The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-11-08

doned in some degree Tor my egousm- VIII VI
fend no more in that way, but will conclude by
honine that YOU will SO far honor our association as
to permit it register your name among those OF It's
honorary members.
Your friend,
JOHN G. RIvEs,
President of the Democratic Association
of Washington.
To Gov. Thomas w. Dom,
Providence, Rhode Island.
CRAxsros, (R ~ October "a, ls45.
DEAR SIR: Your lettero Of July 10th duly receiv-
ed and with many Others was necessarily land aside
in the pursuit of health and in the reception Of visit
ers, as strength would permit offer to my friends
this apology for past delay, now that am attempting
pondence and hope that it will be deemed satisfac-
/ feel myself much honored by the Democratic
Association of the city Of Washington, who have
elected me an honorary member; and request you
to present to them my most sincere acknowledge
meats for this mark of friendly appreciation Please
also to accept my thanks for the very gratifying
manner in which you have communicated the vote
of the association. | am glad to recognise in you
an advocate and supporter throughout" Of the
Rhode Island cause, who was ready eto 60 as far
the farthest" in assisting to terminate the out
RACES to which have been subjected by the Alger-
inc despots Of this dishonored State.
One Of the best indications of growth and pro-
gress in the democratic party, is to be discerned
in the extensive formation, about six years ago,
of associations, in great part composed OF
young men, for the purpose of freely examining
and discussing the principles of the democratic
faith, Of applying them all occasions as the test
OF political measures, and of studying democracy in
action as exhibited in the lives and practice Of those
great men who have adorned our ranks, and shed
lustre upon our country. Two important objects
are thus attained democracy, in its length and
breadth, and in its progressive application Of fixed
and unchanging principles to new circumstances and
events better understood; and, instead of being,
as was too often the case, merely hereditary or
habitual attachment to certain measures and men,
is settling down into the intelligent convictions OF
one great brotherhood throughout the country thus
securing the vitality Of the party, and the perma-
nence Of our institutions The other object---con-
nec,ed with the first, natural result Of free in
qury and discussions, more sef-reliance, and a
higher degree of personal Independence, with con-
scquent general ability among democrats to do their
own thinking, and to go well without leaders.
The healthful state Of the democracy is most
nobly attesed, to my own mind in the retrospect Of
the three past years, by the generous enthusiasm
with which they have responded to the watch
words of popular sovereignty and equal rights in
Rhode Island.
And valuable lesson never to be lost, has been
impressed on their minds, in the full, perfect, and
undsguised delineation of Algerine federalism or
whigery, which has been lately spread before the
country in the Rhode Island controversy. The
federal whig party last year stripped off all its
false covers, and came out in puris naitralibus,
bearing in its front the images and superscrptons
of its principal patrons. And we have seen this
embodiment of political iniquity scourged through
the land, and condemned and executed in the cleo
ton Of James X. Polk. Can the recollcctions Of
Agerine federalism thus acted out and thus judged
of by the peoplc-can the morbid anatomy of whig-
cry, thus exhibited, be efaced from the minds
Of the young democracy of our country
am happy to believe that the Rhode Island
question had an arpreciabe weight in the result Of
the last year Avoided and deserted in the House
Of Representatives and in the Baltimore convention,
the people discerned this question: welcomed it. and
inscribed il on their banner Of victory. Onr calam-
tiles thus became fruitful and the democracy of the
whole has been the gamer by our losses.
But to return: the Democratic Association Of the
city of Washington seem to be charged with some
special duties. The anomaly Of unfranchsed and
unrepresented "subects" of a republican govern
ment, exhibited in the District Of Columbia, ought
to be corrected; and your exertons to concentrate
public attention upon this glaring inconsistency may
tend greatly to promote the rights Of the people Of
the District.
Still further: your association may be regarded as
sentinel at the focus of American politics; and,
from its near view Of the course of proceedings,
and of the conduct Of public men, il will be well
prepared to sound abroad the notes of safety or
alarm. The democracy of representatives is too apt
TO become weakened by distance from their constt-
uents; and Congress, transpan,ed from the inspec-
ton of populous cities to District which it governs
almost absolutely, is too often disposed to do its
own will, rather than the will of those who have
created il. Congress accordingly requires 10 be
well looked after; and the vigilance Of an intelligent
association may be well and often exercised in the
direction Of the Capitol. 1t is not probable that any
amount Of public opinion at Washington can have
much effect the m fa of fba pra
ment machine; but you proclaim to your brethren
whether it works well or ill., from actual inspection
Vigilance at the CENTRE at the circumference and all
along the lines, is the price which must be paid for
the preservation of freedom.
With best wishes for the prosperity of the asso-
citation,
am, truly and respectfully, yours,
THOS. w DoRR
To JOHN C. RrvEs,
Pres't Dem. Assn, Washington.
On motion, il was unanimously voted that the
foregoing correspondence be published in all the
democratic papers Of the District of Columbia.
MONUMENT TO JACKSON
Mr.. Curran offered the following preamble and
resolutions; which were unanimously adopted:
Whereas the citizens of Washington hsye. ~
pointed a committee to receive subscriptions
purpose of erecting, at the seat Of the federal ~
ment an appropriate monument to honor the n>en1k
ry Of Jackson: therefore, tl&
Resolved, That the Democratic Associati 4 q
Washington city, approving of this patriot83s4
ject, appeal TO the working democracy ofthsz>i>
trct, to whom that great man, as President e
United States, manifested in so peculiar manno "a
regard for their personal and political welfare; rs
the farmers, mechanics, and laboring men tnrk NJ
out the Union, who loved him and supported "a
in the days Of his greatest trial. for his patriot IN
stern integrity, fearless administration OF u1fce.
and enduring attachment, to friends, and to wlbss
and his country's interests he devoted his eve |ful
life, to contribute, according to their ability, TO s
meritorioos object. [s
Rssoired That the recollection OF the service
that patriot, hero, and statesman, is deeply impIo