The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-11-06
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
SATURDAY NIGHT, NOV. Q, 1s47.

hard to be borne we have wish to increase that
burden Deeply as deplore, and strongly as we
denim the recent most ill-advised and unustifable
course of the Post and of the most active and VIE
lent of its ales-a which, in utterly prostra-
ting for time the democracy Of New York. has smitten
the democracy of the country with formidable blow
we have yet expressed unwillngness to continue,
this moment, with that journal, discussion which, if
faithfully conducted on our part, must inevitably
brace not little Of just and accusation and
proach. But the utterly uniounded charges which the
Post has hurled against the administration and against
ourselves in its leading articles of yesterday and of the
day before, cam on no account be permitted to pass
without reply. The OF the national organisation
and union Of the Democracy upon just and wise basis
OF national acon-the cause for which laboring
and against which the Post is (wheiher consciously
no) waging a war all the more desperate and deadly
because claiming be fought under the democratic ban
ner demands that should permit the Post and lis
allies to shrink from any part of their own fearful
responsibility, by attempting to fasten upon US, upon
the administration, any participation in the guilt of that
great dsaser-no unforeseen unioretold-which has
now laid the lately victorious and powerful democracy of
the Empire State at the very feet OF the wings
We copy the attempt of the Post to fasten its own re-
The Washington Union of Wednesday night which con-
tans oil the first reports of the result of election
cooy observes that the New York politicians settle
with themselves the OF their defeat Not
the politicians OF New York hare reckoning to settle
oh the Uaioa The Union has had much do acit the
whieh led to the defeat of the democratic party aug
paper the State. The Union has roon the influence of
the government upon the side of the conservatives Uhout
the hep Of that influence they could not haze obtained the
of carrying fraudulent majority the Syracuse
ham al
friends and of the people they could hare prac
td The trick by tich the White Nuns resolution got
rid Of II will do for the Union throw back its share
the responsibility upon the politicians of New York.
The misstatemen of the of the Union and the adj
mnsration which is contained in the itacsed lines of the
above paragraph gross to excite wonder Does
not the Post well know that the Union wholly and sed-
lousy efrained from making the very slightest comment
upon the organization of the democratic party of New
York for the late election upon preparation for that
event, until long after all the delegates to the Syracuse
oonuention had been elected? More than this does
not the Post well know that that convention had made
up its ticket and published its address, and adopted its
resolutions and then adjourned, before the Union said
one word the subject-unless indeed. to express
general terms hope that the proceedings OF the
venton when its delegates should be chosen and should
consult together might result in the harmony and tri-
umph of the New York democracy Does not the Post
well know in fact that the Union utterly orboe to take
any part whatever in the contest between the two
tons of the party in the convention, until the mi
norty of the convention, cheered by the Post,
determined, after its adjournment, upon the boiling
Herkimer movement, and announced, as principal
reason of their secession, design to fost into the
creed of the "northern democracy" the fatal doctrine
of the Wilmot Proviso' Then, indeed, we spoke out
for then it had become the plain duty of every democrat
in the country speak against such secession; but
even then we expressly disclamed any purpose to
pass any Judgment on the nominations of the con-
venton, further than TO say, in substance, that in
our opinion they were the regular nominations of
regular State convention. We said nothing in favor of
either section of the party while the election of the dele
gates was going on-nothng while the convention was
celebrating nothing of the persons nominated its
ticket and yet, because. after the adjournment ofhe
we protested against the alleged Wilmot
Proviso "bolt at Herkmer, the Post in the very teeth
of all these indispuable facts, charges boldly that WE
"hrew the influence of the government upon the side of
the conservatives" and thus enabled them TO carry ga
fraudulent majority" in the election of delegates to the
convention missatement so fragrant and destitute
of FEASIBILITY, coming from such journal the Post.
cannot but astonsh The is bad, indeed that
needs such defence A prudent regard for its own
character should this crisis least lead the Post to
be more exact in its statements.
The Post proceeds:
Even the decided expression Of the feelings of the de-
mocacy the Hcrkmer convention sufficient to
teach the Union prudence in its management of this ques
ton continued to adopt the slang of the Albany Argus
uphold the fairness of the proceedings of the Syracuse
convention, and pursued the who favored the mass
meeting Herkmer with sneers and denunciatons.
We shall not stop defend what we fit to say in
grave and temperate language against the secession at
Herkimer, before that convention took place That
most l-omened and unjustifed step has met with gen.
era condemnation, and nowhere else has it been
demned severely than by the puest and abes men
Of that very section of the New York democracy in
whose interests it convened, and in whose be-
half assumed to speak We choose rather to reply to the
Post by stating plainly to that journal the position in
which itself and the active leaders of that movement
have placed themselves before the democracy of the
country In their address they claim that they did not
assemble at Herkimer because Of their dissatisfaction
with the nominees of the Syracuse convention Thew |
put forth the refusal of the majority at Syracuse TO
adopt the Wmot Proviso resolution of Mr. Field as |
the main pretext for the action which has broken |
the strength OF the democracy of New York This, |
and nothing else, is, their own showing the
principle of their secession For this they have gone
into a measure which has tramped party usages and
party ties in the DUST and handed over their State to the