Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-11-02
Number 1
The Republicans and Americans.


 that winch IS seen in the coalition that sus- 1a'ns the present majority in Massachusetts. It IS not union; that is, if the public pro- fesslons and every day confessions of Ame- rlcans and republicans are not the veriest hypocrisy that ever polluted human lips. Do not Americans, who vote with this majority, utterly repudiate and scout as antl-patriotic, the terrible war on the south that makes the basis of the republicans? Do they not say they agree with the scath Ing lebuke of this war just uttered by one of thelr own number, Commodore Stock ton? And as for the republicans, do they not utterly spuin the prescription of the Iathoilc and the foreigner that makes the oasls of the Americans? Do they not, in prlvate, absolutely exhaust the language in denounclng these doctrines? Yet here these two parties are acting together: and the monstrous product is the two vears' constitutional provision that brands the foreign born with disgrace and elevates tbe black man above the white man: and the personal liberty bills-the removal of Judges for executing the laws of Congress -the insane, suicidal, traitorous acts nulli- lying, Tn terms, the authority of Congressl Is 1t not perfectly preposterous for politi. cians making such professions, to say thev can act together without their denartino from principles that are vital and cardinal?
 The unprnclpled game of political trick sters, however triumphant here, seems not to get on smoothly elsewhere; and just now, in certain quarters, those whose antecedents predicate better things, are pouring oil of an unusual character on the political wheels. As an instance, take the organs yclept Webster whig journals of New York and Pennsylvania The manner in which these organs are begging for the mercy of unity from the ewardites-Webster's old enemy is most degrading. They are asking for a perfect unity for the next presidential campaign. Thus the New York Commer- cial Advertiser says
 '' 1t is on this ground, and not because as republicans we have any fear for the re- suits ot the State election, that we express the hope that at the republican convention there will be such selection of candidates as the rank and file of the American party can vote for, as preparatory to that more complete coalition which is political ne- cessity for 1860. It connot be asked that our cardinal principles shall be departed from, or that republicans, fit to be nomi. nated,' shall be totally discarded. But out of the number of such men that the party has, a selection might be made looking to satisfactory arrangement with our fellow oppositlonists to democracy"
 There is one thing abont that extract worth noticing: it does dot assume that there is unton but a COALITION;tom make the coalition more complete, it proposes certain z arrangement" "-or certain parceil- ing out offices; and the example of the po- liticians of Massachusetts, who have traded successfully for majority, supplies an ex- ample.
 Now, to do this effectually, these Web- ster whigs must depart from their cardinal | principles. For, among them all, can there be found one that Daniel Webster inculcat- ed more constantly than that pointing to united people and government? Was not this his impulse and his dying legacy?- Does it not run through all his utterances? Take the following as an epitome of the whole:
 "Washington could regard and did re- gard nothing as of paramount political in terest, but the integrity of the Union itself. | With a united government, well admins | tered, he saw that we had nothing to fear: and without if nothing tohope. THE SEN TIMENT IS JUST, AND ITS MoMENToUs TRUTH SHOULD soLEMNLY IMPRESS THE WHOLE CoUN- TRY. If we might regard our country as | personated in the spirit of Washington, if we might consider him as representing her, in her past renown, her present prosperity and her future career, and as in that char acter demanding of us all to account for our conduct, as political men or as private citi- | zens, how should he answer him who has ventured to talk of disunion and disrnem- berment? or hOw should he ansacer Him uho docells perpetu0lly on local interests, and t1as eoery kindling ,fame of local prejudice? Hoa0 should he amswer him acho would array State ogainst State, interest against interest, and party dgaanst porty, carless ofthe contjnaance ct Mat UNITY OF GOVERNMENT WHICH CON sT1TUTEs US ONE PEoPLE?"
 Look now-to call them to account-at the element that these whilom Webster men are ready to fall down and worship. This Webster journal has just avowed its readines to support William H. Sewal d for the Presidency! Is there in the whole country politician who has more lived and breathed and won his political being by flaming the flame of local prejudice? Is he not one who, as necessity, would array State against State? Is it not a postulate with him that sIaveholding States and free States cannot continue to live side by side? Does he not hold that the conflict is ire pressibe and must go on until one or the other goes by the board? Is supporting such politician as this, and such doctrine as this, supporting the unity of govern ment that constitutes us one people? No, no; to- do this and still ofect to live up to the cardinal principles of Webster whig, is the veriest mockery that ever insulted the understandings of an intelligent people.
 Well is 1t for the good of the country that, in the hearts of the American people. there is the grand old Washington love of united government and united people, which, when summoned, will come as the winds come when forests are rended; and such patriotic element must rebuke the unprincipled combination of Americans and | republicans that would violate the constitu. tlon and jeopardize the Union.--Boston | Post
 l A Curious Fact.
 At the time of the explosion on board of the Great Eastern, curious fact was mo-