The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-11-16
THE NEXT CONGRESS.

the Goth Congress already elected, Designating the
politics Of each member and We added the num-
bers, politically designated, OF the representative
from the States which have not yet elected as they
stand in the 18th Congress, making a total Of i2l
democrats 10 l0l federalists, native, doubtful and
svscsneies. The next House Of Representative
will, by the addition Of Iowa and Wisconsin to the
Union, consist of $50 members. These new Slater
viii, undoubtedly, elect democrats, making, under
the suppostion that the democrats will lose none ia
the States which are elect l25 democrats TO los
federalists, or 90 democratic majority.
The democrats cannot, we admit, hope to hold il
the elections yet to come all the districts now held by
them, and there possibility that the fedenlist'
may obtain even majority. The next House is Of
immense importance, not only it may be called
upon to elect President of the United States, forced
upon them by the Vaccinations Of the federa
leaders, but in ii must originate all bills relating "a
supplies and revenue II becomes the democracy
then, of every portion Of this Union to strain every
nerve, and instead OF suffering the federaliss "a
gain, as they have done in Pennsylvania and New
York, TO place the gain on the other side, and come
into the next Houae with an addition to the ranks
Of the democracy.
To the democracy Of Maine, where there are -four
districts yet to elect, we would say throw aside all
differences Of opinion, unite as one man. raise the
glorious motto of "od Bullion" Everything for u.
ease--noiLing for men," and bearing in mind the
importance Of a single vote, there is not a doub,
that "you ean if you ,siir carry every distric,
against federalism and aboltonism united.
New smpshire-gIorious New Hampshire, the
stronghold of democratic principles-the idos oil
March will not, we know, find you recreant to your
faith. Your people have seen enough of the mis-
rule Of federalism and aboli,onism combined, and
you will redeem youpelffrom their thraldom. We
hope and trust that every democrat in that gallant
little State will take the field determined that victory
shall follow the standards of democracy, and
that her voice in the next House will be, as it has
been for years, undivided. ............
In Rhode Island, may we not hope that the spirit
of democracy, which has long borne up against
Algerine tyranny, will at last triumph over it, and
send at least one good and true democrat to Con.
gress' sr.#.. ar ..... ....... .. .r.
We have been accustomed to view the true and
tried democracy of this little State martyrs in
glorious cause They have stood by their principles
like men Of the olden time whom the stake and the
faggot could not frgh,en; and we have honored them
for their zeal and devotion. They must and will,
or later, triumph, and we hope and believe
their time is at hand. 81 .h .... ....t..'
The democracy Of Connecticuthaye only to make
one strong and united effort, and victory is theirs.
What they have so often done they can again do;
and the crisis is one in which the whole country de-
mands Of them to come up boldly to the rescue.
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, all
southern States, with peculiar rights guaranteed to
them by solemn compact in the constitution--will
they, they stand with folded arms, and see the
cohorts of abolitionism uniting with the federal ar
my in Massachusetts, Vermont, and other northern
States, for the purpose of making battle upon the
south, and battering down the very constitution it.
self No, no, no; they cannot, and they will not
Several of them will follow the example of South
Carolina and present solid phalanx, opposed with
heart and soul to the mad schemes of those northern
Hotspurs who have calculated the worth of the
constitution, and stand ready to sacrifice it at any
moment when they procure sufficient political aid
to do it with impunity Even "Old Rip" will wake
terpose his 9gis to the constitution! We hope
we'll for the old North State yet.
We have word to say specially to the democra-
cy OF the Old Dominion. She stands now with but
one solitary federast in her delegation, Thus ought
she to stand in the 30th Congress-; and thus do we
sincerely hope she will stand For years has she
battled noby for her rights, and trumphantly has
she sustained them. The tariff that her democracy
have advocated has been granted. The cry Of
'rePeal" and restoration of the act of '42,n
will be raised in the next Congress, and il will
require men Of the sternest stuff to withstand the
effort that federalism and its aduncts will make to
restore the power of the lords Of the loom and the
spindle. st""N ID" ." .~-'t
Weapproach this good "Old Dominion" with feel
ings which we cannot adequately express Whilst
citizen and resident within her honored borders.
we fought with her; we fought by the side of her
democracy; we fought under the banners of Jeffer-
son and Madison--not because they were her BAN
ners exclusively, but because they had inscribed
upon them the great principles Of the republican
party. We contended for contracted, sectional,
southern influence, but for the great and fundamen-
tai principles Of the Unionor the interests Of the
whole nation, which were involved with them--for
the purity of the provisions Of federal and limited
constitution, with specified powers, as set forth by
the authors Of that inestimable document In every
stage ofour political actionin the midst of the va
rious struggles which we have wtnessed--n the war
Of 1912, and amid the traitorous deliberations
Of the Hartford convention--amid the throes of
the Missouri question---amid the excitement pro-
duced by an excessive tariff and Modification
amid the storm of abolitionsrn--at every mo-
ment and in every crisis wehave kept eye inces.
sanity fixed upon the sheet-nnchor Of our prosperity
and our hopes, and, next to Liberty herself the
great element of our glory and our blessings upon
this sacred Union itself We have eft the "Od Do
mlnon;" but the same principles which have
guided the republican party for than fifty years.
continue to be the polar star of our own humble |
oarque We sent them forth in the prospectus
which ushered this paper into existence. Yet since