epening Post and Albany
sattas, which counsel the rejection of Mr..
IAYLoR's compromise resolutions or the
Buffalo Republic, which announces it's con
tinued antagonism to the Fugitive Slave law;
or the Charleston Mercury, which derided
somewhat numerically the highfalutin strain
in which the Union commenced the work of
organship. Of these papers the Post, Atlas,
and Buffalo Republic are, according to the
Democrat, opposed to the Admins
tratlon on vital question; but all happen to
De democratic.
The almost universal favor with which
the selection Of the new Cabinet has been re
ceived is another marvel to the Union, and
one which it parades as evidence of the sad
: predlcament of the opposition" Really our
must be hard pressed for wonders
Or 1t would not have bounced upon so obvious |
2 bagatelle. The "favor" is not attributable to
any thing like unbounded confidence in the men |
Of whom the Cabinet is composed. Several of
them yet to be tried, and certainly of othersp
dividually there can be no unqualified approval.
The favor they have experienced springs from |
J conviction that General PIERCE will not per-
nit the solemn purposes Of his Inaugural to be |
thwarted by his counsellors. He has manfully |
and periodically pledged himself to conserve
tive principles; and we have faith that his
policy will be governed by those principles and |
not by the sssoft sheP' or secessionist afinities
Of any member of his Cabinet.