The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-08-17
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
TUESDAY NIGHT. AUGUST II, ls47.


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language of the ntegencer Of this morning in refer
to the result OF the August elections By the most
reckless and ruthless gorymandsrng in the arrange
ment OF congressional districts, in North Caronaby
wholly irrelevant and iesuca issues, in Owens dis
tci in lndiana-by splits among the democrats, as in
Daviss district in the Stately the overweening
confidence of the democracy in Tennessee-and by
Ianeous personal influences in the Mobile district of
Alabamathe wings, Notwithstanding their loss in Ken
lucky have probably succeeded gaining perhaps
five or six constessmen id ALL id the elections of
nearly as many States. And thereupon the solemn
and wary lntegencer-with its spirit sobered and,
one might suppose, instructed, by the long exile
of its party from power during period almost com
mensurate with that OF its own apostacy from dem
ocratic principeseven the lnteigencer, in its art
Gle of this morning, addresses its readers spirit abso
lutely pirensed with the madness OF the hour Not con-
tent with insisting, it does, that, in view of the late
elections the President ought at to abandon the Just
and manly stand which his administration has heretofore
taken, both in maintenance of his well known and
principles and in support Of the rights and
honor OF the country against foreign outrage and perdy
not with this ulicrous arrogance Of dication
the federal organ is audacous enough in its exutaton
ton that its friends Claimed now to be very small ma
iory in the next House OF Representatives. should go
the mad length of even stopping the wheels of the gov
enmen By wihtholdiaghe necessary appropriations for
he support Of it The Integencer does not quite ven
tue to aicocatc such measure. That is not its usual
style in respect to the desperate and hair-brained
expedents OF its party. II does even profess to seq
pec its friends 10 vote against the usual appropriation
bills for the support OF the government Yet it plainly
throws out the idea that they may fit to So in the
following most extraordinary and unprecedented terms
Let understand us, when exultlng the GER
ainv of wing majority in the House of Representatives
expecting that majority to make any attempt to stop the
ceels of the government by withholding either the necessary
appropriations for the support of refusing provide the
meeting aay expenditures which hare been already
authorised by lar"
We need make no heightened comment upon SO afro
;ious suggestion this 1t shows how far the profit
sacy of wing faction co. in its hour OF fanced tr
mph. But such an Outbreak from such Quarter must
put the people on their guard How the wings hope
obtain to hold for any length of time the confidence
Of the country when the prospect of getting the power of
only house of Congress thus makes even the sold
men" among them crazy Bedlamites If the cool
heads among them talk in this way now, what will
not the hot heads OF their party do, attempt to do if the
people should put the power of the country into
heir hands
But if the above language OF the wing organ is fitted
aonia the country, what follows in the same arti-
lie must excite yet deeper indignation and alarm Hear
he following direct and positive promise of federal
ep and to public enemy by the srhigs Of the
lert Congress # she can only hold out IN refusing
VI terms of peace until the nert session The
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ne naked and unqualified terms;
The wings WILL hope and trust, do every thing they
to bring this odio 10Th Mrico to honorable close
They viii doubtless hold the administration, every
apartment Off: TO rigid accountability; they may re-
lay taxes the necessaries OF life, proposed
he last session, that foreign luxuries may into the
ountry free of duty but should the With Msrco be
yoonged until the n,eeag of Congress- (Which Heaven
orbid other not incompatible with national honor
nd dignity, than stopping the supplies -'cM be found to
ut a stop to the tcar'
Can the force OF atorous against country
nd her cause and in open support and encouragement
4 our perfdous and ruthless enemy, go farther than
hsl Mexico-even while her hands are led with the
ood of our brave soldiers murdered and mutilaed by
Ter savage gueras in utter outrage of all the laws OF
civilized warfare-even, too while she yet refuses to hear
and consider our profered terms of peace-Mexico
told plainly and openly that if she only hold on to
lei work Of murder until the Injecting OF our Congress-,
Yer friends (he whigs) will surely find means "to put a
top" TO the wdrl But the "close" to which the is
o be brought, is forsooth to be honorable" The !
means to put stop" to it to be not incompatible
9th national dignity and honor. The significance OF
hese terms in the wing dictionary shown to at the
asst session of Congress- Mr. Berrien in the Senate and
Mr. Schenck in the House, each speaking for his own
section of party, told what the wings judged
10 be honorable and compatible NTH national Dig
mtg" in the case when they moved resolutions 10 give
up all the objects of the war, and at wdraw
roops in discontinue and disgrace These are the
other means OF closing the warthis is the "honora-
lie stop of the which the wing organ now prom
ses the Mexcans that they shall receive from their wing
rends in the next Congress- Will the people OF this coun
ry ber such language this addressed our public foe
Viii they-can heytrua the party whose leading organs
an be prompted openly to hold such language because
hey have elected few members of Congress than
hey had ventured hope, Yet it is by such language
Is this suppose that the wings las the Integencer
boasts) are striving to bring this odous with Mex
co to closet" These the tactics of the sestyed
party of peace Bring the war to close Why such a
course is the very lin the stern language of Don
han VINO had been the spot and had what he |
poke) "to protract the war to all eternity" Be the
igor and success of our what they may, how can
hope to force an honorable peace from Mexico when
very blow that she strikes is thus in practical concert
With the whole action of the wing leaders here