The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-07-03
SELECTIONS FROM THE PRESS.
From the Baltimore Argus
The NhIx PrIncIpIes Of ,47.

Since the organization of the present anti democrat,
party TO oppose the elevation Of the patriotic Jackson &c
the chief magisracy we have had five presidential cleo
tons In all of those contests, we had the good fortune
to wing principles fairly developed, except in the
struggle of 1870 when there union of the most dis
cordant material to effect triumph over US Then they
carefully concealed all their principles from the public
eye of the nation, and kept them confined to the private
ear OF each other Since the presidential election OF 1914
until within few months past and when 'the peoples
treasury and the peoples tariff were enacted during the
summer OF 1916, they promised to continue the hgh
against those two measures and to make the repeal OF
both the principal issues at the election of al and AS
Opposition to those two measures was, of course, to be
accompanied by their usual denunciations of the Mex
efforts to be spared to render both the and its
heroes odious in the eyes of their countrymen.
The year 1S47 is barely half over, and yet what a
change have witnessed in the political tactics OF this
wing party We have their estate Central Commit.
tee" OF Baltimore issuing address to the people OF
Maryland, and reading it, astonshed to find
that they had not word TO say in condemnation of those
democratic measures which, less than year ago. they
declared would bring iremedabe ruin upon the country
Nor did we find the iantest call upon their wing friends
TO aid them in repeating the tariff OF I6 and restoring
the tariff of AZ, restoring that connexon between
the government and the banks, which broken up by
''the peoples treasury" Their silence these ques-
tons is confession that they regard them the most
conducive to the welfare OF the country and that an
open opposition 10 them is sure to overwhem them with
defeat
So far as we could see there was not a solitary wing
principle either developed advocated in that address,
but the greater part OF IT occupied with audatons OF
General Taylor and the whig heroes of the war, and
nomination of that ulant old warrior the wing condi-
date for the presidency. This was, indeed strange
and marvellous step The part OF that wing committee,
when we look back aud see how much and how long
they abusing him the shoulders of Mr. Polk
for bringing the Indeed, this abuse of him is
still persisted in by OF them notwithstanding their
nomination of him for the presidency as we have the
documents to show. The wing principles of AT consist,
therefore, of huahs for Gen Taylor their presidential
candidate, and opposition to the Mexican war, with
lent and unceasng the part OF the majority of them,
was during the sitting Of the late Congress- and, strange
70 say. Gen. Taylor catches many of their heaviest
blows as President Polk does. This we shall feel bound
to prove, with the view of convincing the people of
Maryland how insincere and hollow hearted their
professions of regard for Gen. Taylor and that they
only using his the of eecng their cond
date for governor at the coming election Such thinly
disguised hypocrisy never accomplish the ends in
view