The Daily Union

WHAT IS DEATH—POLITICALLY?—We see by the Columbian that the free-soil programme is being filled by divers orators all round the State. Chase, Giddings, Hamlin, Root, and others, seem determined to prove the death of the whig party, and disprove the "decadence of free-soilism."

Something has been said about the declension of Bar. rere. We have not been informed that he has actually declined. His name is still at the head of the whig pa pers, though these papers manifest great concern and alarm at the considerable onslaught made upon them and their ticket by the free-soilers.

The Columbian, under a heading of "Whig alarm," pounces upon the State journal, and very coolly plies the scalpel into the carcass of whiggery. "What is death?" he asks; and answers with naive simplicity, that it is the separation of the soul from the body. The Columbian is orthodox on that point. Hamlet never propounded better philosophy. "Now," says the Columbian (with what excruciating coolness,) "the whig party exists only in form; the shell remains, it is true; but if it has any soul we should like to see it, or some evidence of its existence." The moral part of the whig party, in the opinion of the Columbian, has long since been defunct. As to its intellectual part, it says that it has been growing awfully dim ever since, and if it still flickers around its socket, the light is too small to be perceptible. Surely the Columbian must be blinded with the intellectual excess of light which the Journal radiates, not to perceive the glory of the central whig orb.

In this connexion we may remark that the leading whig paper in the Union, the Washington Republic, being fully convinced of the death of whiggery, has come out "independent." It cried out in agony "Who shall deliver us from this body of sin and death?" No one was by to aid it in its extremity; so, on its own hook, it helped itself to independence.

When will other whig papers do likewise? Only when their noses become sensitive to inform them that they are tied to a carcass. We should think, physiologically speaking, that some editors of our acquaintance would soon attain this olfactory knowledge.