The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-04-19
UNION OF THE DEMOCRACY FOR THE
SAKE OF THE UNION.


can tell those who seek To connect their own or the
fate Of the party with them, that, BY the attempt
their fate il sealed. The victorious Democracy
will make no alliance with the discarded treachery
which is driven from the ranks Of their adversaries
IL there Ia any of the Democracy who hope To make
by a union with such, them 10
time 10 beware. This Administration goes down In
two years. and will carry with II all its adherents-
Any change must be for the better. "-GtoOs.
/" The union of the Democracy for the sake
of the Union" is our motto, and we shall con-
tnue TO proclaim this saying, declaring, as we
believe IL does, the true principle Of success TO
our party, despite of the denuncations Of the
print from whose columns the above extraord-
nary paragraph is taken.
This is no'tme to be prating about the "beam
in that mans eye" or the "moat in this ones =
no time TO be arguing about the proprisly Of
saving the city from the attacks of the enemy
by the exclusive use of leather, or timber, or
iron, or gold, or cloth, but it stands the Demo
cracy in need TO buckle on the armor of resis-
lance +; TO summon aid from every possible quar-
ter; TO unite like band Of brothers, forgetful of
the past and careful only Of the future TO well
come with opeE arms the return of those Of our
brethren, who, in former contest, when driven
to the wall by the selfish and mercenary posses
sors of the citadel, (Mr Benton, Mr.. Blair, and
all that race Of beings) expelled those gentle
men from power by joining with the Wings
and elecling 10 office Harrison and Tyler, two
good and true Democrats 1t stands the Demo
crazy, we say, in need, to bury the Ratchet of
difference, now that the Wings, who voted to
put in power two Democrats, have refused to
su stain the Administration of their choice, be-
cause they could not make it carry out Wing
principles and Wing practices.
But the Globe says that the President and his
friends can bring with them nothing but des pair
and failure. Indeed. If that print will look
back upon its own footsteps, it will see that the
President and his friends, when they left the
ranks Of the administration of Mr. Van Buren,,
were sufficiently strong to leave behind them to
the forsaken party nothing but despair and fa-
lure. 1t was the iron-handed rule of Mr.. Ben
ton, and Mr. Blair, and their special associates,
that drove from the President, then in power,
those multitudes of " Straight-out" Democrats
that caused the defeat of 1910 to the sage of
Undertook. More than once, if we are in
formed Alright, did Mr.. Van Buren,, in The course
of his administration, express his regrets at the
conduct Of Mr.. Benton and Mr. Blair. He con-
sidered them a dead weight to his adminislra-
tion-and truly they were.
The Globe protests against the reception
back into the Democratic ranks of such guests,
Notwithstanding the Democracy with Mr.. Van
Buren, at their head were defeated in 1910 by
the absence of these very guests This is part
and parcel of lis old tyranuica policy, policy
that will not permit freedom of thought or
speech, policy that seeks to place the interests
OF The Republic in the hands of few reckless
politicians. That journal is resolved not TO
learn experience from the past. II continues
doggedly TO set up lis own dic,um as the rule Of
the party. 1t seems to be animated by but one
spirit, and that is Robesperian in every particu-
lar. To shoot down every man who dares 10
differ from the edicls of Mr.. Benton, who has
constituted himself the Pope of the Democratic
party, 10 lop of his head by the ponderous knife
of the Globes guillotine when any Democrat
presumes TO take exception to the edicts and
bulls Of The Missouri pontff, appear to be the
established law which governs the conduc, Of
these party leaders They refuse TO consider
the rights of those who may chance TO differ
from Them, The rights Of the minority and thus,
second time, they endeavor to jeopardize the
ascendancy of the ID mocratc party to power
We trust, however, that their authority is gone
that the sceptre of their rule is departed from
between the legs Of these Shilohs, for the d.
mocracy do Welcome back 10 their ranks, their
brethren, the President and his friends, and in
stead Of bringing despair and failure with them,
they bring high hope and trumI liant success
with them. They are in the midst Of the De-
mocracy even now, and their numbers are told.
They swell the great Democratic army full half
million of voters, and success is everywhere
throughout the Union inscribed on the banner
Of the People Mr.. Benton and the Globe may
feet and rave and denounce Till the day Of doom
their fury, we hope, will avail noihing.-
They will be complied either to submit or
TO 60 over TO the enemy. We do not seek,
las they did, during the Administration of
Mr.. Van Buren, to drive them fr,m he ranks
Of the Democracy. We want all the aid we
can get. We have no terms to impose on Mr.
Benton and Mr.. Blair, other than Democratic
principles, and the sacrifice Of personal interests
to hose principles, if necessary. The President
and his friends are Democrats, and they seek
no advantages over Mr.. Benton, Mr. Van Bu-
rem, or any one else. All they ak is" The
Union Of the Democracy for the sake Of the
country"
The Globe warns all those Democrats who
did not vote for Mr.. Tyler, against uniting in
any way with the President and his friends,
aud tells them that their fate is sealed by any
such attempt This was the language ii held
to the Susightouts of 1910, but what was