The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-10-09

In recent number Of the Philadelphia Ameri-
can Sentinel"-a journal which, notwithstanding
some occasional variations Of opinion, we have al
ways been disposed to regard friendly to the DEM
ocratc cause-we find the following Bill of Com
plant drawn up against the administration:
THE ADMINISTRATION HAS ERRED.
has in its toward friends MIR Ven
Buren, and Gov. Wright in New York These acted to-
ward opponents coming into power in March last
enemies and not as the friends to whom II was indebted for
the defeat OF Mir. Clay.
has erred in It's toward the friends OF Mr. Dallas
patriotic band who secured to Mr. Polk the State Of
has in its toward the friends of Mr. Tyler
who came to the rescue at period Of great doubt and
certainty.
II has erred in its toward the friends of Mr. Cal
wn mo 0 e
1t hos erred in its toward the friends of Gen Cass
Coy po.er ana Zen upon ana ne
through the great which have long received
the attention Of the democratic party.
The crisis is important one. Let the administration
pause and reflect.
1t is too late ito Decided action alone
of the weak selfish, pretended friends Of President Polk
who really have interests but to sub.
serve.
As was to have been expected, this passage has
been eagerly seized upon by the wing press. The
"National Integencer'' of to-day gives it as the
s'MUTTERiNG OF DISTANT THUNDER, while the "Phila-
delphia Inquirer" flares it in the face of its readers
as a muster-roll Of the CYLINDERS OF PoLKIsM."
We hope that the "Sentnel" meant well in writing
the paragraph, yet cannot but regard il as unfor
tunately and inconsderately written. We put it to
the candor and honest democratic feeling Of the
Sentinel" that the very breadth and erfent of
it's sweeping charge is the best and sufficient
refutaton of its whole position Can il be for one
moment imagined, that President Polk has been UNI
just every section of the grea, party which placed
him in power' In what interest, and to what end
could any administration out Of Bedam betake
itself to the unfortunate and desperate work of
toons, all the very men who, under their re-
spective local leaders, came up nobly into the
great democratic line, and did manful battle there
until the victory was won Be it observed, the
charge is not that one section Of the democratic
party in the country has been sacrificed another
section. That charge, however unjust, would
at least be Ineligible. But the charge is, that
all the various sections Of the party have
been sacrificed together. Sacrificed To whom,
or to what, or for what, has such sacrifice been
nader Why, the Van Buren, men, and the Dallas
men, and the Calhoun men, and the Cass men
were they not the very men who came together on
common platform Of principle in the Baltimore
convention and resolved to be, in the phrase Of our
opponents, Polk men, but in our phrase, the men
Of the great and victorious democratic cause Of the
country IL all these men have been matreated,
then the democratic cause has been betrayed. Has
it been SO betrayed In regard to what measure or
what principle of the democratic party has the ad-
minisration finched, or shown any signs of finch
ingi Is it the Texan question or the Oregon ques-
ton or the tariff queston' or the question of the
keeping Of the public moneys1 or the question of a
second presidential term or any other question
which was enumerated part Of the Baltimore
platform of principle' We refer the country,
with the utmost confidence, for answer to every
line that has been written officially, and to every
act which has been done officially by the adminisra-
ton, as well as to what we have ourselves written