The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-05-24

The cause of the people cannot be defeated while
this great and growing country shall continue to adj
vance in the wisdom of her course Ifher sister
republic shall indeed wander from the sphere in
which she ought to move, we, at least, will move
UPWARDS We will attemp. to keep alive the spec
tacle of liberty, uncomfortable and sublime. Peace
we desire. Peace we would cheerfully cultivate
But it must be an honorable peace. Let Mexico
but strike the first blow, and we shall then be the
last to decline the contest.
We appreciate the advice of the "Daily Key
sone of Philadelphia but really scarcely stand in
need oft. We hope we do value the dignity Of the
press every consideration prompts us to do. We
will try and maintain it far possible; and we
place proper estimate upon the high (too Highly and
responsible character which the !" Keystone" is
pleased to attribute to us. We assure him, that we
do not "intend to notice and to answer every attack
or idle piece of gossip in papers made up of such
Materials because are already aware) that (our)
paper will be so full of such things, as to dis
able it from the duties it is expected to per-
FORM" We know, Dat we can scarcely "ex
pect praise and appreciation from the New York
Tribune or the New York Express" We cannot
expect that the wings will not exercise "the privi-
lege Of gr.mblimg; everything else was taken from
them by the last election, and the keystone
is pleased to add that our only objection to
the course of the Union is to be fousd in the fact
that we are by those deprived of other arti-
cles and information within the EDITORS reach the
place of which is supplied by discussion, on what
lawyers call "a collateral or false ssue.'" There is
force and justice in the remark; and we intend to
prove it in forbearing to answer the thousand and
one which may be set aAoat about
us But we really believed that it was our duty to
contradict the gross charges that made against
us, and hence we condescended to notice them. We
shall remember, however, the advice Of the "Key-
stone," because it is confirmed by our own bes,
judgment. If we were to notice the various errors
that we in the newspapers, we should have Moth
ing else to do; as, for example, the numerous blum
ders which are teeming in the very last Washington
letter in the "New York Herald ,"wher so little regard
is shown to the decences of the press as to drug in
the names Of two ladies' before the public and place
one Of them in most unjust and entirely false posi-
ton
The Lexington Observer under the special
eye Of Mr.. Clay is raising very unnecessary hue
and-cry about the alleged proscriptive spirit of the
present administration. II dedicates pretty long
article this subject in its paper Of the 18th nst
setting out with the following flourish:
Mr Polk is moving with fatal precision in the work Of
decaptaton Every mail brings intelligence ofthe down
fall OF somebody. What commentary is this upon the
lamentations that up from this party when General
Harrison assumed the executive chair and commenced the
work OF reformation among the Office holders who had
been feeding from the public crib for twelve years and
whose displacement was 50 mperatveiy demanded by the
public voice We heard then Of nothing but Butcher Ew-
ing &c. and would have supposed that these people felt
the deepest horror the idea Of prescribing merely op-
IONS sake" 8c. re.
ton has fallen far short of the removals of the for
mer one To go no farther than the Post Office De-
partment, does the "Observerp forget Mr.. Changers
boast about his 1000 Victims and the 1000 more that
he had intended to add the catalogue Does the "Ob
server forget the exulting terms in which Mr. Clay
spoke of the "decapitadons" of the opening admin
istraton of 1871 in the Senator or the promise he
made to his friends in Lexington during the last
campaign, about their receiving full share of the
spoils of Officer These comparisons will be fully
carried out hereafter; and we shall then see, from
the comparative number Of removals, who are the
Santerres and the 'sbutchers."
That Mr.. Polk is making removals, it is true,
The simple circumstance ofsuperseding wings (who
have taken the place of removed republicans) by
the appointment Of republicans will alone account
for variety of wing removals and democratic op-
pointments.
The "Charleston Mercury" will find, from our ar
ticle of Tuesday evening, that it does us nothing
but Justice in the feeling it attributes to us about Mr.
Calhoun, when it says:
The Herald assigns motive for the denial of the Union
which consider altogether unjust to Mr. Richie We
have sympathy whatever with the charge oil hostility
his part against MIR. Calhoun"
The Mercury viii excuse us for respectfully say
ing, that, on its part, it does not do justice to the
administration, when it doubts whether Mr.. Cal
houn would have its confidence" in case he were
appointed to London, and says, that "the circum-
stances under which Mr. Calhoun left the State de-
partment give us no right to suppose he could be
so trusted by the administration" We certainly
have heard nothing at Washington to justify any
such suspicion; and in fact we have no doubt that,
if Mr.. Calhoun had accepted the mission to London
when it was offered to him in March last, he would
have had the full confidence of the administration
and of large portion of the people
Mr.. Greenhow's book on Oregon is gradually
acquiring the distinction which it deserves. The
"Boston Morning Post" notices it, and says: at is
an elaborate document, and will, doubtless, have
great weight in the popular mind in the settlement
of the question respecting right to the Territory
of Oregon. Il is accompanied by map of the
western and northwestern coasts of this continent
As references are constantly made to authorities for
almost every fact stated, it is presumed that the
historical facts may be relied on" We entertain
no doubt about it,