The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-09-14

people tina, paFly will oyes donssnt 10 Il, muo
less attempt Il with zeal, II they have the power
| or that the Texan Government can confde il
| them, II their leader is elected Is il not pre-
Stunning TOO much upon The eredulity OF a toreigl
government, equally as sagaclops as our own
ana Is Il not much more likely that the momen
| the Texans would learn the success OF tina
party If such disaster were TO happen, the,
would abandon every idea of the hope Of union
with us2 The least which can be said of III,
wings rs, II their aim be 10 annex Texas, th'
Jolly oil Their course has been indesciibaby veal
aud strange. Ii causes dislrust at home ant
abroad, aud must certainly fail of It's end, i
that be annexation. A celebrated ancient poe
has described Acesles as aiming his arrow a
the Stars. His bow his arrow, and his strength
might all be excellent and the flight beautiful
out no one believed he meant 10 hat the mark a
which he pretended 10 shoot To make 9th
ers believe that we intend what we say, il
must be something which is practicable, aud
we must not contradict our words by our works
Even the dotage and tanaticism OF party will
revolt at thar, and all men will more Than sus-
peel IL to be mere straagem 10 substitute
thorns Tor irut 1t may be said OF the Wing lead
ers as a most distinguished author has said OF the
ancient Philosophers they promised what was
lmpraciicabe they despised what was practi-
cable" This is not mere induction. IL was
history when they began it. Ii is history now,
with more facts and witnesses superadded.
But II The Wing leaders can succeed against
Texas, they will have deceived the people, and
compelled them to undergo similar trials and TO
end their political wishes, with similar tormenis
TO those which the heather mythology doomed
The lost spirits, II Will be to spin forever on
The same wheel-to gaze forever at the same
deludlng clusters OF frult-to pour water forever
into the same bottomess buckets, and 10 pace
TO and fro forever on the same path" Their
plans will do for the theory and poetry Of getting
Texas, but they may spin on The same political
wheel, and spin and gaze, and gaze and spin,
and 1t VIII end IN the philosophy Of words"
Their buckets will hold no water--lhey will
taste no fruit, and while they pace the same path
10 and fro, and dream, and weave fastidious fan
cies and lesloons about national law. and of
some future moment, TO be "a more convenient
season., but never 10 come, when Mexico
smiles, and not abolilionist shall frown
England nil haze borne of the magnificent
Prize Of TEXAS IN The unfolding grasp Of her
IRON arms.
The Democratic party have, on the contrary,
gwen the highest proof tina, they were animated
by spirit OF good faith. For Texas they set
ASIDE one OF their leaders, changed their front in
the presence Of the enemy, and brought forward
a man who had never sought the enyied honors
Vi
too, declared il TO be part of our creed, and
pledged the party for it. 1t is true, many of the
hlg leaders started with their flags hvng for
Texas; but II is equally true that most of them
either wrote upon them :" Not nou y or that they
lrembIingly struck them, at the first war-note
from The shrllI bugie Of the great Kentuckian.
Their National Convention met, pending the
question. but failed TO support it,
This little scrap Of history is full Of inslruc-
ton. 1t admonishes every voter Ii points him
TO the truth II teaches us that there is a phi
losophy in politics peculiarly suited TO our Gov
eminent, and he who does not act as if he
thought so is not hi to govern this nation. We
are informed by IL that the power and opinions
OF the people are not a mere name--that they
are greater Than the public press, and greater
than their leaders; that they unmake and make
whom they please; that it is not necessary, in
this free country, TO put a public man in training
as you would race-lorse, for the Presidential
track; that the people themselves choose whom
they please; they summon him, like another
Cincinnatus, from his private pursuits, from the
midst of his neighbors, from his unambitious
thoughts and the less aspiring he has been for
the highest office, the more they will delight to
honor him that this, of itself, is a powerful
reason for their support. They have parties,
and party character, ii is true, but they are
them, where a difference of opinion amounts TO
q distinction, in their judgment, against The
erer Hiring and the grooming interests of their
country UiH be fatal 10 a ie0der. The unit d
efforts, oaths, and promises of his party officer,
cannot save him, What the Democratic party
have done the world has seen-virh how much
purity, dsinterestednes land independence they
acted They responded 10 lhe sentiment of the
immortal Hero of many victories" Leave your
friend and go for your coustry." Let IL be en-
craven upon our hearts. We offer it as an ex-
ample to our countrymen. AIMS uery moment
Mr.. clan occupies that doubtful dftiiude, and
the public mind is sDdying .fedrtuiiy for his
hopes. The difference of opinion, between him
and the people, has been too great, has grown
wider, and is still widening too much, TO pre-
vent a final rupture and separation, when they
90 TO act at he ballot boxes, aud hesitation has
to end. That difference of opinion between
them has become striking distinction. II
appears to me to be something like this his
opinions of Texas are dark shddoUs cast upon
their path-promise no good, prognostcale evil,
the loss of national power, national domain, and
national defence; their opinions are bright
touches of light, shining on their hearls-they
are fixed convlctions-the instinct Of wisdom
the certainty Of great interest, and the PRESENT.
ment of danger, not only for their lives, but for
the life Of a nation. The people never die as
individuals they perish-but as a people they
live on, and the abiding sense Of this is ereT
upon them. II is the great source Of their pa
triotlsm. 1t is that expands their love for their
living, breathing country, and the idea OF their
long generations after them, aud not merely for
the springs, the rivers, and the mountains; there
fore, when as people they are at stake, they
act under a consciousness OF their perpeulty,
and from that sense of the extent of their public
interest, for the present and The future. The
horizon of their vision i, wide aud pure. As a
people they hold no office, and aspire to no
Office. Whenever the occasion arises, when The
necessity comes, they aspire higher than party,
and resist that creed which claims ;hat parry
belongs 10 a ledder, instead Of the country, and
that he is entitled to shape il as he will, and dc
with IT what he pleases. This is The political
philosophy OF our institutions. ltproceeds with
the spirit ofthe age, which is wise, simple, and
respeciful of human rights and interests. and