The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-07-19

nut the honest men OF all parties upon their guard. In
hese articles of the Courier, section OF the wing
party least shows its game Ii is the old game OF hum
bug
But we repeat, these wings not the honest wing S,
who boldly their principles and call upon General
TAYLOR to declare them but the humbugging wings, who
would wink them out of sght)-are they sure that Gen.
Tayors principles are sufficiently known, and that
his "wshes have been freely expressed Are they sure
that General Taylor understands his own principles
We have suggested this doubt for their own serious con-
sideraton And now we tell the wings, that upon the
two great questions which have divided the parties IN
this country General Taylor confesses that he has not
made up his opnions--that he has been no politician
that for forty years he has been in the military service
of his country and has had adequate opportunity for
investigating these great questions But hence we INFER
the greater necessity of understanding his principles
when they are fairly made up We have every respect
for General Taylor We feel every gratitude for the
brilliant services he has rendered under the eagles OF the
republic There is something about the old soldiers
habits which we admire and which we love. But free
people will never trust their desnes in the hands OF any
man whose principles are not distinctly understood
Otherwise may put the vessel of State at sea without
udder or compass subject all the confusion of di
vided and struggling cabinet, differing in their views
and actuaed by various principesherc bit OF white
stone and there a bit of black"
Views of this description are rife through the land
They are not confined to one party. They extend to
both We give specimens from the papers of both par
ties to show how different are the grounds taken up
even by the wing press from the lulabies of the New
York Courier"
From the Philadelphia North American decided whig)
THE PARTY.--The duties of pary--in COM
mInity where principle is the only political monarch and
where party stands the angel that guards the gates Of the
paradise of eedonae elevated beyond the power of ex
aggeraon The whg party is based solely upon PIins
pose and rebuke combinations looking merely power and
careless Of YER % mt % y o to Wn n II bs
conviction of the great and good of the land that
namesers against the dangerous magic Of mere party
names as dissociaed from principles against the despo
s OF ali M @ m
to the full and entire freedom of choice and action the
fixed defined and avowed only standard of just
republican party. Opinion settled into the consistence oil
| The nntion
And this was no light or temporary movement The
Of @ pa6d oprT he mbs aoa the
pures materials the democratic party daylooked
to dangers of the threatening character. A
good and great it may be-had become despotism Party
w ns IF ana a W upg @ e
truths; and throughout the republic names, words idols
liberty The wings Of the country under that title, re-
ad in the name of nrincines the resisance was made
az r aInos, AGAINST hone II was rally of such
n. Rome witnessed under Cicero after the retirement
Rtus but it appealed to an enlightened and free people
and though without PATRONAGE and in opposition to popu
lar names to vigorous party organization and
| thing that 'piyes success Il triumphed
The wings of the country acted upon the truth il
was heer 10 fail in the chiyarous support of their prnci-
pies than TO succeed by the slightest abandonment Of them
that their duty was to be i'm the right first i'm the right
in the rioh ever This resolution sac redy adhered to-
ma the party hoiymade the party triumphant Believ-
inc that in this country the tre democracy is conf
dence popular intelligence they thought that the right
should never despair and though the contest was long
and desperate one il was not In the dt
nrinciue the wings have won trumphs that could not
have been wony anv other appeal and all the past proves
that the pures and most rird adherence TO the truth and
right ia sa fer than any departure from them in search
dnbions availability They attained the largest majority
known in the annals of the country at the election of arr-
son and however baied by frauds and by
patronage, their course has been steadily onward .
be ascrbed 70 its principles They have been won by the
TRUTH and not by the names or the personal popularity oil
nnd iv o;ces uorhv - save rann,c s,l vars Our no
ii,icaI cread lroadiv and eyp;v exnl,ned h,s been
proclamed and there every rea son 70 believe
hat II has The support of very largo ma oritv of the peo-
IL "a ~ h., ~,
ave,v who Of the nnon The rsnote sections have
al 1on m and the most gigantic ineIecs diferiny nnon
minor noints nyre, in sr,port NJ he docrnes and
nocv odonted hy hr PARTY ME lghts of thosa minds
- 80 pao,;ral ,,d 70 raao ,tn ;ral ranoa az ~,
rb,t Tine has bcen afored The rrocess of rslca an
has hee no brier Far Year, The nohns,
nI ,,sns, nato,s of The are h., baen ,,;n, Mi,
cles nno, The neone Events have ;llsrate5 those min
ces and there 4 every reason 10 believe tha The dnin
ion of The nation was never SO strong in sunnort Of b,
men and doctrnes as now EVERY recent cleo
,ion has been of whit power In what re.
cent issne has The ,yb1 m tv Glfd And lei be em,m