The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-08-17

The Whlg COnHrcSs-Thc war;
The wings have already assumed advance that they
to have majority the next Congress- ana are busy
arranging Its organization and policy In similar spirit
OF anticipation their journals discuss whe'ner Layton
or Crttenden shall go into the cabinet OF Taylor, and
whether it would moi be fair and concatoy to make the
nomination OF Vice President from the free States.
It's fortunate that the wings thus sangune, Tor the
trait affords us the only have Of Judging OF
their and policy, the disrus of the people
ever rebukng their overconfdence, and shutting them
from power As the elections this week in Indiana, Ala
bama, Iowa, Kentucky North Carolina, and Tennessee
and for the existing vacancy in Virginia. will dehnitlvely
settle the political complexion in the House OF Kepresen
tatives these speculatons might well have been de-
fered Tor few days. The habit OF anticipation, how
ever seems TO have uiumphed prudence and COM
measures even before we have the information OF
whig House. Washington correspondent OF the New
York Commercial speaks as follows:
sThe drama is becoming of intense interest
Whether the wing party and the Calhoun party in the
Congesswhether the friends of General Tayior-wheiher
the wing party generally will accept the rendered by
The executive organ cannot undertake predict IVM
they suffer the administration to riot Nth this for
and plunge the country debt aud danger
scarcely to be concerned of and merely for the sake Of
tanning po, and spoas themselves This remains to be
seem"
To this the Tribune answers, that the wings, far
it knows, do not the policy of expendng tens Of
thousands more OF lives, and countless millions more OF
money in Mexico, when the most favorable result OF so
doing will be the acquisition OF territory which we de
not need and which very likely, when acquired to in
volve in deadly fraternal discord"
And to the question, The country is now involved in
matter about its origin, what do you propose to
do? trusts the general answer will be-
''We will do right, and, the extent of our power,
refrain from doing sustaining matter how spe
cions may be the how allurng the prom
sed advantages of u contrary course. Let this stand
ms presidential defeat shond esteem the res nt more
honorable and ultimately advantageous to u.s. than ten
years OF uninterrupted domination
The meaning OF the Tribune is that the troops shall
be recalled from Mexico, supplies refused TO support
and sustain them and the question OF indemnity be yield
ed up by If II be not made TO the enemy The Even
ing Journal of last night has searched history to find that
The Romans refused with Pyrrhus the Russians
with Napoleon and our people with the British govern
7nent, till the hostile forces withdrawn from their
territories; and Though it finds instance where such
condition has been acceded TO by the conquero) would
make Congress profit by the lesson, and order the with
dIawa of its armies from Mexico. We quote the pledge
of wing candidate for Congress, that if elected he will
" blow back the blood hounds" with muled drums, to
the east bank of the Rio Grande II is pretty evident
therefore, that the fixed policy and determination of the
wings TO defeat the measures of the adminstra
ton, and by embarrassing the efficiency OF our foces
osensiby for the purpose of Fastening peace, 10 pro-
tract the war, and extend 1t into the presidential cleo
ton
The nation has the testimony of Col. Donphan, in
ebuke of the Corwns of the wing camp, that there
efcacious way TO defeat peace, than the
demonstrations which the wings about to turn to
hostile actions, and the partial distinctions in the last
Congress- which it Is their avowed policy 10 make gene
raj IN the next.
Ii is possible that the result of the elections will rem
der abortve these designs and indeed it is probable that
there will be energy, attention. and foresight enough in
Congress to battle these projectors but the public have
the benefit at least OF the good intention of the authors
II these intentions had been avowed earlier, needless
to say that the wings would have had very small array
OF force with which to realize their purpose and it
snguary characteristic Of the party that they have with
held the open avowal of their purpose till till after
they had obtained their successes the last falls cleo
tion by affecting, generally, willingness 10 cooperate
in the energetic prosecution of the and by dscaim
es OF the sentiments OF Corwin and others, which they
now again avow.