The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-07-26
From The Boston Post.
THE REUNION OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY.

PARTY.
The e,union of the party in the strength it stood
in before the revulson OF 1910, must be the earnest
wish Of every sincere Democrat and to this end the
abors of the press and the efforts Of the party should
be constantly directed. The leading principles and
OF the two parties distinctly repre-
sented by the candidates for the Presidency that it
is only necessary to know which any man will sup
port, to determine whether he is Democrat or a
Wing We want no other Ses for full fellowship
and cordial reception in the brotherhood of the De
mocracy.
portion of the Democratic party supported Cen
eraI Harrison and Mr., Tyler, in The election of 1910,
with honest views and patriotic purposes. They
knew them both TO be the avowed opponents OF
I3a H. the worst feature of Whiggery, and they were
misled by the vain expectation that Democratic mea-
would be infused into the old Federal party,
with whom they had unconscously become associa
ted They were deceived and betrayed, and most of
them now have the iearlessness and honesty to adj
nit the error, and they are fast returning 10 their
first love. They will be received with open arms,
with full confidence, and without It ever bring askeJ
or remembered how they voted in 1910. The Dem
ocrac presses are recording with the highest eXul-
tatiou tie evidences OF this Reunion OF old friends,
all the country, and there is no one circum-
stance that gives presage than this OF the ceI-
tain success Of our candidates and our cause. 4 he
Dem, crat who would this harmony, throw
tie slightest obstacle in the way of the of all
those who formerly acted with u, is no friend to his
cause or his country but we know OF none such.
In this reunion the Democracy embrace with cor
dial good feeling the Democratic friends of Presi-
den. Tyler Immediately upon the decease of Gen
eral Harrison, Mr. Clay shaped all his measures so
as either to force Mr. Tyler into humble subserven
CIV to himself or to compel him to take ground against
the Wings He feared him rival for the success
sou aud resolved to disgrace or destroy him. This
was the purpose OF his famous programme OF Bank
and Distribution measures at the extra session, and
of the dogmatca course he took as the dictator OF
his party.
President Tyler homo ably refused to prove false
TO ali his professions and the teeth of the dictator
he vetoed the bank once, and again Clay forced IT
upon him, and he vetoed it twice. I his brought
MIR. Tyler 10 the point where Mr.. Clay desired to
push him. and it followed by the famous, or rath
err Infamous Wing Manifesto. denouncng the Presi-
dent with all the bitterness which Mr.. Clay felt to-
wards HIM hated rival
This gave the " arstocratc portion of the Wings"
the ascendancy in the councils of the party,
dered it mprscticable for the democratic division to
Cooperate with them without surrender OF self
respect and abandonment Of every honest prin-
ciple
Mr.. Webster as a member of Mr. Tyers cabinet,
attempted for time TO oppose thus magn influence
in his party and apparently took the side of the Presi
dent But events showed that he had not the moral
courage TO sustain the position he had taken in his
Faneul Hall speech, and that his object was to
main IN the cabinet long enough TO perfect the Ash
burton treaty, aud having accomplished that object,
he answered his own question in Faneuil Hall,
"Wbere am TO go p by submissivey going back into
the Federal portion OF the Wing party, wher he
belonged and quietly placing himself under the die
taton OF Clay, and joining the rabid Wigs in de-
nuncations OF President Tyler for the best acts Of
his administration.
This humiliation painfully exhibited in the
contrast between the bold position which MIR. Webster
stood in, in Faneull Hail. when he tore off the Low
ell wrappers aud eulogisd the President and his
cent exhibition the guest of the Boston Clay Club
No. l. on the 4th Of July where he tacitly sanction
ed the disgraceful leading toast Of the day-"The
President Of the United States that is, the office of
the President Of the United States miserable
imitation of the ins IL offered TO the President at the
Asbburton dinner in New York
These events have drawn the lines too clearly TO
he oblterated, between what the Boston Atlas in
1910 designated the aSiocrac and the moe afie
divisions OF the Wing party, Of the former OF which
it represented Mr.. Clay as " The darling candidate p"
The darling was compelled TO give way for the
time, to General Harrison, and many were deceived
into the belief that The old Federal parry, driven
from thsir chosen leaders, Clay and Wester, would
become democroiiEed
The result has proved that IL is still true that the
Hhopean cannot change his skin nor the leopard his
spots. The Wing party Is now where II has ,ver
been, and ever means to be-" the old arstocratc
Federal party of the country. Flushed with the
spasmodc success Of the election of General Harri-
500, by the AID of President, Tyler and the portion of
the democracy who Mt with him in Strengthening
the Wing ticket they fsnced, from the seeming div,.
sions Of the Democratic party as TO men, that the
time had arrived when they could revive the DAYS of
the elder Adams, and carry the Presidency without
mask
The darling candidate Of the arisiocraey" was there
fore put forward as their standard bearer and Fede.
rssm, svowing its most odious measures stood forth
in all iis undlsguised ugliuess. Mr. Tyler and his
friends we're denounced and excommunlcated and
Mr.. Clay stood ready, whettng his knife with the
esgerness Of old Shy lock for the general extermina
ton ~ih which he onged to visit them the moment
he should vault into the long sought Of his am
bition.
The only desperate hope now is TO make President
Tyler and his friends indirectly subseryient TO his
election, by placing them, in the plurality States, IN
opposition to the democracy.
This will be as vain as have been all his other
hopes of disappointed ambition but to render II ut
terly vain, aud from every motive of prInciple a.
well policy, kind feelings and generous sentiments
should be exte died. in every State to that portion of
the supporters Of General Harrison who would NO,
follow Mr. Clay's federal lead and have sustained the
Democratic measures OF MIR Tyler They are ge-
nuiney Democratic. They have received upHineb-
ing the whole he Of the Wing party directed with
all the malice Of the bailed Henry Clay against them
and their leader and have returned 1t with the heavy
caDnonade Of the bank vetoes, which has battered
down the strongest hold OF Whggery
Few or many, they who have done this service to
the cause, and by depriving enemy of his strong
est forhcstions rendered the victory over him
and CERTAIN entitled TO the thanks and the good
fellowship Of thewhole Democracy, and our arms
should be open to receive them with generous con
bdsnce. Between them and the main BODY of The
Democracy there can no lasting disagreement md
there should be no unkindness or elimination
4 he Richmond Enquirer, the Nestor Of the De.
mocratio press, always sagacious and incapable of