The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1848-04-01

campaign belong 10 history Your victorious
banner las tloaed over every town and ham
let, and blood of your gallant army has Grim
soued the soil of the arcieu, Aztecs. from
Malamoras 10 Buera Vista. aud from Vera
Cruz to the ely of Mexico. But VIVA, have
you ACCOMPLISHED Where are the promi>-
ed returns for the blood and treasure thai
have been so freely and generously poured
Ont, Discussing his own undecided and
still faieriag judgment, the Senate is again
asked to come 10 his relief, aud terminate
the bloody drama, by The ratification of Il
treaty. negotiated by an accident: and the
people are 10 be sub jer,ed no, only TO the
have been so long and successfully fiLhling
bui an additional lax of fifteen millions Of
dollars for a strip OF barren and useless Ter
ntor, and wiilou, the accomplishment of
single defined purpose, whether il be in
demniy for the past or security iorthe fnnre,
! this unhuy war leaves us with a burden OF
near one h"ndted miHionS of debt.
III lis domestic policy the character of this
| Admunl~rat on has been not less remarkable
| lor weakness and indet'l>ion W ih all the
commanding facilities of unobSiruced pow
er and patronage. they nave originated moth.
ing from winch the slightest benefit could
be expected 10 enure 10 the community al
| large. H. their ovel-AnNiely to strengthen
their own position, they have looked beyond
the more sacred obligations OF duty With
a walton nSclip,ion, they have swept eve
~ department of the Government. ahd we
behold them, even now, engaged in an AMI
mated contest for the Presidential Succession.
IN utter neglcc. of he claims OF those 10
whom they owe their existence
! In the meanw lille, tcllowcIlizens, the eff
| feet Of all this confusion and misrule is be.
| ing proclaimed, in language too significant
to he mistaken. Yonr resource, are exhaus
ted appeals are being made 10 capitalists
at home aud abroad: to come TO the relief Of
your sinking finances market is inun.
dated with Treasury issues, fearful in amount
which must sooner or later operate as di
rect drain upon the Industry of the people,
aud we behold a nation, whose redundant
products have supplied the markets of the
void. reduced to the necessity of borrow
ing, IN oyl'r 10 meet the eat avayant eXpen-
dlureS which have been entalled upon us
by a rech le>> ana deiuclive policy.
The ability of the Government to negmiaie
/ loans. has been cons''u'd rs an evidence
OF EXnru,ive triumph. and il the midst ofhe
li-hrareing picture before u, we have
been rpnuJed that the people never wee
more prosperous Butte whum are yon in
deb;ed for that limited measure OF success,
which has continued 10 mark ynur progress!
Is it not that elemeIN in your polt;ca! >ys-
tenn which disarms opposition and pushes
you onward in snite OF the mai adm,nislIa-
ton oi your rulers and the evil Influences
| that are excited TO serard ii! Ii is THIS thai
has sustained you ,huS long, in defiance Of
those who have conSpireI 10 bnId their own
visionary hopes upon the ruins the nahonal
prosperity
| The committee have felt constrained to
refer thus briefly 10 some of the leadnge
events in the in the progress uflhe dominant
party, because of their uuprecedent and
| extraordinary character, and the necessity
which they impose for pronp, slt: vigorous
nc ion on the part of the Wing vote IS through
out the Uuion. The distracted. condition OF
our affairs cal, for w,itcd uci;ou and in the
exercise OF the sovereign franchise which the
constitution has left in our hands. we mus
! look with a >iugle eye TO the vital issues IN
volved. lou are invoked by every consid-
Grafton OF public policy. 10 move in concert
aud harmony. II we would place beyond
contingency the cherished principles, on
| whose adamanlne base we have been so
long impreynable, we must act logelhSr
without alienation. and with common mo-
tive.
Itnced hardly be affirmed, as conse-
Qnence Of the multiplied abuse to which we
have referred, that the numerical strength of
the Wing party was never greater than at
the present moment New allies are flock
my to your standard Public demonstrations
in every part of,he Cmon. have inspired us
with renewed confidence in the success OF
those principles which have become so
largely identified with whatever is valuable
in the past history of your Government rEev
must 90 Oh 10 prosper, and it is not iflicull
20 oreSer, that by judIrious and well dIrec-
ted efforts, The asceudancy Of The Wing patty
may be secured, and the country rescued
f from the disordered condition into which il
has fallen.
Among the Dustin .uished men, fellow cili.
zans, % whom the public attention has been
directed, as most likely 10 check this curren,
Of Executive misrue, and bring back the
, Government to lis original purity, it wonid
he diiirnlt for this committee 10 undertake
. TO discriminate. Where all aye alike cou-
spicnous aud entitled 10 the confidence and
applause of their fellow citizens, it were
needless TO indulge in individual preferen
ceS