The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-07-02

and proved by the trying circumstances"
With the most painful reluctance, Mr. Wloughby New
on we now appeal TO you confirm every word have
charged against your party. We know your diidence
and Willingly would we spare you the pain of tesiying
against yonr friends But you the first instance a
voluntary niormer, and we needs have your assist
You were of the high priests whigery in 1910
and must be presumed know all the nay steries You
helped spread that ne" Now don't ''cramp YOURSELF"
but speak out like man
son reviewing the of the last years. no impair
ial observer fail to perceive that the disasters which
have betallen the wing party, and blight the
prosperity OF the country have resulted, in great
are, from the OF candor and fairness in avow-
ing and maintaining our principles, especially in vir-
discoumging circumstances. The wings proper in
small minority throughout, the Union parry had been
ton to the administration of Mr. Van Buren, Our enger-
ness Tor success induced us to extend our nets SO
embrace birds of every feather We not only asked no
questions OF those who offered themselves allies Tor tho
war; but our own convention Richmond actually repu-
dated NE Leading principles and measures OF tie wing
party We thus entered the campaign dscordan mass,
some lighting for principle, and others for freedom, and
TO the administration OF Mr.. Van Buren,. We had long
and arduous contest and achieved what supposed be
glorious triumph but what advantages have we reaped
from laborsl The fruits of all tolls have turned
rhos 'one more such victory, and undone. The
reachey OF the presen, Executive, and OF some Of his
the wing address of 1870 And impartial history may
difficult TO determine whether the convention is
address, those very scrupulous politicians for avang
themselves Oft petext for abandoning their parry
that impartial history viii find half so difficult
determine that question as you seem 10 imagine.
SO much OF his political opinions General Harrison
under the direction of his committee permitted to
avow, rather to dissembe before going into the can
vass of 1910. What followed is known to the country
Their game of dodgng" brought the federalists into
power, and proved that, like the Bourbons, they had
'earned nothing and forgotten nothing" during their
long exile from Office The hubbub OF office beggars at
Washington killed the inrm and worthy gentleman who
had thus been carried into presidency in little than
a MONTH But his official life, short it was, was long
enough to enable him to unvel the base game which self
sh partisans had been playing in his He called
extra session of Congress, during which Mr. Clay famed
the ascendant and which had for its object to fost upon
the country, at fell swoep, the whole system OF fed
era measures which, during the whole canvass, federal
ism had carefully dsavo,usd First the list stood
great bank This was the principal agony OF the extra
session. But the veto of Mr. Tyler showed that in over
reaching the people, federalism had also overeached ITSELF
and henceforth the President divorced from his par
ty- The regular sessions came round, and brought with
them high federal tariff, which Mr.. Rives denounced
than the Tariff of 1s2s-a great scheme of Land
Dstribution-an attempted abolition of the Veto Power
big plan of Internal Improvemen-and, the natural
finale of such doings sweeping Bankrupt Law to sponge
out at millions upon millions of debt Never before
the history OF any country did any party shameless
y falsify all its solemn declarations before the peo
pie, Every prominent federal measure studousy
dsavowed in the canvass and then with equal zeal press
ed upon the country in Congress.
And federalism did its very best to play the game
in the canvass of 1914. The same disgusting system
OF buoonery, with slight variations, which had
been found successful in the former OF 1910,
again attempted to be pracsed on the people. The
log cabin paraded-doggrel out Of the "bue
cover" set to popular airs, chanted in their political
synagogues-every effort, in short, was made to strike
the grosser senses, and to divert the mind from reec
ton and the serious discussion of principle. On
the Texas question, the complete Letter Writer"
with pen fresh nbbed, took the field. There was
the Raleigh letter for the north, and the Alabama
letter for the south-the disavowal by Mr.. Clay Of
any "personal objection to annexation" coupled with
the assertion that such annexation "would be the
adoption of a war with Mexico" On the tariff ques.
tion the Letter Writer" had less occasion to equiv
ocac. Twenty years of speeches and votes had dent
fled him with the policy OF Projections" while in 1874
his dsavowa OF the principle of protection" and his
votes for the compromise act, still fresh in the
minds of men. On the bank question, he was con.
tent accept, without disclaimer, Mr. Webscrs me
rable declaration that the bank-that same bank which
Federalism tabooed Mr. Tyler for vetoing in ls4had
become an obsolete idea in 1911. But. by this time
the country had learned to estimate Alright the polcad
claraons of the Bourbons Men had learned that these
declarations, however fresh and vigorous in
had not vitality enough to survive successful cleo.
ton. In eectng Mr. Polk, the people showed their wise
distrust OF party, whose policy it is to conceal its
issues from the people, and whose advent to power is
always followed by the swift Justification Of all its
pledges.
And yet, plainly enough, federalism at this moment
sticks to its dodge" Where, this very hour, are
the issues which, party in opposition, it ventued to
rally upon, during the last Congress- What has be-
come of that loud cry OF Repea' against the tariff oil
1885, which to ring through the country just 50 soon
as the new tariff enacted and which, upon Mr.
Websters solemn and reiterated assurance was to re-
sound in the Senate Chamber ''tbe very first day
the ensuing short session. What has become of the OPP
position to the Constitutional Treasury What has be-
of the Bank issue and Of the Land Distribution
policyi Federalism "never mentions them One
and ALL these cardinal points of federal policy appear
have gone to the limbo of "obsoete IDEAS" And what
has taken their place ? Opposition 70 the war Thi, \
the siibbols, of federalism And what significance
has this issue at the present moment Is it meant to ar
aign the justice of the war; If so, it comes too late
when the war is raging in the heart of Mexico lst
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