The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-02-27
THE WINGS AND GREAT BRITAIN.

s.t among them, are plsying jus, now pery foolish
sams A child may see through il. Ever since
Inc I,h Of March last the wings have rallied almost
exclusively on the cry that democratic policy in this
country must eyenluats in war with England.
Ay.,nst British interference the democrats brought
Texas into the Union. The wings stood up for the
right of England to interfere, and urged Engish
hostility as one reason against annexation.
Against the British theory, the President re-
Dsalsd Mr.. Monroe's anu-eolonizaton doctrine, APP
Piled to North America. The wing journals, for
gstful Of everything that Americans should remem-
Der. upbraided and secuted the doctrine as rabid
Anglophobis.
Agains, British violence, trampling upon all law
md comfy on the shores Of the La Plata, the dem
cratic press spoke out in protest. The wing jour
nails bad no word to say against the British deed,
but poured out all their wrath upon the democratic
d.nuneiation Of Il.
Against some portions Of the Washington treaty,
in itself an abstract and eptome Of wing policy
towards England treaty alike extraordinary and
Questionable in some Of lis supuations, and in the
manner in which it was negodsted-asainst some
portions Of this treaty, inhicting deep wounds on
our national sensbility-wounds the scars Of which
are not yet effaced-the democratic journals have
from time to time objected and for every objection
however measured and moderate, the wing press
has held ever ready its frowning and indignant re-
proof The treaty in its view dissipated for the time,
least. the terror ofBrtish arms; and so it mattered
uIe that it surrendered American rights STAYED off
the most material issues between the two nations,
ave England all the military facilities she asked for
and stipulated, by most questionable exercise Of
The ,reaty-making power, that a squadron OF eighty
guns should be always kept up on the coast OF AT
nca while the right search question was put in
.beyance as nest-egg for future difficulties. Eng
and was well satisfied with il; and the lntegencer
Co. covered it with panegyrc.
And them when the Oregon question, lodged IN
that treaty at the very moment when English policy
had reused France, when Eng gland had her hands
full Of business on the continent inherited from the
doings Of Lord Palmerston in the foreign office,
while as yet the "cordial understanding" was not
while the French government and nation were with US
hen, even as the French nation is with no,o-when
the Oregon question came up, having been SO lodged
by wing msdemeanor at the moment when 1t
should have been settled, and when Mr. Polk, pro-
claiming at once that the days of wing policy to-
wards England were now numbered and finished,
took his firm stand for Oregon, and called on the
country to sustain him--then, in moment, the
Anglo-manis of the wing press reused itself up to
roar and lash its sides, and shake its "brinded
name" "Our claim is humhug,' cries one jour
nal. "The claim of England above ago is better
han our claim" smoothly insinuates another.
The administration is mad for war with England"
Congress to the rescue" was the general wing
Aorus; and then came the wall and the lamenta-
dOn-,he Jeremiad Of unmanly fear and blind fac
lion, and luke-warm love of country-"Engand is
20 strongw "Look at her steam navy" "What
multitude of guns she has at Woolwich ~ 'Do
ieep the peace Hold on to the country if you oan;
but ifnot, why even let England have her way in
he matter, and so, at all events, keep the peace till
England shall choose to covet something else that is
not hers !"
We put it to the candor of men Of all parties
hat this has been the tone for months past, Of Q
hrge portion of the wing press. Its comments
what we say. The one charge, thousand time.
nsppsuring in q thousand forms--for falsehood i,
Proeus-the one charge against the democracy
and the democratic administration has been, that i
nugh, to stir up war with England.
Now mark how the tables are suddenly turned
Note the udicrous effrontery with which the who'll
Vhg hunt catches the new SCENT and starts off baynl
OPen-moulhed upon the new track. Experience o
the past, and shuddering fear for the future fore
England to open her ports to the teeming product
our soil. Pending delicate negotiations, sh
'nds US word that she is in want Of corn. TIL
very crisis comes which the friends Of free trad
this Countrywide democratic party-have loni
been looking for. 1t Is the very moment to do tn
democratic deed of commercial and financial justic
and equality. The tariff of lS42-against whicl
he democrats protested when it passed-agains
which they resolved at Baltimore-against whicl
hey rallied in canvass--against which they place.
NE present administration in power-agans
Smch they came up to Congress from tn
West, and the South and the North, fully com
ns'ed-against which they are sustained by all eco
aOm'eal doctrine, by the best modern example, an
" the clear tendency Of the times everywhere, a
we'll asby the universal demand throughout GU
'Sn country for equal justice to all classes at tn
Aands Of our law, and in conformity with our con
a'uton, the tariff Of ls42 against which the dem
''ranc party now stands thus embatted and thu
nSenehed on its old battle-ground, and under II
ane-honOred and victorious flag; the tariff Of 1876
Ne offspring Of the political debaucheries {
Ne baccanal canvass Of 1840 at this me
M stands between us and the great graf
ND meat market Of twenty-five millions
GsO, NOV on short allowance Of food, in the BIRTHS
'npr,l
From the very date Of its advent to power, tn
administration has been in every way preparing
Sa, by the collection Of information on the subjeC
N0oy the full prssentment of it's own views, to d.