Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1847-08-13

Temporal mutantur ct nos n,uamur in Ills |
We presume that the great magnanimous
whig party, if closely questioned in relation
to its present singular position, would find the
old maxim, which heads this short article, a.
bout as easy and comprehensive an answer
as it could we'll furnish. Surely the history
of political parties can furnish few parallels
to the singular and extraordinary changes
which the modern federal party has under
gone since the year 1882, when it took the
name in which it now rejoices. Time was
when that party had some distinct principles
which it avowed to the world, and for the
success of which, it batted with all its might
and main" One by one the federal party has
found it prudent and polite to abandon those
principles until at last it has happened that
" now so it ISL it has not one single principle
which it dares to avow. We mean of all
those with which it started some years ago
Who is there, whose memory will serve them
SO far back as eight or ten years ago, that
does not recollect that the staple material from
which the whig editors drew their-we had
almost said daily bread--was the then great
questions of the currency and taxation. Who
is there that does not recollect with what We
hemence the federal party declared that with
out Protective Tariff, and National Bank,
this country could never get along and now,
strange to say, these objects seldom or never
find their way into the columns of a federal
paper in these latter days. This appears strange
to man who has paid any attention to the
past history of the federal party and who
does not also know that the great master
principle of that party TO which all others are
subserglent, is an inordinate thirst for power.
Look, for instance, at the position of the fed
eral party this day. Finding that the federal
principles for which it has been battling SO
strenuously for years past, find, no favor in
the eyes of the American people, it has aban-
doned them entirely, and contents itself now
with assailing the democratic administration
with every species of foul missile which it
can fabrlcate. So far, indeed, has it gone in
this line, that it has openly arrayed itself on
| the side of the foreign enemies of its own
country. Such have been its untoward mis-
haps and sad disappoinments, that it has, in
its latter days, become actually demented, if
we may use such an expression.
Which, how, amongst the whig papers of
North Carolina, ever breaches the subject of
National Bank or of Protective Tariff MOI
one of them Read them from one end to the
other; read them week after week, and the
burden of their SONG will be found to be foul,
unmeasured, senseless abuse of the Chief Ma
glstrate of the republic and his constitutional
advisers. What principle does the federal party
avow or advocate? Literally none The demo-
cratic party has actually hammered it into fair
backout on all its quondam leading dogn1as of
national policy; and we venture to predict that
the day is not far distant, when it will be glad
to bury in oblivion the foolish and unpatriotic
course which it is now pursuing with regard
to the Mexican War. We make the predic-
ton, that the day will come when the feder-
alists will feel as much ashamed of their OPP
position TO their own government in this Mex
lean war, as they now are with regard to their
course in the last war with Great Britain.