The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-08-01

tHafH - fNANt .traAAy ssseafiS IN 70 uscu
10 excite panic, &C., &c. 1t cannot avail Up
on this subject the'"Trenton Emporium" of yester-
day morning has the following article, which de-
serves the attention of our readers ,....
THE COUNTRY RUINED AGAIN.
"Never was there 50 unfortunate country as that
which we endearingly call our own Will the
reader be good to glance back over our political
history for two or three generations, and call to
mind how repeatedly it has been plunged into
mourning--how often il has been undone-how fire.
quenty and how irretrievably it has been ruined?'
ssIhe election of Thomas Jefferson in 1900 ruined
the country past all remedy the declaration of war
in 1912 was the signal of still more deplorabe r-
in; and when the great, the immortal Jacksonville
indomitable military chieftan-was elevated to the
presidency, the wailing over our poor country's
latest and greatest ruin truly heart-rending
STILL bad as was then our stuation-deeply as the
country was clothed in lis weeds of wo-it was soon
to know sadder and more fatal ruin.
"Who does not remember the scenes of 1894
when the of the iron will dared to remove the
deposites from the Golfers ofthe great monster in
Chestnut street? Who has forgotten the miles
of petitions with which Congress was flooded
the pictures of distress which were drawn by
Webster and Clay and the other champions of the
great whig party--the elongated visages which the
politicians assumed-the deep and awful ruin which
made the canal solitude, and the lake desert
waste of waters ~ rs.
"But alas our ruin did not stop here The
monster must be wound up The decree has gone
forth from the man who never yet had shrunk from
danger or from duty. The monster must be de-
stroyed--the proud money-king must be brought
low /! Alas for our poor, lost doomed, ruined
country! Every business man in the country must
now go down. How could merchants ever collect
their debtsi How were we to negotiate exchanges /
What was to become of the great and glorious cred
it system 1t was now clear that the country
had otn fhp oh
sink under this the latest and greatest ruin of ALL
eve cannot revivify those doeful times. We
cannot recall the sackcloth and ashes which dwelt
in the vacant look-n the tone and conversation of
the mercantile crcles-which hung like many
sad bannerson the walls of our political Zion. 1t
was utterly impossible for business men to get
must give up; Mr. Nicholas Bddle
must be sent far away.to New York, and the mer-
chants must get down on their knees before him.
and beg Of him to save the poor, distracted down
trodden, ruined country.
'Reader, do you remember these things Can you
recall TO mind the time when the Courier and En-.
quirer proposed to send an army Of ten thousand
men to Washington in order to drive the President
from his noble frmness by physical force1 Do you
see before you the armies of committees-the ma
chinery of the wing press--the small po.house poll
great merchants all crying runi ruin y
ruiniW If so, you have learned something of the
appliances of whigery and the means to which il
resorts in order to accomplish its purpo-
SEES. Ga
"But it seems that wehre not done with ruin even
yet. We have had an odious, unjust, abomnable
Tariff; a law which enabled the manufacturers to
nmass enormous wealth while it bore heavily on the
great agricultural interests of the country which
protected branch Of business at the expense of
The rest; which Disseminated in favor of one class
and against another.
can attempt has been made to readjust this tariff
and make its burdens and its advantages more equal
In the bill the immense farming interests Of our
whole great country have been regarded, while the
still continue to be heavily protected
Still this class are, on the whole the losers, while
he great body Of the people the gamers.
"And how is this effort met Precisely as every
other truly democratic measure has been met from
he foundation Of the government to the present
lime. The princes of the loom and the forge the |
men who have been apassing their thousands by |
he unjust cunning Of whig legislation, the rich |
companies which have been dividing their Is, and
20, and 30, and even 40 per cent per annum, have
again started the cry Of ruin, ruin ruin: and men
really seem to swallow il with as much relish as |
hough they had never been humbugged before.
1--WE trust that the democrats will remember that
heir old federal opponents psnc-makers by pro-
ession that Notwithstanding all the ruin which has
allen upon the country, like the clouds Of Egyptian
ocusts, we have continued to grow and prosper;
nat liberty did not degenerate into n6delity after
he election Of Jefferson; that the war OF 1912 did
not end in subiection, but in glory; that Jackson
vent down to the tomb beloved by all at home and