Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1847-08-25

! 'oSeHeIi 10 great extent al ulIs uHe. were ii
not for the force of prejudice, we fully believe not
by the Democrats abandoning in any degree their
ground or position, but because candid wings,
ing and confessing their errors can have no other
| honorable resource than to unite in carving on
what they compelled TO confess good and pro-
per for the country9 The Wings at the present.
time, are without any basis of organization. OPP
position on the old grounds Of opposition is known
to be futile. Such opposition is not attempted, but
they keep up sort ola Guerrilla warfare upon the
administration, taking the war and the mode of
conducting il and carrying it on as the basis of at
tack, and here they are almost powerless, and
would be entirely So it not for their abandoned
unscrupnlousness The facts are the country was
compelled to a war, and since its commencement,
whilst no opportunity has been avoided to offer and
attempt 10 procure honorable peace from the
NeX:c-ns it has been most vigorously and success
fully prosecuted. The unceasing activity, energy,
and wisdom displayed by the administration, in
connection with this war are we'll known to the
country, notwithstanding the efforts of the univer-
sal wing press to keep themselves banded together
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opposition here shows the straits to which they
have been reduced and proves that those measures
which have heretofore been wing peculiarly have
been abandoned. But this war will not continue
always The wings cannot always have an oppor-
tunity to misrepresent the administration and
party, on this question: and when they are without
it, what are they to do. They are then certainly
without MISUNDERSTANDING without ground of
opposition, and must of necessity run into the
party whose measures have vindcated themselves,
unlcss-unless what why unless the Democratic
party have advanced TO new measures-have "pro-
gressed" upward and onward in the science of gov
crnment-have approximaed step nearer TO the
consumnation of their labors-the establishment
OF measures securing the rights and Liberties of all
And will they not have done so? OF course they
will Such is Democracy, of necessity. This is
its very essence and SOUL and it is what makes it
and distinguishes it, 1t flows from the progressive
nature OF man-grows out of his intellectual and
moral adyanccment--is the embodiment OF the
spirit and intelligence of the age, and the result of
that enterprise and hope, which is forever looking
ton which periccts the faculties of man and makes
the perfect government. This onward step will
prevent the wings from running into us" Should
we rest quietly where we now are, and say "our
labor is closed we have nothing more to accom-
plish we should have the whole wing party with
u.s. They are moving on to our ground, we are
moving on to take still higher ground, and the
contest between us must and will coutnue. What
precise measures will deveope themselves as the
measures of the Democratic party, know not.
We apprehend total and unrestricted free trade"
will be the one first laid down, and the main one
until accomplished "Protectve tariffs have
been broken down and the theory which would
establish them exploded Next in their turn come
Revenue tariffs nearly as Objectionable. They
must go and it must and will be the Democratic
party. that will do the work There are many other
measures which as yet are but Swallowed forth, but
which will become more fully developed and take
their place measures Of the party. Land eXemp-
! tiOns-land lmitations-noditicalion OF the debt
or and creditor law, by which the community shall
not be outrageousy taxed and ileeced, as they
are now, are some among these measures. There
will be democratic and opposition parties on these
questions, and the contest VII go forward.
We did not write the article in our last to which
the Wing alludes being absent-bu; its views meet
ours, with some exceptions. The idea of the two
p'r,ies rum NJ togethcr,' is simply that the
Wings having been driven from their old positions.
must come on to our ground. in what we have
said have given our own views OF the matter
The Wings although they may and will come to
the ground we now occupy, WILL in all probability,
me- er, in reality merge to any extent in the Demo
cratic party, for the reason that the party will
have progressed as to keep the same relative
distance between them.