The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-05-01
From the wilmington (Delaware) Gazette.
OUR COUNTRY.

From the wilmington (Delaware) Gazette
OUR COUNTRY.
UNPREcEpENrEp PRosPERITY since our
country has been discovered and populated or since
we have been governed by the institutions under
which we now live and exercise the rights of free
men, has and every branch of domestic indus
try been more fourshing than at present From
the North and from the South, from the East and
from the West, come sounds pleasing to ears, OF
activity in business, impulse to trade, &C., &c. We
do not attribute this entirely to the election of James
n. Polk, and the consequent ascension Of democrat
&c measures, but II Is measurably, we may say
mainly, caused by these facts. Our country has
been for time gradually arising from the trou-
bes into which she was thrown by the evils conse.
quent upon an unrestricted paper currency. We
are now reaching the very height, perhaps, to which
we can expect TO ascend. Every branch of indus
try is receiving its reward, and Just, settled policy,
on the part of the general government is all that is
required TO prolong If not perpetuae, such bless
ings. IL Col Polk had not been elected, the proba-
bility Isl the same immediate stimulus would have
been given to business; but that it would not have
been so steady, or wholesome in its operation, we
think is just an inference the speculative
schemes which his opposing party advocated af-
ford. Nothing is more necessary for the interests OF
our country than decisive administration a fixed
policy, and men of great moral and Intellectual
worth in the responsible executive positions. All these
VIC nave, W ueSTtc, al Tie
present moment; and can it be doubted that they
tend greatly to influence every interest throughout the
land? Had the wings succeeded and elected their
great and popular leader to the executive chair of
republic, with their known feelings enlisted in disri-
button and assumption, there is no fixing the limits to
which speculation would have been carred--there
is knowing the bounds at which capitalists would
have stopped Our temporary prosperity would
have been equal If not greater than at present, but
it would have been reared upon frail foundation,
and, like the bubble created by the mighty heavng
of the excited sea- would have enjoyed short life,
too soon to burst and show its nothingness. Now
we have no cause to apprehend such disaster. Our
onward march has been gradual Traced to
its origin, it may be found in the smouldering ruins
Of the bank of the United States. Had that insti-
tuition never existed, we would never have suffered
the calamities through which our country has re-
Gently passed. If it is resuscitated, we will
have no just cause to fear them in future. That a
democratic administration will breathe life into its
| carcass, we deem 1t almost useless TO deny. Every
democrat has sworn eternal and Incorporating
hostility to so powerful moneyed institution.
1t is wing measure, and as rotten as majority
of the principles which that party has sustained.
There is an idea quite prevalent among the wings
that the government can do all for the people This
is erroneous 1t is worse--It is dangerous, well
as foolish. The people must do more for the gov
eminent. Before the election the wings thought if
Henry Clay was elected they would have prosper
ty in abundance without any exeron on their part.
They believed that wealth and riches would come
of their own accord, spontaneously, as It We're,
from the very elements Fortunately they did not
succeed, but the party which looked to INDUSTRY as
the source of happiness were successful. Naturally
the people went to work. and, 10, the consequences!
Our workshops full to OVERLOOKING Business on
the increase and prosperity enlivening the counte-
nances just now dark with gloom and dependency.
Can any Delawarian, any Wilmingtonian in partic-
ular, who heard the speech of a distinguished wing
the night preceding last election-the gentleman
who has now the honor to represent our State in
part in the United States Senate-see these facts
without thinking of the misrepresentation he then
NADER Well do we and many of our citizens re-
member the meeting held by the wings before the
Athe neum on the evening of the 18th of November
last. AT this meeting it declared by the promi-
nent orator, (whose name we need not mention, as
he is known to you all y "that unless Henry Clay
was elected, our workshops would be closed, our
mechanics thrown out Of employment, and our
children made beggars" This was not only the
idea, but the language, verbatim, as it fell from the
lips of the distinguished gentleman who then ''had
no axe to grind" How beautifully have they been
verified We wish our notwithstanding as well
as democrats-to remember these words, and ponder
well upon them, before they cast another vote for
wing officer. If the very alpha of their party makes
such declarations, what can you expect from the
omegai If the man who, as subsequent events have
fully proven, possesses the confidence of the whig
party greater extent than any other in the State,
boldly makes such declarations with the view of de-
ceving the innocent, and misleading the credulous,
what can you expect from those who are his mere
abetors-the small fry of his party'