The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-03-07
wAa-sEEKINe-To WHAT ENDl

the facts arc nothing; the 19y" is everything. HI
chooses his cry as the bowler chooses his ball for
| crack hit; and whsn il 10 once chosen, Tadpolt
sticks to IL TO the last. The Tadpoles OF the whis
opposition have chosen the pu "ery;" but unfortu
nalsy, Of late, they have seemed To lack the perse
veranoe OF the true Tadpole Of the story. To al
aek tho ancient tariff policy Of the democrats, tn,
Wigs, az we have before taken occasion TO say
nave recently shown signs Of replacing their wal
A. ay with another, which happens TO be in fat con
uadietion with the first Your Tsdpoe does no
mind such trhs as self-contrudietion, however anC
80, ''ind.,siry sold for Oregon" was taken up, by
way Of experiment, as "oy" interlocutory ans
,pisOdieal. Considering that Mr.. Webster, som,
Two or three years ago, was the FRS
man 10 breach in his speech at Balimors
The idea Of settling differences and strengthen
England by commercial treaty, which should
open wide the ports Of England, Sir Robert Peel
now proposes TO our Indian corn and other bread,
SUITS, in return for an arrangement by which we
should take more Of English manufactures, (not
cotton and woollen, we presume -eonsidering this
d,a Of Mr. Webster, We say II was tolerably bold
sIPsdisnt- quite worthy Of the party ofsrpsdisnts
10 Jake up at this late day the "ery that the dem
Ocus were to pull down the tariff Of 1912, not be-
cause it is unjust and odious, no. because they are
and always have been pledged sgaisst it, but because
ucA course pould ooneiiiais England and get Oregon
ysacsabiy. But somehow this new "cry" Of the
Wigs, bold az it il, and heartily Is Il has been
"crisd, - has not seemed TO take. People think it a
ue TOO monstrous, and. for the last fe~ days when
heard at all, it has echcsd mainly In very remote
Districts 1t may yet linger fsebly sometime longer,
with ghost-stores and witchcra, in the more mac
csssibe mountain-passes of Vermont, but il viii
soon die out. ....f. .|.
But the whig journals are not daunted-not they
by one false move. They are used to such Little
mishaps; and 30 hey have now come back Justify
and with good lungs to the old "wu" chorus
The administration wanis par-and war for the
whole of Oregon ~ "Did not Mr.. Polk say our IL
lie clear and unquestionabier ~ "Did not
Mr.. Buchanan prope l-most unblushingly prove
it-by rrefragable facts and arguments p" "And
when the title was so proved, did not Mr.. Polk and
Mr.. Buchanan DO most atrociously decline to put
the matter in arbiraiisn1" "And is il not perfectly
clear that all this was done with malice prepense, to
get up an OREGos WARP
Now we submit 10 any man who reads the
newspapers, is not this fair account of the wing
"cry'" Is not this notc-has il not been for months
the monoionous burden Of the wing clamor' Has
whig opposition on the Oregon question, so far as
il has made its appearance in the public journals,
planted itself on any broader or any other platform
than this F..''. - -.
In this view, exclusively, have the wing journal,
painted out so Aagrantly, again and again, and ad
naassant, the power of England and the horrors OF
war-our commerce and our flag swept at once
from the ocean in storm of blood and fre--our
cities bombarded--our seacoast ravaged-our citi
zens slain--our business at stand-our stocks
coming down with crash--Wall street in tribula-
ton, and refusing to be cornforted-our treasury
drained, and orr capitalists tieng up their purse
strings against government loans, while the great
plague Of direct taxes covers and devours the whole
andii the locus,s of Egypt and, to crown ALL Orc.
gon itself bockaded from the mouth Of the Columbia
to the straits of Fuca by the fleets Of England, is thus
los, to us forever, because the administration will
rush int ysr for a .'boundary line'-a war 80 ne
famous ~ to csll down upon our devoted heads a,
once the just judgments Of Heaven, and the imprc.
cations Of the civilized world This is the whg
panorama Of that immense national ruin which, ac-
cording the view ofhe wing press, the President
and his supporters in Congress straining every
nerve to accomplish!
Asp 70 WHAT END, For Dhat puvpose Il IL, &C.
eording to this charge, that the President and his
advisers seek to do this deed' What are they to
sain--what are they charged with seeking to gain
by thus laying our country low' Why, RE.
ELECTIoN-a continuance ofpo,oeri 1t is to gel
neW lease Of po,oer from hepeope in ls4s--so runs
this accusaiion--that Mr. Polk and his binet are
now toiling with might and main, in 1916, ia
plunge the people into untold depths Of wretched.
ness, deeper than did ever plummet sound v
They Dish to ruin the country IN vies Of the coming
cunuass--they seek to laoerate the bosoms, crush
the business, desoiste the hearths, and rob the
pockets Of the people, to the end that the people
may come up to the ballot-boxes, in mass, during
the autumn Of ls4s, and pote them into poper aneo!
Thst-just hot---is the best "cry" which the Tad.
poles Of whigism know how to invent and to echo
at this crisis, through the land
Now, IL I'VE missiats or eraggerste this party posi-
ton and clamor Of the wing press; we are sorry fol-
IT and that for double reason. First, il we must
have wing opposition on the Oregon question
THIS is just the ground which, speaking merely Al
party men and In piew Of party success, we should be
glad to see our opponents take; and, secondly be
cause IL we are wrong in our statement, we shall