The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-06-08
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
TUESDAY NIGHT, JUNE 8. Is47.


In the war OF lSl2-have the positions and lnnu
of the two great antagonist principles and parties
OF democracy and federalism in this country been more
strikingly il, contrast than at the present moment.
This is true of our domestic policy. The two great
measures of our home pocy--the commercial, and
the other fnanciahe tariff for and the divorce
of bank and Stae-both measures OF cardinal moment,
for which the democracy have so long labored, are IN
full and triumphant operation. II IS part OF the glory OF
the present administration 10 have placed them on an I'M
pregnabe basis, and TO have Incorporated them perma-
nenly into the political system of the country. Under
their combined operation, the unrvaed prosperity OF
euery great national interest among us has become
the wonder and admiration OF the world. They
have opened wide 10 us the golden opportunity OF
profting to the very utmost by the disasters which
have befaen the nations of Europe; while, har
monzng with headvancing spirit of the age, they have
placed country in the very vanguard OF the great
march of Legislative improvement, and at the time
they have enabled country with the least possible
artificial restriction, to minister from the exuberant boz
som of her own fertility the exhaustion and famine
Of other lands. To The triumph Of the democratic COM
mercia policy amonguS, is IN small measure curing
that Ameroa has become the benedctress Of the World!
And what is the party position OF federalism, before
this grand result! Federalism has steadily denounced IT,
and reviled it, and sought to croak it down When the
boldly conceived and comprehensive measures which
have led to this state of things first brought for
ward, the shrll tongues of the federal press and the
deep tones of federal oraory, joined in chorus to
summon the people to behold the enactment OF the
great tragedy of National Ruin First, the treasury
was to be bankrupted in time of war; Then, the in
dustry of the country at one fell swoop to be
corruptly sacrificed by the men in power TO the Gu
pidity of England Them the hammer and the spade
were to fall useless from the palsed hand OF labor and
the crash OF the the of the furnace and
the clang OF the anvil TO sound no more And be-
hold the result Wheat sells for tioo dollars buhei
Iron and coal making prncey fortunes for the pro-
pretors who work them Wages are everywhere rising.
New factories are springing up in numbers. Vast remu
neraton, in the shape OF freight sails upon the Prov Of
every ship. The receipts at the cusomhouse surpass
those of the days of grinding taxes. And all this pros
perty looks stable and permanent, that in time of war;
when the government has all the money wants. close
listed Capital rushes forward and begs lend the treasury
ftty millions at premium STILL federalism is ready with
its croak This all true tells us, but is Good Luck
Yes the very best sort of good luckdemocratic good
l4ek-foreseen and calculated beforehand brought
opposition, by framed to produce it, and then
secured every ones satisfaction, on basis as penna-
ment as the policy out of which has sprung Is the
country tired of such "good tuek?' The relief is at
hand The federal croak of dismay and disappointment
needs only to be turned ntoa federal yell oaumph. and
the good luck will disappear With the new men and
the measures-the hightax policy, and the great
bank policy, and the landdsribution policy to the
public patrlmony shall soon be ready again for new
federal bankruptiaw policy, to wipe out, with one
sweep of the sponge, millions upon millions of honest
Individual debts, and then open ga set of books"
once more!
But il is IN respect the foreign relations of our coun-
try that the contrast between the two parties among us is
most glazing. Thanks TO the wisdom and energy which
guide the counsels OF our government federal deama
ton, in striking at the good name and fame OF our country
abroad pounces upon no ignobe prey Never there
nobler quarry for the harry beak and claw OF 'mora
treason" Within the last two years, combination of
great evensof counsels far sighted and firm, and OF
operations vast in their scope, righteous in their motive,
and their result, long trumph-has placed the for
eign policy of this country in pride of place" before
the world such as it never knew before. The deeds
have been the deeds of the democracy Federalism has
stood by not to act but only toudgenot to achieve but
only to comment-not called upon by the county to
devise to guide its patriotic action, but only adureI
by all that is dear and sacred in the of country 10
pronounce patriotic opinion
Surely surely, it not hard ordeal The patriotism
of the party which could stand such test must be at
a low ebb indeed. Yet how has federalism stood il
What has been the federal comments Calumny abuse
defamation of the whole and policy of its country
'moral treason" rung out trumpetoned through all the
notes of the political dapason To Texas was 10
perpetrate the robbery OF realmr To settle the Ore.
gon question, and thus achieve what the best efforts of
administrations had failed to effect was only to
osclae feeby and fooshy from buster to cowardice-
from loud mouhed braggadoco to shameful recantaiion
To demand justice and indemnity for Mexican outrage and
fraud and cruelty, at the point of the bayoneiwhen all
plunge the country into an Internal work of "rapne and
MURDER" goaded by the fell "us of conquest in de-
fance of Goods justice and mans awr Such is fed
eral that which has made its countrys re-
nown, and proved its country's power, abroad In Con-
gress and out OF Congressn speech and in pamphlet,
and in the columns of the pressn the State legislature
in the party the stump and the hustings the
federal party, under the guidance OF its misguided and
leaders, is this moment ralng or caed
upon TO rally on the assumption, the basis, the postu
late, of its countys deep disgrace and signal degradation
in the whole conduct of its foreign policy THIS is the
federal PLATFORM 1t goes into its canvass before the
people with the fierce cry its lips--and, if it be