The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-09-03
WING TRADES AND MEXICAN BLUS
TIERS, UNITING AGAINST THE PRESENT
ADMINISTRATION

To the people Of the United STATES;
Your affairs, felIow-citizens, are conducted by
statesmen Of experience, abilities, and virtue. The
laws protect you; industry rewards you; you are
prosperous at home, and respected abroad. Those
who expect of any government higher benefits,
arragn the bounty Of Providence, and confess their
dissatisfaction with the choicest lot of humanity.
Yet spirit is evinced TO kindle discussions among
you, TO render you discontinued with your happy
condition, and to create an impression in the public
mind that the government of your country is weak,
lawless, and distracted. But the judgments of a
wise people are always considerateespecially when
invoked to pamper the schemes and to promote the
resentments of disappointed ambition. Be not
deluded by politicians, who are either deceived
themselves, or who are anxious to deceive you.
Repose no hasty confidence in the assertions of a
party who have justly forfeited your political
esteem, and whom you have lately expelled from
the citadel of power. Examine the motives Of dis
carded servants who abused your confidence,
wasted your resources, and who still aspire to the
eminence they could not retain. You owe it to the
country to scrutnze them freely; and the powers Of
your dscernmcnt are equal to the task. Your
ample experience and natural sagacity cannot
deceive you. Distrust the opponents Of your coun.
try, and support her resolute and hearty friends
Justice, policy, and patriotism equally enjoin it.
course which points clearly right, will always
enable your wisdom and energy to disarm the envi-
Gus, TO confirm the honest, and to lead the blind Out
Our foreign relations involve consequences which
pervade the Union, and operate beyond it. We
wish TO them prosperous, above all sordid strife
and guided by spirit OF justice and common good
to all. We love the gentle Offices Of peace and abb
hor the ravages of useless war. Il is remote from
honest policy and Christian precepts to perpetrate
evils in the sinful hope to profit from the foes OF
the crimes of humanity, and TO harass whole ma
tons of defenceless beings into agony and despair
In the practice of our government we challenge the
citation of single departure from the exercise Of
justice to foreign states. To save our honor, and
support our laws, we have sometimes resisted the
warke and the strong; but we never coveted the
possessions of the powerful, stripped from fee
hleness the pittance of the poor. We have taken
into our spreading family the countless muttudes
who have migrated to our hospitable shores, and
we have deplored the penury and persecution which
forced them from Their native homes; yet, notwith,
standing our friendly welcome and our peaceful
course, we have sometimes suffered from the folly
ard injustice of the very nations who forced their
emigrants upon us. Since the treaty of 1888, we
have often felt the wanton Entertainments of the
English government, and have been freely stigma
tised as towards, for our peaceful demeanor under
fragrant wrongs. But those who presumed too
much upon our weakness, and forced US to fight
have always suffered from the rashness of their
course. In the morning Of the present century, the
administration of Mr.. Jefferson commenced. That
guiding character played conspicuous part in the
great drama OF our revouuonj anu, by the ardor oil
his SOUL and the vigor Of his mind, hastened the
nown and independence of his country. England
never proered TO that famous republican the slight
eat evidence OF her friendly will. He knew hcl
we'll, and owed her no gratitude. She tried to hum.
BILE the nation when he was in the lead. The fire,
Of resentment never went out. He had writer
the declaration Of American independence. HI
fully exposed English pretensions while he acted
as Secretary Of State; and, when afterwards seat
ed on the peaks of power, he beheld with amaze
ment the conduct Of our old and steady opponent
He saw baffled but powerful monarch emuous o.
Ringing his insults and reseniments upon us, prey
ing upon our commerce, insulting our dag, impress
ing our seamen, and boarding this government or
our very shores. On the tranquil sea- while no har
binger Of war coursed the horizon, the Leopard ap
pcared in our waters, fired her murderous guns int