The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-02-14

and inemperance The war was at fs on posed almost
osehef on the ground of nexpediency, and the want Of
preparation Afterwards its opposers rose in their de
nuncatons. They asserted il was unholy wicked, base
e,haous, unjust cruel, and corrupt Every man that IN
any degree co operated IN il, aid H on was
loaded with execraton Ii has been recently pronounced
Just that ever was waged The disregard truth
and OF the moral of the reader which such decara
ton betrays calculated TO excite the utnos asonsb
ntent Can this Tor instant be com pared the
atrocous and Perdious war waged by BonaParte against
Spain-to the treacherous Of England against Dem
mark, begun by lawess and Unprecedented attack
upon the shipping and capital Of unofending neutral
pass thousands of instances" -Oiipe Branch during
The of 1922
The wings are, unfortunately running out the parallel
between their opposition TO the present war; and the
federal opposition TO the of 1872 The National In
teiigencer called 1t 'moral treason" then. By what
milder term would the nteligencer characterize it now
Most graphically and most truly did Mathew Carey in
his Olive Branch, published more than thirty wears ago.
write out the history of the party called federaist up to
mat hme-the party possessed of 'lage numbers of men
OF powerful talents who had then spent thirteen years
IN an unceasng struggle to regain the power they had
los' They have (said he) struggled in peace they
nave struggled in war; they have struggled under the
pressure OF taxes of the oppressive kind they have
struggled while we covered with disgrace and over
whelmed by disaster; and they have struggled when
halo OF glory surrounded the nation" SIN this struggle
ting the enemy, which, under any other government or
any other nation, would have forfeited their lives After
all these struggles and efforts they are as far as ever
from the attainment of the prize which they have for
thirteen years, been devoung with their longing eyes,
Who that turns back to the of the war of 1912
can fail to mark the identity of conduct of the fedeists
the Hartford Convention of that day. and the OPPOSE
ton OF the men of the day Thirty five years ago
the enemies of the country were what the enemies of the
country in 1913. In the Congress of the United
States, they exhibited the same abd desire TO PROSTATE
the nation before the enemy They then denied supplies
for the army They denied the right of the President of
the United States, while defending long line of frontier
to march the militia OF State beyond the bounds of that
State They denied the supplies for the troops which
covered the country with honor They charged on Pres
lden Madison the design of conquest and lust for extend
ca COMMON Tor prosecuting the declared for the
maintenance OF the nations honor and the protection of
the persons OF its citizens This party gloated over the
prospect OF the countys complete prostration then
Ihelr leaders called the of capital TO withhold
their subscriptions from loans for carrying on the war
lhey reloced IN the success Of the aims of the enemy
They anticipated the result OF that success the return
OF their party to power They went SO far as to plot
the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the government and openly and
shamelessly TO seek the protection of Great Britain
for that portion of the country which thew called
their own The federalists of the war of 1912
STAYED off peace then, as they have STAYED off peace
now They invited the aggressions of the enemy while
every peaceful measure had been adopted by Mr. Jefer
son and his successor to procure redress and indemnity
they first caused the war, and afterwards denied the
means OF carrying on; they sympathized with the enc
mics OF the country because whatever redounded to the
honor of the country but the harbnger of their own
disgrace.
Is it not strange that the men and the party who 3D.
posed the country in the of lsI2-who saw the conn
try succeed then under the appalling discourage.
mentsshould now pursue the same course in the war
with Mexico' This party of "arge numbers of men
of powerful talents" in the Congress halls and in
their newspapers threatened that the annexation of
Texas should be with Mexico To carry out that
threat once the the two branches of Congress
had consummated the act of annexation, the Mexican
minister (Amonte) left the of government-showng
himself TO be acting in concert with the party in this
country who thought and have not yet given up the
design, OF gaining power, through the evils to the
administration which that war might bring on From
that time TO the present, the OF the enemy in
Mexico has acted in concert with the Mexican enc
my in the halls of own Congress- refusing,
while there was chance of probability left to
beat our brave troops with twice. thrice, or even ten
times its numbers to treat negotiate for peace any
terms-insultng and treating with contumey the minis
ter who sent to ask for treaty of boundary which
should prevent collision between the two countries In
what way account for the obduracy of the mill
tary tyrants usurpng power in Mexico, refusing every
overture of government, bat in the calculations
they have made upon the party this country who
opposed to the administration Is il not obvious that their
better object would be answered by refusing TO treat
with any other American administration than such
as should be composed Of their friends Have not the
arguments of their friends the linen of powerful talents"
in this country circulated in Mexico, encouraged the in
atuaed enemy still to live in the hope that their object
will be best accomplished by the prosaton of our adj
minsration at homer Do they not expect that their
disgrace of being completely beaten by vaorous men
under Taylor and Scott to be tax off, when they shall
the American government in the hands of the party
who have entced them on, and who still continue to en-
courage them to hold out against any reasonable
of peace
In the OF 1912, its worst evils brought on and
more of the best blood of the country flowed from the ef
forts of the ederasts in their newspaper press and in
the halls OF legislation to bring about the worst results
Nearly half the time they gra,ited then by our en-
emys success in BATTLE How often did the patriots of
a. h,,ya tho