The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-11-07
THE BEGINNING OF THE END

Under this CAPTION the Intelligencer of this morn
ing strikes the key note Of the wing peans, which
rising throughout the country upon the result of
some Of the recent elections, and especially of that
in the State of New York. Tho whig organ con-
| cludes chat our President and his cabinet are by
this time convinced that they have forfeited the pub
lie conhdence-that is, the confidence of their own
party; that of the other, they never possessed"
We give very different explanation of the result
of the New York election, and, in due time, we
may take occasion to lay our views upon it, some
what in detail, before our readers. Meanwhile we
mark, with some curiosity and interest, the various
forms of braggadocio which the wing journals, in
the first intoxicaion Of triumph little hoped, and
not long enduring, are parading before us. We have
learned by experience tho value of wing brags
They a mushroom growth, and we know how
suddenly they spring up, and how surely they soon
disappear. To boast without scruple, to hope with
out stint, and then to bear swift disappointment and
defeat mcekly enough, if not in sienceall this be-
longs to the wing character and the wing destiny
The "party Of expedents" now and then finds
brief run Of luck in its favor, just as the gambler
turns mp series OF trumps for short while, before
his marked cards detected. Less than two years
will suffice to prove-what the next biennial cleo
ton in New York, will completely denionstrae-that
the "expedients" just resorted to by the wings in
that State have been unusually desperate and suic-
dal.
We notice the WING boastings now, therefore,
merely to state that, in Washington at least, thew
have in no whit shaken the matured and established
confidence felt by the most prominent men of the
democratic party in the soundness and strength of
all its principles and measures, and in their ultimate
triumph. From the recent verdicts Of Pennsylva-
MIA and of New York, we appeal with an assured
trust to the sober second thought of the people ~
The great democratic measures which have been
carried outby this administration are as yet in their
adaptation to the present state Of the country UNI
tried. Experience will, as we believe, surely COM
mend them to the public favor.
But while we believe as firmly as ever that the
cause of democracy in the country is safe now and
always we are free to avow deep regret the de-
feat Of Mr.. Wright. Nowhere is the combination of
circumstances, all of them adverse, and some of
them MISUNDERSTANDING against which no
man could have stood-which have produced the
temporary overthrow Of that great statesman more
profoundly or more universally amented than at
Washington But there is at least one consolation,
apart even from assurance that the popular sen.
timent in New York will soon come round again
to the right 1t is, that defeat has impaired in no
ot the established confidence Of the democracy in the
character and the abilities of Sas Wright The
base elements which have banded themselves to-
gether in short-lved harmony against him, have
turned even his momentary overthrow into an au-
curry Of future triumph We have observed in |
some Of the more utterly mendacious wing journals
suggestions unusually false even for those quarters
that Mr. defeat has not been altogether unpleas-
ing to ofthe members Of the administration The
idea has particle Of truth, and no color Of proba-
biy. We undertake to say--and we speak the |
fact as we know it-that Mr.. Wright carried with
him, throughout his canvass, the strong wishes Of
the whole administration for his success