The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-07-10

pies do understand and approve. Thus only can
we perpetuate the benefits which the principles OF the
present administration have showered upon the country
! From the Boston Post
HE UNION OF THE DEMocaAcY IN THE PRESIDENTIAL
| ELEcTIoN--A NATIONAL CONVENTION.
We have already repeatedly alluded the subject OF
national convention but deem the duty of the demo
cratic press 10 lose opportunity urge its Importance
upon the people.
Now, the calm of candidates. the proper time to dis
the question, ,oho shall be the democratic oad
date but ho,o shall he be selected
This is The of danger of defeat Three
positions may be laid down certain
First That the democratic party elect whatever
date they unite upon.
Second That they can best unite candidate by the
medium of a national convention.
| Third That national convention will union In,
the nomination, and union will insure success.
II these points be impressed upon the minds OF the
democratic people, that they will bring the prominent
politicians into the right position Gas they always can dol
they resoute and active in watching the preliminary
organizations) the selection of good candidate by
venon and his election by the people, are future even
that only wait for time to make them facts
Everything, then, depends upon holding demooaticl
national convention Let II be when and where the general
sense shall indicate. New Hampshire at the north, Viz
gnia at the south, Illinois the west or all or other
the democratic States speak and suggest In such form
shall best, this congregating of the democracy
through their delegates, settle this question, which
the political tendencies of the country for the
presidential term.
So intimately are convention and united that he
who opposes scarcely wish for the latter
he wish it solely sectional and not as national
success.
Let it then be regarded settled point in the creed
every democrat, thar the only in which the unity and
power OF the democratic party be maintained in tho
Congress [canvasl is through the medium of national
convention.
We have only look the past be of the future
BY the action of convention in 1874, the and the
candidates of the democracy triumphant the last
trial. And yet there much conflict
dida ties, and many tendencies to sectional divisions
strong and tenacious organization for particular
candidate, which became necessary aside for the
general good. The democracy more open
vicon less peoccuped with personal predictions and
therefore much better disposed union candidan
than they in 1874 The patriotism displayed in tina
conventon-he calm of entire union succeeding an appa
OF division that threatened wreck and ruin to the
whole sufficient guarantees OF what the demo
acy and will do when called upon yield up person
al preference III order to the success OF the party
its principles.
What they did them be more easily done again id
1913. And look every friend of the prnc ples
progress of the popular to the results OF that union
which followed the national convention, and the success
which secured by that union. Do you rejoice at
with your whole hearth
Narrow it down personal disappoinments
grets that this of may have been preferred
in station preference others you deemed ruer and
sincere in their efforts open the way for the
candidate. The President may have made his mistakes
men, and in the obsequious and ea
sincere may have been preferred to the more manly
more deserving. But what then! Suppose you and you'd
friends have had office, while others of less claims Oh
may have been advanced beyond their deserts T
man who his back upon his principles for such
condemns them and dshonors himself II he
Gas the Spartan did who disappointed of ofce)
vert his disappointment into Joy that there three hun
bred better in Sparta than he, he find suficeu
cause to rejoice that, whoever the may be who hay
held subordinate Offices under this administrations the ad
mnistration has been 70 democratic and
principles, and has carried them out through all tho
branches of its departments.
The grand result, then, and the roll of appointments
is what to estimate the fruits to the country
the world, of union in the Baltimore convention An
these fruits in eminent degree, the consummato
of the great OF the party for which it has labe
for yearsthe utter extinction of the struggle for
national bank; the bealizng of the narrow restrictive
system of the old tariff, almost the expansion OF FREE
trade the publication and permanency of the currency
through the constitutional treasury.
And this great experiment, for which Providence SEEM
especially to have opened the way, has been tried unde
circumstances the favorable It's success and
in the third year of this administration, with the tariff
and the warehousing system, and the subtreasury in N
operaon-and that, too, in the midst of necessary war
what of the prophecies of its opponents I
stead of general prosration, soppagc of specie payment
and widespread disorder and ruin, which the sages tho
wing party set down as certain if the democracy succeed
ed we have unparalleled prosperity manuac lures com
mece trade, shipbuiding, the mechanic arts, and NOR
than all, in that long-negleced and unjustly depressed
interest which lies the foundation OF ALL and above al
AGRICULTURE. T.
And here stand lin l87 upon the great questions
finance revenue trade, currencyadvanced toole gep
ration in this presidential term, by the WISDOM IN
bearance and fidelity of the who composed the Bal
tmore convention, and of the democratic people that
tanned their noble efforts And but for that union wher
would these grand results have been Nay-wherc
would the UNION itself have been
Now these alone, aside from the national honor in The
adjustment of the Oregon question, the chastsemem
Mexico and the contamination and preservation Of lh
expansion and the integrity Of the Unon) ends attain
ed by the union of the democracy the Baltimore
ton And who will doubt deny that they too inpu
tant cause, vital to the weI-being of the whd
people Of the United States, to have their permanent
hazarded by hasy, nconsiderate, discodan action
the selection of the candidate for the presidency
In the single point of free commerce, have gained
in three years than has before been achieved in thirty
VAST then, is the responsibility that now devoves on
democracy guard and preserve this goody heritage Th
is but way do it-uNIoN upoN SINGLE CANDIDATE
and again and again let it be reiterated that the only
dunn OF that union is national convention Let us
coed in usual and welltried waycareully discree
fairly LITERALLY Elect delegates national convention
who shall bring with them the confidence of their
ency, from the people and of the people, Let them
together at the proper ine and consider the whole subject
Democrats never severed, and will sever such
assemblage II they meet they will nominate if they
mate, they will eecfor they will recommend TO the coun
try candidates for the two highest offices known by the
avowed principles, to be in favor of the maintenance
national policy to extend and preserve the Union whct
the democracy are now so glorously communicating A
All who brought before that convention as candI
dates, (and all will have free right urge their prefer