New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-11-16
THE NETWORK TRIBUNE.
Prospectus for the Year ls45.


intensity and aercsness-hss just resulted IN the
defeat OF the Wing Candidates for President and
Wee President. This result opens new era IN
the history of our Country-an era full Of interest
and of peril.
the Wing Candidates are defeated, bat the
Wing PRINCIPLES are noby maintained. Through
out the canvass, the Wings have planted them.
selves on the broadcast grounds of National benef-
cence, and have boldly, maniuly, universally
maintained those grounds. From Maine TO Ar
kansas we have stood boldly by THe TARIFF AS
IT Is, and the policy Of Protecting American La
Dor; we have advocated NATIONAL CURRENCY,
created and secured by the action of Congress
we have insisted on DISTRIBUTIONS OF THE Pro
DEEDS OF THE PUBLIC LANDS equally and Justly
among all the States of the Union; we have op
posed the ANNEXATION OF TEXAS to this Country,
OF any terms involving us in the prosecution Of
hsr War, the payment Of her Debt, and the main
tenance and extension Of her Slavery. Ours has
been open, frank, fearless course, appealing to
the People on broad and common grounds TO sus-
tain their own and the Nations interests and
10 arrest impending National calamites Our
voice has been uc<necded or OVERCOME, but it
has been united and consistent ard when the
hot, binding excitement Of the canvass is over,
The echoes OF that voice will be found still vibra-
ting through the National heart.
Yes, the Wing Party is temporarily PROSTATE,
but the Principles for which it contended are
those approved by large majority Of the Ameri-
nd urhir icallu
oppose without rushing on destruction. We are
beaten, not because we %She in favor OF Protec-
ton and opposed to Annexation, but because our
opponents concealed or mystfed these vital is
sues throughout two thirds of the Union, and
adroitly but dishonesty made tho Election turn
on irrelevant and unimportant matters-on the
prejudices long since excited against Mr.. Clay's
course in the election Of lS24-the foul and false
imputation Of 'Bargain'-aud the general cur
rent of vituperation with which our beloved Chic.
has been assaulted for twenty years.
We are beaten, not because the People ale op.
posed to the Tariff, but because hundreds of thou
sands OF them, especially in Pennsylvania and
other Middle States have been made 10 believe
the falsehood that Polk is more favorable to
Protective Tariff than Clay.
We are BEATEN not because we opposed An.
nexation, but because our opponents, by the NOM
inshon of Silas Wright, the course Of the Eve
ming Post, and the silence of their State Conven-
lions. induced thousands of conscientious men to
believe that they would not attempt 10 annex
Texas at the expense Of rupture with Mexico,
nor would they impose on People the pay
raent of the Texan Public Debt.
We are beaten, not because the People dissened
from our views Of Public Policy, but because the
ignorant had been made to believe that we are
Arislocrats and enemies of tho Poor, who could
BY no possibility intend good to the greater mum.
Der, and who were no. 10 be trusted, however
specioGs our professions and ostensible purposes.
We are beaten, not because Mr.. Clay's public
course has not been honorable and highly useful,
but because he has been held up to the public as
desperate gambler and profigate, and persist
Duel, which he laborcd earnestly to prevent
DF Let our opponents hereafter nominate any
man who has been engaged in Duel if they
dare!
Such are the grounds on which the Great
Contest of 1874 has been decided-dec;dcd by
ihe fraudulent votes of unnaturaized aliens and
those Of Adopted Citizens who belonged to ouE
Gde, but were repealed BY dread of Nativism
which had been adroidy ,urned against the Wing
patty. While grea. majority of all our coun-
trymen who can read and wriie--of all who
were either for or against the Tariff, for against
Annexation-have voted for Henry Clay, he has
been beaten by votes cast On considerations
wholly irrelevant, and by men who have untor-
tunatey not been enabled 10 form AN intelligent
Judgment on the great questions involving the
dearest interests of the American People.
But such triumph, SO won, cannot in the ma
ture OF things be enduring. Our Anniversaries
will now DO compelled 10 act on the Tariff, which
fhey Will ind far more critical than TO carp at
and traduce IL They must face the question of
Annexation, and declare, not merely that they
desire Annexation, but under what circumstances,
on what conditions, they will effect II. year Of
power mus, dissipate their decisions and unmask
their hypocrisies. The very maneuvers which
have secured their temporary triumph must work
their ultimate downfall.
The campaign just closed, though disastrous
its immediate results, will yet prove suspicious
In it's ultimate influences. In no former contest
has Truth been SO widely and generally ditiuscd.
Never before were Just views OF National Policy
20 clearly set forth, SO ably defended. and 50 gen.
orally listened to, as in this canvass. True, we
sre defeated after ALL but defeated because many
of the People were made to believe that our oP-
pononts would sustain the Tariff, and not ptess
the iaiqutous project Of Annexation. For months,
the fact that there would probably 90 Wing
majority in the Senate he's been pressed on doubt
ing, hssitshng voters, to convince them that they