The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-02-01
THE REPUBLICS
WASH NGTO NJ:
TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY. 1868.



The death Of the Hon. A. II. BUELL., q mem
be: Of the House Of Representatives from the
State of New York, was announced IN both
branches of Congress yesterday.
The Fire-eaters and the Barnburn
A few days since the Union was exulting
over the probability of vacating the seat of Mr..
BENJAMIN in the Senate Of the United States,
on the ground that he was foreigner. We
understand that Mr.. BENJAMIN has lived in
this country from the age of two OF three years,
and the objection Of alienage to man thus
educated under our institutions we consider in
the last degree illiberal and unjust. Though
Of foreign birth, Mr. BENJAMIN has never
denounced Mr.. WEBSTER or Mr.. CRIrTENDEN
for the want Of ssAmerican susceptbilities, y
nor held himself out as a man of more Ameri-
can feeling and as better American citizen
than Mr.. FILLMORE or Mr.. CLAY. Though
OF foreign birth, he has never sought to alien
ate from each other the two great sections
OF the republic and cast firebrands, arrows, and
death among fellow countrymeD. Though of
foreign birth, he has never been repudiated
BY his party for the expression of extreme or
treasonsble sentiments. Though Of foreign
birth, he has never been politically associated
with Dsunionists of any description, or con-
spired either at Buffalo or Nashville against
the Constitution of his adopted country.
But the Union is very much exercised by our
censure of Mr.. SouLE's speech, and charges
us with hostility to that gentleman because he
is Frenchnaan, while it has itself announced
In leader with marked satisfaction the proba-
BILE exclusion of Mr.. BENJAMIN from the Senate
because he was not born in the United States.
We never objected to Mr. SoULE's holding
seat In the Senate on the illiberal grounds as
sumed by the Union towards Mr.. BENJAMIN
1t matters not on what spot of this wide world
man is born, we welcome him to our shores
and to the enjoyment of all the liberties. privi-
leges, and advantages that we possess. But if
he reviles patriot Americans for the alleged
want of American feeling, we shall take the H.
berty of suggesting that there is lack of mo-
desty IN such assumption. If he appeals to
!" Southern Senators" with the insidous implica
ton that they must take heed lest WHIG ad
mnlsratlon betray their rights; or if he blow the
trumpet of sedition, and seek to rally malcon-
tent faction to the overthrow Of the Union and
Constitution, we shall take the liberty of say
ing that such conduct i'll becomes gentleman
who has SO largely profted by the hospitality
he would thus betray
But pray how long has it been since Mr..
SoULE insinuated himself into the tender af-
fections of the U,aion2 We remember the
day not very far remote when Mr.. SouLE and
the men who thought with him were denounc-
ed by the Union quite as bitterly as by
the Republic. Mr.. SouLE was then the
darling of the Southern Press, and Mr..
Downs was the great man of the Union.
But the Union has absorbed the Southern
Press, with its principles and its favorites,
and MIR. SoULE is now bepraised in its columns
with the most fulsome adulation. And the
same spirit which it exhibits towards the Fire
eaters and Resistance-men of the South, it
manifests in regard to the Abolitionists. These
two factions have profited of an available com
bination of circumstances to foist themselves
upon the country on the falsest pretences and
In the basest coalition that ever imposed on
nation; and the metropolitan organ of the mis-
called Democratic party, instead of repre-
senting the great Union Centre, is miserable
compound of the Southern Press and the Ma
t'onal Era-an organ Of PIERRE SouLE and
PREsToN KING.
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