The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-10-08
From another correspondent
New YnRK. October G.

Oneveryeide we hear the note appropriation for the
approaching election. Our primary elections for the
choice of delegates whose duty it is to select candi-
dates for the several offices, held on the 3D. and
the selections were made with the utmost harmony
evincing spirit of compromise and unity of feeling
credable alike to the democratic party at large and to
each and every interest of the party. We shall not
only succeed at the election, but virtually over
whem all opposition. A bright and glorious ex-
ample has been set us by the gallant democracy of
Maryland, and rest assured we shall profit by it.
How nobly have President Polk and the admins
tration been sustained by the democracy The
principles which the President advanced in his in
augural, are the principles Of the country The SEN
timenis there promulgated will be responded to by
every patriot Of the land New feelings, new aspi-
rations, have seized upon the American people We
have had, heretofore, but glimmerng-have not felt
the destiny which awaits us. We have nsw at a SIM
gle bound, leaped from position Of doubt and de-
pendence, to one erect, proud, fearless, and indie
pendent. We are no longer TO be the slaves of for
eign opinion, but have at once and forever shaken
off the trammels of European preudices, and firmly
established the great FACT Of ONE PEOPLE
ONE DESTINY. The honest, the popular senti-
ments of the country have ever been anti British
while our leading politicians and presidents, with
the exception of General jackson, have never dared
TO place themselves at the head Of this movement
or give any evidence that they sympathized with the
masses in this feeling, or evinced any desire snup
the cord which bound US to the Of British opin-
ion and prejudices
Such is not now the fact. President Polk has, in
this respect, shown wisdom far beyond his predc-
cessors. He has evinced a firm determination not
to be controlled by European diplomacy, by British
arrogance or threats. He has modestly but firmly
insisted upon all our rights, and expressed deter
mination TO maintain them. The mere announce
ment Of these sentiments, and their tendency if car
ried out, Gas we all feel they will be) account most
fully for the popular feeling which has, from the be-
ginning, and continues to set in strongly in a-
vor of the administration. So decided is this, that
il overwhelms all opposition and paralyzes the
efforts of the federal press; and if they do not APP
prove, they acknowledge the force and popular ter
dency of public opinion, by observing wise ST.
ence, lest perchance they themselves are crush
ed under its weight and influence. Even the
British press, since the accession Of President
Polk to the presidency, have discovered that we
are people not to be despised. Contemptuons
sneers lying abuse arrogant threats and sanderous
and petty attacks, giving place to frank and
manly discussions of our system Of government, its
| astonishing increase in power and wealth, and 8
probable influence upon the destinies of the Old
World. OF this character is an article in Of the
leading London prints,--the ''Gobe, which has
heretofore been noted for its vndicveness against
this country, for its blind and jealous support Of
its own monarchical government. That paper says
eater all deductions for erroneous policy and de-
fective machinery in their internal government we
see abundant elements of power in the polity of the
United States We cannot, therefore, join in the
antcipaons Of many, that this great empire ia des-
tined, distant day, to fall in pieces by its own
unweldy bulk. Even our contemporary in the ar
tice to which have alluded thinks that sthe con-
test which the neighboring States to the south Of
the Union are too weak to wage, will break out in
its own bosom We think the instinct of self
preservation will interpose, TO prevent final separa-
ton between the northern and southern States; and
certainly, no foreign power in the vast continent Of
the two Americas can successfully compete with
the federation while entire.
deductions from the whole history Of mankind
teach us that great empires dissolve only from two
causes--extrcme debility in their own government,
or Immensely increasing energy in that of some
| other nation. The eastern monarchies Of Greece
(Which had previously played the same part) fell
before Rome, from the latter cause. The empire of
the Caesars fell before the barbarians of the North,
| chiefly from the former. But the extinction Of a
nation is no easy matter, and we find neither of the
producing causes in the United States. II were
mere waste of time TO demonstrate that no rival in
power or energy; exists from the Atlantic to the Pa
cfc. In fact, the question is one of race. The
British origin indicates the superiority of the people
of the United States colonists of Spanish or
| Portuguese descent In that wild and almost bound
less arena the lisess Incidence or irregular activity
of the descendants of colonists from the south of
Europe, can never be match for the sustained ac-
tvily and superior intelligence possessed by those
| OF British descent Neither can we see such ele-
ments Of weakness in the internal condition of the
United States, TO warrant the belief that they will
split toto number Of petty and insignificant repub-
hes There are, Il is true on every side evidences
| OF redundant, and sometimes misapplied energies;
and these, wanting the control which 6rmer CEN
trail authority than that possessed by the American
constitution can alone supply. But we see no symp-
toms Of the weakness which surely precedes the dis
solution of an empire.
"The Oregon question involves considerations too
comprehensive, and details too special, to allow Of
its being more than alluded to in this place. Every
consideration which has sound policy for its
source urges the expediency Of early settlement
of the Oregon dspuien
Here we see evinced spirit of inquiry, Of argu-
ment, OF fair dealing, altogether different from that
carping, sneerng tone which has heretofore charac-
,erlzed this and other leading presses in Great
Britain.
But enough. have unconsciously run into a
discussion of the position and tendency of the adj
mnistra,ion, when it should be left to older and
wiser heads of the "Unon."
H.. e. r. II A.