The daily union., 1846-09-24
THE SPIRIT OF THE wHIG PRESS.
Ennla for Lhe ps0pLs.

Facts for the people
Every days mail brings US, in the lesser whig
journals, a long list of extravagances and alb
surdues in political sentiment, which we do not
deem il worth our while to notice. Within the last
few days, however, we have seen in three leading
journas-perhsps we may say The three leading
whig journalism different sections of the country,
declarations of political sentiment and policy which
are too important to pass without comment.
We ask the people, in choosing which party they
will trust, to read these manifestoes of whig pur-
poses and feelings, which we give below. They
will show to every honest mans entire con-
viction, how desperate and reckless a faction the
great wing party Of days past, has now become.
Judging from these declarations, we should con-
cude that the wing party, driven to despair by the
success Of the administration, and the triumphant
progress Of its measures had at last concluded finally
10 cut loose from the people, from the cardinal inter-
ess Of federal Union, and from the simplest and
most elemental principles Of sound national policy.
not too much To say, in sober strctness Of speech
that the party whose leading organs up
such declarations Of principle flags to fly at their
mast heads ought TO be called, and to be considered
the 'pary of desPeradoes." This may seem strong
language. But the wings have long borne the
aPpellation Of the party Of expedents" Let the
people Judge of the nature of the expedients to
which the whig leaders avow themselves ready
to resort
| The New York Courier and Enquirer openly
avows its desire that national debt of $50 900 900
of dollars should be fastened upon the country in
| rJa tar,H Of L,t...
and minimum,! Here is the Courer's language:
Experience has shOton that NATIONAL DEBT is
| TO Us NO INJURY. All our difficulties have arisen
since the payment Of the last debit and IT, all will
admit, stability in legislation be all-importan for
| our prosperity, sATIosAL DEBT DOUBTLESS NE
| cEssART. GIVE Us A NATIONAL DEBT OF A HUNDRED
AND FIFTY MILLIONS, and the wants. Of the treas
ury will insure stable tariff for rsuenus, which
will give US all the protection that can be desired
not the tariff Of 1912, but one Of a discriminating
character based upon specific duties and minimums,
pih the rates Of duties but little II any higher, than the
nso tariff Of Mr.. Walker"
The National Intelligencer avows, in the strongest
terms, its appreciation of ANY BRIrIsH INTERVENTION
to settle our controversy with Mexico. A greater
outrage on all true American feeling has probably
never been perpetroted by an American journal.
Viewed in all its aspects and in connexion with the
whole Of the Inteigencer in relation to our
foreign policy, this declaration rivals, if it does
surpass in odiousness the atrocities Of the fed
eral press in 1919. Here is the Intelligencers
shameful language. Let it be kept before the peo-
pie the manifesto Of the whig metropolitan jour-
nal--ths national organ of the whig party:
| GAS the war with Mexico ,oas begun ,cithout anu
adequate cause, and is continued without any ade-
quate object, believe that the iphole country (all the
paying part of it, at leas) will rejoice at ANY IN
TERVENTION which shall bring it to an early
and reputable end"
But the Boston Courier, whig journal of the
very highest standing in Massachusetts, possessing,
undoubtedly, the unimpaired confidence of the whig
party there, goes even beyond this declaration of
the lntelligencer. 1t afirms that OUR UNION is
WHOLLY WORTHLESS, that It is no aduantags
10 the free States, and that "the flag of dissolution
is the banner under which the wings ought at once
to rally. Here is the Boston Courier's language
Let it receive the sober attention of the people:
"THR VALUE OF THE UNIoN.-In note to the
editor Of the Post correcting erronsous report of
his remarks at the whig convention, Mr.. G. 8. Hill
lard says Il said that the annexation of Texas had
| in my opinion, given a moral right to calculate
the value of the Union. then went on to say that
the value of the Union was still, however, far too
great to be calculated We wish Mr. Hard had
gone little further, and stated wherein this aroo
greai-o-bs.calcuiaed value consists and we hope he
will avail himself of the use of some of the news
paper presses is always at his service-to i'm
part such desirable information to his fellow-citi
zens. FoR OUR OWN PART, WE ADvAN-
TAGE THAT THE FREE STATES DERIVE FROM THE
Union. To the Shareholders, we admit, it may be
Of value; for it gives them the supremacy in the ma
tional legislature, and consequently, they make Just
| n w n heir OVn in
tercss, without regard to the interests of the free
States. Their senators and representatives in Con-
gress, with the aid Of the dough-faces which they
can always command from the north, never fail to
secure constitutional majority in their favor, upon
every question affecting southern policy; and that
policy is, to extend the of slavery all the
southern and southwestern regions Of North Amer
ca and to deprive the people of the free States of the
income of their labor, and make them dependant
on the slave labor Of the south, on the pauper-
labor of Europe. Ii is easy enough for a man
whose property consists Of negroes, who never
brushed his own coat and who does not know no W
to help himself to draught Of water, to tell what
the value of the Union is to him; and it is wise in
| him to defer the calculation. But MIR. Hiard is not
such man; and we should think he might have
seen enough of the vauned chipairy and generosity of
the south to be pretty nearly ready to take his slate
and pencil, and begin to figure up the account of
| profit and loss We are sorry to learn from his
| own hand that he thinks the value too great to be
/
this enormous mountain whose magnitude fright
ems his Imagination, is less than a mole-hill--a
mere shadow. II has none of the properties Of mat
ter neither length nor breadth; neither shape nor
solidty; we had almost said, no color; but it has
the color of all shadows II ia black-all over black
The blessed sun sheds no ray Of light upon it, to re-
lieve the terror of its imaginary existence. The
value of the Union far too great to be caculated'
Too snan you should hare said. Put do,on your de-
cimal point; place ffiy cPhers al The right multiply
A = A -. IA =. : ss,
gips an approximation 10 the sum required
''I is prsposerots folly for northern to talk Of
the palue Of the Union. They must make up their
minds to one of two things' they must submit to be
governed by save-owners, or break up this Union,
which operates so unequslly, and has already de-
stroyed every fragment of political equality. II to
talk Of the latter appa the hearts Of our young men,
and shatter the nerves of the old ones, let them
choose the former, and forever hereafter hold their
peace There is no alternative; and the sooner you
boi fhs H,o of d;ssoI,fion or bend vour knees for