The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-05-06

Its proper affinity is with the southern democracy
that democracy under whose wise craftsmanship
the democratic party has been always successful
and the Union prosperous. Had the President lis
tened to their counsels his party would now have
been unitsd-the Oregon question with all its fear
full commissions and losses would not have occur
red-and, consistently with all his former principles,
he would have moved on in the path of honor and
true glory. Not only disastrous failure, but dishon-
or must attend his subseryiency TO the West Will
he sanction their huge hsrbor and river bill, now
pending in the Senate If he does, he will be re-
creant to all his former principles on internal I'M
provement and II he does not, and yeoes this bill,
what will he gain by all he has done TO crafty their
Oregon rapidity They will have nothing but
curses for his administration and his fame. Leave
them he must, if he would not be personally dis
honoredi leave them he must, If he would not have
his party broken up, and his administration tram
Piled down. No administration ever sat In Wash
ington which could Withstand the array OF talent
and power which now faces him on the Oregon
question. Let him fall back to his old friends and
his old principles, and he may yet retrieve the past
and win the gratitude and applause OF the people IN
the future. His first error, in rejecting Mr.. Cal
houn from the State Department, seems to have
followed his administration at every step. IL 10
now clear that this was not an error merely IN the
selection Of men, but Of essential policy Although
the confusion and losses OF the past rretrieVa-
be he yet restore his administration TO success
and power"
Now, can any man in his senses believe that any
part Of the southern democracy will endorse, or aP-
prove, or assume any connexion whatsoever win,
such language as this' Can any southern states
man deliberately consent to take such tone and
bearing as this toward the teeming and growing
West
The attack upon the administration in the para
graph we have quoted, is, for the reasons we have
stated, a very slight matter. Let the wings pick
up the broken and sdgeless weapon which the DEM
ocratic party filings away. As an instrument oil
attack, no matter in what hands, it is only con-
temptibe. But to the republicans Of the South, we
put the question distinctly, what one reasonable re-
quirement Of the South has Mr.. Polk failed to
comply with What one southern political
doctrine has not received justice, and most
ample, Justice at his hands1 Is it the tariff
doctrine? Point out the one state paper in which
the true tariff policy Of our country, understood
by the South, is better presented, placed in all It's
length and breadth upon hrmer foundations, than in
the message Of the President, and in the Treasury
report, drawn in pursuance Of it Has Mr.. Polk
been false to the South on the Texas question Has
he failed Of his duty to the South the question Of
internal improvements Has he ever declared him.
self in favor Of the bill to which the Mercury refers
Has he not strongly recommended the constitutional
treasury What one southern interest has Mr..
Polk betrayed, or shown any signs Of betrayng, or
thought of betraying'
Ii is the humor of the wings, and sometimes
Of our friends TO hold the administration RESPONSE
ble for what appears in these columns. Well, be it
so. Do not zoe stand firm on the southern constitu.
tonal PLATFORM or, rather, the true platform Of the
old republican faith-not indeed, TO the exclusion,
or the injury Of other great interests, but with due
regard to all the great interests of all the country in
conformity with the strict construction doctrines Of
the constitution. Refer to our prospectus of May
last, and to our extended comments upon it, pub
shed on the first of this month-hold, if you
please, the administration responsible for errors
and hereses and then, book in hand, tell US what
fault the South, what fault any republican in any
portion Of our country, has to find with this admin
istration!
And is it such an administration that sheet like
the Mercury, false to its party in vifying, by the
pen of a foreigner, an administration brought into
power by that party and laborng to carry ot to the
letter its party pocy-fase to its country in casting
wholesale disparagement upon its oountrys claims
and rights in foreign conroversy-alse even TO its
own sectional interests in thus seeking drag into dis
credit before the party its elected PRESIDENT is
for such monitor to stand up here and advise this ad
ministraon to sacrifice the great West as the home
of "coarse fury" "reasonless policy" and "unscru
pulous rapacity'' What pretensons has the "Mer
curry" to the privileges of an adviser, when it is
now so utterly destitute of common discretion thai
| it would offend the West by the most indecent
| charges at the very moment when the West il
about to carry out its enlightened views Of free
| trade, and to cooperate with the South in the re-
ducton of an abominable tariff The South appeal.
to the great West for assistance on this great ques
ton. 1t appeals to every section Of this country
for Justice to the communication relief of the grea
agricultural interest from the oppression Of the
ufacturers 1t appeals to the North-to New York
| to the middle States--and to the mighty West TIL
South most anxously desires the cooperation Of thu
West. 1t is necessary to carry out the great anti
tariff measure. And yet at this very moment this
blind and infatuated paper is heapng Goals of fir
upon the head Of tho West, and insulting her citizen
with the opprobious charges of " coarse fury" ant
"unscrupulous rnpacity." What claim has the Mer
curry to present itself as Mr.. Folks adviseri
is not his friend. 1t has been lukewarm in his sup
port from the first and is now only the more danger
ous because it fights under false colors and has no
the political manliness show its true flag. Regard
full of the honor and success Of this administration,
assured that it will do its whole duty to the Who'll
country, rejoice in the knowledge that such coun
sells will not he Needed. Let them be carried, tn
sooner the BETTER to the wing camp where they
belong. discredit and an injury to the demo
cratic party let them appear henceforth, as hereto
fore, reproduced not in the columns of democrats
journals, but side by side with kindred paragraph
in the New YoRK COURIER and the New YonK Elk
PRESS 1t will be notable and noble partnership
We are indebted to the northern papers for tn
few extracts we have copied from the English pa
pers. The New York Express of yesterday state
that the mail by the Cambria had not arrived at Bos
/ ton nj half mast g. A. m, on Monday, We sha