Fate Of Republics

Tlie Pittsburgt) Gazette of ast we. k lias some very sensible reinarles, with respect lo the evils ntlendant uponelevat:ng military chkftains to politics] pawee. The excitement got Up by the whigs in behnlf of Gen. Taylor, does not appear to have thrown the editor of the Gazette off lus balance, who seems to ihiuk ihat sotnothing more is requisito tq fit a man for the Preskicney than iho fact of hit haviug killed o few tbousand Mexicana. We make an extract f rom the Gozelie's artide ; whioh odvances scntimnts that will be regarded as cxcccding'y vulgar by those who coniend that tlio AngloSaxoti race are a superior order of beings and therefore beyond ihe reach of those ipfluences whieh have proved ihe downiall of other nations :- '; W'o ihink, with all respect and deferenceïo tho jmlgment of others, thot it be comes us fo pay somo heed to all these teachings and waruiogs of the illualrious father s of ihe Republic, U'c ihink, too, that history may teach us some'hinfr, since in the emphatic appeal of Pnlrick iïenry, " there is no way of judging of the Future but from the Past," and judging froro the Past, are we not warned that wars and sian.iiiig armies, imd the love of eonnuest and power, are the reeks upon whieh all Republics befare us have fallen 1 We have too nv.ich respect fur our boabted " Anglo-Saxon r;ico of mon" to flat ter them into the be ief that tl-.oy aie of themselves purer or lietler, even tl viined in the furnace of our Republican form of Government, than other men. Men have the sanie heads and heaits every where - tho circurristances of public instilulions and domtstic educaliciti only changing iheir charsetor. - ■ Min under the iufluenoe of Gud's brnodiction, are every where ' of one form, one fnith, nnd one baptiem," and if Holy Wr t spe:il;s Ihe truih, they are raorally of the sanie blo'xl ihrougii all the nalions of the earlh. We ehoose.thei clore, morally to esle?m oursih'es ns a people just good as olher men, and no better. - Our superior politica} ndvantnges have been sec u red 10 us only from that higher political elevation which has marked (he exiitence of our Government, iliough at times, we confess in sorrow, with sai1 declensions of public virlue. Our hope is that weshall go on prospering aod lo prosper, but it can never be in pursuing the u!iainoiu3 of military glory nor ir. tha ejevatiun of military men to our Inghest joütical offices, aiid we beseech men to pause at e:ist lung enuugh tu think o.f tha moral influecce of worshipping, with iha devoiion wo ase all around us, ut ihë