The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-10-01
THE cLovEN FOOT AGAIN
alias wHlGs

The "Boston Post" traces, IN the late ADDRESS OF
IL. whg convention of Massachusetts, the true
character of the wing party. II is IN vain that they
have attempted, at various stages OF their political
.,;s,ence. TO shift their dresses, and assume new
..m.s Their aliases have been as versatile as
,bo.e Of the criminals who have been arraigned at
,s bsr of Justice sometimes as John Smith, then
:. lack Brown-frst one name, then another.
Now, they have called themselves federallsts--fede-
ii r.oublicans; then, national republicans and, al
,.r other transitions passing through the baptsma
nn, Of James Watson Webb, have assumed the
denomination of wings At every step of the
n, ,cess however, they have been the same in prin-
eioe--always the friends of latitudinous con-
,,rue,ion--the advocates of national bank, of a
hish protective tariff, of every artificial institution
which is calculated to extend the powers of the gov
.rnmen and to trench upon the rights of the States
and the rights of the people.
II is true that they have attempted, on various oc-
essons, to assume, also, nominay the mask of the
republican party whilst their real federal principles
remained. We well recollect how Mr.. Webster af-
f.e,ed in the porco ofthe Richmond Capitol, under
an October sun, in 1910, play the part of Jeffer
sonun republican. The effort, indeed, reflected
no credit upon him. 1t might have imposed upon
few weak ,upes, who were soft enough for that" but
!, lowered him in the opinion of every man of honor
and discernment. The great body of the Virginians
despised the imposture, and dsdained the compli-
ment which was paid to their principles at the ex-
pense of their understandings. The trick of i'm
pos,ure will no longer succeed. The mask will no
longer deceive; and the wings now, by their own
confession, stand before the country the acknowl-
edged hereditary TO the federal name as
thew have always been to the federal principles Lat-
tudinarian constructonists they are now, as they
were in 9S-bankmen, and, bya necessary conse-
ouence the friends of all the fictitious systems which
had been engrafed by forced construction upon the
limited constitution of the United States. We
need 90 no further than their own recent confess
sions, to show that the modern wings are the same
Ms the old federasts These set forth in the last
formal revelations of the creed of their party in the
late address ofthe wing convention of Massachusetts
This is so clearly demonstrated in the following ex-
oeent article from the "Boston Morning Post" that
we cannot refrain from laying it before our readers.
aHere is, indeed the confession that we have want
edn-the coyen foot exhibited, without further at.
tempt to disguise it:
From the Boston Post. Sept ".
The whig convention democracy and Jsderalsn-ori-
gin and principles Of ,chgism.
The wings adopted bold plan of electioneering
in ls4o They did what they could to appropriate
the democratic name: they necessarily presented
themselves before the people, at their mass-gather
ings, as genuine Jefersonian democrats. They con-
tended that their party the genuine party of the
go democracy; that the Van Buren, party was the
genuine offspring of Hamiltonism; and they tried
to prove the latter, by showing first that Jackson
and Van Buren, had increased the executive power,
and that this was the distinctive character Of early
federalism. From Daniel Webster down to the
Buckeye blacksmith this was their political theory
Their press echoed ittheir partsans had it over at
the corner Of the streets-t constantly proclaimed
that the wings Of 1910 were on the platform of the
Jefersonians Of 1898.
II may be well to recall few things, to show this.
Gen. Harrison said, in one of his electioneering
speeches. "Cherish not the man who, under the
disguise and name of democracy, tries to overthrow
the principles of republicanism, as proposed and
acted upon by Jefferson and Madison" Again, he
said, at Dayton, September 10, 1910: eff the Au-
gean stable is to be cleansed il will be necessary to
60 back to the principles of Jefferson" Who does
not remember how the National lnteligencer an
nounced that Daniel Webster had abandoned his
old federal hereses, and was then democratici Who
does not remember the appeals he made to get votes
Support such measures" he said at Patchogue,
"as the good old democrats of past times would have
supported-such as Virginia, the pure old school Of
democracy, would have supported"
In his speeches to the Virginians also, he was
equally Mandatory Of the old republican landmarks
ne even, on one occasion, threatened to fog any.
body who disputed his democracy. This was in
New York, and such men as Silas Wright and B.
r. Butler were obliged to follow him and prove the
ue OF the democratic party of to-day TO the prnci.
pies OF their fathers. This also called forth our
pamphlet to show the identity of the federal men Of
To-day with the federal men of 1872 and the series
OF communications in this paper signed Bunker
Hi," showing the identity of the principles of the
democracy of to-day with those Of '9S. Still the
presses and orators went on protesting democracy;
dsa was the deception thus kept up that gave the
1870 victory to the wings.
Stouly as the wings denied the identity of modern
FEDERALISM with ancient, en it is all confessed nop.
Inc wing convention have put forth at length an
honest address-that il, they have openly acknowl-
edged their true character--they have confessed
what the democrats have all along alleged, that they
are the same conservative party that has existed
maton during Washington's administration y!
ana more than this, that they are opposed by the
same sort Of democracy than existed then! To
prove ms take the following extract;
This conservative party, under whatever name II has
.eo, from Washington, It's patron and founder to the
Gay has been met by the virlent opposition Of the
pary now Claiming the name of democracy but whose
was N opposition to the adoption of the federal
% and 70 the first administration organized under il,
WIN he veneraed father Of his country at its head.n
setting aside, at present, the great error Of ma
nhg washington, who was THE FOUNDER OF THE
UNION The founder Of the federal party--a federal
error, by the way-the truth here admitted is an i'm
por'ant one namely, that the wing party of to-day
10 IDENTICAL IN PRINCIPLE WITH THE CONSERVATIVE
.AhIf, UNDER WHATEVER NAME 1T HAS ACTED" up
20 me present lime. Many thanks for this. II will
save us hereafter, world Of trouble. II is the
rum mat the democracy of to-day is the very par
y W.T. Wnose "orlginn was during the administration
VI washington. tits the very party that opposed
uonal bank; that sympathized with the early
Plhc'p'es Of the French revolution; that opposed
treaty; that formed democratic societies II is
ae very party that, under Jefferson, saved the coun-
~ from monarchy in the grclt revolution Of 1900.
nus Is fair and honest confession. Better late
man man never We have now got our opponents to
own up square their origin.
VOW, what says the convention about ,ohig princi-
PC mere the convention were equally honest;
anu, lot aehners Of wing principles, did remarkably
me., Inc following is sufficiently definite for our